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+            },
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+                    "bootstrap.php"
+                ],
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Polyfill\\Php80\\": ""
+                },
+                "classmap": [
+                    "Resources/stubs"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
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+                    "email": "ion.bazan@gmail.com"
+                },
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+                    "email": "p@tchwork.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 8.0+ features to lower PHP versions",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "keywords": [
+                "compatibility",
+                "polyfill",
+                "portable",
+                "shim"
+            ],
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+            },
+            "funding": [
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+                    "type": "custom"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://github.com/fabpot",
+                    "type": "github"
+                },
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+                    "url": "https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/symfony/symfony",
+                    "type": "tidelift"
+                }
+            ],
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+        },
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+                "reference": "f6639cb9b5e0c57fe31e3263b900a77eedb0c908"
+            },
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+                "type": "zip",
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+                "reference": "f6639cb9b5e0c57fe31e3263b900a77eedb0c908",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=8.0.2",
+                "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "~1.0",
+                "symfony/translation-contracts": "^2.3|^3.0"
+            },
+            "conflict": {
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+                "symfony/console": "<5.4",
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+                "symfony/http-kernel": "<5.4",
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+                "symfony/yaml": "<5.4"
+            },
+            "provide": {
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+            },
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+                "symfony/yaml": "^5.4|^6.0"
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+                "symfony/yaml": ""
+            },
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+                    "Resources/functions.php"
+                ],
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+                    "Symfony\\Component\\Translation\\": ""
+                },
+                "exclude-from-classmap": [
+                    "/Tests/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
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+                "MIT"
+            ],
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+                },
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+                }
+            ],
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+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
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+            },
+            "funding": [
+                {
+                    "url": "https://symfony.com/sponsor",
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+                },
+                {
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+                    "type": "github"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/symfony/symfony",
+                    "type": "tidelift"
+                }
+            ],
+            "time": "2022-03-02T12:58:14+00:00"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "symfony/translation-contracts",
+            "version": "v3.0.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/translation-contracts.git",
+                "reference": "1b6ea5a7442af5a12dba3dbd6d71034b5b234e77"
+            },
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+                "reference": "1b6ea5a7442af5a12dba3dbd6d71034b5b234e77",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=8.0.2"
+            },
+            "suggest": {
+                "symfony/translation-implementation": ""
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-main": "3.0-dev"
+                },
+                "thanks": {
+                    "name": "symfony/contracts",
+                    "url": "https://github.com/symfony/contracts"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Contracts\\Translation\\": ""
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Nicolas Grekas",
+                    "email": "p@tchwork.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Generic abstractions related to translation",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "keywords": [
+                "abstractions",
+                "contracts",
+                "decoupling",
+                "interfaces",
+                "interoperability",
+                "standards"
+            ],
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+                "source": "https://github.com/symfony/translation-contracts/tree/v3.0.0"
+            },
+            "funding": [
+                {
+                    "url": "https://symfony.com/sponsor",
+                    "type": "custom"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://github.com/fabpot",
+                    "type": "github"
+                },
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+                    "type": "tidelift"
+                }
+            ],
+            "time": "2021-09-07T12:43:40+00:00"
+        },
+        {
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+            "source": {
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+                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/yaml.git",
+                "reference": "e77f3ea0b21141d771d4a5655faa54f692b34af5"
+            },
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+                "type": "zip",
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+                "reference": "e77f3ea0b21141d771d4a5655faa54f692b34af5",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=8.0.2",
+                "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "^1.8"
+            },
+            "conflict": {
+                "symfony/console": "<5.4"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "symfony/console": "^5.4|^6.0"
+            },
+            "suggest": {
+                "symfony/console": "For validating YAML files using the lint command"
+            },
+            "bin": [
+                "Resources/bin/yaml-lint"
+            ],
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Component\\Yaml\\": ""
+                },
+                "exclude-from-classmap": [
+                    "/Tests/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Loads and dumps YAML files",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "support": {
+                "source": "https://github.com/symfony/yaml/tree/v6.0.3"
+            },
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+                {
+                    "url": "https://symfony.com/sponsor",
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+                },
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+                    "type": "github"
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+                "reference": "b56450eed252f6801410d810c8e1727224ae0743",
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+            },
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+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "~6.0 || ~7.0 || ~9.0"
+            },
+            "suggest": {
+                "ext-intl": "Use Intl for transliterator_transliterate() support"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "voku\\": "src/voku/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
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+                {
+                    "name": "Lars Moelleken",
+                    "homepage": "http://www.moelleken.org/"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Portable ASCII library - performance optimized (ascii) string functions for php.",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/voku/portable-ascii",
+            "keywords": [
+                "ascii",
+                "clean",
+                "php"
+            ],
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+                "issues": "https://github.com/voku/portable-ascii/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/voku/portable-ascii/tree/2.0.1"
+            },
+            "funding": [
+                {
+                    "url": "https://www.paypal.me/moelleken",
+                    "type": "custom"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://github.com/voku",
+                    "type": "github"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://opencollective.com/portable-ascii",
+                    "type": "open_collective"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://www.patreon.com/voku",
+                    "type": "patreon"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/voku/portable-ascii",
+                    "type": "tidelift"
+                }
+            ],
+            "time": "2022-03-08T17:03:00+00:00"
+        }
+    ],
+    "packages-dev": [],
+    "aliases": [],
+    "minimum-stability": "stable",
+    "stability-flags": [],
+    "prefer-stable": false,
+    "prefer-lowest": false,
+    "platform": {
+        "php": "^8.0"
+    },
+    "platform-dev": [],
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+}
diff --git a/src/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php b/src/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php
index 7602ff42..4ddc4207 100644
--- a/src/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php
+++ b/src/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ class CreatesDefaultDirectories
         '_pages',
         '_posts',
         '_media',
-        '_site',
         '_docs',
+        '_data',
+        '_site',
         '_site/posts',
         '_site/media',
         '_site/docs',
diff --git a/src/Models/Author.php b/src/Models/Author.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65fb174f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Models/Author.php
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Hyde\Framework\Models;
+
+/**
+ * The Post Author Object Model
+ *
+ * The Author is parsed from the authors.yml file using the AuthorService class
+ */
+class Author
+{
+    /**
+     * The username (slug) of the author
+     * @var string
+     */
+    public string $username;
+
+    /**
+     * The display name of the author
+     * @var string|null
+     */
+    public ?string $name = null;
+
+    /**
+     * The author's website URI
+     *
+     * Could for example, be a Twitter page, website,
+     * or a hyperlink to more posts by the author.
+     *
+     * @var string|null
+     */
+    public ?string $website = null;
+
+    /**
+     * @param string $username
+     * @param array|null $data
+     */
+    public function __construct(string $username, ?array $data = [])
+    {
+        $this->username = $username;
+        if (isset($data['name'])) {
+            $this->name = $data['name'];
+        }
+        if (isset($data['website'])) {
+            $this->website = $data['website'];
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Services/AuthorService.php b/src/Services/AuthorService.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..387caf28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Services/AuthorService.php
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Hyde\Framework\Services;
+
+use Hyde\Framework\Hyde;
+use Hyde\Framework\Models\Author;
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
+use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;
+
+/**
+ * Contains service methods relating to blog post authors
+ */
+class AuthorService
+{
+    protected string $filepath;
+    protected array $yaml;
+    public Collection $authors;
+
+    /**
+     */
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+        $this->filepath = $this->getFilepath();
+        $this->yaml = $this->getYaml();
+        $this->authors = $this->getAuthors();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the filepath of the Yaml file.
+     *
+     * If the file does not exist, it will be created.
+     *
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function getFilepath(): string
+    {
+        $filepath = Hyde::path('_data/authors.yml');
+
+        if (!file_exists($filepath)) {
+            file_put_contents($filepath, <<<'EOF'
+# In this file you can declare custom authors.
+
+# In the default example, `mr_hyde` is the username. 
+# When setting the author to mr_hyde in a blog post,
+# the data in the array will automatically be added.
+
+authors:
+  mr_hyde:
+    name: Mr Hyde
+    website: https://github.com/hydephp/hyde
+EOF
+);
+        }
+        
+        return $filepath;
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Parse the Yaml file.
+     *
+     * If the Yaml cannot be parsed, it will back up the file and regenerate it.
+     *
+     * @return array
+     */
+    public function getYaml(): array
+    {
+        $yaml = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents($this->filepath));
+
+        if (!isset($yaml['authors'])) {
+            copy($this->filepath, $this->filepath . '.corrupted');
+            unlink($this->filepath);
+            $this->getFilepath();
+            return $this->getYaml();
+        }
+
+        return $yaml;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Use the Yaml array to parse and collect the Authors
+     *
+     * @return Collection
+     */
+    public function getAuthors(): Collection
+    {
+        $collection = new Collection();
+
+        foreach ($this->yaml['authors'] as $username => $data) {
+            $collection->push(new Author($username, $data));
+        }
+
+        return $collection;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Find and retrieve an Author by their username.
+     *
+     * @param string $username
+     * @return Author|false
+     */
+    public static function find(string $username): Author|false
+    {
+        $service = new self;
+        return $service->authors->firstWhere('username', $username) ?? false;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file