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#1 2006-06-12 21:47:20

didymu5

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Registered: 2006-06-12

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Create Author Profiles and articles list

I’ve been racking my brain on trying to do this and using all the differn pluggins for authors. I want to utilize domain.com/author/daniel and to have their own profile as well as just their article listings. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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#2 2006-06-12 22:00:46

rsilletti

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Registered: 2004-04-28

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Re: Create Author Profiles and articles list

There are if_author and if_article_author conditional tags in the current development release. They look for a search by author condition, much like if_search, if that helps.
If you would prefer to work with the current stable release I have a plugin available at.
Plugin for the if_author function – nothing for if_article_author though.

#3 2006-06-12 22:42:43

didymu5

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Re: Create Author Profiles and articles list

I’ll check out development release.
“ if_airtlcle_author”

a URL such as:
/author/daniel/
can be redirected to a page?

#4 2006-06-12 23:04:08

rsilletti

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From: Spokane WA

Registered: 2004-04-28

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Re: Create Author Profiles and articles list

Not sure what you mean?
The txp:author tag, when you set the link attribute, will set a link in the article display that when clicked will return a list of articles by the selected author in whatever is set as your default page. I would have to test the behaviour with sections to comment on that, I don’t use it much.
The if_author tag would go in the page template and would return the enclosed content for true when the author’s name matches the name set in the conditional tag.
You could place selected content for each author with it that way that would only display when that author was searched for?

if_article_author is used in article forms.

#5 2006-06-13 02:08:06

didymu5

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Re: Create Author Profiles and articles list

Hey so update. for anyone else wanting to do this
using txp:author with links links articles to the ur /authors/name-of-author. so that works then i used the txp:rss_if_author by Rob sable that worked nicely for getting a profile corresponding to /authors/name

I also used another plugin called txp:bos_author which gave me nicer urls instead of /authors/firstname%20lastname

hope this helps someone else.

I have about 15 differ authors for this site i’m developing for non-profit group. Each author has its own profile and just their owe list of articles.