Displaying Other Articles by the Same Author within an Article

wchung · 2009-10-19 21:20:31

Hello:

We have several columnists on our site.

For each article by a columnist, I would like to display a list of the 10 most recent articles by the same author.

I can’t define the list using section or category as that would list articles by all our other columnists.

I would like to avoid having to create a separate page template and section for every one of our columnists.

Is there a tag that would do this?

Thanks!

els · 2009-10-19 21:51:09

<txp:article_custom limit="10" author="author name" />

wchung · 2009-10-19 21:58:47

Els,

Thanks for responding, but wouldn’t that tag require a separate page template for each author?

I am trying to avoid having a separate template/section for each of several authors.

els · 2009-10-19 22:08:29

No, just use one tag for each author where you want to display the articles. Something like this:

<h3>Articles by John Smith</h3>
<txp:article_custom form="yourform" limit="10" author="John Smith" />

<h3>Articles by Bill Clinton</h3>
<txp:article_custom form="yourform" limit="10" author="Bill Clinton" />

...etcetera

wchung · 2009-10-19 22:15:17

Maybe I wasn’t clear in my question…

We have a number of authors whose articles are all published in the “perspectives” section of the site, under the “Editorial” category.

For each article by any author, I would like to provide on the left column a list of other articles by that same author (and if possible, omitting the article that is currently being presented on the page).

els · 2009-10-19 22:46:02

Ah, sorry I misunderstood. You mean on an individual article page? Maybe this would work (not tested):

<txp:if_individual_article>
	<h3>Recent articles by this author</h3>
	<txp:article_custom author='<txp:author />' limit="10" wraptag="ul">
		<txp:if_article_id>
		<txp:else />
			<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>
		</txp:if_article_id>
	</txp:article_custom>
</txp:if_individual_article>

wchung · 2009-10-19 22:52:50

Els,

That was it! This will save me having to create a whole bunch of pages/sections!

Thanks!

wchung · 2009-10-19 23:53:30

Els,

Hate to bother you again, but it seems the tags only work with one author.

It’s either because that’s the first author or it’s the only author in which the login and the real name are identical.

For the other authors the tags just show a blank space.

Any thoughts? Could it be a bug in textpattern?

jsoo · 2009-10-20 00:56:09

author attribute for article_custom needs to be the login name. The only way I know to get that is with raw PHP, like so:

<txp:article_custom wraptag="ul" author='<txp:php>global $thisarticle; echo $thisarticle["authorid"];</txp:php>'>
	<txp:if_article_id>
	<txp:else />
		<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></li>
	</txp:if_article_id>
</txp:article_custom>

wchung · 2009-10-20 02:08:09

Jeff,

It worked like a charm! I will have to save it in my collection of useful codebits.

Thanks to both of you!

els · 2009-10-20 08:27:54

jsoo wrote:

author attribute for article_custom needs to be the login name.

Ah, thanks Jeff! I never use <txp:author /> myself, so I didn’t think about that. So if I understand this correctly, the author tag could do with a name and title attribute like the section and category tags?

jsoo · 2009-10-20 11:46:03

Yes, that’s a good idea, given that we’re talking about accessing core functionality. author has its link attribute but that wouldn’t have worked for the OP’s very reasonable request. Given how the tag currently works you’d need to make title true by default (unlike with section) for compatibility. I guess you’d also want to remind designers not to display login names publicly.

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