Textpattern CMS support forum
You are not logged in. Register | Login | Help
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#1 2007-06-17 08:34:35
- root
- Member
- From: Manila, Philippines
- Registered: 2004-05-31
- Posts: 48
Author Info Article linked via Custom Field
Resolved
So I’ve followed the general outline of this thread, only now I want to go even more ALA-style, having even the author bio at the bottom of the article page.
Aaaand…
<txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:article_custom section="author" limit="1" form="authorinfo" authorname="<txp:custom_field name="authorname" />" />
</txp:asy_wondertag>Really sorry about cluttering up the forums x_X
Last edited by root (2007-06-17 14:09:00)
Offline
Re: Author Info Article linked via Custom Field
Ideally, there would be a “profile” option for authors. Until then, you can throw in some conditionals:
<txp:if_article_author name="username_one">
<p>Joe Schmoe writes stuff.</p>
</txp:if_article_author>
<txp:if_article_author name="username_two">
<p>Sally Sue also writes stuff.</p>
</txp:if_article_author>Last edited by jm (2007-06-17 09:31:16)
Offline
#3 2007-06-17 09:42:23
- root
- Member
- From: Manila, Philippines
- Registered: 2004-05-31
- Posts: 48
Re: Author Info Article linked via Custom Field
That’s one of the problems: our authors do not necessarily have Textpattern access. We’re hopefully having contributors, and the submissions are just going to go through the editor to keep it as clean and safe as possible. Thus the actual author is the person mentioned in the custom field, and not the one who posted the article.
Offline
Re: Author Info Article linked via Custom Field
Ah, I see. One of my client’s sites has developed the same problem (initially everyone was to be registered), so the unregistered authors have their profiles pasted into the article.
I wonder if you could use the SimplePie plugin to read from an author-XML file. Then you could have individually named author files, or just one giant author file and use XSLT and a custom field to select the current author.
Last edited by jm (2007-06-17 11:02:19)
Offline
Re: Author Info Article linked via Custom Field
root, the example code in your opening post, is that a solution or a request for help? It looks like a solution.
Offline
#6 2007-06-17 14:08:37
- root
- Member
- From: Manila, Philippines
- Registered: 2004-05-31
- Posts: 48
Re: Author Info Article linked via Custom Field
Ruud, yep, it’s a solution. I posed a problem there before, until i realized that the solution was staring me in the face (I had asy_wondertag installed!). Sorry if there was any confusion x_X
Offline