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#1 2013-01-02 11:25:37

beechy

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Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 92

Automatically list site authors and link to their articles

I want to output a list of all authors on my blog automatically.

i.e something like:

<ul>
<li><a href="/author/author+name+1">author name 1</a></li>
<li><a href="/author/author+name+2">author name 2</a></li>
<li><a href="/author/author+name+3">author name 3</a></li>
<li><a href="/author/author+name+4">author name 4</a></li>
</ul>

I’m sure this is pretty easy but at the moment I’m stumped.

Would I be able to do this with the:

<txp:article_custom /> and <txp:if_different> tags with just the <txp:author link="1"/> in the form? - if so how would I do it.

Thanks….

Last edited by beechy (2013-01-02 11:35:48)

#2 2013-01-07 10:38:21

etc

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Registered: 2010-11-11

Posts: 5,397

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Re: Automatically list site authors and link to their articles

beechy wrote:

Would I be able to do this with the:

<txp:article_custom /> and <txp:if_different> tags with just the <txp:author link=“1”/> in the form? – if so how would I do it.

Have you tried this?

<txp:article_custom sort="AuthorID">
  <txp:if_different>
    <txp:author link="1" />
  </txp:if_different>
</txp:article_custom>

That’s not very fast if you have many articles and only few authors, a direct db query might be more effective.

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#3 2013-01-07 16:49:47

beechy

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Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 92

Re: Automatically list site authors and link to their articles

Hi Oleg,

Excellent many thanks for that it was exactly what I was looking for.

#4 2013-01-29 13:08:54

beechy

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Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 92

Re: Automatically list site authors and link to their articles

Hi etc,

I’m using

<txp:article_custom sort="AuthorID">
  <txp:if_different>
    <txp:author link="1" />
  </txp:if_different>
</txp:article_custom>

This outputs the author list 1 by 1 sorted Alpabetically. Is there any way of sorting the author list by the most recent articles they have posted.

I was hoping:

<txp:article_custom sort="AuthorID, Posted desc ">
  <txp:if_different>
    <txp:author link="1" />
  </txp:if_different>
</txp:article_custom>

would do it but this doesn’t have any affect, the author list is still displayed Alpabetically.

If I use:

<txp:article_custom sort="Posted desc ">
  <txp:if_different>
    <txp:author link="1" />
  </txp:if_different>
</txp:article_custom>

Multiple versions of the same author are displayed…

Last edited by beechy (2013-01-29 13:10:52)

#5 2013-01-29 13:26:04

etc

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Registered: 2010-11-11

Posts: 5,397

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Re: Automatically list site authors and link to their articles

Hi beechy,

without recurring to MySQL query, I have only this weird proposal right now:

<txp:article_custom sort="Posted desc ">
  <txp:if_variable name='<txp:author title="0" />'>
    <txp:hide>seen, do nothing</txp:hide>
  <txp:else />
    <txp:variable name='<txp:author title="0" />' value="1" />
    <txp:author link="1" />
  </txp:if_variable>
</txp:article_custom>

Last edited by etc (2013-01-29 13:47:47)

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#6 2013-01-29 15:38:15

rsilletti

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From: Spokane WA

Registered: 2004-04-28

Posts: 707

Re: Automatically list site authors and link to their articles

You could try this ras_author_credits

Also, you may want to look at this Topic , it will do what you describe and a bit more.

#7 2013-01-29 16:02:44

beechy

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Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 92

Re: Automatically list site authors and link to their articles

Hi etc,

Thats awsome and works like a treat, thanks for all the help.