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Re: feature request

# 1 - Posted by: baijianpeng on 2008-12-17 14:10:37

How about create a new plugin to work with this one: a new plugin to show a list of articles on the author's page.

When the visitor viewing the author's page, this new plugin will automatically show a list of all his articles at the end of introduction.

The list can be only titles, or titles and IntroText, or Image at left, and Title and Introtext at right.

Of course, if the author has published many articles, there need a parameter for pagination in the new plugin.

Thanks for your great jobs!

# 2 - Posted by: Gnostic on 2008-12-17 15:19:28

This is a much needed feature, but I wonder if it would be more efficient to link to the author contact page, rather than making new categories and articles. I suggested this in the Joomla forum, and others seem to agree with the idea. I believe this gives added functionality while also using existing resources well. Either way, Joomla needs an easy way to link authors and their articles.

# 3 - Posted by: Arno Zijlstra on 2008-12-17 15:25:59

The benefit of having the plugin like this is that you can also create a menu item to list all authors for example and the bio's can be short or large, images or not, whatever like a normal article. Thats what I needed when I created the plugin at first.

We've been thinking about features like "Last 5 articles from this author" beneath the introtext so maybe in future releases. :-)

Re: Like this?

# 4 - Posted by: Amy Stephen on 2008-12-17 15:54:16

Check out Ercan Ozkaya's Author Details extension. It's lovely!

Since Ercan's a member of our JPress Team - and since he already contributed his Page Title extension to the cause - I'll see if he is willing to add this to JPress.

It's a mighty sweet extension with a little Mootools action that makes it fun.

# 5 - Posted by: Amy Stephen on 2008-12-17 15:56:37

Ooops! Would someone add this link to my comment above? http://ercan.us/extensions/author-details.html

# 6 - Posted by: Gnostic on 2008-12-17 16:10:57

Yes, I tried the Author Details plugin, but unfortunately it conflicted with another plugin. I actually prefer jfoobar's plugin anyhow, because it allows you to display text directly on the article. I just would like it even better if it would link to already existing contacts. :)

# 7 - Posted by: Amy Stephen on 2008-12-17 19:29:18

Actually, the capability I was speaking of was the article listings. I think Ercan has further developed this since I last saw it. It's always been neat showing the last NN articles for the selected article - but now it appears to have much more capabilities. Very cool!

Do you remember what the plugin might have conflicted with? It uses default Mootools - but it might be using an ID (i.e., 'toggleothers' or 'otherarticles') that another plugin was using.

# 8 - Posted by: Gnostic on 2008-12-17 21:37:10

Right you are: that is the plugin I currently use; for me, the article listing is more useful than the author link. I thought you were referring to "Author Link" - which conflicts with "Author Details," I suppose because they both use Mootools. It would be wonderful if these functions were integral in Joomla, but short of that, if they were in one plugin (maybe "jfoobar_author_bio"? ... :)

# 9 - Posted by: Gnostic on 2008-12-18 14:05:03

I spent some time working with this plugin and find it a clever solution to the clear need for better linking between authors and their articles. However, for a site that is rather large, it is time consuming. First, it appears that the plugin can only address one category at a time. I tested it on a site that has 5 sections and 25 categories (and several hundred articles). I hoped this tool would work site wide, but it does not appear to. Perhaps I need multiple occurrences of the plugin? (ouch) Second, every author article must tie to an user account by means of manually looking up the user id number, then entering it in the author article. We have 70+ authors, so this takes time as well. The combination of these issues will likely prevent me from using the plugin for now. Also, I noticed that the styling on the jfoobar site is not included in the plugin; hopefully some hints toward styling the displayed text will also become available. This plugin is a good start, and if I was launching a new site I would likely use it.

# 10 - Posted by: mmilan on 2009-01-25 02:37:20

Are there any way to make this plugin to work with multiple categories?

Re: Plugin - Author Biograph

# 11 - Posted by: Wilco Jansen on 2009-01-25 02:46:58

Can you explain in more detail what you mean?

# 12 - Posted by: mmilan on 2009-01-25 02:52:23

"Please select the category that you want to plug-in to render the information,"

I can select only one category and plugin show Author biography in that category, but I want to use plugin for all article on the site, which are in different categories. Is it possible?

# 13 - Posted by: Wilco Jansen on 2009-01-25 03:18:01

You can select multiple categories and section, but am not sure it will do what you want. Maybe you can try that (hold CTRL key when selecting multiple categories).

# 14 - Posted by: mmilan on 2009-01-25 12:59:02

Thank you. It looks like that the problem is with my browser (Debian version of Firefox) :(

Re: Suggestion / wish

# 15 - Posted by: Pete on 2009-01-28 11:48:08

Hi Folks,

First I would like to say thank you for this nice and very usefull Plugin. I had a long test run with it and finaly installed it on the live Site. So what I didnt catch during the testphase is The strings: "About the author...." and: "More about...." I first have been looking for a language file en-GB.plg_ but without luck, I found them in: jfoobar_author_bio.php file and changed them there.

But as there are no other Text related in the Frontend could you perhabs add does two bits in the Parameter Settings of the Plugin for other not english Native Sites?

Would be realy appriciated...

Cheers

Pete

Re: Unable to select multiple categories

# 16 - Posted by: George on 2009-02-09 07:26:36

Hi. First off, this is a great plugin but I am unable to select multiple categories in the "Show for Categories" dropdown in the plugin parameters admin panel. This field has a dropdown but I can only select 1 of the categories. I have tried it both on IE 7 and Firefox 3.0.6 with Windows XP OS. Can you tell me where the configuration is stored so I can just manually edit it? Thanks.

Re: Can't get it to work

# 17 - Posted by: Alan on 2009-02-09 19:39:50

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I can't get this to work. I have put the User ID in the article (the real article they wrote, not the Bio, right?) and then went and chose the category.

Nothings appears at the bottom of the article I am calling to. Is there more detailed instructions on what I am to do somewhere?

Re: Plugin - Author Biograph

# 18 - Posted by: Wilco Jansen on 2009-02-13 22:57:48

A new version is released, you now will be able to select multiple categories. Have fun using it!

Re: Plugin not works

# 19 - Posted by: Roberto Falcone on 2009-03-23 13:33:02

This is a great idea but it seems to not work under a shared hosting: I've got this PHP warning:

Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file.

Re: Integrate with Gravatar

# 20 - Posted by: almamun on 2009-05-28 14:36:54

Hello, thank you very much for this plugin. Pls integrate with Gravatar/CB avatar ... it would be great.

Re: Use with Frontend editing?

# 21 - Posted by: huwy on 2009-09-22 19:05:35

Hello,

Is there a way to use this plugin in frontpage editing. I have a blog with multiple Authors and would like them to insert their ID in the frontend so that they not have to go to the backend.

Is that possible?

Thanks,

huwy

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