Author Home Page

The video explains a Design Proposal

Author Home Page Design Proposal

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Proposal: Author Home Page

We will have a box with Our top authors below the categories boxes. They can be rounded or no.

Author Home Page with old Menu

The new menu becomes a home page pane.
Posts, archives and author pages use the old menu.

First solution

Please doc the Backend. Is it a plugin, hopefully?

It is a widget, part of PicCat Widget

Order of the authors by first name.

Change to last name.

–> Done on european. Must be distributed, if it is OK.

The issue is that we have many users without last name.

–> move First Name into Last Name

HomePage Widget

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Additional Requirements:

The author content tools have the following options:

• We can exclude authors that have empty first or last name (two checkboxes)
• Do not show authors with less than X posts in the widget for selection
• The other options are not only valid for Author Posts Widget but not for Author Picture on Home Page.

Use the option from Author Content Widget

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Author Home Settings: Final Implementation

We introduce a new plugin with the options above. It is currently on Syndication installed.

The plugin is called Author Content Widget .

The widget can be also used on the home page.

Plugin: pa-author-content-tools-gui

PA Author Content Tools GUI

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Author pic problem with image src

There were a bug in the Author Home Page widget and does not take the right picture. The plugin does not found the picture due to small/capital letters and shows the author picture (default one).

The bug is fixed and it is deployed on all blogs.

Author Home Page Missing Image

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