A81 Author Profile Ideas

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The second major improvement that comes with author go-live are the author profile pages.

In the user Wpadmin backend we foresee new fields which are shown inside tabs.

The author archives are moved from

example: https://austrian.economicblogs.org/author/tyler-durden/

to: http://austrian.economicblogs.org/author/tyler-durden/articles They contain the longer excerpts.

While the orginal page

http://austrian.economicblogs.org/author/tyler-durden/ contains the author profile in tabs design.

Tabs Design

Here we can use tabs plugins or do it ourselves.
Since the data is our user data, it is probably better to create our own tab design,.

Example for a Tabs Design

Author page on IMDB

The following picture from IMDb wants to make writers more important, similarly as movie stars. We will add for the most important authors.

We create a similar page with Born when and where and short bio, short rating, some photos. Then we have different tabs for:

Full Bio (take it from Seeking Alpha)
Articles (on ecoblogs)
My Books
Video Presentations (e.g. youtube)
Ratings
Major Keywords (based on tags)

The My Books tab is the most important one, because the author will think that we help him selling his books. Therefore we will need a picture for each of his books in this tab. We certainly use our Amazon seller ID and a link to Amazon.

Author page on Amazon

My Books Tab: Author pages: Amazon

But our major example is Seeking Alpha.

The Profile page has different sections like About, snapshot, my company, my blog.

All articles, Instablog, StockTalks and Comments link to subpages of

http://seekingalpha.com/author/george-dorgan/articles

like http://seekingalpha.com/author/george-dorgan/articles

and http://seekingalpha.com/author/george-dorgan/comments

We foresee for now only the subpage “articles”.

Currently we have the Follow Author Pro by PromoteAuthor LLC settings inside the user dialog.

We would add another section with all the required fields for the tabs inside the Author profile pages by PromoteAuthor LLC settings.

One field is the bio, for each tab there will be another field.

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Authors want to gain public attention. Social media offers a lot of possibilities. Authors may gather followers with different channels like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, the Russian Vkontakte or financial channels like Seeking Alpha and CFA Society. Requirement A: Follow Author plugin We want to create a plugin that can be used in any website. I will show the author’s picture and the relevant follow buttons for this author. In the WordPress dashboard one should be able set the author’s photo to specify the URL for the follow button for different social channels. We foresee about 10 different social channels. The position of the picture and of each follow button. Design Details: Point 3 gives the WordPress admin full flexibility to adjust the plugin to his/her needs. It is desirable that for each author the positions may be different, because the follow channels are different for each author. The Follow Author will be realized with a plugin here.	.
Requirement B: Share buttons Light Authors want that their texts are easily shared. Therefore we improve the existing share possibilities.	.
Requirement D: Tweet Automatically by E-llusion We would like to extend the existing functionality of the Tweetily plugin so that more than one Twitter account (authors) can tweet on one blog. The following shows the existing backend. We show different ways to enable multi-author-tweeting here. Moreover, we want to extend twittily as a so-called functional extension of a plugin.	Twittily Backend
Requirement E: Pictured Category Containers We would like to show the photo of an author on different “containers” inside the WordPress blogs. For this sake we develop a plugin that shows the photo on different “containers”. Containers are: so-called “page building blocks”	.
on widgets for this category and	.
on category archives. On our economicblogs page, authors correspond to categories.	.
Requirement F: Author Site Map We must improve the author site map for our blogs.

Best ideas from TalkMarkets

Ideas	Attachments
Enable comments Following the idea of TalkMarkets, we can enable comments and give the readers the freedom to give their opinion. It is also unique content for our site. DONE	Enable comments on Ecoblogs
Author box as widget We can introduce a new widget box into the sidebar of SNBCHF & Ecoblogs. This will give us more space to add more information about the author and bigger image. It will not take space from the text. Estimate: 16 hours NOT DONE	Author widget box in sidebar
Become contributor This is very important. We should introduce users – registration and log in for different contributors, so they can submit articles without our FeedWP. This will be unique content and will make our site more unique. This will also populate our brand among the Eco authors. We will be a mini-social network. This is the first step and we definitely need to work in this direction. Estimate: about 40h NOT DONE
Related authors Low-hanging fruit! We can introduce a new widget called related authors. It is the same as related posts, but will show authors, which are similar to the author of the article. Estimate: About 1 day for all blogs NOT DONE	Related authors
My Dashboard & My Network This is a personal feed, based on the user interests and a list with followed authors. We should work on this direction, too.	Personalized feed