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0.7.2 (last update on Mar 27, 2009)
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Date Added
7 October 2007
replace author caption with a link(s) to specified section's article for the author description. and shows the links to the author's articles and contact page on the description page.
Instruction:
1. specify a section on the plugin parameters page (and enable the plugin!)
2. add an article on the section with the author name as title of the article and author username as title alias of the article.
3. on any article, add the specified title alias on author alias (with "ga=" prefix)
or just leave it (to use the current author username.)
4. or if the author (like Hemingway) has not been registered yet!, you can fill author alias with "ga=hemingway" and add an article on the author's section with hemingway on title alias.
5. also you can use coma seperated usernames or "&t" and/or "&e" suffix for "translated by" and "edited by" on usernames.
like : "ga=admin,carlos&t,linda&e"
use the patch for editor link issue. (just extract to main root of joomla)
Based on the idea of BK author link and CB AuthorBot plugins!
for any information, bug or complain! feel free to contact me.
ChangeLog:
-7.2
compatibility with gAvatar 0.3
contact sef link bug fixed
contact link from email
grammer correction!
css clean up
adding patch for editor link issue
-0.7
almost rewritten entire code
major improvements on ordering (suggested by Darren He)
remove id tags for validation
some minor bug fix
-0.6.1
SEO and Itemid bugs fixed.
article links on blog bug fixed.
change the licence again!
-0.6
SYNTAX CHANGED!
bybaijianpeng on September 7, 2009
At first glance of this plugin, I think this is a good idea. But after test, I feel disppointed.
My Joomla 1.5.14 was installed in a subfolder to www root, then I noticed that the frontend author name was NOT converted to a link, but the link was output as plain text instead of HTML.
When I enable the Joomla SEF, I found another bug: the URL for the author page was wrong, it used the itemID as the document name in URL, which should be the Title Alias along with the itemID.
Hope the author will continue to improve this plugin. Thanks.
My Joomla 1.5.14 was installed in a subfolder to www root, then I noticed that the frontend author name was NOT converted to a link, but the link was output as plain text instead of HTML.
When I enable the Joomla SEF, I found another bug: the URL for the author page was wrong, it used the itemID as the document name in URL, which should be the Title Alias along with the itemID.
Hope the author will continue to improve this plugin. Thanks.
Owner's reply
For the first problem please read the homepage carefully. there's a patch.
And for the second if the first solved then sure i'll use the itemID to fix the bug.
Thanks
byGhaffari on August 4, 2009
Great plugin!!! Just did what I wanted. My site treats articles as books. So I wanted to show the author name and link below each book's title. This plugin did exactly that, although through a trick.
But it solved my problem anyhow!!!!
I was even able to modify it and include the publisher name in the list of authors.
But it solved my problem anyhow!!!!
I was even able to modify it and include the publisher name in the list of authors.