Zak Author 2 CB Plugin
Version
0.4
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
28
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
19983
Date Added
18 July 2008
If you don't already know what authorbot does, it links the author's name in an article to their Community Builder profile.
This release works without any problem, but is listed as alpha as it requires a trivial 1 line edit to a core Joomla file that doesn't affect functionality in any way. Just install, enable, and your author names will be linked to their CB profile page.
If you log in as an editor or above in the frontend (and haven't performed the 1 line edit), you will see some oddity before the "Edit Item" icon - this is because the author name is (IMHO) gratuitously placed in a tooltip for the icon, despite it being shown at the top of the article anyway. This doesn't affect functionality - it just looks odd.
If you want to make it go away, just change line 122 in [Joomla base path]/components/com_content/helpers/icon.php from:
$overlib .= $author;
to:
// $overlib .= $author;
(i.e. comment it out) If you are apprehensive about changing a core file, you can omit this step, and public or registered members will have no problems. The odd stuff before the edit icon is only seen by editor members or above, and in any case it doesn't affect functionality.
-Zak
I give this 5 stars, it does exactly what it says it does and it works well! But I am finding myself now wishing it did something more -- I am using K2 for one are on my site and I do not want the author names linked to the profiles, but I DO want the author names shown. Because of the way the CB link is associated with the author name tag throughout the site, even if I remove the link code from the K2 template the author name is still linked to CB by this plugin. Would love a way of of somehow turning it off for specific areas. But that is just a nice-to-have functionality. The plugin as is works exactly as described (I left this feature request here because the author does not have a support link). Thanks for the great plugin!
This is a good plugin and does what I wanted too. I was hoping i could find something that did this after seeing the CB_authorbot was only for the older joomla. My only gripe is that it blends in with the regular text and it does not stand out as a link (isn't a different color than regular text)
Does exactly what I needed for my site- nice work!
Shame you have to edit the core code...but never mind.
Shame you have to edit the core code...but never mind.
I have been waiting and waiting for this come out again, as I had used it on my old site, and when I upgraded to 1.5 it wasn't available. Installed easily and quickly, worked right away with out any problems. I did not bother with the 1-line code change, and frankly don't see any issues or problems or differences at my site...so it works fine with no changes for me.
