Wowchemy-hugo-modules: Displaying post author name

[raheems]

Not a big issue but wondering how to display post author name in the blog posts? The "author:" parameter is added to the post, yet the name does not show up. Thanks.

[hakyim]

Being able to add author names in post would be a nice addition

[gcushen]

It's designed for personal websites, hence assumes that all posts are authored by the same person. However, we could consider to add multi-user functionality for displaying a specified author name for each blog post.

Do you wish that there is only one author for each post, or potentially some posts could have multiple authors?

[raheems]

Ability to have multiple authors would be great. Thank you!

[hakyim]

This template works also well for a lab page. The bio can be used for the PI of the lab and moved further down. Lab members can post news so it would be nice to allow multiple authors. Thank you for the great template.

[binarymist]

Hi @gcushen.
This is still WIP?
Thanks.

P.S. You may be surprised how and who is using this great theme ... https://binarymist.io

I was going to migrate my crusty 8 year old legacy blog https://blog.binarymist.net to hugo, and after playing with academic for a bit, realised that I could also migrate my business site from custom nodejs on AWS in a Docker container also to the same github pages hugo/academic ... combining both into one. After spending a few weeks with Academic, I've been able to combine both sites into one, thus hugely simplifying my life. Personally I think academic is a very good fit.

Big ups!

[gcushen]

@binarymist thanks for the feedback, glad to hear about your great experience with Academic!

This feature is currently scheduled for v2.2. It is dependent on establishing an author/person system. Hugo team are also looking at implementing an author/person system, so ideally we would use the in-built Hugo system once it becomes available rather than implementing our own system. We'll see how Hugo's implementation progresses, and consider developing our own system if necessary.

[binarymist]

Yip, makes sense to wait for upstream (semantically).

[Traedas]

I just misused the recommendedby param for this.
If you are not using one of the accessable params why not use one of them ?
the user wont see the param name anyway.
i know its bad coding but the only way i got this to work in my template

[mikesigs]

Even on a personal site, it's nice to have one's name attached to the blog post. Most visitors will simply find your content through Google, read the article, and leave. They will never bother to look at the rest of the site and see who you are.

You already include the name as a metatag in the article-metadata. Why not just use a span, instead of a meta?

Here's what I did to customize my site. Perhaps it will help others.

• Copy themes/academic/layouts/partials/article_metadata.html to layouts/partials/article_metadata.html
• Change this:

  <span itemscope itemprop="author publisher" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
    <meta itemprop="name" content="{{ $.Site.Params.name }}">
  </span>

• to this:

  <span class="middot-divider"></span>  
  <span itemscope itemprop="author publisher" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
    <span itemprop="name">{{ $.Site.Params.name }}</span>
  </span>

This makes the article headers appear like this:

[binarymist]

Looks great @mikesigs. Can we just get this into master, so everyone doesn't have to provide their own customisations (DRY)?

[mikesigs]

@gcushen is it worth a PR?

[binarymist]

I'm sure it is. I'm a bit shy with submitting pull requests at this stage though, as they tend to just sit there. I think the idea is that the smaller they are, the more likely they will be accepted. Might pay to get a response from @gcushen first though.

[gcushen]

This feature has already been implemented as part of Academic's new multi-user account system in the upcoming version 2.2.0 :) If I have time, I'll attempt to release it this weekend.

[mikesigs]

Thanks @gcushen! You're crushing it!

[basille]

Great to hear about this! Is this in any way related to #274 (I see this one is "waiting for feedback")? It seems to me to be a natural extension of it (several people in the lab, hence several potential authors for blog posts)…

[jananiravi]

Thanks, @gcushen That would be a very useful feature to acknowledge co-writers/editors of the post since there's room to add authors in the .md or .rmd file. Looking forward to trying this! :)

[mauritzvdworm]

I would love this feature. Any updates on this?

@gcushen do you have a like to the Academic's new multi-user account system documents?