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Hi. Byron I am trying to add an image link, as it has on St.louie linking to "Post", but instead I want to link to the authors page.
Is there a tag that I can use that has the authors username or login_name that is not linked as the [author_link] tag, so i can build myself the link to http://www.myblog.com/author/author_name? Thnks.
Jon,
I there's not a tag for that in custom layouts at this time...I'll see if I can add to next release.
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Thanks, that would be great!
It's in there...look for [author] in next release.
Hey Byron. Thanks for adding [author] to the layout editor! But a little doubt showed up...
you wrote "* Added [author] tag to Custom Layouts - tag will display the image contributor's login or nice name. Allows you to build your own links to an author page or other uses."
How can I chose between login or nicename using the [author] tag?
I saw on the php file that [author] was associated with user_login, user_nicename and display-name so I just deleted the last 2 options and it worked to get the user_login, but if i keep doing that I will have to change every time that has an update...not good idea! Thanks.
Jon,
You're correct...right now it tries to use nicename (I think) and then if it can't find that, it starts going through the others. I'll try to work a solution, but it will have to be down the road a bit as I'm working on some other items.
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Hi Byron, again thanks for your answer.
One suggestion for the matter. Right now seems that you have 3 tags doing the same thing [user_name], [contributor] and [author]. So if you have [author] just calling the user_login it would still have 2 tags left for display reasons. I think this should work fine so people could chose between getting user_name or display, nicename. :)
My concern would be that this would mess up people who are using those tags. What might work would be to add an attribute to the tags so you could specify the name type...something like: [author display='nicename']
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