Blogs: Adding a list of authors to choose from
Hi everyone!
I have a feature we're trying to build into the BLOG feature of Sitefinity. At a high level, here is what we're trying to accomplish:
On the admin side:
For each blog entry, we'd like to be able to assign an author -- from a list of multiple authors.
On the public side:
When reading the article, I'd like the author's name to be clickable. That would go to a page that lists all the articles from that author.
We do have plenty of ways to generate the page that lists articles by the author, but the ability to assign the author and generating a clickable link to that page has been the nut we are unable to crack.
I'd appreciate any insight, suggestions or examples if anyone has accomplished something similar.
Thanks!
Hello Stephen,
You can try to create a custom filed for the Author in the Blogs Posts (screenshot).
More information could be found here:
- Custom fields
- Build a custom field control manually (or using Sitefinity Thunder)
In addition, the Authors could be created as Dynamic Items and the filed to be a selector of that items.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Svetoslav Manchev
Telerik
Thanks Svetoslav! I'll give that a try.
Appreciate your response.