Improved behavior of the about page

brigid/domain/urls.py

@@ -96,11 +96,12 @@ def url(self) -> str:
         return normalize_url(f"{_base_url()}/{self.language}")
 
 
+# TODO: this is a temporary solution, we should explicitly define urls for authors
 class UrlsAuthor(UrlsBase):
     __slots__ = ()
 
     def url(self) -> str:
-        return normalize_url(f"{_base_url()}/{self.language}/about")
+        return normalize_url(f"{_base_url()}/{self.language}/posts/about")
 
 
 class UrlsFeedsAtom(UrlsBase):

brigid/jinja2_render/jinjaglobals.py

@@ -68,3 +68,21 @@ def page_series_info(page: Page) -> PageSeriesInfo:
 @jinjaglobal
 def page_title(page: Page, short: bool = False) -> str:
     return l_utils.page_title(page=page, short=short)
+
+
+@jinjaglobal
+def has_article(language: str, slug: str) -> bool:
+    from brigid.library.storage import storage
+
+    if not storage.has_article(slug=slug):
+        return False
+
+    article = storage.get_article(slug=slug)
+
+    return language in article.pages
+
+
+# TODO: this is a temporary solution, we should explicitly define urls for authors
+@jinjaglobal
+def has_author_page(language: str) -> bool:
+    return has_article(language=language, slug="about")

brigid/library/entities.py

@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ class SiteLanguage(BaseEntity):
 
     menu: list[MenuItem] = pydantic.Field(default_factory=list)
 
+    footer_extra: list[str] = pydantic.Field(default_factory=list)
+
 
 class Site(BaseEntity):
     prod_url: pydantic.HttpUrl

brigid/plugins/seo/templates/meta.html.j2

@@ -43,19 +43,21 @@
     {
       "@context": "https://schema.org",
       "@type": "BlogPosting",
-    "headline": "{{meta_info.title}}",
-    {% if meta_info.seo_image_url %}
+      "headline": "{{meta_info.title}}",
+      {% if meta_info.seo_image_url %}
       "image": [
         "{{meta_info.seo_image_url}}"
-      ],
-    {% endif %}
+        ],
+      {% endif %}
       "datePublished": "{{meta_info.published_at.isoformat()}}",
-    {# TODO: add dateModified #}
+      {# TODO: add dateModified #}
       "author": [{
           "@type": "Person",
-          "name": "{{meta_info.author}}",
-          "url": "{{current_url.to_author().url()}}"
-        }]
+          "name": "{{meta_info.author}}"
+          {% if has_author_page(current_url.language) %}
+          , "url": "{{current_url.to_author().url()}}"
+          {% endif %}
+      }]
     }
     </script>
   {% endmacro %}
@@ -76,8 +78,10 @@
     {% endif %}
       "author": [{
           "@type": "Person",
-          "name": "{{meta_info.author}}",
-          "url": "{{current_url.to_author().url()}}"
+          "name": "{{meta_info.author}}"
+          {% if has_author_page(current_url.language) %}
+          , "url": "{{current_url.to_author().url()}}"
+          {% endif %}
         }]
     }
     </script>

brigid/plugins/theme/templates/footer.html.j2

@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@
   <div class="brigid-footer brigid-article">
     <ul>
       {% if site_language.author %}
-        <li>© {{ site_language.author }}</li>
+        <li>
+          ©
+          {% if has_author_page(language) %}
+            <a href="{{ root_url(language).to_author().url() }}" target="_blank">{{ site_language.author }}</a>
+          {% else %}
+            {{ site_language.author }}
+          {% endif %}
+        </li>
       {% endif %}
 
       {% if site_language.license %}
@@ -33,6 +40,13 @@
       <li>
         {{translate_theme(language, 'icons_attribution')|upper_first}}
       </li>
+
+      {% for extra in site_language.footer_extra %}
+        <li>
+          {{extra|safe}}
+        </li>
+      {% endfor %}
+
     </ul>
   </div>
 

changes/next_release.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+
+- Added `footer_extra` list to the site language configs. The list contains HTML items that are appended to the footer list.
+- Improved behavior of the `about` page:
+  - SEO author URL now has a correct value.
+  - Footer author name now is a link to the `about` page when the `about` page exists.

test-content/pages/about/article.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+slug = "about"
+type = 'page'

test-content/pages/about/en.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+title = "Blog author page"
+published_at = "2021-09-13T12:00:00+00:00"
+template = "theme/article_wide.html.j2"
+seo_description = "A few words about me."
+seo_image = ""
+---
+
+This is the author page. It is required to test some footer and seo functionality.

test-content/site/en.toml

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ title = "Test/Example site"
 subtitle = "Site to test theme, css, layout, rendering rules, etc."
 author = "Aliaksei Yaletski (Tiendil)"
 
+footer_extra = [
+  "<a href='https://example.com'>Example extra link</a>",
+]
+
 [[menu]]
   type = "blog"
   name = "Blog"