WIP: render author pages

[jjconti]

Based on tags.py

Requires this configs:

AUTHOR_PATH = 'author'
AUTHOR_PAGES_ARE_INDEXES = True

and this messages:

"Authors": "Autores",
"Posts by %s": "Posts de %s"

[Kwpolska]

Great idea!

• style fixes needed: https://travis-ci.org/getnikola/nikola/jobs/76990366#L171
• tests fail. Add your new settings to conf.py.in and nikola.py, and messages to messages_en.py (we need some more work to get it to Transifex, we will handle that)
• Would you mind implementing the title/description customization parts from tags?

[da2x]

Enhancement idea: Most CMS include short author bios and portrait images on these kind of pages. Maybe duplicate whats available in TAG_PAGES_DESCRIPTIONS as AUTHOR_PAGES_BIOS with the same format? and then the same for AUTHOR_PORTRAITS, I believe would work well.

“Guest authors” usually want a link back to their homepage from these kind of pages too … AUTHOR_HOMEPAGES? Or just make AUTHOR_PAGES_BIOS accept HTML blobs (TAG_PAGE_DESCRIPTIONS are just one paragraph of text).

[jjconti]

@Aeyoun interesting ideas, but with what I've implemented so far my requirements and available time are covered.

[ralsina]

@Aeyoun can you file those as a enhancement issue with a checklist? Once this is polished and merged we can tackle that as needed.

[Kwpolska]

AUTHOR_PATH*

[jjconti]

For the docs:

You can link an author's page form you template adding this:

<a href="${_link('author', post.author())}">${post.author()}</a>

[jjconti]

A working example of this at: http://lugcos.github.io/

[da2x]

Issues #1973, #1974, and #1975.

[Kwpolska]

what changed here and why?

[jjconti]

I improved the item visualization in the base tamplate. It was show as:
Title Date --- (dash)
The dash is added by the date style. I changed it to be
Date --- Title
as in other templates I saw. I used the same pattern in author.tmpl. Maybe there is an extra new line.

[da2x]

Line 34 in data/themes/base/templates/post_header.tmpl should link to the author’s page if it is being generated. The enclosing span element can be replaced with an a element retaining the span’s microformats and adding rel="author me".

[jjconti]

I'll do it tonight when adding a final change. Thanks.

[jjconti]

I'm done. This can be merged (do I do it? am I getting commit access or something like that?).

NOTE: author*tmpl files are missing for base-jinja theme. I can add them after this is merged.

[Kwpolska]

1. I’ll merge it. If you want commit rights, just ask.
2. It can be generated with scripts/jinjify.py. I’ll handle that.

Thanks for your contribution!

[jjconti]

You're welcome. Thanks for the software. I'll continue using it so I'll probably be doing more contributions.

Do we need to update CHANGELOG? Something in doc/? AUTHORS.txt?

[Kwpolska]

1. So, do you want commit rights or not?
2. CHANGES.txt, AUTHORS.txt and docs/manual.txt could use an update. Will you do it?

[jjconti]

Ok! I'll do it! :D I wasn't sure because of what Uncle Ben said[1] but, let's do it!

[1]Uncle Ben: Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility.

[jjconti]

Done.