Author Page

[kmberly]

I am installing SMF for someone who knows no HTML and would like a block with Authors/Article writers that includes a picture, link to their site, and a little snippet about them. I am looking for something that will do this easily and be easy for her to add/remove/edit the author's snippets. Should I be looking in the Roster block, TP Team? I'm not sure which (if any) would be better.

[JPDeni]

Are these authors going to be members of her board who write articles via TP?

If so, probably the best thing would be to have a little php script -- wouldn't take much, I don't think -- to pull the data from the articles table and the profile. The snippet would likely easiest if you added the Custom Profile Field mod to create a textarea in the profile for the snippet. The picture would be the avatar and the link to their site would be from the profile.

It could also list the names of the articles they wrote, with links to them. Easy enough to do.

I guess it would be similar to the roster, but not exactly the same.