Comments for MTAuthors

Comment from The Dead One on 2002-08-02

2002-08-02T12:15:45Z

I'm afraid I can't get this to work. It's not the first plugin I've used and I followed the instructions but it does not produce anything.

I'm not using mySQL - would this effect it?

Comment from Sammael on 2002-08-04

2002-08-05T06:16:57Z

It does not work for me either. And I am using MySql. I have followed the exact installation text written here. Any clue ?

Comment from The One True b!X on 2002-08-06

2002-08-07T03:21:53Z

No go for me either.

Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-08-06

2002-08-07T03:26:23Z

You must be running Movable Type 2.21 for these plugins to work. MT 2.2 had a bug that kept custom container tags like MTAuthors from working.

Aside from that, this plugin does NOT require MySQL to work.

Comment from Justin Hall on 2002-08-08

2002-08-09T02:31:10Z

Brad - thanks for your work developing this tool. Great idea!

I'm trying to use your Authors plug-in on the lower left hand corner of this page: http://www.chanpon.org/test.html - under the left hand navigation bar, between "test" and "tested" I have this code:

- all I see is the : colon between fields; there's no data coming from my MT (v2.21). Is there any way for me to debug this? Thanks for your time.

Comment from Sammael on 2002-08-09

2002-08-10T05:16:38Z

Hey Justin, it seem to work on your site now. How did you fix it ? I have the same setup as you, but still nothing before or after the colon.

Thanks

Comment from Scott on 2002-08-14

2002-08-14T17:24:23Z

I am trying to generate a list of authors and a list of entries for each. When I try the following:

I get the following error message:
Build error in template 'Authors Index': Error in tag: Error in tag: You used an 'MTEntryTitle' tag outside of the context of an entry; perhaps you mistakenly placed it outside of an 'MTEntries' container?

So, I need soome way of automatically placing the author names in the MTEntry tag. I was this list to be automatically updated when new authors and entries are added.

Any suggestions?

Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-08-14

2002-08-14T17:37:43Z

Unfortunately, you can't embed MT tags inside another like that. My next update to this plugin will pre-select the entries for that author so that all you have to do is say ... and it will expand out accordingly.

Comment from Scott on 2002-08-14

2002-08-14T21:11:26Z

I was impatient (because I had promised one of the authors this feature), so I added another container tag (MTAuthorEntries) and three other tags to support what I wanted. But, since I wanted the entry titles sorted, I hacked Entry.pm so that entry titles are indexed. You can see the output page at
http://www.mcgerik.com/lis/authors.php

Comment from Phillip Winn on 2002-08-14

2002-08-15T00:53:14Z

Fantastic! I've been testing this for use with Blogcritics.com. I did make a few changes to the code to allow for sorting the authors. Otherwise they come out in what appears to be the order in which they were created.

However, being unfamiliar with the list_iter method and accessing the DB stuff in general, I did it by sorting based on the first tag specified in the template. You can control the sort order in a non-obvious way by using a field hidden in a comment (e.g. ), but I'm thinking that there is probably a better way to do this.

With a little more time, I could probably come up with a "sort" attribute to the "MTAuthors" container. Is this something people would want?

Brad, would you rather I just send you what I've already done (three very small code changes) so that you can do this? You'd do a better job, I'm sure.

Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-08-14

2002-08-15T01:52:57Z

Actually, the sort order for the authors was supposed to be by name. An update to the plugin (perhaps tonight) will address that so it sorts by name. It will also allow for listing the entries for the authors. I had given thought to allowing a 'sort' parameter to be given, but since the only indexed fields for author are name and e-mail address I didn't see the need.

For more control over your author listing, you might try the SQL plugin. It lets you do a query of your authors from the database. So you could sort on 'nickname' or 'url' or whatever other field you'd like.

Comment from Phillip Winn on 2002-08-15

2002-08-15T16:45:20Z

I had noticed the sort-by-name thing in the code, but it obviously wasn't working, and as I mentioned, I don't know how load_iter works.

I don't use MySQL, so the other plugin won't do anything for me.

I'm not sure I really need to sort by anything other than name, so if that is fixed, I'll probably leave it at that. Sorting by any field wouldn't be that difficult, but for a huge number of authors, it could chew up some memory/CPU to store and sort the array.

Thanks!

Comment from Richard Smith on 2002-09-03

2002-09-04T06:40:16Z

I am trying to get this to work --- my first plugin, so that probably explains it. I have tried to follow the instructions but I am sure I am getting something in the wrong place. Here is my setup"

[cgi-bin]/mt/plugins/authors.pl

[cgi-bin]/mt/extlib/bradchoate/author.pm

It that right? I have mt 2.21 and it didn't have a pre-existing plugins OR extlib directories, so I ahve created them where I think they should be. I do not have mt documents served out of the cgi-bin directory, but from a documents directory...

Comment from Andrew on 2002-11-04

2002-11-04T14:47:39Z

Hey Brad, dumb question: where do I actually SET an AuthorName and AuthorNickname? In MT, I'm only aware of user login names as identification. Can you have a user login "andrew" with an associated name "Andrew Otwell"?

Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-11-04

2002-11-04T17:20:20Z

'AuthorName' is a little misleading I suppose. It pulls from the author_name field in the author table, so that's why it's named that. The 'name' is actually the MT username. 'AuthorNickname' is for the 'author_nickname' field. You assign both of these on the user profile screen in MT. Login and click the "Edit Your Profile" link from the main menu to get to it.

Comment from Jacob on 2002-12-08

2002-12-09T01:12:43Z

Is it possible to sort by entry count? I want to show who has the most posts, in decsending order..

Comment from Garrett Albright on 2002-12-26

2002-12-26T14:50:15Z

Okay, well... You know how you can fairly easily set up MT so that it can show you all of the posts that are in a certain category? Well, what I'm hoping to do is create a page that shows all the posts written by a certain author, without having to actually create a page by hand for each author, then put in all of 'em. Ya know what I mean? Just like the MT script takes care of that automatically with Categories, I'd like it to do that with Authors.

I'm sure there's a way, and this plugin might be key... Alas, exactly how to get this to work is eluding me. Has anyone else stumbled across the same answer? I'd greatly appreciate it if you could share with me how you did it.

Comment from Garrett Albright on 2002-12-26

2002-12-26T16:01:45Z

Hmm. Never mind about that above comment so much, I suppose... I've figured out how to get MT to give me a custom page when I give it an author's name... now I'm trying to do what Scott was trying to do, which doesn't seem to be possible, although I'm not getting an error as he did. Ah well... I'll keep plugging at it.

Comment from kelly on 2003-01-03

2003-01-04T04:19:54Z

Just a quick thank you - I came across this plug-in months ago, but thought it would be too difficult to install (I'm useless with hacking stuff). However tonight I gave it a try and managed to install it without a hassle. It's perfect! Thanks ever so much :)

Comment from Faf on 2003-01-21

2003-01-22T05:20:50Z

is there a way of sending a "NOT" command to this script. It'll be very helpful in listing all authors who are NOT allowed to "edit_config"...

one use of this i can think of is this:

on my archives page,http://dotfaf.com/v2/ i list all entries in the blog but then i have another portion which lists only entries not made by me.

I was thinking about using the authors plugin to do something like this, but i cant find a way of telling it NOT me, ie. cannot edit_config.

Comment from Howard on 2003-06-20

2003-06-20T20:23:49Z

Hi. We're using this at Correspondences.org. We really like it. We actually are also using a bit of code from the javascript referenced here: http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=9&t=19620&s=65a7b40bd44d76f971139067d0165e9f What I'd like to do is figure out how to sort by author who has the most entries first. It would also be useful to not show authors who have 0 entries. Any advice on that? Thanks for making this, Brad. -- Howard

Comment from Howard on 2003-06-20

2003-06-20T20:24:53Z

I should link the page:
http://www.correspondences.org/author.html

Comment from Marc North on 2003-07-02

2003-07-02T20:57:03Z

Brad, is there a way to produce a unique list of authors, across all blogs within a single installation of MT? If nested within , authors are duplicated. (I'm trying to show total posts for each author across a multi-blog intranet.) Thanks!

Carla, Tabitha, Jayme:

2003-01-04T04:47:13Z

I've installed the MT Authors hack, so now everything gets all nice and sorted by author. This means that

Carla, Tabitha, Jayme:

2003-01-04T05:03:41Z

I've installed the MT Authors hack, so now everything gets all nice and sorted by author. This means that

Carla, Tabitha, Jayme:

2003-01-04T18:03:45Z

I've installed the MT Authors hack, so now everything gets all nice and sorted by author. This means that

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