seiffert / carew-authors

Authors plugin for Carew

This plugin enables you to use Carew with multiple authors. In every article, you can set the author in the article's metadata. When you execute Carew's build command, special author index documents will be generated for every author.

Installation

Install it with composer:

composer require seiffert/carew-authors:dev-master

Then configure in config.yml

engine:
    extensions:
        - Carew\Plugin\Authors\AuthorsExtension

authors:
    ego:
        name: Paul
        email: [email protected]
    ego2:
        name: Paul
        email: [email protected]

Create a template authors.html.twig in your layouts directory with the following content:

{% extends 'vendor/seiffert/carew-authors/Carew/Plugin/Authors/layouts/authors.html.twig' %}

In this template, you can customize the rendering of the author's index document.

Usage

In your posts: specify the post's author like this:

---
layout: post
title:  This is pure awesomeness!
author: seiffert
---

Now, when you build your blog using Carew's build command, a index file authors/seiffert.html will be generated listing all posts of that author. Also, the post Documents that have an author in their metadata, will be extended with an Author object that holds all information configured in the config.yml as described above (in the example this are the keys name and email.

When rendering a post in a template, you can access this information like this:

<a href="/authors/{{ document.metadatas.author.handle }}.html">
    {{ document.metadatas.author.name }}
</a>