changing author name from 'admin' ?

Hi,

where can the default author username of 'admin' be changed?

Thanks

J

The new Articles update actually handles this with new choices of author (THANK YOU Splittingred!)

But, you'll need to create a user with the name you want to use first. Grab the latest update to the Articles package and the choice dropdown will show in create and edit articles.

The admin username can be changed in "Manage Users" under "Security" in the manager menu. This is also where you can add a new username. Make sure the username field contains the full name you wish Articles to display as it only pulls out the username, and not the first and last name contained in the user record.

And if you change the username from 'admin' to something else, don't forget to use the new username when you log in.

Frogabog, is there an option to use fullname in the new Articles? That would be much more secure than having the login username of a user who can create documents on all your public Articles posts.


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Thanks for letting me know, that was good timing.
After some testing i can only get the username drop down options with the main admin account. It also doesn't add the chosen username to the articles front-end pages if it's simply selected.
I also only get the drop down option when logged in as admin (super user) I just get the number '1' with no drop down options when i log in as an Editor.
Assume some permissions i need to activate?

Could be. I'm afraid I don't know what the appropriate permissions would be.


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What about just deleting the call for the user name in the template? Or will that have some affect on how the information is stored in the database?

As an alternative to changing the username, you could adjust the latestPosts chunk to use the full name instead. It uses the "createdby" or "publishedby" fields for a typical resource, which is just a foreign key to a userid. You can remove it from the template and it simply won't show. It won't affect the storage in the least.

Hi,

I got the same problem when i start using Articles :

The field used to know who write the article was the login field and i think that was really bad for the security of the website.
I prefer to use fullname instead of login for many reason and don't want to create another user just for the article writer.

So i just change this in the TPL (mine is custom TPL)

<a href="[[~[[*id]]]]author/[[+createdby:userinfo=`fullname`]]">[[+createdby:userinfo=`fullname`]]</a>

I hope it help or will help ;-)