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Eko Reply #1, 11 years, 10 months ago

Revo 2.3.2

I manually setup a blog (no Articles add-on) and I'm unable to get the author link (e.g. http://somesite.com/folder1/author/full-name to filter correctly, it simply redirects to the home page.

Here's the author link,

<a href="[[~[[*parent]]]]author/[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]">[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]</a>

This question has been answered by markh. See the first response.

[ed. note: todd.b last edited this post 11 years, 10 months ago.]

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BobRay Reply #2, 11 years, 10 months ago

This is a wild guess, but try making it ]]]]/author ...

The URL generated by the first tag probably won't end in a slash.

If you can navigate to the author page, what does the URL in the browser's address window look like?

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Eko Reply #3, 11 years, 10 months ago

The url for the author page is http://somesite.com/author.html but I can't get the author link to go there.

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BobRay Reply #4, 11 years, 10 months ago

Right, but what does the full URL look like for a particular author?

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Eko Reply #5, 11 years, 10 months ago

Currently, clicking an author link from, e.g. a nested page like http://somesite.com/folder1/folder2/page.html, redirects to http://somesite.com/folder1/folder2/authorFullName

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BobRay Reply #6, 11 years, 10 months ago

If that's really correct, I think your tag should be:

<a href="[[~[[*parent]]]]/author[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]">[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]</a>

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Eko Reply #7, 11 years, 10 months ago

It seems no matter what url scheme I use (I've tried your suggestions, Bob) the cause of the 404 comes down to the user-name being appended to the page ‘author’, e.g. http://somesite.com/folder1/folder2/authorFullName. MODX is treating the resource ‘authorFullName’ as though it doesn't exist, which strictly speaking it doesn't. I can point the url to any page but it will always throw a 404.

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BobRay Reply #8, 11 years, 10 months ago

I think I failed to notice another slash in the working URL. This seems more likely to work:

<a href="[[~[[*parent]]]]/author/[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]">[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]</a>

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Eko Reply #9, 11 years, 10 months ago

Bob, I tried your suggestion but it still throws a 404.

Out of curiosity I tried this:

<a href="[[~27]]?[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]">[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]</a>

27 is the id of the author results page and the resulting url looks like this, http://somesite.com/author.html?FullName.

It works insofar that it finally redirects to the correct author landing page but that's about all it does. It's still not filtering posts by author.

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BobRay Reply #10, 11 years, 10 months ago

As long as we're making wild guesses, try this:

<a href="[[~27]]?author=[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]">[[*publishedby:userinfo=`fullname`]]</a>

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