I have fastnews, but did not see a forum for that, so posting here.
My question is about the authors feature:
Is there a way to have an authors central (hub) page, similar to what I assume the categories main page is?
So in other words, as authors are added, there is an area where authors can be searched directly and their smaller photo and smaller bio preview appears.. like a preview of their main authors profile page, for example?
The page I envision would be similar to this temp development page on my site, but where all authors profile page previews appear.. ideally automatically when a author profile is created:
https://transplantnews.com/fastnews/category/all/
Also, some sort of searchable, or clickable organization would be good in the long-run.. like specialty based on categories they select, or alphabetical, or both!
Not sure if the theme comes with this or if it makes it easy to create this?
And is there an external author sign up page/process, or are all added by getting editor access via the usual wordpress process?
Thanks,
Nelson
Hi,
So a page where you can list the authors of the website, you could use the author elements
– http://prntscr.com/nusjys
Or maybe use other elements to present authors, like text and image elements, these will have to be configured manually (enter text, images, links to author pages etc)
– http://prntscr.com/nuslg3
Or even the testimonial element – http://prntscr.com/nusmao
But most of these will not be automatic, so new authors won’t appear in the page unless the page is edited and modified accordingly. I believe only the authors box will display authors automatically when they are added.
For searching through authors there would be no element suited for it.
So while individual author pages can be designed more easily, that is not the case for a page where all the authors would appear, also automatically when new ones are added, with search capabilities.
Maybe something like this could be done with a plugin that would allow such a functionality, if there are such plugins. I can’t make any recommendations unfortunately.
If you have more questions let me know.
Thanks
