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#966285

Hi,

I want to display an Author Bio similar to the bio at the bottom of the "Hudson Witness Stanley Laugh" article on your Magz II demo: http://joomlart.com/demo/#magz-ii

I’ve seen in the forum someone else posted an issue with the Author Bio Box on mobile devices, which you resolved: https://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/bio-box-author-is-not-responsive/

But I can’t find documentation for how to set it up, nor any other forum posts.

Also, I’d like to click on a link in the Author’s Bio (preferably the Author’s name) and display all the Articles written by the Author. I thought I might be able to do this by displaying the Author in Category Blog and/or Article. However, it only displays the basic details from Contacts.

I’m developing this website locally, so I can’t send you a URL. If you could please just point me to the documentation or demo functionality, that’d be great.

Regards, Robertf

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#966483

Hi
Its custom text that is added in the article source code .
Here is the code

<div class="author"><img src="images/joomlart/demo/author.jpg" alt="" />
<p>"Nunc quis posuere nisl, eu viverra tellus. Morbi quis quam lorem. Phasellus ultricies ullamcorper tristique"</p>
- Ray Greene</div>

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1. rocher

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#967818

Thanks for that. Does JA Magz II have the same functionality as JA Magz to create an author profile page and to list all articles for a selected author? (I’ve attached a screen shot from your Meet JA Magz blog post.)

Regards, Robert

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#967820

Hi
No the userpage is only in JA Magz template .

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#967822

Oh, so there’s no way to list the author bios and their articles in JA Magz II?

As it’s a news and magazine template, I just assumed this functionality existed. Can you recommend any extensions that may provide it?

I have tried searching the Joomla Extensions Directory, but it’s like look for a needle in a disorganised haystack!

Regards, Robert

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1. emanmashlah

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#967824

Hi
You can search for Author info box , that is popular extension to show Author info Here .

Beside the the feature to add Author page on JA MAgz II may took heavy customization , if you are developer you can check how its defined in JA Magz template and then re-coded it for Magz ii.

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#967844

Thanks, I had a look at Author Info Box, but it hasn’t been updated since February.

While I do have some technical knowledge, coding the author bios/article listing functionality from JA Magz is beyond my skills. Besides which, I want to get this website up and running in the next week or so.

I have thought of a "work around", where I add a link on the custom code you provided above to search for articles containing the author’s name, e.g.: …/search-page?searchword=ray%20green&searchphrase=all

This seems to work, but displays the results in the "Blog post" view/menu. Is there a setting somewhere to specify which view/menu to use for the search-page? I’ve had a look, but I can’t find anything in the Global Configuration/Search options or Template settings.

Thanks once again for your help.

Regards, Robert

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#967849

Hi
its only an article content like other content of the article on your site and shows on full article page .

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#967852

Thanks, your response pointed me in the right direction. I realised the menu/view displaying the search results is in fact the Default template for the website (ja_magz_ii – Default) and the "Blog post" menu option (from your demo site) uses that, hence it displayed the results.

I think I can work this out from here on it … though it is a shame the author bios/article listing of JA Magz didn’t make it into Magz II.

Regards, Robert

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1. emanmashlah

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