Elements Microblog sample - bug 🐞

Elements CMS
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I have installed the Elements Microblog sample and CMS Pro Online.

Jonny has two post. Shouldn’t there be a link on his name ”By Jonny Appleseed” to his bio for more info about him?

@dan have a look at the ”authors” and ”jonny.md”. I can’t see this page in the browser about Jonny Appleseed and his bio when the project is on the server. Also clicking on the ”eye” for a preview looks strange …

elementsapp://downloadDocument/qjJWkNraaRfc

post-jonny
post-jonny806×962 62 KB

jonny-eye
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Has anyone tried the Elements Microblog?

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Yes.

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@thominator Any problems with authors? Jonny doesn’t work in the sample. @ben

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It’s not linked. Select item.author.name in the page layout and you’ll see that it doesn’t have a link. But just supplying a link interacts with the CMS. As I noted in my book on the CMS, microBlog is a useful simple sample, but has some aspects to it that could use elaboration or fixing. There is no Author page, for instance, so even linking to {{item.author.name}} needs extra work by the designer to get it to work. So, at a minimum, @ben needs to add an Author page example and show how it’s linked.

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I just did a quick update to microBlog for myself.

  1. Duplicate the Post page and call it Author.
  2. Where {{item.title}} appears on the page add “About {{item.author.name}}”
  3. Use the Inspector to make sure Author’s Single Post Component is set to use Author.
  4. In the Post page place “About the Author” text underneath the {{item.body}} reference.
  5. Select About the Author and link it to Page: Blog/Author.
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@thominator Thanks got that working. But @ben needs to fix this.