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Filter posts by authors #37

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juanmaguitar opened this issue Mar 13, 2023 · 4 comments
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Filter posts by authors #37

juanmaguitar opened this issue Mar 13, 2023 · 4 comments

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@juanmaguitar
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juanmaguitar commented Mar 13, 2023

When we click on the authors of a blog post we go to their WordPress profiles.
I would expect to get a list of posts filtered by that author

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@bph
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bph commented Mar 14, 2023

Actually, the list could be seen on the profile, together with other contributions.

To list an author's posts, on this site would require an Author page template and adding additional information to the site per user. This would duplicate what's already on the profile and add maintenance to the site coordinators.

In the earlier proposals for the Developer Blog , it was mentioned that the author link would go back to the .org profile.

Linking to the profile page is also consistent with other blogs on the wordPress.org domain.

@justintadlock
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The author archives already exist and are handled via the Archive template. For example, here's my author archive. There would be no additional maintenance for them (note that we do not show the author bio/description via this template, so no worries there). The only technical change would be to enable the link for the block currently in use.

The big question is whether consistency with the primary News and Make blogs should be honored. I believe the Dev Blog is a unique case where I, as a reader, would like to quickly find other developer-related content written by the same author. I don't think I'd say the same thing about the other blogs. I do think that warrants additional discussion.

Side note: There is precedent on DotOrg for linking to an archive rather than the user profile, which is the support forums. This was another unique case (and not a blog) that needed to be changed for the user experience.

However, with the idea of consistency with other blogs that link to the DotOrg profile in mind, I wonder if having a custom tab under user profiles would work. I'm certain the Meta team would add Dev Blog articles under the existing Activity tab, but so much gets lost in there. I don't know how open they'd be to an extra tab. If they were, that might make for a good compromise.

@juanmaguitar
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juanmaguitar commented Mar 15, 2023

Author-wise, I would expect a behavior like the following one:

  • Linking the name of the author would take the reader to a page with all the posts from that author (author archive)
  • That "author" page contains all relevant info relevant from the author (WordPress profile among others)

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@ndiego
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ndiego commented Apr 19, 2023

I stumbled upon this discussion as I went to add the same issue 😅

As mentioned above, I noticed that the author names on the Blog are not linked, and there is no easy way to access the author archives.

I think the gamification of contribution is extremely powerful. We see this with .org profiles and badges. Adding easily accessible author archives and even displaying the author avatar at the top of the post might make contributing to the Blog more appealing. Contributing for the sake of contributing is great, but if we can provide a bit of promotion for the contributor, we may get more interest.

CSS Tricks would likely be a good model to follow. The author profiles on the archive pages are pretty simple, just a short description and a few links with an avatar.

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