Create an Author RSS Feed link

By Webmaestro on Mar 8, 2010 at 12:08 PM 6 Vote 0 Votes

I'd like to add an RSS feed icon adjacent to the Author Display Name. It would be great if there was a tag to output the <$mt:var name='author_basename'$>, but I haven't found one.

OLD VERSION:



  <div class="byline">Posted: <$mt:EntryDate format='%B %e %Y, (%I:%M %p)'$> by <$mt:EntryAuthorLink type='archive'$></div>

NEW VERSION:



  <div class="byline">Posted: <$mt:EntryDate format='%B %e %Y, (%I:%M %p)'$> by <$mt:EntryAuthorLink type='archive'$> <a href="<$mt:var name='root_url'$>blog/<$mt:var name='author_basename'$>/index.xml" title="RSS Feed for '<$mt:EntryAuthorDisplayName$>'"><img src="http://www.hidglobal.com/main/site-images/icon-feed-14x14.png" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt="RSS Feed for '<$mt:EntryAuthorDisplayName$>'" /></a></div>

Is there an easy way to strtolower(replace ' ', '_', <$mt:EntryAuthorDisplayName$>)) in MovableType?

Reported on Movable Type 4.3

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Mihai Bocsaru | March 8, 2010 1:24 PM | Reply

You could use:

<mt:AuthorBasename>

or:

<mt:AuthorBasename separator="-">

Webmaestro | March 8, 2010 1:49 PM | Reply

I get an error when I try to use that...

An error occurred
Publish error: Publish error in template 'Entry':
Error in &lt;mtInclude&gt; tag: error in
module Entry Detail: Publish error in template
'Entry Detail': Error in &lt;mtAuthorBasename&gt;
tag: You used an 'AuthorBasename' tag outside of
the context of a author; perhaps you mistakenly placed
it outside of an 'MTAuthors' container?

I tried making that 'mt:EntryAuthorBasename', but couldn't even save the template.

Your template changes have been saved. One or more errors were found in this template.

* <mt:EntryAuthorBasename> at line 6 is unrecognized.

I also tried wrapping the '<mt:AuthorBasename>' block inside a '<mt:Authors>' and '</mt:Authors>' block, which created an RSS image link for each user/author (albeit each one had the proper link).

Is this a MT 5 feature? I neglected to mention we're using MT 4.3x

Webmaestro | March 8, 2010 1:50 PM | Reply

BTW, thanks very much for the reply!
Mihai Bocsaru | March 8, 2010 1:58 PM | Reply

You're welcome!

If you want to use it inside an individual article, I would recommend:

with a proper regex argument which to replace a part of your author archive URL pattern from something (say .html) to something else (say .xml)
Webmaestro | March 8, 2010 2:11 PM | Reply

It looks like your code didn't make it through... Could you use the nifty utility or replace < with [ and > with ]?

Webmaestro | March 8, 2010 2:26 PM | Reply

This seems to work:

  <div class="byline">
    Posted: <$mt:EntryDate format='%B %e %Y, (%I:%M %p)'$>
    by <$mt:EntryAuthorLink type='archive'$>
    <a href="<$mt:var name='root_url'$>blog/author/<$mt:EntryAuthorDisplayName lower_case="1" replace=" ","-"$>/index.xml" title="RSS Feed for '<$mt:EntryAuthorDisplayName$>'"><img src="http://www.hidglobal.com/main/site-images/icon-feed-14x14.png" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt="RSS Feed for '<$mt:EntryAuthorDisplayName$>'" /></a>
  </div>

Perhaps MT can add this as an out-of-the-box Template Tag in a future release? ;-)