I'm using the Reblog plugin, and it's importing entries correctly, except for the author field. It is just listing each entry as "author deleted", but I would like the entries to match up with the actual authors.
So I have a couple of questions:
1. What should the author field be labeled in the RSS feed?
2. Should the feed provide the author's ID, username or email address?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can provide some guidance on this.
Reported on Movable Type 4.3
The reason why the author is listed as deleted, it because the author from the feed is not registered as an author also on your project.
If the authors from your feeds are pretty much the same, you may like to create them inside movable type and then you would see that when you import entries those entries would be mapped to the authors you've created.
An alternative is to code inside the reblog plugin the capability to create authors inside movable type for those authors provided on the feeds you are parsing.
However, that would be quite a bit of work and it might not be worth the investment.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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I actually contacted the developers of the plugin on Github, and they informed me that Reblog is *not* set up to match the authors in the feed with authors in the Movable Type installation of the target blog. They suggested using the tag to call in the author, or doing further development of the plugin to add the author functionality I was looking for.