Looking at the documentation for Archives, we find:
"When a new weblog is created in Movable Type, it is immediately ready for use and requires no further configuration. By default, the system publishes the following for each weblog:
A main index (the home page of the blog)
A master archive index
RSS and Atom feeds
Monthly archives
Category archives
Author archives
Individual entries
Individual pages"
This is from 2007, http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/administrator/publishing/archive-types.html
But, in MT 5.12, I don't see the author archives being automatically generated, in either the Classic or Professional templates.
Is the documentation wrong?
Reported on Movable Type 5
Hi Michael,
The documentation wrote in 2007 was for movable type v4.x
You may like to know that the movable type 5 documentation is available at: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/mt5/
In practice, you may like to know that on v5.x series the "author" archives are part of the template set only on "Community Blog" and "Community Forum".
On all the other 3 template sets, meaning: Classic Blog, Professional Blog and Pico the "author" archives are not available by default, but you could easily create them if you would like.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Mihai;
I was pretty sure that the documentation was old, but I am hoping that someone is paying attention from Japan and has plan to clean out the old documentation.
For example, with this documentation it would be nice to include a series of template examples and what they achieve.
For the author template, can you simply take the code from the community blog or forum and use it?
Hi Michael,
You are very right!
As for the coding, there is not a specific coding for the author archive. It is just the way it is rendered, in an author context.
So the "Entry Listing" template used for both categories and monthly archives is used also for the author archives.
No specific coding for it ;)
Cheers,
Mihai