Getting the site together and adding author field

I’ve been spending the last couple of days carrying out a security update and adding some additional modules (eg printer friendly page generation) in preparation for expanding the number of writers.


I’ve been spending the last couple of days carrying out a security update and adding some additional modules (eg printer friendly page generation) in preparation for expanding the number of writers.

The most significant change (apart from the addition of this forum) is a new category of ‘Writer’ when you are posting articles. The fact this is needed seems a little stupid but as far as I can tell after much research this is the only way at the moment to allow the addition of a ‘search by writer’ into the category browser and the generation of a pretty article list for writers rather than just the ugly tracker index.

Filling this field is compulsory (you just select your own name) and you probably should edit you older articles to make sure its filled on them so your index will be complete. Over time I may be able to get rid of this category as Drupal and modules are developed or as my knowledge improves as obviously the information as to who wrote an article is already in the system – its just using that to generate displays is not possible as of now.