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GOODNEWS - Author Bio and Article Ratings

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  • QliQ New Member
  • Topic Author 1 month 2 weeks ago #1
 

- How can the we edit and assign different author bio text to diffrenet users? I have checked with the author component but I did not see any position to edit the Author Bio Text

- Where can we manage and review the user ratings for the articles?

Thank you in advance

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  • leoalv Moderator
  • 1 month 2 weeks ago #2
To change the biography text for each author, go to Administrator >> Users >> Management >> find your users and edit them. In the User Profile tab >> About Me field, you can add the text for each author.

In Joomla Core, there isn't a built-in component or section for managing ratings. You can enable and disable them by going to System >> Manage >> Plugins and finding Vote. This is the plugin that enables article ratings.
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  • QliQ New Member
  • Topic Author 1 month 2 weeks ago #3
Thank you very much for the reply. Much appreciated.

Could you also please advise on how to control the image of the author?

Thank you

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  • leoalv Moderator
  • 1 month 2 weeks ago #4
If you've installed our quickstart, you can go to Components >> Contacts >> Contacts and you'll see six contacts in the Authors category. They're all linked to the Super User (for demonstration purposes only). On a live site, you should link each of these contacts to a different user. For example, if you have three editors, then only keep three contacts in the Authors category. You can delete or deactivate the others to link new ones if your editors continue to grow.

To change each author's image, edit the contact (the contact must have the real name, as suggested in the demo) and select the image. From the Display tab, you can add social media links if you wish; otherwise, remove the social media icon classes that come with the demo. Finally, your authors will appear on a page like this: demo.unitemplates.com/goodnews/index.php/authors . When you access each author's page, you'll see their details and articles.
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  • QliQ New Member
  • Topic Author 1 month 1 week ago #5
  I have installed the unitemplates quickstart. I have figures out the Contacts and User info and details. I am now left with the following 2 issues:

1. The image is not changing. The existing images are linked to an external site e.g. www.gravatar.com/avatar/8a0d78e21fd3bb87...120&d=identicon&r=PG
 

2. The Author page seems to be fine. I have used the existing contacts and linked them to newly created users.
 

However when the name of an author is clicked, instead of a list with the author's articles,  we get an error page.
 

Thank you for your support

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  • leoalv Moderator
  • 1 month 1 week ago #6
Gravatar images are displayed when your author is not linked to any contact or the contact does not have an image selected.
To verify the author page, please send us the URL and login details as confidential information.
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  • QliQ New Member
  • Topic Author 1 month 1 week ago #7
You are welcome to check it out. The Pages menu on the front page  is currently disabled. An "authors" has also been created in the Joomla menu

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Kind regards

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  • leoalv Moderator
  • 1 month 1 week ago #8
Hello.
We've fixed the error on the author details page. The author's articles are now visible. This fix will be included in the next version. The problem was that you updated to Joomla 6, and Joomla 6 apparently removed the `castAsChar` method. Since the template doesn't yet have an official version compatible with Joomla 6, it was generating the error.
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  • QliQ New Member
  • Topic Author 1 month 1 week ago #9
Thank you very much for your support. The author's page is working fine now. Thanks

Did you get the chance to also check out the issue with the author image on the article page?

The Author image is linked to an image from an external third party website:  www.gravatar.com/avatar/8a0d78e21fd3bb87...120&d=identicon&r=PG

The changed Author image shows fine on the Author page:
 

However at the bottom of the same author's article page it shows an non related random gravatar image
Alll other info appears correctly as inputed in the various user edit fields
 

I have checked with the SP Page builder Profile plugin and it is enabled and is supposed to enable the upload of Profile images.

 


Thank you for you support

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  • leoalv Moderator
  • 1 month 1 week ago #10
I've investigated why the author avatar images are still Gravatar. The reason is that in your Ublog menu item, you haven't selected "Show" in the "Link to Author's Contact Page" field. Therefore, we edited the menu item Νρθραέα - Ά with the alias nea-arthra, and in the Options tab, we selected "Show" in the "Link to Author's Contact Page" field. You can see the result at protithesi.com/nea-arthra/ayksisi-ton-di...niamino-tou-2025-new

In this case, the SP Page Builder plugin is unrelated.

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  • Topic Author 1 month 1 week ago #11
Thank you very much for the support. Much appreciated.

Kind regards
Michael

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