add authors page

[shaform]

So I am trying to add a more prominent author information section into the post page. But I guess it's useful to implement #114 as a first step. Currently, data/authors only has a display name field, but I am planning to add more things to it in the future.

However, there is something to discuss:

I personally feel that rather than keeping using the author field, it would be best to use an authors field, which takes a list of authors as its value. Because this would match the convention of tags and categories, and it's also potentially possible that an article might have multiple authors. However, there is already a singular author field in the past. So simply removing it might cause some compatibility issues. On the other hand, if we support both fields, it would be a little bit cumbersome. Not sure what is the best strategy here.

[xianmin]

There is a problem here:

(index .Site.Data.authors (.Params.author | default .Site.Author.name)).name.display

If I don't have an "author data file" in the Site root , example /data/authors/example_author.toml . Then, Hugo will output ERROR: error calling index: index of untyped nil.

Is there a better function to avoid this problem?

[shaform]

Good catch! I only tested when the author id is not available but didn't test the case when there is no authors file. Let's me investigate...

[shaform]

Fixed!

[xianmin]

Thanks for your great work!
To my opinion, keep it as simple as before is better, that keeping using the author field.

Multiple authors is extra feature. If someone need this feature and authors field is necessary, we could add a description document.

[shaform]

Okay. The current implementation is to use the author field.