Contao Author Bundle

Show additional author information on a reader page

Installation

composer require xirdion/contao-author-bundle

Usage

• Create a user
• Add author data to the user (description, image etc.)
• Create a frontend module "author" and set the scope (News, Events, FAQ)
• Insert the module on a reader page (e.g. above a news-reader-module)
• For news entries there is the possibility to show the author within the news-template. For this case you have to provide the image-size for the author image.

Features

• native Contao image support
• schema.org author tags
• author data also added to the news-template-object

News Template

The author data is added to the new template. Following properties are available in the template:

• $this->authorUser (instance of Contao\UserModel)
• $this->authorLinks (array of links)
• $this->authorImage (image object)

The image object could be used this way:

$this->insert('picture_default', $this->authorImage->picture);

Back end view

Module configuration

Front end view (example)