Selecting an author on a blog post

[shoecake]

At the moment, the author field on a blog post is a text field, when the page is rendered the name in this field is either matched with the name in the Authors node or a user in the backoffice.

In order to reduce typing errors and make this easier, an autocomplete style data type can be created.

The configuration of the data type will include

• Relative path or content picker for the authors node
• Option whether auto complete will populate from the authors node or the users or both
• If the users is used then specify a user type to list the users from

The data type should also allow a name to be saved which is not in either of these lists.

[ProNotion]

I'm curious about why there are Author nodes if they are not directly associated with posts?

[Shazwazza]

They are! There's actually author pages and author page listings now in v3.0