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I’m developing a site that features a variety of channels, each displayed on a main template (“profile”) via embeds.

The site will have a member group of authors.

The main template needs to display entries in all those channels from only one author at a time, based on URL.

e.g. http://www.website.com/bloggers/profile/author

Is this possible?

If you take a look at the username=”“ parameter then this should help you to get what you need.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks Mark,

Looks like that might be the ticket, but I don’t know how to go about using it dynamically.

For example, here’s the embedded template for blog entries (with username=”” hard-coded in):

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="8" dynamic="off" username="John Smith"}

<article class="blog-entry">
<h3>{title}</h3>
<p><date>Posted on {entry_date format="%d %M %Y"}</date></p>

<p>{body}</p>

<p></article></p>

<p>{/exp:channel:entries}

That seems to work okay for that one user. It’s being pulled into the main template (“profile”) with:

{embed="channels/blog" dynamic="off"}

There’s a nav menu (populated by it’s own channel) with links to each blogger’s “profile” page:

{exp:channel:entries channel="bloggers" dynamic="off"}

<div><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></div>

{/exp:channel:entries}

I guess the Username parameter would need to be used dynamically in one of those bits of code somewhere?

I’ve achieved this by passing in a segment variable from the permalink to the channel module. For example, my company’s blog: http://insidenewcity.com/blog/ We’re displaying a list of EE users with the User module (EE 1.6, maybe available for 2?), and linking it to blog/author/{username}. Then in the author template, we put username=”{segment_3}” in the weblog:entries tag.

Thanks for the assist, Kevin and Mark.

Using username=”{segment_3}” is the way to go here.

Thanks all, I almost fully understand how to do this now.

But how do I get usernames into a URL-friendly format? The usernames are John Doe, Jane Doe rather than john-doe, jane-doe etc.

Is that why I’ll need Solspace’s User?

EDIT: I tried changing the actual usernames to url-friendly format and that works fine but I’d like to keep semantic usernames if at all possible?

When you say semantic username, are you meaning the screen_name?

Here’s an example:

billybob is a username
Billy Bob Thornton is a screen_name

The author field uses a member_id which is set to match with the username you pass to it.