Blogs: author, avatar, embed-allow...

These things are needed in the blogs when you are viewing/writing a blog! If there is a way to do these things, someone please tell me.

*Author: I clicked on a blog. Who is the Author?? The entry has no name attached to it. Why not?

*Avatar: This would give me a clue on who the author was. This will also allow the author to use any one of his profile photos to attach to the blog.

*Embed Features: This is needed to work, one great thing about embeding videos is that we don't have to host them! Less space on our side, the better! amirite?

Same here... I'm looking for a way to add/show the author of a blog post. D7's blog module works nice, the only lacking feature is the author, I think. :)

yeah, other then that, it does work really well

I have managed to place an author name in a blog post/view page.

look for: <div id="SmallDesc">
{$sBlogDescription}

add:

<div><p>You are now viewing {$sOwnerNickname}'s blog.</p></div>

between: <div id="SmallDesc"> and <div class="blogs-view">

result:

<div class="blogs-view">
<div><p>You are now viewing {$sOwnerNickname}'s blog.</p></div>
<div id="SmallDesc">



look for:

$sBlogDescription = process_html_output($aBlogInfo['Description']);

add:            $sOwnerNickname = getNickName($iMemberID);

result:

$sBlogDescription = process_html_output($aBlogInfo['Description']);
$sOwnerNickname = getNickName($iMemberID);

Basically {$sOwnerNickname} calls the nick of the author and you can place it wherever your like as long as you combine it with the $sOwnerNickname = getNickName($iMemberID); function.

A         $iMemberID = (int)$this->aViewingPostInfo['OwnerID']; must be present with $sOwnerNickname = getNickName($iMemberID); in order for the {$sOwnerNickname} to work properly.

Where did you make the change? I couldnt find the section in the php file.

Find it very strange that the blog post view doesnt show the owner though. Thanks for sharing a solution:)

Oops. I forgot to include where... The file is modules/boonex/blogs/classes/BxBlogsModule.php (I guess I posted that while still sleepy)

@ LuvHer

It works, so now it shows the author's name under Overview. However, it doesnt show it as a link. Do you have to add something else?

Thanks for the help!!