Author pages coming soon

[I.M.O.G.]

You should have an email notice in the account you used with your wordpress account, to give you the information also quoted here. If you are logged into wordpress, you can view the notice here - the article was created so that I had a way to email all authors:
http://www.overclockers.com/?p=15488

The same info is quoted here:
Please login to http://overclockers.com/wp-admin/ and go to "users>your profile" in the left sidebar. On this page, update your biographical information and ensure you include whatever information you'd like to include. Questions or comments in the forum please:


Here is an example of what this will roughly look like once implemented this week or next. This profile will be linked if someone clicks on your name in a wordpress article, and you can put a link to it anywhere you want (forum sig, etc).

http://www.overclockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/profile-example-294x300.png

I have a pending question to iNet regarding the display of email address - I'm sure some of you may not want that displayed publically. In the mean time, you may want to change your email address to something you don't mind posting publically - I'll let you know what I hear back from iNet if display of that field can be excluded or optional for our profiles.

[thideras]

That link does not work for me even if I'm logged in. The title of the page is right "PLEASE UPDATE...", but the text just says:

Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.

[hokiealumnus]

Odd, but that's ok. There's no difference between the post & the quote above though except for the image. You can view it full size by clicking here (http://www.overclockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/profile-example.png).

[MIAHALLEN]

Is this page going to show traffic trends for our articles?

[I.M.O.G.]

It won't do stats, no. I'm still unsure if author stats visibility was broken by an update or plugin configuration (likely) or if its something we are intentionally not displaying to anyone but administration due to a code customization that iNet made to limit stats access (unlikely).

I think the direct access to wordpress stats may be a side effect to the way we have limited author accounts through a plugin - by default, authors have a lot more rights in wordpress than they do on our backend, because I've limited things with configuration via the rolescoper plugin.

In lieu of direct stats access, I'm always willing to provide stats updates upon request either via PM or email or thread.

[I.M.O.G.]

Vbulletin and wordpress have both been updated, and we have some new features working which should help us better schedule and prepare articles. :) Custom statuses have been broken for a long time but they work again now - that means instead of only draft>pending review>published as a workflow, we can create things like "pictures need fixed", "needs proofreading", and other statuses for articles so that if the article isn't being published for some reason, its easy to look and know what the hold up is or what needs done. Also, instead of manually publishing, we now have the ability to schedule articles in the future and they will be posted automatically - we could schedule things before, but they would never automatically publish.

And of course, author pages are now live on the site:
http://www.overclockers.com/author/i.m.o.g./

May want to keep your biographies short however, it doesn't appear that the field supports any sort of line breaks or paragraphs (I've tried). Here's other examples:
http://www.overclockers.com/author/hokiealumnus/
http://www.overclockers.com/author/miahallen/
http://www.overclockers.com/author/splat/