The new tag/author options in Publii 0.42.0

Hi everyone,

The new version of Publii 0.42 comes with a WYSIWYG editor for author and tag description, also options similar to postConfig, which allow you to enable/disable elements defined in the theme for tag and author pages.

Below you can find a tutorial on how to add support for new options in your theme if, for some reason, you cannot update it to the latest theme version or have your own, custom theme.

To add support for the WYSIWYG editor follow these steps:

1. Update the markup to use a DIV element instead of a paragraph (P) element for the description. This change is necessary because the WYSIWYG editor creates paragraphs by default:

   change:

   <p class="description"> 
      {{ description }} 
   </p>

   to:

   <div class="description"> 
      {{ description }} 
   </div>

2. Add an additional third bracket around the description tag:

   <div class="description">
       {{{ description }}}
   </div>

These steps should typically be repeated for the following files: author.hbs, tag.hbs, tags.hbs (if the tag description is displayed here), as well as the post.hbs files in the author biography section. Don’t forget that these changes must also be implemented to all additional templates of the above-mentioned pages.

The tag and author Config Options will be added and described in the upcoming update of the developer documentation shortly.