Add author mechanism

[huehnerlady]

HI,

I absolutely love the docsy theme, it also has a blog theme, and I like that I can put everything at one point.

I am missing a possibility to have authors though.
Currently we using this theme. It allows an authors page (see for example here which is really handy to see other articles from this Author and also get more information, which is stored centrally and not per blog-post.

Is there any plan to add something similar to docsy?

[narrenfrei]

One possibility is to use taxonomies. In our intern documentation (So I can't give you a public link with an example.) I've generated a taxonomy called person, which I use to assign responsible contact person to specific topics. So I can also generate a page with all assigned articles of a person.

[huehnerlady]

@narrenfrei that sounds cool, could you maybe add that into your blog theme? :)

[narrenfrei]

Before I find the time to make a PR for the tagging function like I use it in our internal doc (There exist already a PR and discussion about tagging at #324), I want to leave a hint, how this can be done generally:
https://moonbooth.com/hugo/authors/

[narrenfrei]

Some additional info:
Docsy already uses a "author" front matter, but this is no predefined front matter of Hugo. So, if you also want to have a separate page for each author generated by Hugo, it maybe will be easier to add the author info like described in the link above by using taxonomies.