I need a CMS that supports multiple-authors-per-post

Wild_Eep — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:03:39 -0800

CMSFilter: I need a CMS that supports multiple authors *per-post* because many of the authors collaborate. A search on any one author should bring up anything they've been a part of, as well as their own stuff. I'm getting ready to transition a client of mine from a home-brew CMS that I wrote in 2002 to something more modern. They've got 400 stories that need to be moved.

I'd prefer to use WordPress, as it has nearly every other feature I need (and I have some experience administering WP), but the problem is that this client publishes academic papers, and those papers often have two, and sometimes three, different authors.

In my home-brew system, you'd just tick a checkbox next to each author's name that was to be associated with this paper. Easy-peasy.

WordPress, because of its roots as a blogging tool, really only wants each post to have one single author per post.

I've found a plugin that adds the ability to add a second author, but when you search on that second author, you're returned an empty set. The built-in search function only knows how to respond to the 'official' author, not any that have been tacked on in the post's meta-fields.

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Clearly, if I were to stick with WordPress, what I'd need is for there to be a 'lookup table' consisting of only two fields per row, a field for the post's ID number, and a field for an author's ID number. If a story had more than one author, you'd just add another row with the same post_ID and a different author_ID.

But in order to make a nice list of checkbox-able author names in the WordPress admin area, I'd have to (I'm assuming) hack the core files of the system.

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So, before I roll up my sleeves and dig into all of this PHP, are there *ANY* CMSes out there that are setup (either natively or via plugins) for multiple-authors-per-post without a great deal of effort?

Yahoo Pipes multiple author filter?

Chrysostom — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:24:34 -0800

When Yahoo Pipes first came out, there was some muttering about how this would be handy for creating a feed for an individual author on a multi-author blog w/o feeds by author? But I can't seem to find anyone who's done it, or successfully do so myself. Any Pipes gurus on AskMe? The three author filters I'd specifically like to create are:

TNR's The Plank: all authors EXCEPT James Kirchick
AOL Sportsblog: ONLY posts authored by mjd
Reason's Hit & Run: all authors EXCEPT David Weigel

One problem seems to be that there isn't an author tag on these-posts on The Plank, for example, just have the author's name as the last line of the post. But maybe I'm missing something.

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