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My idea is this:

I'd like to set it up so that every article by a certain person has a link to a page about them.  (These articles are not necessarily posted by the author)  It would also be nice to have a reciprocal link to the articles  by a given author but that's a seperate question (I think).

Would it be possible to create a variable or somesuch so that when someone posts an article by someone, for example Mark F., they can put in the author content box something simple like {markf},  and the result on the page will be:
Author: Mark F. 

(assume the underline is a link)


I could do it with global content blocks (assuming they work in content boxes on pages)  but it would be more convenient to have a shorter tag for my editors to put in since they are not all computer savvy.

Thanks for your help!

I'd like to set it up so that every article by a certain person has a link to a page about them.  (These articles are not necessarily posted by the author)

is this using the news module?

  mark

No, on the pages themselves. (I added an Author content block to my template)

Got a link?
the only way i know how is to make a link in the edit/content page when they type the name ,,
unless you do something in the template like

  Author: {content ="author"}
this *** would have to be a tag to a page.

  mark

oh well, no big deal. Do global content blocks work inserted into the content fields?  I'm writing a tutorial on adding content anyways and I could always just have them copy and paste.

You can also use user-defned tags..

create new tag named author (or something like that) then you can use it like