Adding Author or new page in blog

Questions
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Hi,

First of all brilliant plugin.

I am a newbie evaluating Umbraco v7.5.7 for one of our website requirement. I have installed articulate package for the blog module. I am planning to include an Author page in blog since it’s not available out-of-the-box. The expected behavior is - when a user navigates to a blog post and clicks on Author name, it navigates to an Author page. I could see that PostModel.Author instance has all the necessary information of an author and the requirement is achievable.

My doubts is where should I start;

  1. Should I create DocumentType & Template for Author in backoffice with necessary fields?
  2. Should I add an Author view inside blog directory itself (like App_Plugins\Articulate\Themes\Shazwazza\Views)?

Either way, how should I route my navigation when a user click on Author name in the blogpost. Which is the best approach? Where should I write that piece of code? Please note, I am not looking for Surafce api since it adds /surface/ in the url.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/82413-adding-author-or-new-page-in-blog