Author Information for Blog

First of all you should store your blog post author user ID in NodeOwner column. In Kentico interface you can go to Properties -> General tab and set the Owner. Here are multiple ways to display the NodeOwner information on the blog post.

• If you display author information in blog posts listing you can use macros to display author full name and bio. For full name use Kentico macro <%#GetUserFullName(Eval<int>("NodeOwner"))%> and for bio you might need to write your custom transformation method that will return the information for example from CMS_UserSettings table UserDescription column. Method will recieve NodeOwner ID and will do something like this

public string GetUserBio(int userId)
{
      UserInfo user = UserInfoProvider.GetUserInfo(userId);
      if(user!=null)
      {
         return user.UserDescription;
      }
      
      return "";
}

This also will work for blog post details page, if you are using some listing web part with listing transformation and selected item transformation.

• The other possible way to display author information on blog post details page to use some additional web part that will display user info in transformation. It might some repeater or user listing with where condition 'UserID = {%CurrentDocument.NodeOwner|(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

  And you link will look like following: <a href="/Blogs?author="<%#Eval("NodeOwner")%>>show other other posts by the author</a>

  Or please check how to use wildcard urls for that https://docs.kentico.com/k8/configuring-kentico/configuring-page-urls/wildcard-urls. It will make your url more elegant:)

  It might a little bit different from scenario you have, but I hope you have got main idea how to deal with that.

Thanks fro pointing me in the right direction

Another question. Sorry. What if I have an idea to create a separate doc type with the author, bio and position and get the field values from there:

Example:

Column name: postedbyPosition1

Then I say something like:

{% if (CurrentDocument.NodeOwner == 811) { return " + postedbyPosition1 +" } else return { "" } |(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

Can I write it like this? Is the script above correct?

Your right. I came to that same conclusion. There isn't a way to connect them both.