I would like to add an author image to their blogs/story.
💡 Idea meeting outcomes – March 2021 – It’s a GO, but for Contributors’ backlog ✅
The idea is interesting and certainly a nice-to-have, but the P4 Core team has other priorities for now, ergo it will end up in the contributor’s backlog (see the Ticket on the GigHub repo!)
| RECAP from Community feedback: Mostly 💚 but not a “must have”.
The idea is generally welcomed, adding a nice human touch to the content, by associating a name to a picture. In general, the picture should be cropped into a circle. Main concerns were about the eventual change of behaviour of the author profile link at the bottom of the posts and what would happen if there’s an author override or the author has no profile image (perhaps pulling a generic image, like GP NL?). Interesting idea to have the option to decide for which posts you want to activate + eventually disable it on a post-by-post basis (community don’t really see the point of this for publications, for ex..) |
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| P4 tech team gut-feeling recommendation → Low complexity for design, we’d only have to pull out the author’s profile image, style it rounded and add it to the post.
On the tech side, giving the option to choose which post types should get this feature slightly increases the complexity, but it could be an option under Planet 4 settings. Not recommended to do this on a post-by-post basis. For users with no image we could have a default one (like GP NL), and for “Author Override” we could completely skip the avatar, useful for cases when the Author is not a person (eg. Greenpeace International) |
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