Widget Tag
++BYLINEDATE++
What It Does
The ++BYLINEDATE++ widget displays the author byline (if any) for an article, followed on the next line by the publication date of the article, essentially combining the output of the ++BYLINE++ and ++PUBDATE++ widgets into a single widget:
By Carmine Ragusa
Posted January 13, 2003
If an e-mail address has been provided for the author, then the author's name is linked to allow site visitors to send the author e-mail.
The ++BYLINEDATE++ widget is typically placed just above the ++CONTENTS++ widget in article page templates.
The Markup Results
The ++BYLINEDATE++ widget is a block element, enclosed in a set of <p> tags.
Templates Using This Widget
You can use this widget only in article page templates.
Customizing This Widget
Users with webmaster or administrator accounts may customize this widget in the site's widget editor. To get there, click the "Widget Settings" link in the left-column menu of the Big Medium control panel. The following settings affect the ++BYLINEDATE++ widget:
- Link to e-mail form instead of mailto e-mail link. Checking this option in the "Article Page Format" panel links the author's e-mail address to a web form instead of using a "mailto" link. The web form allows your site's visitors to send messages to the author. This prevents the author's address from being displayed to your site's visitors and also hides their address from the web spiders and robots used by spammers to harvest addresses.
- Date format to use on article pages. This setting in the "Date Formats" panel of the site's widget settings determines how the
++BYLINEDATE++widget displays the article's publication date.
Styles
The author byline is displayed in the "Article Page Bylines" style (class="bmarticleByline"), and the date information is displayed in the "Article Page Dates" style (class="bmarticleDate").
Need more help?
For further assistance and documentation, visit the website of Global Moxie, the developer behind Big Medium.