Tessa Authorship

"Tessa Authorship" allows to set and handle authorship and relations with every WordPress content that exists on your site. This allows you to present works by other people, think of an online gallery, for instance. You know best, where Tessa Authorship could help you with your content, once you grasped the idea behind. Tessa Authorship offers a lot for your imagination. You may use it in many other context not related to mere authorship reflection. "Tessa Authorship" is a spin-off from the development and design work related with the Tessa theme but does not depend on it. Tessa is a gallery, exposition and portfolio theme which you can see in action on TakeBarcelona. This will be the home for the plugin as well. "Tessa Authorship" relates authorship information back and forth, allowing to show authorship information on entries of all kind of post types, whereas the related author's entry allows you to show posts that relate with the author. Themes may incorporate template files for the authorship post-type, e.g. archive-authorship.php, single-authorship.php and content-authorship.php if desired. The look and feel of the output in widgets and content is all up to you via css or by manipulating the results via the implemented filters. "Tessa Authorship" offers a second thumbnail on the authorship custom post-type to add the author's image as well as a second featured image for all activated post-types. You have to enable this functionality explicitly. Interaction with "Tessa Authorship" to establish relations can be enabled on a per post-type basis in the settings section. A whole lot of code used in "Tessa Authorship" is based on a combination, revision, rewrite and adaptation of two great Wordpress plugins: "WooThemes Testimonials" and "BAW Manual Related Posts". Many thanks. The original authors may find improvements as well as deteriorations of their code like walkers, multiple choices in the widget for categories and tags, etc. Nevertheless: "Tessa Authorship" is unique. For this reason you may use both, "WooThemes Testimonials" as well as "BAW Manual Related Posts" together with "Tessa Authorship" to enhance your WordPress installation. "Tessa Authorship" comes bundled with the "Multiple Posts Thumbnails" class and uses it without activating it as a plugin. If it detects the plugin, it will fallback gracefully and use the plugin instead of the bundled class. "Tessa Authorship" reflects on fusion, collaboration, honesty, interaction, teamwork and a lot of more things not to mention here. "Tessa Authorship" is a product arriving to you from Barcelona, Catalonia aka Spain. Give it a try and spread the word. "Tessa Authorship" includes translations for German and Spanish. And last but not least: You can help to further develop and maintain Tessa Authorship with your donation.

Minimum Requirements

• WordPress 3.4.2 or greater (may work on versions below but not tested)
• PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Manual installation on server

1. Download
2. Upload to your '/wp-contents/plugins/' directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Installation on hosted site

1. Download the plugin file to your computer, unzip preserving directory names and structure
2. Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation's wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu within the WordPress admin.

Usage: The easy way

1. Select the post types you want to support for relationsships with authorship entries, e.g. Posts, Pages.
2. Activate Authorship Thumbnail support if necessary.
3. Activate "the_content"-filter.
4. Activate "Show Email Form".
5. Optionally activate also "Use packaged social icons" or "Use packaged css for genericons font". You cannot activate both and "Use packaged social icons" overwrites the "Use packadged css for genericons font" option.
6. To display the social information out of the box on authorship post-type pages on top of the content, activate also "Add social author info".

(Find more instructions on usage in "Other Notes")

0.7.6

• Fix problem if recaptchalib is already loaded by another plugin
• Fix header problem when initializing plugin

0.7.5

• Fix problem that prevented to show search and selection window in WP 3.9 for related content

0.7.4

• Correct compatibility problem with MultiPostThumbnails installed as plugin
• More compatible behaviour and styling support for author email form

0.7.3

• Correct a compatibility problem with Manual Related Posts plugin which used the same _nonce

0.7.2

• Correct a problem with version registration on activation

0.7.1

• Partly fixed in colloboration with WPML slug translation. WPML only respects the general custom post-type slug translation for all post types. Individual setting is still not respected, for this reason we always turn on slug translation and invite the administrator to translate the slug or to unify it putting the same configuration for all languages.
• Offer a genericons font style sheet to be activated when a theme includes genericons font like the default WP theme TwentyThirteen does, to improve out of the box display

0.7.0

• Two new configuration options to make out of the box usage easier
• Make social information at the beginning of the content in authorship post-type pages available out of the box via configuration
• Include image set for social icons for WordPress administrations that have difficulties to configure social icons via css

0.6.1

• Removes unnecessary interference with query filters by eliminating remove_all_filters instructions on query filters for posts_orderby and post_limits
• Allow styling of Private Message Form by removing style attribute and adding classes

0.6.0

• New Feature: Private Email Messages whenever email is specified on an authorship entry
• ReCaptcha Service support to make Private Email Message Service secure and to avoid spam
• Better screenshots
• Updated translations for Spanish and German
• Fast and easy usage description

0.5.0

• More consistent check for possible urls in custom fields for authorship posts to offer social links only for fields containing urls.
• Overload authorship post-type objects returned from wp_query with data and internal image, if set, to make theme integration easier and to offer independent "themeability"
• Include a preconfigured social links object in the overload
• Fix error on image size not added if theme has thumbnail support already enabled

0.4.4

• Fix error when only one content or author is assigned in WPML context.

0.4.3

• Fix for error when trying to find related posts or authors in a given language in WPML context.

0.4.2

• Deactivate slug translation via WPML while slug translation settings and handling is inconsistent in WPML and WooCommerceMultilingual which may produce 404 errors on permalinks difficult to trace and to handle for the admins of WordPress instances
• Minor fixes for debug notice messages

0.4.1

• Fix post type query arg for related content for authorship entries

0.4.0 Features:

• Implement Meta Box on Authorship entries to allow to relate content as for post-types authors, as a side effect related content is now visible on the author's entry
• WPML Support, if available
• Customize our custom post-type via settings to make it more versatile and usable in more contexts than authorships

Other:

• Fix error on adding placeholder image sizes for post-types as Multiple Post Thumbnails expects them to be existent in some circumstances
• Minor fixes

0.3.2

• Revision of thumbnail support to obtain better results
• Fix checkboxes (boolean) in settings, which saved but showed up with inproper state

0.3.1

• Added support for thumbnail image size via add_image_size
• Added configuration options for thumbnail image size
• Changed handling of size arg to allow identifiers of existing image size configuration in themes

0.3.0

• Fix inconsistencies in handling and storage of related ids
• Fix for the hook into filter the_content which was not properly initiated

0.2.1

• Fix author's profile email link

0.2.0 Features:

• Consistent support for Multiple Post Thumbnails with fallback to original plugin if installed
• Demand explicit activation of "Multiple Post Thumbnail" class bundled with "Tessa Authorship" and inform admin that he could and should install the original plugin
• More configuration options on settings page
• hook into the_content to allow display out of the box of relationships (has to be activated on settings page)

Errors:

• handle post-types correctly when specified via argument in widgets, shortcodes or actions
• fix save functions to avoid verify_nonce conflicts

0.1.0

• Initial version