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Agora AuthorBot Plus

Brought to you by the JoomlaMe team
visit www.joomlame.com

version 1.0 agora_authorbot.php Tue, March 10, 2009 1:39 AM
package Agora AuthorBot Plus Plugin
copyright Copyright (C) Aaron Gilbert  2009. All rights reserved.
license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL, 

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                *** About Plugin  ***

This code is released under the terms of the GNU/GPL, and as such 
is provided free, like both speech AND beer.

The AuthorBot adds a link to the Authors Profile at the beginning 
of content Articles. Optionally it will also show a re-sized Avatar 
as well. To use the plugin it merely needs to be installed and 
published. There are many options to play with in the plug-in 
manager including Avatar display, Information to display, and 
blacklists.

When using this plugin you will want to disable the Joomla display 
of Author Names, and Creation Dates in the Global Parameters, and 
also in any sections, categories, or articles which do not use 
the global settings. 

Backlists and Whitelists

A Backlist is a list of items which will never show the AuthorBot. 
A Whitelist is a list of  the ONLY items which will show the 
AuthorBot. You can Black and White list Sections, Categories and 
Articles separately, but overlapping lists may have unexpected 
results.

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: The UserBot :
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UserBot is integrated into AuthorBot Plus and does not need 
seperate installation.

At anytime, in any article, you can place the tag {aup username} 
and the UserBot will replace this tag with a link to usernames 
Profile as set in the Agora Backend. The name entered may be a 
username or a real name, and if the pluging can not locate the 
name it will be rendered without the link. There is an editor 
button plug-in available to enter this tag for you. 

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                *** UserBot Button  ***
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As a bonus to authors who would like to take advantage of the 
UserBot, the JoomlaMe team has packaged an additional plugin, 
Agora User Profile Button. This simple plugin will add a button 
to your editor which will insert the UserBot tag anywhere in the 
article that it is needed. The author only needs to insert the 
username. 

To make use of this extra convenience, simply install and publish 
the Agora User Profile Button plugin. 


