On a Quarto blog, can one set up a listing by author?

[maelle]

Description

Is there a way to set up listings by author similar to the listings by categories https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html#categories? I was also hoping to link author names to their post listings. From what I see in the docs, the taxonomy support in Quarto is (understandably!) less complete than with, say, Hugo?

Sorry in advance if I missed something. 🙏

[dragonstyle]

Right now there isn't an automatic way to do this. Starting with Quarto 1.3, you can create listings that filter based upon a property (like authors), so you could create different listings that show only specific authors (though this isn't quite what you're looking for, I think):

This example would be a listing that shows any posts with the author Harlow or Tristan:

listing:
  contents: posts
  type: grid
  include:
    author: "{Harlow,Tristan}*"

This doesn't really support the idea of linking from the author name either (e.g. in the post metadata)... I definitely agree that this would be a very nice feature for listings to support. I'll create an enhancement request for this to tracking tying to get to this soon!

[maelle]

Thank you so much! I'll follow the corresponding issue then. 😸

[mcanouil]

Closing in favour of #6246

[maelle]

So choosing an answer doesn't "close" the discussion? Could I as a question asker have closed it? Asking for the next time I ask a question 😉

[mcanouil]

Yes, you could.

"We" are closing only if there is a "better" place to keep the discussion going such as an issue opened from a discussion like in this case.
I explicitly write I closed and linked to the issue, because only on desktop view of the website you can see the linked issue (on the right).

Also, by default on GitHub you don't search in closed items which help concentrate the discussion again in the chosen "better" place.

[maelle]

Thank you, good to know 🙏