Custom author metadata in posts instead of author specific files?

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Thanks for a great forum!

I am creating authors pages for a website with many authors. I have succeeded in doing it using separate files by author storing their metadata (Twitter username, bio) as explained here.

I wonder whether I could instead

  1. save the metadata in each post i.e.
authors: 
  - name: Maëlle Salmon 
    url: https://masalmon.eu/ 
    twitter: ma_salmon 
 - name: Mark Padgham 
    url: https://github.com/mpadge
  1. not create a file by author
  2. and still get a taxonomy by author name?

I am nearly sure it is not possible (and maybe even a very bad idea since this system might mean conflicts where two posts define different Twitter usernames for the same name) but wanted to be sure. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Once this issue is resolved, you will be able to do just that:

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3

Oh interesting, thanks!

I guess inconsistencies across posts will remain an issue but nice that this alternative will exist!

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Perhaps this helps:

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Thanks, that’s my current setup because I followed https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/07/24/hugo-tips-how-to-create-author-pages/ :slightly_smiling_face:

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