Using Drupal's Advanced Forum and Author Pane modules on blog posts

[giza]

Earlier today, I performed a major Drupal upgrade on another site that I run. Part of the upgrade involved me installing the Advanced Forum module to bring the forums a little more up to date with other sites that are out there.

Along the way, I learned something interesting: the Author Pane module does NOT display on blog posts.

It looked rather odd when comments on the blog posts had detailed user info, but the post itself did not. So I set out to fix that. I ended up commenting out the line print $picture; in node.tpl.php and instead adding in these lines:

$account = user_load($node->uid);
$template = "advf-author-pane";
$author_pane = theme('author_pane', $account,
        advanced_forum_path_to_images(), $template);
print $author_pane;

The code is fairly straightforward. It loads user info on the author of the post, and the theme() function loads the author_pane template, passing in the user data.
Enjoy!

Comments

[sparkybluefox.livejournal.com]

I lay mah front paws down and lay mah tired head onto them. I have no idea what you just said!

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

If only blog posts are giving you problems, why not add code to node-blog.tpl.php instead of node.tpl.php? Details here.

(I didn't follow the whole business about the Author Pane module, so it's possible that my suggestion makes no sense. So what else is new?)

Might this be worth posting (with your solution) in the Author Pane issue queue on Drupal.org?
Anyhoo... congrats on the solution. :)

[xydexx.livejournal.com]

I notice the "Who's online" in the sidebar disappears when you login.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Ah, a quick setting tweak, and I fixed that. Thanks.