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Dynamic Authors

The Dynamic Authors widget allows you to Authors onto your post design dynamically by means of relations applied to your Post.

This widget needs to be activated in the Network Admin area. 

How to add the Dynamic Authors Widget

  • Create / Edit a Page in Elementor

  • Go to the list of widgets and search for “Dynamic Authors”.

  • Drag and drop the widget onto the screen area on the right.

  • Setting up a relation between the post type that contains your articles and the post type that contains your Authors is a prerequisite for this to function. Learn how to set up a Relation.

How to configure the Dynamic Authors Widget

General Settings
  1. In the Relation key field, you need to input the relation key that can be found within the post relations list. This connects the relation you have set up to the post template/page.
  2. The Display Author Photo toggle controls if the Authors photo is shown within the listing. If you toggle it on you will be able to set the size with the Image size selector (4).
  3. If you want a specific Meta field to be used for the Author photo you can toggle this field on.
    1. Once toggled on you can place the relevant Meta Key in to display the specific Meta Field Value. 
  4. If you have the Display Author Photo toggled on you will see the Image size select area. This controls the size of the author’s image. 
  5. The Display Author Name toggle controls if the Authors name will be shown or hidden.
    1. If you have the Display Author Name toggled on you will see the Author Name HTML Tag select field. With this select field, you can control what HTML tag (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, span, div) will be used to mark the author’s name in the code. This will also make it easier to style if you have your styles set up in the Theme Styles of your website.
  6. The Number of Boxes in row select field controls how many Authors are shown in one row. The numbers in the select field relates to how many columns each row has. 
  7. If you have specific fields you would like to display underneath the name of the authors you can toggle the Display Meta Data Of Author toggle on. This will then display an area where you can add the meta keys for those fields. Keep in mind that the first item you add is what will be shown right underneath the Author name.
    1. If you toggled the Display Meta Data Of Author on then you will see an Add Item button. 
  8. Once you have added a new item, you will see the content area.
    1. You can select your Meta key with the meta key select field. 
    2. If you would like to customize the field output you can toggle it on. 
  9. On the second panel next to content, you will see the style tab this is where you can change specific styling elements for the MetaData.
    1. First, you can select a specific color for your meta field
    2. You can change the typography style with the typography field
    3. If you require specific spacing for the meta field you can set this with the margin area. 

Example of the widget

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How to activate Kurtosys Widgets

Some widgets within DXM are turned off by default and you will have to go into the site’s Network area to activate them. In this short tutorial, we will show you how to do that. 

  1. Open your instance
  2. Go to the network area
  3. Once the network site is loaded. You will see the Kurtosys Extensions side menu item. Click on it.
  4. This will take you to the Kurtosys Extensions. This area contains all of the Kurtosys widgets as well as some other extensions of DXM.
  5. Below each extension card, there is a toggle. With this toggle, you can switch a widget/extension on or off.