posts/_data.json is not storing authors efficiently

[zafarali]

Hi I just wanted to bring it up that the _data.json file that holds blog posts is not storing the authors correctly. This should be rectified immediately to make it future proof. Ideally what is now this:

{
        "author": {
            "author_1": "Thomas Ingalls",
            "author_2": "Kevin Chen"
        },
        "authorsocialprofile": {
            "authorsocialprofile_1": "http://www.twitter.com/thomasingalls",
            "authorsocialprofile_2": "http://www.twitter.com/bkevinchen"
        },
}

Should be:

{
"author":[ "Thomas Ingalls","Kevin Chen"],
"authorprofile": ["http://www.twitter.com/thomasingalls", "http://www.twitter.com/bkevinchen"],
}

Reasons:

• Makes it easier to iterate over the authors
• allows us to account for things like and's and comma's
• Saves space when storing it.

Please give the go ahead and I can change the _data.json file WARN: I am not sure how you write the the blog posts. If it is manual then this will go off without a problem, if you have something that automatically encodes it for you then that needs to be changed too to ensure consistency.

[thomasingalls]

everything is manual until we automate parts ourselves in jade

yes please change author storage format - it's something I've wanted to fix

feel free to add/modify/augment the blog section. it's a boilerplate I inserted with very little modification. On Jun 17, 2014 9:31 PM, "Zafarali Ahmed" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi I just wanted to bring it up that the _data.json file that holds blog posts is not storing the authors correctly. This should be rectified immediately to make it future proof. Ideally what is now this:

... "author": { "author_1": "Thomas Ingalls", "author_2": "Kevin Chen" }, "authorsocialprofile": { "authorsocialprofile_1": "http://www.twitter.com/thomasingalls", "authorsocialprofile_2": "http://www.twitter.com/bkevinchen" },...

Should be:

"author":[ "Thomas Ingalls","Kevin Chen"],"authorprofile": ["http://www.twitter.com/thomasingalls", "http://www.twitter.com/bkevinchen"],

Reasons:

• Makes it easier to iterate over the authors
• allows us to account for things like and's and comma's
• Saves space when storing it.

Please give the go ahead and I can change the _data.json file WARN: I am not sure how you write the the blog posts. If it is manual then this will go off without a problem, if you have something that automatically encodes it for you then that needs to be changed too to ensure consistency.

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[zafarali]

Done. I have updated the template to reflect what it should really be like, but for future ease of access here it is:

{ 
"template-for-posts": {
        "title": "",
        "summary": "",
        "date_published": "",
        "date_updated": "",
        "authors": [""],
        "authorprofile": [""],
        "thumbnail": ""
    }
}