mediadreams/md_news_author

Adds one or more authors to a tx_news record, show a list of all authors and display a detail page of the author containing the attached news entries.

v9.0.0 2026-04-09 08:10 UTC

Requires

• php: ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0 || ~8.5.0
• georgringer/news: ^11.0 || ^12.0 || ^13.0 || ^14.0
• typo3/cms-core: ^13.4 || ^14.0

Requires (Dev)

• ergebnis/composer-normalize: 2.50.0
• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: 3.94.2
• helmich/typo3-typoscript-lint: 3.3.0
• icanhazstring/composer-unused: 0.8.11 || 0.9.6
• php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint: 1.4.0
• phpmd/phpmd: 2.15.0
• phpstan/extension-installer: 1.4.3
• phpstan/phpstan: 1.12.33 || 2.1.40
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: 1.4.2 || 2.0.12
• phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules: 1.6.2 || 2.0.8
• phpunit/phpunit: 10.5.63
• rector/type-perfect: 1.0.0 || 2.1.2
• saschaegerer/phpstan-typo3: 1.10.2 || 2.1.1
• seld/jsonlint: 1.11.0
• spaze/phpstan-disallowed-calls: 4.9.2
• ssch/typo3-rector: 2.15.2 || 3.11.0
• symfony/console: ^6.4 || ^7.4
• symfony/translation: ^6.4 || ^7.4
• symfony/yaml: ^6.4 || ^7.4
• tomasvotruba/cognitive-complexity: 0.2.3 || 1.0.0
• tomasvotruba/type-coverage: 1.0.0 || 2.1.0
• typo3/cms-fluid-styled-content: ^13.4 || ^14.0
• typo3/coding-standards: 0.8.0
• typo3/testing-framework: 8.3.1

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Christoph Daecke

• extension
• news
• typo3
• TYPO3 CMS
• author
• tx_news
• news author
• blog author

README

This extension is based on extbase & fluid and provides the famous extension ext:news of Georg Ringer (thanks a lot @georgringer !) with one or more authors. You can centrally manage authors and attach them to news records. The extensions comes with two plugins, one for listing all authors and one for the detail page of an author which also shows the news records of the selected author.

Requirements

• TYPO3 >= 13.4 or 14.x
• ext:news >= 11.0

Installation

Install the extension via Composer:

composer req mediadreams/md_news_author

Configuration via Site Sets (recommended)

Site Sets are the preferred way to configure this extension in TYPO3 >= 13.4. Add the set to your site configuration in config/sites/<your-site>/config.yaml:

dependencies:
  - mediadreams/md-news-author

This automatically includes all necessary TypoScript. No manual TypoScript include is needed.

You can then configure all settings directly in the Site Management > Sites backend module under the Settings tab.

Configuration via classic TypoScript

Alternatively, include the static TypoScript manually:

• Go to Web > Template and open your root template
• In the Includes tab, add News Author (md_news_author) to the list of included static templates

Configuration

Available settings

All settings can be configured via Site Sets or classic TypoScript constants.

Setting	Default	Description
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorDetailPid	0	UID of the author detail page
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.newsDetailPid	0	UID of the news detail page
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.persistence.storagePid	0	UID of the sysfolder with author records
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorList.letters	A,B,...,Z	Letters for the alphabetical filter
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorList.paginate.itemsPerPage	10	Items per page in list view
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorList.paginate.insertAbove	false	Show pagination above the list
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorList.paginate.insertBelow	true	Show pagination below the list
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorList.paginate.maximumNumberOfLinks	6	Maximum number of pagination links in list view
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorDetail.paginate.itemsPerPage	10	Items per page in detail view
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorDetail.paginate.insertAbove	false	Show pagination above the detail view
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorDetail.paginate.insertBelow	true	Show pagination below the detail view
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.settings.authorDetail.paginate.maximumNumberOfLinks	6	Maximum number of pagination links in detail view
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.view.templateRootPath	EXT:md_news_author/…/Templates/	Path to Fluid templates
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.view.partialRootPath	EXT:md_news_author/…/Partials/	Path to Fluid partials
plugin.tx_mdnewsauthor.view.layoutRootPath	EXT:md_news_author/…/Layouts/	Path to Fluid layouts

Usage

Create authors and attach them to news records

• Create some author records on a sysfolder (use list module, push plus-icon Create new record and select News Author)
• Create a news record on a sysfolder and find the new tab Author
• Select one or more authors for the news record
• Save and close

List authors

Insert a paginated list of all authors.

• Create a plugin News author: Author list on a page
• Choose for Page with single author view the page with single author view
• Select the sysfolder where the author records are stored
• Additional settings can be found in the tab List view settings
• If needed, show authors of certain categories only (tab Categories)
• Save and close

Author detail page

Insert an author detail view. This page also lists all news records associated with the selected author.

• Create a plugin News author: Show author on a page
• Optionally choose for Page with author list the page with the list of all authors
• Select the sysfolder where the author records are stored
• Additional settings can be found in the tab Detail view settings
• Save and close

Show author in ext:news view

Access the author properties in a news record with {newsItem.newsAuthor}. Since there can be more than one author attached to a news record, iterate over them:

<f:for each="{newsItem.newsAuthor}" as="author">
    {md:ShowAuthorName(author: author)}
    {author.phone}
    {author. ...}
</f:for>

Add a link to the author profile page (load the viewhelper namespace first: {namespace md=Mediadreams\MdNewsAuthor\ViewHelpers}):

<f:for each="{newsItem.newsAuthor}" as="author">
    <f:link.action action="show" controller="NewsAuthor" extensionName="mdnewsauthor" pluginName="show"
        arguments="{newsAuthor: author}" pageUid="{settings.newsAuthor.authorDetailPid}"
        title="More about {md:ShowAuthorName(author:'{author}')}">
        <md:ShowAuthorName author="{author}" />
    </f:link.action>
</f:for>

Page TSconfig

To show only authors from a specific page in the Author tab of a news record:

TCEFORM.tx_news_domain_model_news.news_author.PAGE_TSCONFIG_STR = 1

Replace 1 with the UID of the sysfolder containing your author records.

routeEnhancers

routeEnhancers:
  NewsAuthorList:
    type: Extbase
    extension: MdNewsAuthor
    plugin: list
    routes:
      -
        routePath: 'page-{page}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::list'
        _arguments:
          slug: 'newsAuthor'
          page: 'currentPage'
      -
        routePath: '/a-z/{letter}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::list'
        _arguments:
          'letter': 'selectedLetter'
    defaultController: 'NewsAuthor::list'
    requirements:
      page: '\d+'
    defaults:
      page: '0'
    aspects:
      page:
        type: StaticRangeMapper
        start: '1'
        end: '100'
      letter:
        type: StaticValueMapper
        map:
          a: A
          b: B
          c: C
          d: D
          e: E
          f: F
          g: G
          h: H
          i: I
          j: J
          k: K
          l: L
          m: M
          n: N
          o: O
          p: P
          q: Q
          r: R
          s: S
          t: T
          u: U
          v: V
          w: W
          x: X
          y: Y
          z: Z
  NewsAuthorShow:
    type: Extbase
    extension: MdNewsAuthor
    plugin: show
    routes:
      -
        routePath: '{slug}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::show'
        _arguments:
          slug: 'newsAuthor'
      -
        routePath: '{slug}/articles-{page}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::show'
        _arguments:
          slug: 'newsAuthor'
          page: 'currentPage'
    defaultController: 'NewsAuthor::show'
    requirements:
      slug: '^[a-zA-Z0-9].*$'
      page: '\d+'
    defaults:
      page: '0'
    aspects:
      slug:
        type: PersistedAliasMapper
        tableName: 'tx_mdnewsauthor_domain_model_newsauthor'
        routeFieldName: 'slug'
      page:
        type: StaticRangeMapper
        start: '1'
        end: '100'

Bugs and Known Issues

If you find a bug, it would be nice if you add an issue on Github.

THANKS

Thanks a lot to all who make this outstanding TYPO3 project possible!

Credits

Icons used by this extension are kindly taken from Font Awesome (user and users).