Author pages

Every author or editor listed in the frontmatter field authors gets a personal page.

Every author page is initially auto-generated by Hugo and contains a list of the latest contributions at the bottom. To add personal content and images we need to create an explicit author page with a command in the project root like:

hugo new authors/your-name

This creates a new Markdown file with special frontmatter parameters in content/authors/your-name/_index.md:

---
title: Your Name
description: Short description
subtitle: true
date: 2023-11-24T10:04:40+01:00
resources:
- src: 
  name: portrait
  params:
    alt: Your Name
- src: 
  name: featured
  params:
    alt: Your Name
follow_icons:
- name: 
  icon: 
  url: 
contact_icons:
- name: 
  icon: 
  url: 
---

You add your name as the title and a short description of your role or profession to the parameter description.

The author page expects two images:
1. A quadratic portrait or avatar with a side length of at least 330px. This image is cropped to fit into a circle and you may need to add some padding to the original. This portrait appears in all your postings and cards referencing them.
2. A featured image as usual.

You can add links to other sites or services that are symbolized by icons in a similar way as for the main social menu.

The section follow_icons is meant for social networks, and the section `contact_icons`` for services that reach you personally.

Every list entry starts with a dash and expects three parameters:

name
The name of the service.
icon
The name for an icon of the open-source project Simple Icons. You can find and pick every available icon on their page or add your own as described for the main social menu.
url
The link to the service.

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