CBAuthor Plugin doesn't respect "Hide Author Name"

This plugin is great and everything but it has a major "flaw": It shows up on EVERY content page no matter if i set "Hide Author Name" in the article options. This is especially for uncategorized articles or for those where an author name is not necessary painful.

Please, is there someone who has the mercy to provide us poor users a solution or some code for this? So that it respects the settings "Hide/Show Author Name" or at least some field to exclude content articles by id...something like that?

Thanks a lot

Post edited by: CBFanatic, at: 2010/04/06 16:56

You should contact the developer.

I visited his website. the author responds to almost all questions with "pay money first and i will do it" "study PHP urself". ok, understandable. but this plugin if half finished and stripped off an essential function. i guess he knows it and tries to make business with some poor souls..bad luck for us users then.

do you know of an alternative?

p.s.; there are 2 identical postings of mine about this topic. accidentally. please remove the other 2 ones, otherwise is looks bad on your forum.

Post edited by: CBFanatic, at: 2010/04/12 03:07

Post edited by: CBFanatic, at: 2010/04/12 03:09

CBFanatic wrote:

p.s.; there are 2 identical postings of mine about this topic. accidentally. please remove the other 2 ones, otherwise is looks bad on your forum.

Thank you, but we don't remove posts for this reason - we left yours.

We will be working on such a plugin for CB 2.0.

yes, thats what i ment. my OWN duplicates not those from other members of course, god forbid. . next time i will be more careful with the submit-button .

ok, nant, thanks a lot for answering. looking forward to cb 2.0 and this particular feature!

It is funny how you go to another forum to complain about a FREE plugin offered on another web site. All features were clearly documented. If your feature wasn't in there then you shouldn't have downloaded it and then complained that it didn't have the feature you wanted.

Go to tkserver.com and check out the new version, which has a setting to respect the show/hide of joomla authors. These updates aren't instantaneous. It takes a lot of time to develop, test and product something worthy of releasing to the public.

It is attitudes like yours which make developers think twice about spending their valuable time working on free releases as a "contribution" to the joomla/CB community. Just because you request something from a developer doesn't mean it is going to happen, and happen immediately, for FREE.

My suggestion was that if you didn't want to "wait" for a new version, or you could try to change the php code yourself. I don't answer "almost all questions with pay money first and i will do it." Get real. It is FREE.

Any guess on how many hours studying and testing this little FREE plugin I spent? 10, 20, 30, more? And I donate this FREE for you to use? Ever consider that?