How to Create a Gatsby Page for Authors
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Last updated: Apr 17, 2020
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Hi, I'm trying to create a page (using Gatsby) for every author. I've got it to where a page is created with all their information entered into Sanity Studio, but I'd like to have all of their posts on the site displayed on the page too. Is there a way anyone has found to make this happen?
Apr 17, 2020, 3:25 AM
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Thanks for your help on this!. Here is what I have in gatsby-node.js:
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reporter.info (
And then this is in the template file query:
No luck so far though, do you have any suggestions of what I might be doing wrong here?
const authorEdges = (result.data.allSanityAuthor || {}).edges || [] const _id = authorEdges._id
authorEdges
.forEach((_edge_, _index_) => { const {name, slug = {}} = edge.node `const path = `/author/${slug.current}/```
reporter.info (
Creating author page: ${path})`createPage({ path,
_id,
component: require.resolve('./src/templates/author-page.js'), context: _id
})
})
And then this is in the template file query:
posts: allSanityPost(filter: {authors: {elemMatch: {author: {_id: {eq: "{$_id}"}}}}})No luck so far though, do you have any suggestions of what I might be doing wrong here?
Apr 17, 2020, 7:41 PM
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Oh interesting, I don't have person in my schema, I have 'author' instead
Apr 17, 2020, 8:02 PM
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I got the query from the GraphQL playground.When I query
allSanityPost(filter: {authors: {elemMatch: {author: {id: {eq: "$_id"}}}}})I get this error message:Variable "$_id" is not defined by operation "AuthorPageTemplateQuery".
Apr 17, 2020, 8:08 PM
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I get that error message when I query it in my template file
Apr 17, 2020, 8:09 PM
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I was hoping to do this programaticaly where it would automatically create one for every author. Is that possible?
Apr 17, 2020, 8:10 PM
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yep, this is what I've got:
query AuthorPageTemplateQuery($_id: String!) {Apr 17, 2020, 8:13 PM
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Oh I finally got it! Thank you so much. I don't know why I couldn't get _id to work, but I tried passing the author name through and matching to that, that worked for me. For anyone's future reference, the final query I used on the template page is:
`export const query = graphql``
and this is the function in my node file:
`
reporter.info (
`export const query = graphql``
query AuthorPageTemplateQuery($name: String!) { post: sanityAuthor(name: {eq: $name}) { name
_id
image { ...SanityImage
alt
caption
}
slug { current
}
_rawBio
}
posts: allSanityPost(filter: {authors: {elemMatch: {author: {name: {eq: $name}}}}}) { edges { node { id
authors { author { name
id
}
}
categories { title
_type
_id
id
color
}
publishedAt
mainImage { ...SanityImage
alt
caption
}
title
_rawExcerpt
Action1Title
Action1URL
slug { current
}
}
}
}
}```
and this is the function in my node file:
async function createAuthorPages (_graphql_, _actions_, _reporter_) { const {createPage} = actions `const result = await graphql(``{ allSanityAuthor { edges { node { name
_id
slug { current
}
_rawBio
}
}
}
}``)`
if (result.errors) throw result.errors
const authorEdges = (result.data.allSanityAuthor || {}).edges || [] const _id = authorEdges._id
authorEdges
// .filter(edge => !isFuture(edge.node.publishedAt))
.forEach((_edge_, _index_) => { const {name, slug = {}} = edge.node // const dateSegment = format(publishedAt, "YYYY/MM");`const path = `/author/${slug.current}/``
`
reporter.info (
Creating author page: ${path})`createPage({ path,
name,
component: require.resolve('./src/templates/author-page.js'), context: name
})
})
}
Apr 17, 2020, 9:23 PM
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Thanks so much again Vince
Apr 17, 2020, 9:24 PM
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