Author

Users in Drupal are another type of entity. This means we can theme them by using twig template suggestions. We'll start by adding a couple of fields that by default User profiles don't have. Then we will add a new view mode for users which will help us create the right template suggestion.

Add new fields to the User profile

As we just saw in the Card Wide variant, we are displaying the article's author information. By default Drupal does not have a full name or title fields as part of user's profiles. Let's add these fields so we can use them in our cards.

1. From Drupal's admin toolbar, select Configuration > People > Account Settings

2. Click Manage fields

3. Click Add field

4. Add the following fields and their properties

Label	Machine name	Field type	Allowed number of values
Full name	field_full_name	Text(plain)	1
Title	field_title	Text(plain)	1

New User view mode

We'll create a new view mode to control which user's fields we can display.

1. While still within the People Account Settings screen, click Manage Display

2. Under the Default view mode, expand the CUSTOM DISPLAY SETTINGS fieldset

3. Click Manage view modes

4. Scroll down to the Users section and click Add new User view mode link

5. Type Author as the view mode name and click the Save button

6. Repeat steps 1 & 2 from Add new fields to the User Profile section at the top of the page

7. Expand the CUSTOM DISPLAY SETTINGS fieldset

8. Check Author and click the Save button

Customize Author view mode

1. From the list of view modes now available (Default, Author, and Compact), click Author

2. Drag the Member for field into the Disabled section

3. For the remaining fields, hide their labels by selecting Hidden in the Label's dropdowns

4. Click the Save button

Remove the link from the Author's image

1. While still in the People Account Settings screen, click the cogwheel icon to the right of the Image field

2. Change the view mode to Thumbnail (100 x 100)

3. Change the Link image to dropdown to Nothing

4. Click the Update button

5. Click the Save button

Update the Article content type to use the Author view mode

1. Go to Blog content type's manage display screen (Structure > Content types > Article > Manage display)

2. Click the Featured view mode

3. For the Author field, ensure Rendered entity is set as the format

4. Click the little cogwheel icon to the right of the Author field

5. Change the view mode to Author

6. Click the Update then Save buttons

Changing the user's view mode to Author will help us create a new template suggestion for users.