Added support for linking authors in blog posts

Co-authored-by: alexvoss <4134224+alexvoss@users.noreply.github.com>

src/plugins/blog/author.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
 from mkdocs.config.base import Config
-from mkdocs.config.config_options import DictOfItems, SubConfig, Type
+from mkdocs.config.config_options import DictOfItems, Optional, SubConfig, Type
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class Author(Config):
     name = Type(str)
     description = Type(str)
     avatar = Type(str)
+    url = Optional(Type(str))
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

src/templates/blog-post.html

@@ -59,7 +59,14 @@
                       <img src="{{ author.avatar }}" alt="{{ author.name }}" />
                     </span>
                     <span class="md-profile__description">
-                      <strong>{{ author.name }}</strong><br />
+                      <strong>
+                        {% if author.url %}
+                          <a href="{{ author.url }}">{{ author.name }}</a>
+                        {% else %}
+                          {{ author.name }}
+                        {% endif %}
+                      </strong>
+                      <br />
                       {{ author.description }}
                     </span>
                   </div>