How can I refer to a custom content type in an article while also dynamically displaying more information?

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I am building a website that will feature articles from many non-users, so these can be best described as "Guest Authors". So instead of adding too many users to my site, I would like to work with a custom content type (or whichever way you guys recommend).

What I want to achieve is the following:

  1. Have custom field in Articles that refers to the Content Type "Guest Author Profile Page"
  2. Once a "Guest Author" has been selected: At the end of an article, based on the selected "Guest Author", display a content block with the first name/last name of the author, their profile image, the short biography, a few social media links and a link to the Profile Page of the Guest Author.
  3. Have a link to the "Guest Authors" Page, where I can display a grid of all the "Guest Authors". This grid contains their first name/last name, profile image, social media links and a link to their profile page.
  4. The profile page that contains the following information, that is also used in the cases mentioned above: profile image, title (= full name), first name/last name fields, body, short biography (= excerpt), social media links.

It was easy to setup the custom content type and add fields to it, and I am also able to now select a guest author when creating an article, but I am having trouble getting all this other information displayed dynamically at the bottom of the article.

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Can you share any code? it's pretty hard to help (at all) without an idea of what your code looks like. – Max von Hippel
@MaxvonHippel – No code. This is just site-building. – leymannx
@MaxvonHippel I get what you mean, but so far I have not written any code, I am in the process of setting up the site – jafi
@leymannx Thats exactly right – jafi

1 Answers

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All you have to do is to choose a different field formatter for your reference field in the article's display settings. Choose "Rendered entity". You may also want to choose a different view mode maybe (to not display the full profile but certain fields you've prepared in the "Guest Authors" display settings for the corresponding view mode - here Teaser).

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