MTEntryAuthor considered harmful
If you are just merrily producing RSS 1.0 with the default MovableType template without ever having given it a close look, you might want to look now. Down amongst the <item> tags you’ll find <dc:creator><$MTEntryAuthor encode_xml=”1″$></dc:creator>. If you are the cautious sort who uses a secret login name for MT, so that people would have to guess both the name and the password to get in, you might want to change that to either <$MTEntryAuthorNickname encode_xml=”1″$> (and set a nickname in your author profile), or just put your actual name in in place of the tag. After all, I’m already building a stalker’s dream come true; I’d rather not have “SELECT ?x, ?y FROM * WHERE (?x, <dc:creator>, ?y) USING dc for <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator>” be a cracker’s dream come true as well.
I’ve always thought the Author tag was kind of silly as well. In what situation would you want to display the author’s login name?
But if you wanted to use a link along with the author’s name, then you were out of luck. MTEntryAuthorLink uses the author’s login name.
I wrote a simple plugin that acts just like MTEntryAuthorLink but shows the nickname instead of the user name.
http://kalsey.com/blog/2002/07/nicknamelink_plugin.stm