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Author Pane Popup

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Author Pane Popup displays author information, such as their profile picture and join date, in a tooltip that appears when hovering over an author link. It is configurable and does not require jQuery.

Author Pane Popup displays author information — name, profile picture, last
seen date, and join date — in a lightweight tooltip when a visitor hovers
over an author link on any piece of content. It requires no jQuery and works
out of the box on Drupal 10 and 11.

Features

  • Shows author name, profile picture, Last seen, and Join date in a clean tooltip card.
  • Powered by Tippy.js v6 — lightweight, accessible, no jQuery required.
  • Configurable tooltip placement (top, bottom, left, right, auto).
  • Multiple built-in themes: Default, Light, Light with border, Material, Translucent.
  • Multiple animations: Fade, Shift away, Shift toward, Scale, Perspective.
  • Configurable trigger: hover, click, focus, or hover + focus.
  • Interactive mode — visitors can click links inside the tooltip.
  • Configurable max width and show delay.
  • Page visibility controls: show or hide the popup on specific paths.
  • Custom CSS selector support to attach the popup to any element on the page.
  • AJAX-loaded tooltip content — author data is fetched on demand, not on page load.

Post-Installation

After enabling the module:

  1. Go to admin/config/author_pane_popup/settings to configure the tooltip appearance and behavior.
  2. Under Trigger settings, add the CSS selectors for elements that should trigger the popup. By default, any element with a data-author-popup-uid
    attribute or an href matching /user/UID will work.
  3. Choose your preferred placement, theme, animation, and trigger event under Tooltip appearance and Tooltip behavior.
  4. Optionally restrict the popup to specific pages under Page visibility.
  5. Visit any content page — hover over the author link to see the tooltip in action.

Additional Requirements

This module requires two JavaScript libraries to be placed in web/libraries/tippy.js/:

  • Tippy.js v6 — dist/tippy-bundle.umd.min.js and associated CSS files.
  • Popper.js v2 — popper.min.js (required by Tippy.js in browser-global mode).

See README.txt inside the module for the exact directory structure and both Composer-based and manual download installation instructions.

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Version Type Release date
2.0.0 Stable May 18, 2026