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consider switching position of author and article title in embed #39

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@Korede-TA

first of all: i really love this tool, thank you all for making this ✨

i wanted to request/suggest a small design change that could help highlight the author of a piece (whose words are actually being quoted). The screenshots below show what i mean:

Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 12 20 36 PM

Screen Shot 2020-08-12 at 12 20 47 PM

I did this manually myself in the code by switching the values of data-author and data-title. I also realized that the library didn't pick up the author's name itself so i added that manually myself. Code changes are summarized in the block below:

<blockquote 
  class="quoteback" darkmode="" 
-  data-title="Zombiescapes%3A%20Africa's%20Megacity%20Addiction"
+  data-author="Zombiescapes: Africa's Megacity Addiction" 
-  data-author="@republicjournal" 
+  data-title="Dafe Opotu for @republicjournal" 
  cite="https://republic.com.ng/june-july-2019/african-mega-city-addiction/">
  More fundamentally, however, the central promise of Eko Atlantic—that it is possible to ‘start over’ and build an exclusive city within a city—is flawed. The high property values clearly illustrate the class of urban resident the new city hopes to attract. But these urban elites require a huge number of service workers; drivers, cooks, street sweepers, recharge card sellers, barbers, construction workers, mechanics and more to sustain their lifestyles. In cities, everyone wants to live where the jobs are and where the economic buzz is greatest. Even if the urban poor of Lagos are priced out from the fancy new developments of Eko Atlantic, they will find their way to informal settlements and abandoned properties. Based on the share of Lagosians who can realistically afford to live in Eko Atlantic, many of the residential buildings are likely to be empty anyway. Even Victoria Island, Ikoyi and Banana Island already have vacancy rates as high as <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/eko-atlantic-city-eyes-2023-finish-as-nigeria-economy-rebounds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30 per cent</a> in their wealthier areas.
  <footer>@republicjournal<cite> <a href="https://republic.com.ng/june-july-2019/african-mega-city-addiction/">https://republic.com.ng/june-july-2019/african-mega-city-addiction/</a></cite></footer>
</blockquote>
<script note="" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Blogger-Peer-Review/quotebacks@1/quoteback.js"></script>

this might be a peculiar request given that:

  1. i'm quoting from a publication and not an individual's blog
  2. it would probably be complicated since a random quote in an article could be from an interviewee and not the author's words

so lmk if this is out of scope or would be worth considering in some form. i've also got some questions about adding custom CSS to this but i'll leave that for another issue.

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