{"id":6325,"date":"2009-08-11T23:15:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/latest-posts-by-author\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T23:57:22","slug":"latest-posts-by-author","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/nb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/latest-posts-by-author\/","author":1434584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","version":"0.9","stable_tag":"0.9","tested":"3.5.2","requires":"2.8","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Latest Posts by Author","header_author":"Alex Mansfield","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2013-07-19 23:57:22","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"http:\/\/alexmansfield.com\/","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/latest-posts-by-author\/","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/alexmansfield.com\/","rating":5,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":100,"downloads":9347,"num_ratings":2,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":"2"},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["0.2","0.3","0.4","0.8","0.8.1","0.8.2","0.9"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[4956,166],"plugin_category":[],"plugin_contributors":[83369],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-6325","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-authors","plugin_tags-posts","plugin_contributors-alexmansfield","plugin_committers-alexmansfield"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/latest-posts-by-author.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"\n

This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of links to a specific author's latest posts (or a list of multiple authors). It can be called either with a shortcode or from within a theme file.<\/p>\n\n

To call it with a shortcode, use [latestbyauthor author=\"username\" show=\"3\"]<\/code> where \"username\" is the login name of the author (or a comma separated list of multiple authors) and \"3\" is the number of posts to display. If you don't specify an author or a display number, it will show the latest 5 posts from the author of the current page. If you want it to display the post excerpt as well, you can use the following code: [latestbyauthor author=\"username\" show=\"3\" excerpt=\"true\"]<\/code> This will only show exerpts that you have entered manually.<\/p>\n\n

To call it from within a theme template, you have to wrap it in this PHP function: <?php echo do_shortcode('[latestbyauthor author=\"username\" show=\"3\"]'); ?><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. Upload the latests-posts-by-author<\/code> folder to the \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory<\/li>\n
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n
  3. Place <?php echo do_shortcode('[latestbyauthor]'); ?><\/code> in your templates or [latestbyauthor]<\/code> in your posts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    No questions yet<\/dt>\n

    That's right, none so far.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    0.9<\/dt>\n

    Added custom post type support.<\/p>\n\n

    Added filter hooks:\nlatestbyauthor_list_before\nlatestbyauthor_link_before\nlatestbyauthor_title_before\nlatestbyauthor_title\nlatestbyauthor_title_after\nlatestbyauthor_link_after\nlatestbyauthor_excerpt\nlatestbyauthor_list_after<\/p>\n\n

    Removed post thumbnail support that was only available by uncommenting the relevant code. Thumbnails can be added by the theme or another plugin using the new filters.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    0.8.2<\/dt>\n

    Corrected an issue with post thumbnail support. Thanks to gkemp on the WordPress.org forum for reporting it.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

    0.8.1<\/h4>\n\n

    Updated the documentation.<\/p>\n\n

    0.8<\/h4>\n\n

    Added a missing <\/ul><\/code> tag. Thanks to Ken Howard<\/a> for pointing that out.<\/p>\n\n

    Added support for multiple authors. You can now use a comma separated list of authors. Thanks to Zgunder<\/a> for the suggestion.<\/p>\n\n

    Updated the query to exclude the current post. This prevents a link to the current pate from being displayed. Thanks again to Ken Howard<\/a> for the help on this one.<\/p>\n\n

    Added better inline documentation.<\/p>\n\n

    0.7<\/h4>\n\n

    Switched from using the $wpdb object to the WP_Query class to gather posts from the database, greatly simplifying the plugin code. Thanks to Jack Rugile<\/a> for pointing out some issues with the last version that led to this update.<\/p>\n\n

    0.6<\/h4>\n\n

    Fixed reference to guid. Replaced with get_permalink()<\/p>\n\n

    0.5<\/h4>\n\n