WP: How Do You Get A List Of Posts By A Specific Author

[kilmc]

I have been across the net trying to get a way to generate a list of posts posted by a specific author.
The site is for a band and I have a member page for each person in the band. I want to have a list of posts specific to the member come up just like wp_list_archives or something along those lines but I havn’t found anything useful in over 3 hours of searching and testing.

Anyone know how to do this, I’d really appreciate it.

[apostrophe]

Surely the simplest way of doing it is to assign each band member their own category and then have a list of posts in that category.

[TheDoc]

You can actually accomplish this using the query_posts:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tag … Parameters

query_posts(‘author=XXX’)

[kilmc]

@apostrophe I had been thinking of doing that

@TheDoc Could you paste in the exact code i need, I’d be using author ID 1. Its not lazyness its just that I tried the query posts before and got bad php errors. I’m not good with php yet so I don’t understand why things don’t work

Thanks for the help.

[TheDoc]

You did not read that link I posted my friend!

haha no worries, this is how a query_post should look in it’s most basic form:

Code:

Basically, you have to make sure it comes BEFORE the loop, or else you’re hooped.

[kilmc]

I had tried that code before but I got this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘.’ in /home/chequeredmaniac/kosmonauts/wp-content/themes/kosmonauts/members.php on line 14

Tried it again just in case and I got the same thing.
I’ve tried placing the code both above and below the header. I’m using a custom page which doesn’t use the loop, or at least there no code there for it and there’s no template tag inserting it.

Code:

BIO

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THE BASICS

full name: Kilian McMahon
age: 18
plays: Drums + Sings
influences

• idiot pilot
• fall out boy
• reuben
• god is an astronaut
• motion city soundtrack

fave film: fight club/hackers

fave food: fried noodles

EQUIPMENT

kit 5 piece pearl export elx
cymbals

• 14″ AA Metal-X Hi-Hats
• 16″ AA Metal-X Crash
• 22″ AA Metal-X Ride
• 18″ Vaults Crash
• 20″ Paragon China

ADD ME

twitter @kilmc
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myspace iAmDarknoise
bebo ChequeredManiac

That’s the page and all its code.

Could be something else causing they problem that you might spot.

[TheDoc]

You can’t put in exactly what I’ve written.

If the page doesn’t have a loop, then it won’t show any posts. I was under the impression that the page already had a loop and was showing posts by all authors.

If you don’t know about the loop, I’m afraid you’re going to have to take a few steps back and figure that out before you start stepping into modifying it.

[kilmc]

I think it would be a whole lot easier if I just used categories. It removes a lot of hastle. If it’s a page its not going to have all the posts in the same way the index.php loop has. So I can’t see how even including the loop on a page will allow me to use query posts in the way I want to.

The categories method is definitlely suited to this project. I’m under time constraints but I may figure out a way of doing it in the future.

Thanks for all the help

[TheDoc]

I completely disagree.

You can use the WP loop anywhere, not just on an index page. If you’re going to show posts from a user, you’re going to have to use a loop, there’s no way around that.

To display posts from only one category, you’re still going to use query_posts.

[kilmc]

I don’t think I actually explained this properly. I just want to display a list of links in a column of links that the member has posted. I don’t actually want the page displaying the posts. That’s not the purpose of that page.

So all I need are link of, say the 5 most recent, posts by that author.

[TheDoc]

Oooohhhhhh I gotcha now.

Here ya go!

Code:

get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_author = 1”);

echo “Posts by Author 1”;

foreach ($numposts as $numpost) {
echo “
• “.$numpost->post_title.”

“;
}

?>

[kilmc]

Thats definitely on the right track however I am now getting a list of everything I have published as that author, like pages etc. I also seem to be getting revisions or comments because a lot of the post names are showing up multiple times. Is there a way to only query blog posts?

Finally I need them to be links. So where would I wrap an a tag to get this to happen? Or would it be more complicated than that.

I really appreciate all this help. I wouldn’t be able to do any of this without your help.

Kilian

[davesgonebananas]

This is the code I use on a custom page template to achieve something similiar to what you are aiming for.
In order for this to work you have to assign the template to a page like normal. Then create a custom field called "author" and assign this a value of the author id whose posts you wish to appear.

Code:

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ID, ‘author’, true)) :
query_posts(“author={$author}&post_status=publish&post_type=post&showposts=3”);
if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

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This person doesn’t have a blog yet.

I really hope that this helps you. Please let me know how you get on.

[TheDoc]

Just stumbled across this, have you tried it?

http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/pos … wordpress/

[kilmc]

@TheDoc, I had tried it, couldn’t get it to work.

@davesgonebananas Thank you so much. It is perfect, exactly what I wanted. I appreciate it so much. Let me know if I can help anytime, I’m a graphic designer. Just email me or @ reply me on twitter http://www.twitter.com/kilmc for any design stuff you need.

Also thanks to TheDoc for all your help. Really appreciate it.

Wahoo, its fixed.

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