Get all posts by post_author

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I am creating a back-end dashboard where I need to show all the post assigned to current user by the wp admin.

I assign user role to Author and while creating post (as a wp
admin) just assign this post to some author from Author drop-down.

So I need to show posts with status Publish. I am now using simple query post but it is returning all posts.

global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$user_id = $current_user->ID;    // for current user it is 2

$query = array(
        'post_type' => 'post',
        'post_author' => $user_id,
        'post_status' => array('publish')
    );
$my_posts = query_posts($query);

I also hard-coded post_author to 2

I also tried $my_post = new WP_Query(array( 'post_author' => '2' ));

but fail.

3 Answers
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The shortest possible answer would be to correct ‘post_author’ to ‘author’, since that is the key WP is looking for. If a key is incorrect or misspelled it will be ignored, as was the case with ‘post_author’.

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