On a multi author WordPress blog I need to show a list with more posts from the current author. The list is inside the Loop, so I can use <?php the_author_meta('first_name'); ?> <?php the_author_meta('last_name'); ?>
and <?php the_author_meta('description'); ?>
, but how to retrieve the user’s posts?
3 Answers
This will retrieve the posts of current author when used in the loop.
Put the following in your theme functions.php:
function my_get_display_author_posts() {
global $authordata, $post;
$authors_posts = get_posts( array( 'author' => $authordata->ID, 'post__not_in' => array( $post->ID ) ) );
$output="<ul>";
foreach ( $authors_posts as $authors_post ) {
$output .= '<li><a href="' . get_permalink( $authors_post->ID ) . '">' . apply_filters( 'the_title', $authors_post->post_title, $authors_post->ID ) . '</a></li>';
}
$output .= '</ul>';
return $output;
}
And add echo my_get_display_author_posts();
in your template file, within the loop where you want the posts displayed.