Posted by José Lopes.

This plugin displays the complete post list of one Author including his participations has co-author, calculating the total number of posts.

This is the version 2.0 of the Author Complete Post List plugin already presented on this site.

This version includes the internacionalization, with english, portuguese and french versions.

All the funcionalities were preserved and the functions call is compatible with the previous version. Just download and activate without any other changes.

Download

You can download one of the files that serves you better:

• author-complete-post-list.zip
• author-complete-post-list.tar.gz

You may also find this Plugin in the Wordpress repository at

Installation

• Descompress the file to the directory wp-content/plugins.
• The directory author-complete-post-list will be created, but if not do it manually and place the plugin files inside.
• Activate the plugin Author Complete Post List on the administration pannel.

How to use it

This plugin was created to be used in the file author.php, defined on the Wordpress example, so the way to use it is defined with this assumption.

Two code lines are enough to get the author's post list.

<?php total_posts($author, $curauth->user_login) ; ?>

<?php full_post_list($author, $curauth->user_login) ; ?>

If you are updating the version you don't need to change these lines in your template.

Explaining the code:

• The first line returns the introduction text for the post list, with the total of posts.
• The second line returns the author's post lists, including the ones in which he is co-author, sorted by the most recent post.
• Checking the function args:
  • The first identifies the author.
  • The second selects the author login with the tag user_login.

Output example:

The author has 3 post(s) :
    - Post 3 on 06/07/2007, stored in Nowhere
    - Post 2 on 06/07/2007, stored in Nowhere
    - Post 1 on 05/07/2007, stored in Nowhere

Final notes

You should be aware how you define the co-author:

• To insert one or more co-authors in a post you can use the plugin multiple-authors that allows to set on Personalized Field the key word other_author, whose value should be the co-author login name (one key by co-author).
• The use of the plugin multiple-authors allows to easily include several author names in the post and to automatically record the co-author if the user edits the post. It has advantages and disadvantages because recording automatically the co-author it may include an author by mistake.
• If you don't use the plugin, you don't have to, you always have to use the other_author key word to manually add the author name. It is important to keep the name other_author as the key word otherwise it won't work.
• You must place the author login name in the key word value, otherwise it will not be recognized.

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