Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Latest Posts by Author

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:52:56 +0000

Thanks, and you’re welcome!

By: Jack Rugile

Jack Rugile — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:50:15 +0000

The new version looks great. Thank you for the credit, and good luck with future plugins!

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:40:13 +0000

After a little research, I decide to rewrite my plugin using the WP_Query class rather than the $wpdb object. Rather than running a SQL query directly, it uses the standard WordPress query methods. I believe the “posts-per-page” setting in the new plugin code should restrict the amount of data pulled from the database. Let me know if you have any issues with the new version. Also, I credited you in the changelog: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-posts-by-author/changelog/

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:19:51 +0000

That’s a really good point. I’ll have to look into that and get back to you.

By: Jack Rugile

Jack Rugile — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:15:29 +0000

Hey, thanks for the great plugin! Everything is working well. I just had a quick question.

I am concerned about performance for an author that has a large number of posts. The MySQL query seems to grab all of the author’s posts, then loop through until the iterator reaches the value of $show, then break the loop. To increase performance and only grab what you need from the database, can’t you add “LIMIT $show” to the end of the query (line20), and drop the for loop altogether? I don’t know if this is possible (I don’t work much with MySQL queries when it comes to WordPress, just wanted to throw it out there).

Let me know your thoughts, and thanks again!

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:07:30 +0000

I changed line 24, so now it should be grabbing the permalink rather than using $post->guid. It turns out $post->guid isn’t recommended for use in this situation anyway. I’ve updated both my plugin in the WordPress repository and the code posted on this page. Thanks for pointing out the permalink issue.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:12:51 +0000

I think Antoine was referring to the fact that this plug in outputs the URLs as: domain.com/?p=1234 as opposed to domain.com/post-title/ Is this possible to accomplish using this plug in?

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:00:34 +0000

I think what Antoine was referring to is that the list of related posts this plug in outputs don’t have the permalink /domain/article-title as the URL they have the domain.com/?p=1234.

Is there a way to modify the plug in to output the permalink URL as opposed to the default?

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:16:12 +0000

@Deron Sorry for the delay. If you haven’t figured it out already, you should be able to increase the spacing by adding margin and/or padding to the “.latestbyauthor li” elements with CSS.

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:10:55 +0000

@dzu I wrote this plugin before WordPress added post thumbnail support, so it isn’t built in at the moment. You can find the code to work with post thumbnails in the WordPress documentation:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail

…and yes, it should work in the single page template.