WordPress.org

This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of links to a specific author's latest posts. It can be called either from a shortcode or from within a theme file.

To call it with a shortcode, use [latestbyauthor author="username" show="3"] where "username" is the login name of the author and "3" is the number of posts to display. If you don't specify an author or a display number, it will show the latest 5 posts from the admin account. If you want it to display the post excerpt as well, you can use the following code: [latestbyauthor author="username" show="3" excerpt="true"] This will only show exerpts that you have entered manually. It will not show the first 55 characters of the post in the manner of the the_excerpt() funtion.

To call it from within a theme however, you have to wrap it in this PHP function: <?php echo do_shortcode('[latestbyauthor author="username" show="3"]'); ?>

Author: alexmansfield