[Plugin: WP Publication Archive] filtering wp publication archive

Hi I am using wp publication archive and for it to be useful I need to be able to filter the documents and be able to display by year, author, keywords etc.

I know this should all be possible using queries, but I’m not exactly a php pro. I have seen this kind of request has been made a few times – has anyone found an effective way of doing this? or any suggestions?

I’ve had some success using custom post type widgets like WordPress Custom Post Type Archive but it doesn’t return the posts like wp publications archive with the authors, summary etc.

I can ‘cheat’ and filter by year by using the categories shortcode [wp-publication-archive categories=”2011″] but can this be done for author or with a tag cloud? thx:)

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-publication-archive/