Posted 3 years ago #
Hi everyone,
I have a question:
is there a way to show the catogories on the authorpages which only show the posts of the particular author?
I'm planning a multi-author blog. When you click on the author's name, the author page will show, like a micro-blog inside the main-blog.
Can I do this by manipulating the wp_list_categories()-function functions.php (add a parameter for the author)?
Maybe someone has an idea,
thanks,
Eddie
That would involve custom programming. As an alternate approach, would it work to have a parent category for each author, and sub-categories of their categories? Then for each author you could start the category tree with that author's parent category, displaying only the children of that parent.
If you need site-wide categories as well then each post would have to be assigned to two categories. In other words
News
Events
Author A
News
Events
Author B
News
Events
If you want the ability on some page to show News and Events across all authors then a news post must be assigned to the general category News as well as the News under Author A.
The advantage of this approach is no custom programming is necessary. The disadvantage is requiring two categories per post.
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