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1. lundqvist
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello all,

   I’ve really tried to search for an answer to this question but have been unsuccessful. I hope I’ve not bothering you with something stupied.

   The thing is, I have a group blog with three authors. I would like to have three columns on my first page, one for each author, displaying their last five posts beside each other.

   YY | XX | ZZ
   YY | XX | ZZ
   YY | XX | ZZ
   YY | XX | ZZ
   YY | XX | ZZ

   (Not sure of the illustration made it better, but well, the YY, XX, ZZ represents posts from different authors, of course.)

   I thought, naïve as I am, that this would be really easy to do using multiple loops, but no matter how close I look I can’t seem to find a solution. There should be a way of hard-coding it, right? I’m using a custom theme so putting the author-ID’s in the code wouldn’t be a problem.

   Is anyone out there kindhearted enough to give me a hand, or at least point me in the right direction? :)

   Best,

   / Jonathan

2. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The codex explains multiple loops pretty well. Perishable Press also has an article titled 'Multiple Loops and Multiple Columns with WordPress, (X)HTML and CSS'.

3. lundqvist
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @apljdi: Thanks for your swift reply. However, I've been through the codex, and like I said, while I realize that multiple loops is what I will eventually use, I still don't know how to filter for author.

   The example in the codex is for category, and well, I guess I'm not enough of a hacker to just "know" how to filter for authors instead.

   Looking at the code in the example you provided:
   <?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=0'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

   ...makes me think that maybe there is an argument to get_posts to include only one author. But no such luck, it seems.

   Hmm, or am I confused here? :)

   / Jonathan

4. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Here is perhaps an even better example (from weblogtoolscollection) of what you need to do. The first loop you can do with query_posts(). There are Author Parameters for you to use to select only one author. For each of the other two authors you'll need to create a new query object-- the weblogtoolscollection link explains how.

5. lundqvist
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @apljdi: Thank you so very much. Your input, a great deal of sweat and some serious smelling-salts got me though it.:)

   Thanks again!

   / Jonathan

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