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1. the_loop
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi
   Must say this plugin is really simple... and quite unuseful as it's made.

   What this plugin does is usually meant to be a repetitive and fixed task, and it's quite boring placing the schortcode at the bottom of EVERY post.
   And, called in a theme it just outputs the "admin"'s last posts; who runs or writes with a such name user (security issues, ugly name...)?

   In addiction, i run a multiuser blog, so it was realy uneuseful.

   BUT, with just one basic edit it becomes useful:

   Just changing author' => admin to author' => get_the_author() it works as it's meant to do! ;)

   Bye

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-posts-by-author/

2. the_loop
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Well, definitely I'll use recent posts plugin

3. Alex Mansfield
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You are correct that "admin" is the default author. However, you can easily change that by adding author="username" to the shortcode. I should make that more clear in the documentation. I appreciate that suggestion code suggestion you made though. I'll try to include it in my next update.

4. the_loop
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ok, glad to be useful.
   Perhaps It was not clear, I didn't use shortcode 'cause i wanted to encode the function in theme's files, so I could not pass the usename ;)

5. Alex Mansfield
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You should still be able to use the shortcode from the theme's files by using the do_shortcode() function:

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

6. daigreen
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey any chance of a little update, this plugin is awesome for my needs but i do need to be able to cut down the length of the titles, any chance of a quick fix???

   Example:

   <?php echo do_shortcode('[latestbyauthor author="username" show="10" chars="39" excerpt="false"]'); ?>

   Max length of the title links, 0 could means unlimited characters - 39 could means 39 characters etc???????????

   Thanks.

7. dzulfriday
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   how can i show latest show by author with post thumbnail?

8. Alex Mansfield
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @dzulfriday You can find the answer here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-latest-posts-by-author-show-post-thumbnail?replies=2

   @daigreen If you want to limit all instances of the plugin by the same amount, you edit the plugin file as described here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-latest-posts-by-author-limit-numbers-of-characters

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