How to sort articles by author?

  • Resolved aprilia

    (@aprilia)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    I am running WP 1.5 and operate a multi-contributor blog at http://motorcyclebloggers.com . I am also using the ‘cleanbreeze’ theme. It has been suggested that a ‘sort by author’ feature would be handy for some of the readers.

    I did a search and found the c2c plugin. I am not php-worthy enough to know where to paste the templates into the sidebar.php file as suggested. My main concern is how to do that and keep the same look (title block and box around each section) to keep it consistent with the theme.

    My short term solution is to have the authors ‘sign off’ at the bottom with their author name so it could be picked up by the search function. This may be an easy long term solution, but I figured I would investigate the option further to see if a plugin (dumbed down enough for me) exists.

    Thanks,
    angrybob of motorcyclebloggers.com

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    1. Which plugin are you talking about that makes the “sort by author”? (it’s always a good idea to provide a link to the plugin)
    2. Why not create an Author page where all the posts made by an author could be listed?

    Thread Starter aprilia

    (@aprilia)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Sorry about that – the plugin is this one: http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/

    I could as their are author bio Pages already. I do that right now for Parent Pages. I’m just looking for the lowest maintenance if it exists.

    Thanks

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Oh, I see now. You should take the code from his last example and paste it in your sidebar wherever you want the list to appear. (Of course, after uploading and activating the plugin:).

    davert

    (@davert)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    I am very interested in doing the same thing – that is, allowing searches by writer – and I found this thread essentially by accident … how did you get it to work with version 2.0?

    davert

    (@davert)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    Never mind – just found it – http://www.domain.com/weblogs/?author=3

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    Didn’t try with 2.0 yet, but the template tags didn’t really change in this version.
    So, I suppose, using in the sidebar something like this:
    <ul>
    <?php wp_list_authors('show_fullname=1&exclude_admin=1'); ?>
    </ul>
    would list all the authors (except admin, of course) as a clickable link and when clicking on it >> would take the reader to a webpage (technically an archive) of the posts by that author.

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