Author Posts Link

I’ve been working on an Author profile page for a multi-author blog that is closer to the blog owners vision. I’ve been able to get almost everything he wants in there, but I’m hitting a mental block, and I might be thinking about this wrong, so I’m hoping someone can give me a shove.

First, he said he wanted the Authors five (then 10) most recent posts. So I hacked this into author.php:

<?php
// Set current author
$authorid = $curauth->ID;
// Concantenate to query string & limit to 10 latest posts
$qargs = 'posts_per_page=10&author=' . $authorid ;
// Execute the query to feed The Loop
query_posts( $qargs );
?>

Now, he wants a link to a page with ALL of their articles at the bottom of that list.

All I can think of is some kind of link that generates a query that forces the use of the archive.php template. That seems crazy.

I suspect there’s a way to NOT restrict the inital query for The Loop, add in a PHP counter, and have a “All Author’s Posts…” link after the first 5 or 10 or whatever post excerpts. But I’m not sure how to break out of the built-in author.php template invocation.

Any ideas? I’m feeling pretty stuck.