Title: Add posts by author via shortcode
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Add posts by author via shortcode

 *  [icon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iconoclastix/)
 * (@iconoclastix)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-posts-by-author-via-shortcode/)
 * Hey mate, awesome plugin, I love it!
 * One thing that I think would really improve it would be if you could make it 
   so that you can specify the author of posts you want to return, just like how
   you can do this with categories or tags. For example, if I could do this:
 * `[ic_add_posts author='author-slug or ID' showposts='50']`
 * Just a thought! I’m not sure if it’s possible but it would be really useful!
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