How to display thumbnails for related posts by author?

  • mascatu

    (@mascatu)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I try to get related posts by author using this code:

    function get_related_author_posts() {
    global $authordata, $post;

    $authors_posts = get_posts( array( 'author' => $authordata->ID, 'post__not_in' => array( $post->ID ), 'posts_per_page' => 10 ) );

    $output = '<div class="block">';
    foreach ( $authors_posts as $authors_post ) {
        $output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink( $authors_post->ID ) . '">' . apply_filters( 'the_title', $authors_post->post_title, $authors_post->ID ) . '</a>';
    }
    $output .= '</div>';

    return $output;
}

    For output I use the following code inside the loop of my single.php file:

    <?php echo get_related_author_posts(); ?>
    Currently it displays only post titles as links.

    How should look this code in order to display thumbnails for this related posts by author function?

    Thanks.

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  • Girmay

    (@girmay)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    This should do it.

    function get_related_author_posts() {
    global $authordata, $post;

    $authors_posts = get_posts( array( 'author' => $authordata->ID, 'post__not_in' => array( $post->ID ), 'posts_per_page' => 10 ) );

    $output = '<div class="block">';
    foreach ( $authors_posts as $authors_post ) {
       $img = featured_img($authors_post->ID);
        $output .= '<img src="'.$img.'"><a href="' . get_permalink( $authors_post->ID ) . '">' . apply_filters( 'the_title', $authors_post->post_title, $authors_post->ID ) . '</a>';
    }
    $output .= '</div>';

    return $output;
}
    function featured_img($id){
	$thumb = get_post_meta($id,'THUMB',true);
	if($thumb){
	return $thumb;
	} else {
		return "default thumb URL";
	}
}
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