Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Author Categories (v1.0)

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:16:21 +0000

Thank you for this! it almost does exactly what i need, i was wondering if theres a way to exclude categories that an author has not posted in.?

By: makis

makis — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:47:54 +0000

Hi Sarah,

You are seeing the default categories because the custom functions are only triggered when the “author” variable is set in the wordpress “loop”. In that case you get a custom menu only with the categories the author has posted in.

I believe you are looking for a different plugin that presents posts – I have a similar installed on this page called “Posts by author”
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/posts-by-author-plugin-for-wordpress/

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:34:52 +0000

Hey — I seem to have a problem here : This code doesn’t really seem to do anything differently than the regular, standard categories list. I am looking for a plugin for the sidebar that will only show up on post pages that has links to more posts by the author. Thoughts?

By: makis

makis — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:37:08 +0000

Ray, this is a menu enhancement for wordpress.

When you have more than one authors and you are viewing an authors page you get the menu populated only with items of that author.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:57:12 +0000

Is there an example of this plugin in use?

I’m having a hard time understanding what this does.

By: makis

makis — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:49:03 +0000

Hmm, really interesting.

Can we get some verification on this?

The query seems to have become quite complicated with the addition of the third column but if you’re right I will include it in a future release.

Thanks 10x

By: Bb

Bb — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:22:35 +0000

Thanks for this plugin. I found that the post counts were coming up incorrectly, though. I made a change in the code to compare $category to term_id instead of term_taxonomy_id:

$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->term_relationships AS t INNER JOIN $wpdb->posts AS tt INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy AS ttt ON t.object_id=tt.ID WHERE t.term_taxonomy_id=ttt.term_taxonomy_id AND ttt.term_id=$category AND tt.post_author=$author AND tt.post_type='post'";