Thank you soooooo much

Thanks!

It did work without problems in previous WordPress versions.

Josh: Assuming you are using a recent version of WP, replace the last instances of this line in the script:

{$exclude_check}

With this:

 AND ( {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_id == 10 
OR {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_id == 20 
OR {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_id == 30 )

Where 10, 20, and 30 are the categories you want to include, etc..

Alan: Should be. Just modify this line so it assigns the user ID of the logged in user:

$c_author_id = $post->post_author;

I do not recall the variable for it off hand, but it is in the WP documentation.

Others

The plugin will not work outside the loop, because the ID of the current author only exists within the loop. Outside the loop, WP does not ‘know’ who the author of the page being viewed is. There are methods to allow this to happen, but the plugin does not currently support this feature.

Is it possible to alter the plugin so it displays the latest posts from the currently logged in user?

I would like to add this to my sidebar.

Thanks!!

How do I rename the text file as php, please?

great concept…loved it!

~cheers

Help pls.

Thanks!

I may need to hardcode it in the index page. Any help?

Since I use also a similar posts plugin and wanted to show other author’s posts below I had to turn “Show at the bottom of every post” off and did include it in my single.php template:

<!-- START: show last posts from author -->
<?php echo ddpa_show_posts(); ?>
<!-- END: show last posts from author -->

Sorry again.

I have modified the plugin so that it displays the excerpt from the posts rather than the name, but it works the same none the less.

One question though:

Is there some type of built in Cache for this plugin? The reason I ask is that I made a bunch of test posts today and they are still not showing up in the listing. I have the number of posts to show set at 10 but it is still only showing 2 posts. This is happening regardless of if I use the original plugin files or the one I modified.

Ive played with all relevant plugin settings but have come up with nothing. Ive even tried de-activating it but that does nothing as well.

Any ideas?

This version has been tested in the latest release of WordPress (2.7.1)

Several people commented that the category exclusion feature was not working. It was, but not in the way some people may have intended.

The category exclusion option simply prevented posts in particular categories from being added to the list of posts by author. It did not effect *where* the list would be shown.

A new option has been added so that you can also exclude certain category IDs from showing the list at all. Enjoy!