trois

Battling with PhP myself, I managed to get a list of all posts by the selected author (in the footer of a post) – however, the loop messes up the structure of the page – working on that, but here is what works:

1) – find/select current author

<?php
	global $wp_query;
	$curauth = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
?>

2) – Select pages of that author – leave the ‘only pages’ line out if you want posts (or change it into ‘post’). Put this before The Loop.

<?php
         $args = array(
	         'post_type' => 'page',              // Only Pages
	         'author' => $curauth->ID
                 );
       query_posts($args);
  ?>

3) This is The Loop – I only want links there (no dates etc.)

<ul>
<!-- The Loop -->

    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="" title=" <?php the_title(); ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?></a>
        </li>

    <?php endwhile; else: ?>
        <p><?php _e('No posts by this author.'); ?></p>

    <?php endif; ?>

<!-- End Loop -->

    </ul>

It’s very basic, but it took me ages to get it to work for pages – and somehow, it now creates some extra sections for each page listed – destroying the layout – but at least the list is there…

HTH

Thanks Tyler – any suggestions?

(tried to visit your site, but…. “There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file…”)

Yep – I’m looking for something similar:

– A widget (not a plug in) – so it can be placed in sidebar via widget interface (under Presentation);
– images to be pulled from image-folder – I now have thumbs (.png) in my portfolio-posts – thumbs are screenshot of the websites we made – click on the thumb and a larger version (.jpg) opens
– the rotator just displays the thumbs (.png) – by clicking on the image, the post opens

So, what is needed in the settings:
– path to the image folder
– extension of the images (.png in my case) – or perhaps some wildcard (all my thumbs are preceded by ‘th-‘)
– a list will be populated with all found images in that folder
– next to each image you enter the postname\path\id – I only need posts of my ‘portfolio’-category, so maybe you can display just those posts, so that you can link them to a thumb? (actually, as each post contains the thumb itself, a smart programmer should be able to derive it – but, I will be more than happy to do it myself)
– maybe some size and speed settings – random or not etc.

I tried Piclens, but it comes with some drawbacks:
– images are resized (as they are derived from posts, degrading the pic-qualtiy) – and not using the high quality thumbs that I created;
– ugly border;
– not all images are displayed (probably because it looks at the current page with posts – not at all posts in a category);

Any suggestions? Or is there someone out there, smarter than me, that can make this? I just want that thing – you get the credits, you can do with it whatever you want.