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Latest posts by current author widget plugin for Wordpress 3+

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Displays latest posts by current author (place it within the loop). Adapted from code from [here](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-related-posts-by-same-author-in-wordpress/) and a tutorial [here](http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-wordpress-widgets/)

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  1. <?php
  2. /*
  3. Plugin Name: Latest posts by current author
  4. Plugin URI: http://podojdi.ru/
  5. Description: Displays latest posts by current author (place it within the loop). Adapted from code from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-related-posts-by-same-author-in-wordpress/">here</a> and a <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-wordpress-widgets/" target="_blank">tutorial here</a>
  6. Author: Alexander Belyaev
  7. Version: 1.0
  8. Author URI: http://podojdi.ru/
  9. */
  10.  
  11.  
  12. class LatestByAuthorWidget extends WP_Widget
  13. {
  14.   function LatestByAuthorWidget()
  15.   {
  16.     $widget_ops = array('classname' => 'LatestByAuthorWidget', 'description' => 'Displays latest posts by current author' );
  17.     $this->WP_Widget('LatestByAuthorWidget', 'Latest posts by current author', $widget_ops);
  18.   }
  19.  
  20.   function form($instance)
  21.   {
  22.     $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 'title' => '' ) );
  23.     $title = $instance['title'];
  24. ?>
  25.   <p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>">Title: <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo attribute_escape($title); ?>" /></label></p>
  26. <?php
  27.   }
  28.  
  29.   function update($new_instance, $old_instance)
  30.   {
  31.     $instance = $old_instance;
  32.     $instance['title'] = $new_instance['title'];
  33.     return $instance;
  34.   }
  35.  
  36.   function widget($args, $instance)
  37.   {
  38.     extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
  39.  
  40.     echo $before_widget;
  41.     $title = empty($instance['title']) ? ' ' : apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
  42.  
  43.     if (!empty($title))
  44.       echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
  45.  
  46.     // WIDGET CODE GOES HERE
  47.  
  48.  
  49.  
  50.     global $authordata, $post;
  51.  
  52.     $authors_posts = get_posts( array( 'author' => $authordata->ID, 'post__not_in' => array( $post->ID ), 'posts_per_page' => 7 ) );
  53. 	if ($authors_posts) {
  54.     $output = '<ul>';
  55.     foreach ( $authors_posts as $authors_post ) {
  56.         $output .= '<li><a href="' . get_permalink( $authors_post->ID ) . '">' . apply_filters( 'the_title', $authors_post->post_title, $authors_post->ID ) . '</a></li>';
  57.     }
  58.     $output .= '</ul>';
  59.     echo $output;
  60. 	}
  61. 	else {echo '<div class="notice">L\'autore ha ancora pubblicato solo questo post.</div>';};
  62.  
  63.  
  64.     echo $after_widget;
  65.   }
  66.  
  67. }
  68. add_action( 'widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("LatestByAuthorWidget");') );?>

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