Comments on: 5 Fantastic WordPress Plugins You May Not Know About

By: John Samuel

John Samuel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:40:01 +0000

I have used WP greet box for some time. I've to try Login Lockdown .-= John Samuel ´s last blog ..Create a Free Logo for your Website =-.

By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:00:08 +0000

Those are two good plugins. The interesting thing is that both are invisible to readers, but are invaluable behind the scenes.

By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:25:29 +0000

I have Role Manager and it helps a lot as I can decide what others can do or not and I can create new ones. I also have Login Lockdown, it helps me out a lot for those who try their luck in trying to crack my blog. .-= George Serradinho´s last blog ..eBooks – 4 Exciting Free Downloads =-.

By: Octávio Sá

Octávio Sá — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:24:53 +0000

thanks kosmo, I will try to build some author's page/profile, and will keep you updated, with what I came up. .-= Octávio Sá´s last blog ..Pixar – Lifted =-.

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:03:53 +0000

erg. it keeps eating the code. Maybe this will work. If not, just shoot me an email at kosmo@observingcasually.com if you want the code snippets.

list of author’s posts:

author info appended to bottom:

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:58:57 +0000

Hmm. I think WordPress ate my PHP code snippet:

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Remove the quotes, of course.

You can also do quite a lot with some of the other functions related to author. For example, I append a bio to the end of each article via:

“”

The WordPress codex goes into more detail:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta

I have about a dozen people who write for my sites (some more frequently than others) so these tools are great to have.
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By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:22:45 +0000

Yes, I stumbled upon this a while back, figuring WordPress had to have something like it built in. I found that if, for example, you go to http://www.40tech.com/author/evan-kline/ . Obviously, you would need to plug in your site name, and replace my name with the author’s name, but WordPress will then automatically display a list of that author’s posts.

By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:00 +0000

Ah, I like that one Kosmo, thanks! I had used it on my personal site for a while, to just put the most recent post, and nothing else, on my front page. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in this site, I forget to see what I’m using on a couple of other non-public WordPress sites I have.

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:44:26 +0000

Another one that I forgot (and hadn’t rated in the earlier article, because I hadn’t found it yet) is “different posts per page”. This allows you to show a differening number of articles for the main page, search results, tag page, etc. I show 4 full articles on my main page, but I show as many as 10 excerpts on my other pages.

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:35:16 +0000

You can easily link to all posts by a specific author by simply adding this PHP code to the Wordpress template: In order to add author page like Evan has, you could have each person create their own page with a page title that corresponds to their username and then contruct the URL automatically by appending the username to a base URL. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your requirements. .-= Kosmo @ The Casual Observer´s last blog ..Reflections from a Ledge =-.