Displays an unordered list of an author's latest posts.
As of April 2026, Latest Posts by Author is a WordPress posts plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of links to a specific author’s latest posts (or a list of multiple authors). It can be called either with a shortcode or from within a theme file.
To call it with a shortcode, use [latestbyauthor author="username" show="3"] where “username” is the login name of the author (or a comma separated list of multiple authors) and “3” is the number of posts to display. If you don’t specify an author or a display number, it will show the latest 5 posts from the author of the current page. If you want it to display the post excerpt as well, you can use the following code: [latestbyauthor author="username" show="3" excerpt="true"] This will only show exerpts that you have entered manually.
To call it from within…
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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