One recent post per author

Review this: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/78117/query-to-return-maximum-of-one-post-per-author

Tara, the link provides an interesting code but then posts are ordered by author (alphabetically). Would it be possible to order them by date instead?

It tried ‘orderby’ => ‘date’ but it doesn’t work…

Any idea how to do that? Thanks!

try:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts#Orderby_Parameters

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts

Tara, it doesn’t work. I tried all kind of order.

It doesn’t work because the filter is only on user name / author, so any other order you specify won’t work.

But if you tried to modify it using some info from the links you provide, please share the working results ??

Any idea?

If I want 5 posts by author, even if I change: post_per_page 5, I still only get 1 post per author…

I’m stuck!

If it’s not possible to get more post per author, would it be at least possible to get the excerpt of the post?

Here is the code:

// function located in the theme's functions.php
function wpse_78117_print_authors_last_post()
{
    $user_ids = array( '1', '2' );
    foreach( $user_ids as $user )
    {
        $args = array(
                'post_type'     => 'post',
                'numberposts'   => 1,
                'author'        => $user
            ); 

        // as we are getting only 1 post, extract it from the returned array
        $user_post = array_shift( get_posts( $args ) );

        // similar
        $nick = array_shift( get_user_meta( $user, 'nickname' ) );

        // custom output, $user_post contains all the post normal data
        echo $user_post->post_title . ', by: ' . $nick;
    }
}

Thanks!