See CPT posts on admin’s users menu

Are you referring to the user list table when viewing say /wp-admin/users.php in your WP Admin panel?

In addition to that, I also would like to load CPT posts when users are selected from the front-end menu.

For this part, are you referring to each author’s archive permalink? For example, https://mysite.com/author/keith/ and you have 3 posts in the “post” post type, and 2 in say “movies” post type. Just show them all in post published order?

Assuming yes for the first part, we don’t have any code for that in the core plugin, but it looks like it’d be pretty straightforward with the stackoverflow answer at https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/3235/1006

You can even download the full code ready to use at https://gist.github.com/mikeschinkel/643240 looks largely readymade but may need some extra post types exclusions as the internal post type list has grown considerably in 14 years.

@tw2113 yes and yes. the first one seems to be resolved by the code snippet and the php file you linked. i will do the mod for my own cpt.

what about the second part? is there a solution for the integrated author archive page?

I’d check out the code at https://docs.pluginize.com/article/post-types-in-category-tag-archives/ but instead of using is_category() or is_tag(), use is_author() https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/is_author/

Thanks bunch!.

The pluginize’s code snippet worked smoothly. I can now see posts by author from the front-end.

The issues on users.php is not still completely resolved that your team may put some effort on it later. I can now see number of CPTs assigned by each author on /admin/users.php, but I no longer can click the number to be directed to admin view for all posts assigned to the author.

Not sure on that last part about why the links aren’t going where you’re expecting. It kind of sounds like you want an admin version of the “all posts” listing? as opposed to maybe just a list of “post” post type items filtered down to just your user? For example if your user ID was 3, and you visited /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post&author=3 ?

I can’t say we get a ton of requests for that functionality, so I’m not sure we’d want to put a lot of effort into building that into the core plugin. I’m not against the idea of documentation/tutorials though for those who do want that type of thing. Especially if we can verify googled results still work with modern WP.

your second guess is right about my intention. after applying the code snippet, I can see a list of post types for each user, but the number of post is not clickable anymore. If clickable, I guess I can see the author’s posts in that particular custom post type’s edit.php. It’s like I got one (counts for more than ordinary post), but I lose another (clickability).

I have tried to make it clickable, but I guess I need to learn more about WP’s internal structure. If there is an easy code snippet, plz share me. Otherwise, I don’t mind you putting this request at the bottom of your to do list.

Again, thank you so much for your help.

I assume you’d be able to use the post type, and get_current_user_id() to manually construct links with the output, while filling in the values for this:

admin_url( 'edit.php?post_type=THE_POST_TYPE&author=THE_CURRENT_USER_ID' )