• A dropdown category list
• A dropdown page list
• An out-of-the-box breadcrumb
• 4 widget areas in the sidebar
• Author Comment highlighting
• Built-in recent post and recent comment display

Screenshot

Live Previev of the Theme

Download

Download the latest version of ClockWorkMint here

Version history

• v1.0.5
• Fixed a possible misuse of the breadcrumb

The theme series will consist of 3 themes.  A quick preview of the first theme in the series is already online - just look at the current theme of Clockworkblogger.com.

• A built-in Breadcrumb (appears only on pages other than the home page)
• 4 widget areas in the sidebar
• Author Comment highlighting

Screenshot

Live Previev of the Theme

Download

Download the latest version of ClockWorkAir here

• v1.1.2
• Fixed a possible misuse of the breadcrumb

• Out-of-the-box Social media icons
• A built in Breadcrumb
• 4 widget areas in the sidebar
• Author Comment highlighting
• Comment numbering
• ready-to-use subscribe to comments

Screenshot

Live Previev of the Theme

Download

Download the latest version of ClockWorkMint here

Version history

• v1.2.2
• Fixed a possible misuse of the breadcrumb
• v1.2.0
• Added a theme options panel under Design » ClockWorkMint Options
• header image is now changed in Design » ClockWorkMint Options
• Removed the breadcrumb from index page, it still shows on other pages
• fixed pre tags displaying across the page

• An out-of-the-box Breadcrumb
• 4 widget areas in the sidebar
• Author Comment highlighting
• Built-in subscribe to comments

Screenshot

Live Previev of the Theme

Download

Download the latest version of ClockWorkSimple here

Version history

• v1.3.1
• Fixed a possible misuse of the breadcrumb
• v1.3.0
• .po file for translation included
• fixed bug where the comment bubble would not link properly
• fixed pre tags displaying across the page
• moved shown tags below post content

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v1.8 changes

• Limit the number of posts to display - you can now choose to limit how many posts are displayed by the plugin. To do so use the “limitx” argument in the call eg. to show only five posts you would use: 
  

  <ul><?php sobeks_posts_in_category(‘limit5′,3,4,5,6); ?></ul>

v1.7 changes

• Display the list as ordered, unordered or copmma-separated list - apart from sorting by title or date you can now sort the list by number of comments i.e. the more comments a post has, the earlier it is displayed in the list. Usage:
  

  <?php sobeks_posts_in_category(’orderlist’,4,5,6); ?>

  <?php sobeks_posts_in_category(’unorderlist’,4,5,6); ?>

  <?php sobeks_posts_in_category(’commalist’,4,5,6); ?>

  PS. If you use the ‘orderlist’ or ‘unorderlist’ arguments you do not need to add any <ol> … </ol> or <ul> … </ul> tags around the function call, they are already built in and can be styled using the sobeks_pic class.

Roadmap

We’re slowly arriving at a final release. When announced, further development will be continued as Sobek’s Posts in Category Deluxe version.

“Can do” statements

• Can display the posts and pages written by one or more authors as joint or seperate lists
• Can sort the output by post title, date or number of comments
• Can display the number of posts that were listed in one call and the number of comments for each post
• Can be called multiple times in a single page or post

Requirements

• Wordpress 2.3 or above
• PHP Exec plugin or similar to be able to make php calls within pages or posts

Download

• Download the latest version

Version history

• v1.0.1 (November 14th, 2007) - fixed bug that would dispaly all posts instead of those by the selected author(s)
• v1.0 (October 31st, 2007) - basic working version

Installation

1. unzip downloaded file
2. upload sobeks_posts_by_author.php to your “wp-content/plugins” folder
3. enable the plugin on the “Plugins” tab in your administration area

Basic usage

1. enter
   

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(xyz) ; ?>

   anywhere on your page you want the list of posts to be displayed

2. replace “xyz” with the ID of the author whose posts you want to display eg.
   

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3) ; ?>

   to list the posts of more than one author as one list replace xyz with a comma separated list of author IDs eg.

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3,1,5) ; ?>

3. enclose the function call with “<ul>” and “</ul>” eg.
   

   <ul><?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3,1,5) ; ?></ul>

4. Repeat steps 1-3 for as many seperate author listings as you need

Advanced usage

Sobek`s Posts by Author plugin currently supports the following tags. If you choose not to use them, a built-in default value will be used in their place (i.e. nothing will break):

1. “title” / “date” / “commentsort” - sorts the output by title, date or number of comments. Defaults to “title” eg.
   

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3,1) ; ?>

   will produce the same result as

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(‘title’,3,1) ; ?>

   whereas this call will produce the same list of posts sorted by date:

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(‘date’,3,1) ; ?>

   and this call yet again the same posts, this time sorted by “most commented”:

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(‘commentsort’,3,1) ; ?>

2. “count” / “nocount” - hides or shows the number of posts displayed in one call. If shown the “number of posts” information is the first item of the list displayed. Defaults to “nocount” eg.
   

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3,1) ; ?>

   will produce the same result as

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(‘nocount’,‘title’,3,1) ; ?>

   whereas this call will produce the same list with the first list item being an information about how many posts are displayed:

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(‘count’,3,1) ; ?>

3. “comments” / “nocomments” - hides or shows the number of comments to a post. Defaults to “nocomments” eg.
   

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3,1) ; ?>

   will produce the same result as

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(‘nocomments’,‘title’,3,1) ; ?>

   whereas this will display the same list with the number of comments shown i brackets after the link to a post:

   <?php sobeks_posts_by_author(‘comments’,3,1) ; ?>

Examples

• The sitemap of this page here (scroll down to the heading “Łukasz Sobek”, the posts are ordered by date)

CSS Styling

To style the output of the list just assign a class or ID to the “<ul>” tag eg.

<ul class=”helpful”><?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3,1) ; ?></ul>

and modify your wordpress css file to style the entries of the list.

PS. If you want an ordered list, you my want to enclose the call within <ol> tags eg.

<ol><?php sobeks_posts_by_author(3,1) ; ?></ol>

Related plugins

• Wp-authors provides an “Authors” widget in the sidebar, useful for identifying all the different authors in a multi-author blog.
• Authornotify is a wordpress plugin to show a message box in all the posts by a particular author.

Worth reading

• Using Author Template Tags Outside of the WordPress Loop by Lorelle
• How-to style WordPress author comments by Derek

<?php sobeks_posts_in_category(’date’,’count’,’comments’,3,4,5,6); ?>

will produce the same result as

<?php sobeks_posts_in_category(3,’count’,4,5,’date’,6,’comments’); ?>

The comment argument will produce the number of comments e.g. “(438)” after the link to a post. If you omit the ‘comments’ argument e.g.

<?php sobeks_posts_in_category(’date’,3,4,5,6); ?>

or supply the ‘nocomments’ argument instead eg.

<?php sobeks_posts_in_category(’date’,’nocomments’,3,4,5,6); ?>

the number of replies will not be counted. I’m working hard on a new theme for the site and have not yet come to update the tutorial. Will be fixed in a few days :)