How can I filter entries via relationship field? Is Playa the answer?

Question

Here's what I am trying to accomplish in EE 2.5.5. I have 2 channels; blog article and author. The author channel is pulled in via Relationship Field in the blog article channel. I then have the blog pages which correctly display the authors name and link out the the authors profile page, no issues. The issue is that I cannot figure out how to display only that author's blog posts on the authors profile page. In other words I cannot figure a way to filter the list of blog articles by the author relationship field per each authors bio page.

Is there a way to filter relationship fields by the channel entries search parameter? Can I do this with reverse related entries? Can I do this easily with the Playa addon?

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Edit - here's the code I'm currently using, currently this displays "Some articles: John Doe":

{exp:channel:entries channel="authors" limit="1" dynamic="no"}

{reverse_related_entries channel="blog" orderby="entry_date" sort="desc" limit="100"}

{if no_reverse_related_entries} No Articles {/if}

Some articles:

{article_title}
{article_header_image}
{article_content}
{title}

{/reverse_related_entries}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Answer 1

Reverse Related entries from the Author channel back to the blog articles channel should work. But, since EE 2.6, the {reverse_related_entries} tag has been replaced with the new Relationships field -- so you'll need to download the older EE 2.5 documentation to see the official examples.

But, basically the reverse related entries syntax, which goes inside your {exp:channel:entries channel="author"} tag in the authors template, would look something like this:

{reverse_related_entries channel="blog_article" orderby="entry_date" sort="desc" limit="100"}
   {if no_reverse_related_entries}
     No Articles
   {/if}
   {title} {!-- this will be the blog article title; add other blog fields here --}
{/reverse_related_entries}