Show entries by author

Question

is there a simple out of the box approach to showing entries created by their author? EG: after an article I want to list a credit like so:

"article by AUTHOR"

and allow a click through from the AUTHOR link to a template featuring just that author's entries…

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can include the author's name and a link using the author and author_id variables. For example:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog"}
    <h2>{title}</h2>
    {body}
    <p>Posted by <a href="/blog/author/{author_id}">{author}</a></p>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Then, at its most basic, create a template to display posts filtered by author (the template used in the example above is blog.group/author.html). In that template, filter the Channel entries with the author_id parameter.

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" author_id="{segment_3}"}
    {if count == "1"}
        <h1>All Posts by {author}</h1>
        <ul>
    {/if}

    <li>{title}</li>

    {if count == total_results}
        </ul>
    {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Answer 2

BTW at least with EE2 it's important to include the parameter dynamic="off" to make this work. Example:

{exp:channel:entries channel="features" author_id="{segment_3}" dynamic="off" }