[Custom Function] Get Posts by Author ID

Banhawi — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:13:19 +0000

If you are trying to get posts for a certain author/user , unfortunately there is no function offered by wordpress to do this so i wrote this function to help you do this

function get_posts_by_author($id,$num) {
	global $wpdb;
	$posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_author = $id LIMIT 0,$num", ARRAY_A);
	return $posts;
}

this function takes two parameters
$id which is author id
$num which is number of posts you want to query

and it returns your posts in an array , so for example if you want to get the title of the first returned post you have to write this

$posts[0]['post_title']

[Custom Function] Get Category Link by Name

Banhawi — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:30:34 +0000

I was working on a theme and i faced that problem , i wanted to get dynamically the category link using category names and there’s no function in wordpress to do that , so i’ve wrote a simple function that does what i need .
I’ve used get_cat_ID function to get category id using name , then get_category_link function to get category link using category id , very simple .

function get_category_link_byname($name) {
	$id = get_cat_ID($name);
	$link = get_category_link( $id );
	echo $link;
}

use this function as follows ,

and that’s it , hope you find it useful .

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[Custom Function] Get Posts by Author ID

[Custom Function] Get Category Link by Name