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About Author Posts

Display beautiful Author Posts that showcase addition posts by your Authors.

Settings

There are a lot of different settings available for you to customize how Author Posts are displayed.

  • Number of Posts
  • Sort and Order posts
  • Author Layout
  • Show Author Biography
  • Author Avatar size and shape
  • Post Layout
  • Colors
  • Display Asynchronously for faster page loads

There are 10 different Post Layouts that you can display, you can see what these layouts look like at our demo site.

  • List
  • List with Excerpt
  • Thumbnail
  • Numbered List
  • Image Tiles
  • Image Flip
  • Grid
  • Slider
  • Fancy Colors
  • Colored Tabs

Featured Author

The Featured Author widget is great for showcasing a specific author on your site.  This widget will show all on all pages.

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Author Posts

The Author Posts widget will only show on single posts or pages and displays the current author’s other posts.  This is fantastic for keeping viewers on your site because it guides them to read more from their favorite author.

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Shortcode Builder

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All settings configured in either of the widgets can also be configured in our shortcode builder.  This is a great way for you to add Author Posts to any part of your site.

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Shortcode

You can display Author Posts anywhere on your site by using our shortcode [nnr_author_posts]. Here are some examples:

  • [nnr_author_posts title="Featured Posts" author="1" post_layout="grid"]
  • [nnr_author_posts title="" post_layout="list" num_posts="10"]
  • [nnr_author_posts title="" post_layout="slider" show_nav="true"]

Below is a table of all available options.

Name Description Default Value Options Example
title Title of the author posts section “Author Posts” Any text [nnr_author_posts title="Featured Posts"]
author Author ID to display posts from 0 Any valid user ID [nnr_author_posts author="1"]
orderby Sort posts by “ID” “ID”, “title”, “date”, “comment_count” [nnr_author_posts orderby="date"]
order Sort order “ASC” “ASC”, “DESC” [nnr_author_posts order="DESC"]
async Load posts asynchronously false true, false [nnr_author_posts async="true"]
num_posts Number of posts to display “5” “all” or number from 1-20 [nnr_author_posts num_posts="10"]
avatar_shape Shape of author avatars “rounded-square” “square”, “rounded-square”, “circle” [nnr_author_posts avatar_shape="circle"]
avatar_size Size of author avatars “large” “small”, “medium”, “large”, “full” [nnr_author_posts avatar_size="medium"]
author_layout Layout of author information “inline” “inline”, “stacked” [nnr_author_posts author_layout="stacked"]
author_description Show author biography false true, false [nnr_author_posts author_description="true"]
post_layout Display layout of posts “list” See Layout Options below [nnr_author_posts post_layout="grid"]
grid_size Size of grid items “medium” “small”, “medium”, “large” [nnr_author_posts grid_size="large"]
show_nav Show navigation arrows true true, false [nnr_author_posts show_nav="false"]
fancy_colors Custom colors for fancy layout “” Comma-separated hex colors [nnr_author_posts fancy_colors="#FF0000,#00FF00"]
color Background color “#ffffff” Any hex color [nnr_author_posts color="#333333"]
text_color Text color “#000000” Any hex color [nnr_author_posts text_color="#ffffff"]
style_override Override default styles false true, false [nnr_author_posts style_override="true"]
style_override Ocean Blue Deep cool color scheme color=”#0984e3″
text_color=”#ffffff”		 Any hex color [nnr_author_posts style_override="true" color="#0984e3" text_color="#ffffff"]
Mint Green style_override Fresh cool color scheme color=”#00b894″
text_color=”#2d3436″		 Any hex color [nnr_author_posts style_override="true" color="#00b894" text_color="#2d3436"]
Purple Haze style_override Rich cool color scheme color=”#6c5ce7″
text_color=”#ffffff”		 Any hex color [nnr_author_posts style_override="true" color="#6c5ce7" text_color="#ffffff"]
Material Blue style_override Material Design blue scheme color=”#2196F3″
text_color=”#ffffff”		 Any hex color [nnr_author_posts style_override="true" color="#2196F3" text_color="#ffffff"]