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Problem:
How to add a Custom Filter by Author in Views?
Solution:
Toolset Post Views cannot have Custom Filters for Post authors.
Only Query Filters are allowed on this parameter.
To Create a Custom Filter where the user can choose from the front end the Author of a Post so to filter the list by this value, you need to create a Custom Field or taxonomy and update your Posts with this new values.
As an example you could create a Custom Field (single line text field) where the author name can be entered on each post.
Then, by this, you can have a Custom Front-end Filter.
There is a request filed to allow the Front End searching by Authors, but this is not implemented yet.
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Last updated by Beda 6 years, 2 months ago.
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I am trying to create a filter that lets users filer blog posts by Author. I want to use the inbuilt Post Author taxonomy in WordPress. It does not seem straightforward. I have successfully created a Categories filter on this page:
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You can see I have tried to create a Authors filer but it does not pull the Authors names into the filter.
[wpv-sort-orderby type="select" options="post_author" label_for_post_author="Post author" orderby_descending_for="post_author"]
This works:
<div class="form-group">
<label>[wpml-string context="wpv-views"]Categories[/wpml-string]</label>
[wpv-control-post-taxonomy taxonomy="category" type="select" default_label="All Categories" url_param="wpv-category"]
</div>
But when I try to create a similat filer using the tags available in Views, it only shows Categories and Tags (Attached)
