list author's posts in author.php

Question

I want to list 10 last posts of author in author.php template. I used this code:

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile;?>

But I can see only the last post of current author. Any help?

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to simply add:

global $query_string;
query_posts( $query_string . '&posts_per_page=-1' );

just before your code so you get :

<?php
global $query_string;
query_posts( $query_string . '&posts_per_page=-1' );
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
     <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile;?>

Answer 2

Rather than clutter your author template, invoke a second query, and use query_posts ( avoid query_posts ), instead use this filter on pre_get_posts instead:

function wpse_show_all_authors($query){
    // if it's an author query
    if($query->is_author()){
        // put all the posts on page 1
        $query->set('posts_per_page',-1);
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','wpse_show_all_authors');

Put it in functions.php and it will work its magic on any and all author templates you have, without needing to modify author.php or execute 2 DB queries instead of 1.