How to get single post by one author?

Question

I just want to get the most latest posts by an author. I am using get_posts at the moment but I notice it doesn't take an author argument, so how I can I specify my author?

$args = array( 'numberposts' => '1');
$posts=get_posts( $args );
foreach($posts as $post)
{                           
    setup_postdata($post);
    //do stuff
}

Answer 1

$args = array( 'author' => 1, 'numberposts' => 1 ); The author parameter isn't documented on the get_posts() codex page, but it does work.

Answer 2

Quick google reveals http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Author_Parameters

Look at using wp_query() with author parameters and a limit of 1 post.

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