I have an author page, i want to list post from current author's categories.
e.g. Im viewing John's page, and John did write Sport, Tech, News, Computer category
Then my code list from this(Sport, Tech, News, Computer) categories list random 10 post.
Regards
My code
<?php global $post, $wpdb;
$author_id = $post->post_author;
$categories = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT DISTINCT(terms.term_id) as ID, terms.name, terms.slug
FROM $wpdb->posts as posts
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships as relationships ON posts.ID = relationships.object_ID
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy as tax ON relationships.term_taxonomy_id = tax.term_taxonomy_id
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->terms as terms ON tax.term_id = terms.term_id
WHERE 1=1 AND (
posts.post_status = 'publish' AND
posts.post_author = '$author_id' AND
tax.taxonomy = 'category' )
ORDER BY terms.name ASC
");
foreach($categories as $category) :
$catnumber = $category->ID.',';
endforeach;?>
<?php
$args = array(
'category__and' => array( $catnumber )
, 'showposts'=> '10'
);
$my_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<ul>
<?php while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<ul>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>