This Wordpress plugin is an amalgam of two other plugins, WP-Authors and Recent Posts. It shows a list of authors with options to show their total number of posts, and their most recent posts.
Installation is pretty straight forward: Make sure your theme is widget-ready, upload “recent-by-author.php” to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory, activate in Plugins menu, and the add it to your sidebar in Design>Widgets menu
Here is the admin box:

Title: - Like most widgets, there is an option for a custom title.
Show post counts – Shows the total post count next to the authors name.
Number of recent posts to show: – When greater than 0, a sublist is displayed under an author’s name with up to the set number of posts.
Show full names – Displays the authors first and last name instead of their chosen public name.
Hide empty authors – If an author has no posts, then they are not shown in the sidebar.
Exclude admin – Hides the admin from being shown in the sidebar.














hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
best regards
How do I make it show only the users that are tagged as authors, If I make it Show Empty Authors, it shows subscribers also?
Bryan – I just added a new version (1.1.0) to which should solve this problem.
Good plugin!
Is it possible to select the number of users to show?
Better is it possible to select the number of users that have posted more post to show?
e.g. the “best” five!
The five users that have posted more posts in decrescent order.
Thanks a lot!
Fabrizio
It’s really great plagin , big thanks from Russia )