MySQL order by before group by

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Answer 1

Try this one. Just get the list of latest post dates from each author. Thats it

SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts WHERE wp_posts.post_status='publish'
AND wp_posts.post_type='post' AND wp_posts.post_date IN(SELECT MAX(wp_posts.post_date) FROM wp_posts GROUP BY wp_posts.post_author)