Expression Engine SQL Query help - latest posts by author [duplicate]

Answer 1

The best approach here, since you need your custom fields parsed, is to first find the entry_ids of the latest 4 entries from distinct authors, and then pass those to the channel:entries tag through an embed using the entry_id parameter.

This should work (be sure to replace the channel_id with the appropriate integer):

{embed="embeds/_latest_per_member" entry_ids="{exp:query sql="SELECT entry_id, author_id FROM exp_channel_titles WHERE entry_date IN( SELECT MAX(entry_date) FROM exp_channel_titles  WHERE status != 'closed' AND channel_id = 1 GROUP BY author_id ) ORDER BY entry_date DESC LIMIT 4" backspace="1"}{entry_id}|{/exp:query}"}

Then your embeds/_latest_per_member template can look something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="channel_name" entry_id="{embed:entry_ids}"}
    {author_id}<br />
    <a href="{path=portfolios/gallery/{username}}"><img src="{thumbnail}"></a><br>
    <a href="{path=portfolios/gallery/{username}}">{title}</a><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}