Creating templates and lack of support

Hi, Dominic. I have asked this question many times but you never provide a workable answer. I am guessing it is a language issue. Can you get someone to translate it so you can understand it and answer it properly?

I have bought DesignWall. It is a very clever and useful theme. Like many other WP designers, I want to use custom templates so I can present content how I want to. This is very common with WordPress and what makes it so powerful.

As recommended by WordPress, I have created a child theme and added my own stylesheet (style.css) and also copied the blog template across to my child theme so I can modify both layout and content, while still allowing any of your theme updates to work.

My theme has a number of editors who write posts. They will want to log-in to see what comments these posts have received.

What I want to do specifically is give the author the ability to display their own posts when they login. To do this, I assume they will require a custom page template that uses a WP-Query to return their own posts only. I have called this template author-blog.

However, I can’t seem to be able to create any custom templates that work. Every time I use an existing template and rename it, even though it appears in the WP editor, it will not return any content.

Can I ask why my templates don’t work as they should and what do I have to do to add a query to automatically show a logged-in user’s posts?

You advised me to create a custom field with a name of: query_args

And a value of: author=8&posts_per_page=5

That will not work at all and even if it did, I would have to manually add the author code by hand for each author.

I currently have a page set up using my custom template. I have changed no page code, apart from the template name, but it doesn’t work. Here it is: http://www.wall4wishes.com/world-of-wishes/my-wishes

As you can see, it is returning no content as it is not automatically calling the author’s content.

In summary, what I want is a page that returns the same content that displays when you click the author name on a post.

Thanks for your help!