Passing and retrieving query vars in wordpress

I have two authors pages, one displays about 5 posts. Then I’m trying to setup another page that will be all of their posts. I have created a template called moreauthorposts.php and I’m trying to pass the author variable to this page. Problem is if i pass domain.com/more-author-posts?author=johndoe it gets stripped out. How can I retrieve this value? Is this even possible in wordpress? I know WP Rewrite is jacking my URL structure somehow I’m just not sure.

I’ve tried:

get_query_var('author')

and tried reading this but didn’t have any luck:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Query_Overview

Suggestions?

Thanks.

Answers:

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Method 1

I’m almost sure that author is built-in, so use something like author_more. You will need to add that var to query_vars first. Example:

// add `author_more` to query vars
add_filter( 'init', 'add_author_more_query_var' );
function add_author_more_query_var()
{
    global $wp;
    $wp->add_query_var( 'author_more' );
}

Then on your more-author-posts.php template call it like this:

if ( get_query_var( 'author_more' ) )
{
    // do your stuff
}

Update

This works in the following URl example/use case:

http://example.com/index.php?author_more=value

But if you want to use this as fancy URl, you need to add a rewrite rule:

add_action('init','add_author_more_rewrite_rule');
function add_author_more_rewrite_rule()
{
    add_rewrite_rule(
        'more-author-posts/(d*)$',
        'index.php?author_more=$matches[1]',
        'top'
    );
}

Now you can use it like this

http://example.com/more-author-posts/value

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