[ludachris]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Two, you can write a series of plugins to keep track of the post count in a new field you would need to create in the user table. Then you can grab that field when you do the query for posts and it won't add any queries to the page. This method is probably preferable since you won't be adding so many queries per page, but it will take more effort on your part to write.

When you say "series of plugins", why couldn't it just be one plugin? Would you add a function in the post function where it updates the post counter updating the second (and possibly 3rd, 4th, post count) field?