Comments on: How to Display an Author List with Avatars in WordPress Contributors Page

By: Angel Del Rosario

Angel Del Rosario — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:53:18 +0000

Hello, I thought the one that will appear is the author’s uploaded photo using the user-photo plugin but what is showing is their gravatar.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:16:46 +0000

Love this tut. Exactly the type of function I am looking for.

Quick question.

Do you have an easy way to display the latest post authored by each author and have that be hyperlinked?

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:05:06 +0000

This is awesome! Thanks.

How do you set a maximum number of authors to show? This site has 10+ writers but in a particular area we only want to show 6.

Thanks in advance!

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:33:26 +0000

You would call the function in your sidebar.php file. Change the order_by parameter to post count in descending order.

By: Kevin Cooper

Kevin Cooper — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:56:22 +0000

How can I create this to add to the sidebar and have a function where the author with the most recent post appears on top and the title of their recent blog post? Thanks for the help

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:54:47 +0000

Nevermind, found a solution with :

$authors = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT ID, user_nicename from $wpdb->users WHERE id IN (’3′,’5′,’6′) ORDER BY user_login”);

If anyone has pointers for ordering the authors by last post date, that’s my ideal use.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:05:44 +0000

Hi, great tutorial! Thank you. I’m using this on one blog of a WPMU/BP installation so I can’t restrict the list by user role without getting other blog authors/admins listed. Is there a way to restrict by blog_ID? I’m searching around, but I’m not sure what to use.

I thought it’d be something where the (“SELECT ID, user_nicename from $wpdb->users WHERE display_name ‘admin’ ORDER BY display_name”) should be changed to something like “WHERE blog_id = ’4′…” but that didn’t work. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

By: Charly

Charly — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:48:24 +0000

I got it working!! Great code!
But i cant filter the list by user role (admin, subscriptor, editor, etc..) and filter the amount of user displayed.

Someone could? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:34:04 +0000

Yes exactly right. You replace the function you don’t want and add the function that you want.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates

Use the above link as a guide.

By: Arron Davies

Arron Davies — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:16:27 +0000

sorry me again, I’m assuming its adding the function and removing another.