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How to List All Authors From Your Blog in WordPress

Last updated on June 21st, 2012 by Editorial Staff
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How to List All Authors From Your Blog in WordPress

In Multi-Author blogs, it is great to list all authors, so the reader knows who is behind the site. We have written a guide with 21 Great Plugins to Manage a Multi-Author WordPress Blog Efficiently. In this tutorial we show you a manual code that you can use to list all authors from your blog.

You need to place the following code where you want to display this list:

<ul>
<?php wp_list_authors('exclude_admin=0&optioncount=1&show_fullname=1&hide_empty=1'); ?>
</ul>

That will display the list. Now here are some parameters so you can adjust and tweak the code to your needs.

  • exclude_admin: 0 (include the admin’s name in the authors list) / 1 (exclude the admin’s name from the list)
  • optioncount : 0 (No post count against the author’s name) / 1 (display post count against the author’s name)
  • show_fullname : 0 (display first name only) / 1 (display full name of the author)
  • hide_empty : 0 (display authors with no posts) / 1 (display authors who have one or more posts)

The plugin called List Authors Widget does this for you, but if you want to do it manually above is the way you can do it.

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  1. takaitra says:
    Jul 18, 2011 at 9:07 am

    Another good list authors widget, with more features: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-authors/

    I’ll look into adding an option to show avatars.

    Reply
  2. Gagan says:
    Dec 7, 2009 at 7:39 am

    Thanks alot..

    Reply
  3. Gagan says:
    Nov 17, 2009 at 5:34 am

    I’ve have a question, how to show top 10 contributors ?

    Reply
    • Editorial Staff says:
      Nov 18, 2009 at 4:50 pm

      With this plugin, don’t know if there is a way that exist, but there are other ways that exist. We will do a write up on that.

      Reply
  4. Fonda says:
    Nov 2, 2009 at 8:03 am

    Hello!

    How can you add gravatar and descriptions?

    Thanks!!!

    Reply
    • Editorial Staff says:
      Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 am

      What do you mean by descriptions? To add gravatar, you would simply have to add the code for author email in the gravatar code.

      Reply
      • James Duffell says:
        May 5, 2010 at 2:33 pm

        The description is referred to as “Biographical Info” within the users profile

        Reply
      • Anton Trollbäck says:
        May 6, 2010 at 4:54 am

        Hi! Thanks for this great little plugin. But I would also like it to show gravatars. I don’t really understand “add the code for author email in the gravatar code.”
        Do you mind explaining? :)

        Thanks,
        Anton

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        • Editorial Staff says:
          May 6, 2010 at 8:06 am

          Yes, please view our already written article on (how to display author list with avatars)

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