Authors WidgetAuthors Widget shows the list of the authors, with the number of posts, link to RSS feed next to their name. It is useful in a multi-author blog, where you want to have the list in the sidemenu.
Installation
- Download the latest version
- Upload `authors.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to ‘Appearance’ or ‘Presentation’ or ‘Design’ menu
- Go to ‘Widgets’ menu
- Drag & Drop the Authors Widget to the place you would like to display the authors’ list
- Optionally change the title
Screenshots
- This is how the sidemenu will look:
- Drag & Drop the widget to it’s place and change the title:
Hi Gavriel,
I wanted to know if there was shortcodes to insert your Authors Widget plugin in an article or php call to insert in code ?
Thank you in advance
You can see examples here and here.
Hi.. can you tell me where i have to modify to put RSS link AFTER the post count for each autors? Thanks! Great job with this plugin!
It’s in fixed order currently. You can only change it by editing the php. Search for “RSS”.
I cant get my author’s photos to show up…How do I do that?
Activate the Avatars. They’ll have to upload their images on gravatar.com
about excluding users from the list, i went to line 191 and changed to this:
$authors = $wpdb->get_results(‘SELECT ID, user_nicename FROM ‘ . $wpdb->users . ‘ WHERE ID NOT IN (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9) ORDER BY display_name’);
you see? the WHERE ID NOT IN part. it’s working fine here. could you add an option so we don’t need to change the code? it would be really cool.
Thanks for the idea. I added it (and even excluding by user_login), you can download v2.0
that was fast! thanks, man
hi,
is it possible to display a long list of nearly 50 authors in two columns?
best, g
Not with the plugin.
You can try this css:
.widget_authors li {display:inline-block;width:200px;}and you have to play with the width in order to fit it twice into the ul (maybe it needs to be less than half of it, because of margins, paddings). I tried it now and it works on my blog. This way the list will be ordered like this:A B
C D
or you can write a filter that cuts the list into two columns and print it like:
A C
B D
thanks for your answer! sorry, but i’m not very experienced with wordpress: where exactly I have to put this CSS in?
Thanks for that CSS tip, been researching the 2 column list technique and experts like ListApart take 5000 words to explain something, you just trot it off as an aside! Impressive.
great plugin, thx!
can you add limitation for List format?
and i can’t see Cloud format in widget options )-8 just List and Dropdown
You can set the “Number of authors to show”. In order to have the tag-cloud option you need to activate the SEO Tag Cloud Widget
thx alot for fixing
I’d really like a bit of code to leave more space in the author list, too. I’m using the Twenty-Ten Weaver theme and I can’t find the area in the CSS to style the lists.
There’s no special stlye for authors widget. You can add to your style.css something like:
.widget_authors li {margin-top:10px}
Hi Gavriel, thanks for the excellent plugin!
the “limit” or “number of authors to show” function is not working for me. I have over 10 authors and want to display the top 5.
I fixed this bug in version 1.9.1, please download it.
Thanks, just got the update and it works perfectly!
On the authors widget, is there a way to have line break between the avatars. As is they are stacked on each other.
You should be able to affect the look by css. On my site it looks OK, I guess there’s something in your theme’s css that changes the style either for
liorimgWow. You rock! Thanks Sir!