List Authors 1.1.1
November 24th, 2008
A sidebar widget to display a list of authors in your WordPress blog. Based off of List Authors Widget 1.0 by Mike Smullin. Improvements include a revised options screen (uses checkbox input fields instead of free text where appropriate) and the ability to include links to authors’ RSS feeds. If you find it useful, please leave a comment. Thanks!
The List Authors widget showing two authors along with links to their respective RSS feeds.
The List Authors plugin is hosted at wordpress.org. You can find the latest features list, installation instructions, and install file there.
Update: The project page for this widget now contains the latest info and changelog.
Hi,
Is it possible to upgrade List Authors widget to work with Wordpress 2.7. as well?
Best Regards
Hi Matej,
I have tested the List Authors widget and it works well with Wordpress 2.7. I will make sure to update the details to reflect that.
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Could you write this plugin with the option to sort authors by (1) post count or (2) in order of most recent post?
A query like this would order by most recent post. I’m OK with querying the db but not so much with php…
‘SELECT display_name, LEFT( MAX( post_date ) , 10 ) FROM wp_users JOIN (wp_posts) ON ( wp_users.ID = wp_posts.post_author ) GROUP BY display_name ORDER BY MAX( post_date ) DESC’
@Josh Nankivel
Hi Josh,
The Wordpress function that my plugin uses doesn’t allow any functionality beyond what it has already. If I have some free time I’ll consider writing my own function to allow author sorting.
Hi,
Nice widget. I have a quick question.
Is there anyway to manually insert the widget into the sidebar? I am not sure how to use both widgets and manual code at the same time.
This is probably a long shot, but the widget looked relatively simple so I thought Id ask.
Thanks.
I ended up just using a table to display what I needed. I think that is the best option because I am not sure I would of been able to setup the feedburner feeds.
Still a nice plugin, keep up the good work.
Hi, great plugin! Is there a way to get this plugin to work on a page instead of in a widget? I have a blog that will have many authors, and I thought it might be useful for that. I know how to enable PHP on pages. Thanks in advance.
@David Harrington
Hi David,
I think your best bet is to use the built-in function wp_list_authors directly on the page. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_authors for usage. My plugin makes use of that function, providing the code for using it as a widget but you could simply hardcode the options you like.
Interesting plugin, is it compatible with WP 2.8?
Thanks,
Gene
Answered my own question, tried it and seems to work well.
Nope, a few bugs in 2.8
@Gene
Hi Gene,
An update will be released in a couple of days with full compatibility with WP 2.8.
Thanks, just saw the updated version on WP.
Cheers,
Gene