List Authors
A widget to display a list of authors in your WordPress blog. Includes widget options to configure the features mentioned below. Completely updated to use the new widget API and is multi-widget enabled. Fully XHTML compliant.
Screenshots
The List Authors widget showing the optional RSS feeds.
List Authors Configuration
Features
- Choose between an HTML list or comma-separated list.
- Can show number of published author posts.
- Sort authors by name or by post count.
- Exclude users below a given post count threshold.
- Allows administrator to be excluded from the list.
- Choose between displaying usernames or full names in the list.
- Can include links to author-specific RSS feeds.
The List Authors plugin is hosted at wordpress.org. You can find the latest features list, installation instructions, and install file there.
Changelog
2.0.1
Small fix for versions of WordPress older than 2.8.
2.0
list can be sorted by name or post count
can limit the number of authors listed
can specify a minimum number of posts required before author is displayed in the list
1.2
updated to use the new WordPress 2.8 widget API
added the HTML/comma-separated list dropdown
now multi-widget enabled
1.1.1
small fix to make the <img> tag for the RSS link XHTML compliant
1.1
initial release
I just installed this plugin and it looks good, with one exception.
The names of the authors and the post counts are displayed, but at the bottom one of the author names is repeated, in a form that is not linked from, and does not display a post count.
How do I get rid of this bottom line?
@Shannon
Sorry, I should be more accurate. It is like all the text/fonts get bigger (similar to scrolling with the mouse while holding Ctrl).
While it very nicely puts up all the posts by an author when I click on one of the names, the screen sort of explodes – by which I mean that the effect is of zooming in dramatically or having the screen take up 3 times as much space (so it doesn’t fit on the monitor any more).
I thought it might be a change I made to the theme, but I reinstalled it AND the plug-in, and it still does this. Any ideas?
@Doug Ragan
We’re having this same problem too – subscribers are showing up under the authors widget, very odd. Is there a fix for this?
Is it possible to display the author image next to the name?
Hi Ennio,
This is an often requested feature. It’s not possible now but I hope to add the ability to the next release of the plugin.
Hi, For some reason all of the people listed as Subscribers are showing on my sidebar now? What am I doing wrong?
@Takaitra
Well I guess this has “newbie” stamped all over it. Thank you very much!
Can I suggest that you add that to the instructions for all us other guys who don’t know how to do it?
Thanks
JD
This is a great plugin that has been working well for us for quite some time. However, I want to change some of the default options, but I am having trouble doing so.
The widget does not seem to be recognizing the options that I enabled; I’m not sure if I’m editing the correct portion of the file or need to change another portion of the file. I am in the list-authors.php file which is listed as active. At the “”$defaults = array” seciton as a test i’ve changed the count function as follows “‘optioncount’ => true”. However, I refresh the page and I don’t see the count of post listed.
Do I have to Deactivate and Activate for the changes to take effect? Am I not editing the correct portion of the file? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
This is running on WP Version 3.2.1.
Thank you greatly,
JD
Hi JD,
You don’t need to edit the widget source code to show the number of published posts next to each author–the widget config has a checkbox called “Show number of published posts.” All you need to do is check that box and click save.
To get to the widget configuration, click on Appearance then Widgets. Click the small arrow next to the widget name to show its options.
Hi Takaitra,
This is a very useful widget, and we have been using it on our site for a while now.
There was a question I had, however. How do we get the RSS Feed image to show before the name of the author? I would prefer it to be displayed that way, since otherwise the alignment doesn’t seem right…. how to go about it?
Hoping to hear from you regarding this soon…
Cheers,
Arnab
Hi Arnab,
The widget always puts the RSS feed image after the author name but if you’re handy with PHP, you can edit the code to place it in front instead. Find the file list-authors.php in your /wp-content/plugins/list-authors/ directory. The image is added to each list item on line 230 of the file. You would need to move that code so that it appears before the author name is output.
This looks like a great plugin.
Is there a way to show just the most recent authors? For example, list the last 6 authors that have written most recently?
Thanks,
Chris
Hi Chris,
Unfortunately that is not possible in the List Authors widget but I’ll keep it in mind for a future release.