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
When visitors click on the author name in the sidebar widget it the page that displays loses all formatting and looks weird. Is there a workaround for this in the works?
Hi Frank,
This is almost certainly an issue with your WordPress theme and not with List Authors–all my plugin does is link the user to your author-specific archive page. Please check that your theme has an Archive page (archive.php) and that it contains the correct markup and styling.
Hello:
My widget does not position correctly on the side bar. Could you please provide code which I can paste directly on the sidebar — to produce the author list with post counts and an rss image for each author.
Greatly appreciate your assistance.
Note: currently, I am using this:
**** php list_authors(TRUE, TRUE, TRUE); ****
Which displays the list of authors + Number of posts for each author.
Hi James,
You can use the wp_list_authors function to place the list wherever you like. In your case, a call like
should work.
Great stuff.
I’m looking for exactly what you’ve done here but with a bit more functionality
+ pull down menu from the 3.2.x (+) header menu
is this something that you could do -willing to donate to the cause
Thanks much
If I add a Contributor to the site, will they be listed as an Author? Or just Authors, Editors, and Admin?
Hi Randy,
Contributors will show in the author list just like the other users.
Hi
Where is the hard coding for the feed name please? I changed my username on wordpress from Eli to Damian. It has changed everywhere else on wordpress but the feed still says eli and not damian.
Where can I change this please, it isn’t from the plugin I know.
Thanks
Damian
Hi Damian,
Do you have access to your WordPress database? I suspect that the feed name is on the user_login field of the wp_users table. Change it at your own risk though, I’m not sure what unintended effects it might have.
Sorry, I have a little problem!
I use co-authors-plus plug-in and I’d like to take into account co-authored posts, in the widget of list-author.
I’ve found this instruction:
“Note that as of this writing, WordPress does provide a means of extending wp_list_authors(), so included in this plugin is the function coauthors_wp_list_authors() modified to take into account co-authored posts; the same arguments are accepted.”
But it doesn’t work. Can you help me, please?
This is a great plugin. I’ve been using it for awhile without any trouble. Now I am adding it to a new site that is a little different. We post (long) articles on pages (not as posts). The right people are listed as the author of the page, but it seems pages are not included. Is it possible to add this? Thanks very much!
When you say “not included” do you mean that the pages are not included in the authors’ post count?
@Takaitra
Thanks! Any idea how soon that next version might be coming?
Since you asked nicely, I could probably have it done within a couple weeks. =) I’ll make sure to send you an email so you’re the first to know it’s available.
Is there any way to include author avatars? If so how? If not, might you add that? Thanks.
That’s not possible in the current version but you’re not the first person to request that feature. I’ll try to include the option to include Gravatars in the next version.
Hi Takaitra,
I don’t undestand this Error message: “Fatal error: Call to undefined method: wpdb->get_blog_prefix() in /web/htdocs/www.mydomain.it/home/blog/wp-content/plugins/list-authors/list-authors.php on line 88″.
Hi Tore,
What version of WordPress are you using? A quick search online brings up this solution. Do you happen to have the DB Cache Reloaded plugin installed?
This plugin is exactly what I was looking for. I have been developing a theme that traditionally had the list of authors in the navigation bar, and this plugin is helping me to replace that with widgets. I’m including a note to use your plugin for the same functionality in my theme.
Thanks!
I get an “Error 404 – Not Found” message when I click through my name (the admin). The other two site contributors work fine, and my post count shows correctly, the link just doesn’t work. Any thoughts?
Hi Steve,
I’ll need some more info since I can’t reproduce the error on my end. What are your Permalinks configured to? Can you send me both the correct admin author URL and the incorrect one (the one that the plugin tries to go to)? Thanks.
Thank for the wonderful plugin. I have been using another one (by Mikes Mullin, for last 3 years) and that didn’t have the feature set to restrict the list. I tried using this one but somehow for me it doesn’t work. It gives me a wrong list. I have take it off and would test it on my stage.ghumakkar.com site. I am on latest WP.
Hi Nandan,
Can you give me the widget settings you are using? Would you be able to give me any more details on what is wrong with the list?
@Kobus
Hi Kobus,
Thank you for sending me the error message. It does seem that version 2.0 is broken for older versions of WordPress. I just released version 2.0.1 that should fix the problem.
@Claire
Hi Claire,
I’ve tested with those three roles and the widget works for me. Can you let me know which version of WordPress you are using?
@Maria
Hi Maria,
I was unable to duplicate the problem. Which version of WordPress are you using?
@Pedro Villalobos
Hi Pedro,
If you would like to have a list of authors without using a widget, please use the wp_list_authors template tag directly.
@mohammad
Hi Mohammad,
Would the widget work for you if I added a new checkbox to exclude subscribers from the list?
@Geoffrey Allan Plauché
Hi Geoffrey,
In order to embed the widget in the content area of a static page, please directly use the template tag that the widget is based off of. The template tag is wp_list_authors
Hi Takiatra,
Many thanks for the plugin. I have a doubt though. What is the code for the plugin to be inserted on a page rather on any side bar, please?
Regards,
Girish.
@Claire
OK, it looks like a glitch. The Contributor will show with no posts, but the Author and Admin will not.
This plugin seems very cool, but I’m having an issue. So far on my site I have an admin (me), and Author, and a Contributor. I want everybody to be displayed, but I can only get the Contributor to show.
Thanks
Great plug-in–thanks! I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing the following problem:
If an author only has one post, the post won’t show.
Hi, first of all, great plugin. I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time.
I would like to know if I can call it right from the sidebar, without adding any widget.
Thanks a lot for this plug-in, but i have a problem with a small thing, this plug-in shows the users who submit in the website and authors , how can i show the authors only?