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Description

Displays a list of the sites's authors (users), and if the user has authored any posts, the author name is displayed as a link to their posts. Optionally this tag displays each author's post count and RSS feed link.

Usage

 <?php wp_list_authors( $args ); ?> 

Default Usage

 <?php $args = array(
    'orderby'       => 'name', 
    'order'         => 'ASC', 
    'number'        => null,
    'optioncount'   => false, 
    'exclude_admin' => true, 
    'show_fullname' => false,
    'hide_empty'    => true,
    'echo'          => true,
    'feed'          => [empty string], 
    'feed_image'    => [empty string],
    'feed_type'     => [empty string],
    'style'         => 'list',
    'html'          => true,
    'exclude'       => [empty string],
    'include'       => [empty string] ); ?> 

By default, the usage shows:

• Display in name (display name) order, ascending
• No limit to the number of users displayed
• Does not display the count of the number of posts
• Excludes the 'admin' author from the list
• Displays the author "Display name publicly as"
• Excludes users with no posts
• Display the results
• No author feed text, image, or feed type is defined
• The style is in list format
• Items are returned with valid HTML
• No authors excluded/included

Parameters

orderby 

(string) Field to use to sort the results. This argument was introduced in Version 3.1. Valid values::

• name - display_name from users table - default
• email - user_email from users table
• url - user_url from users table
• registered - user_registered date from users table
• id - ID from users table
• user_login - user_login from users table
• post_count - based on number of posts by user

order 

(string) Order of results either ascending or descending. This argument was introduced in Version 3.1. Valid values::

• ASC - default
• DESC

number 

(integer) The maximum number of users to display. By default there is no limit to the number of users displayed. This argument was introduced in Version 3.1.

optioncount 

(boolean) Display number of published posts by each author. Valid values:

• 1 (true)
• 0 (false) - default

exclude_admin 

(boolean) Exclude the 'admin' (login is admin) account from the list. Valid values:

• 1 (true) - default
• 0 (false)

show_fullname 

(boolean) Display the full (first and last) name of the authors. If false, the "Display name publicly as" is displayed. Valid values:

• 1 (true)
• 0 (false) - default

hide_empty 

(boolean) Do not display authors with 0 posts. Valid values:

• 1 (true) - default
• 0 (false)

echo 

(boolean) Display the results. Valid values:

• 1 (true) - default
• 0 (false)

feed 

(string) Text to display for a link to each author's RSS feed. Default is no text, and no feed displayed.

feed_image 

(string) Path/filename for a graphic. This acts as a link to each author's RSS feed, and overrides the feed parameter.

feed_type 

(string) The type of feed.. An empty string is the default. Valid values:

• - default.
• rss2
• atom
• rss
• rdf

style 

(string) Style in which to display the author list. A value of list, the default, displays the authors as an unordered list, while none generates no special display method (the list items are separated by comma). If html is false, this option is ignored. Valid values:

• list - default.
• none

html 

(boolean) Whether to list the items in html or plaintext. The default setting is true. If html is false, the style setting is ignored and the items are returned, separated by comma. Valid values:

• 1 (true) - default
• 0 (false)

exclude 

(array) Exclude one or more authors from the results. This parameter takes a comma-separated list of authors ids. This argument was introduced in Version 3.9.

include 

(array) Include one or more authors from the results. This parameter takes a comma-separated list of authors ids. This argument was introduced in Version 3.9.

Examples

Authors Full Names and Number of Posts

This example displays a list of the site's authors with the full name (first and last name) plus the number of posts for each author. Note the output is in descending order by the post count, and limited to three (3) authors/users. Also, and by default, it excludes the admin author, hides authors with no posts, and does not display the RSS feed or image.

<?php wp_list_authors('show_fullname=1&optioncount=1&orderby=post_count&order=DESC&number=3'); ?>

Change Log

• Since: 1.2.0
• 2.8 : Added the 'style' and 'html' parameters.
• 3.1 : Added the 'orderby', 'order', and 'number' parameters.
• 3.9 : Added the 'include' and 'exclude' parameters.

Source File

wp_list_authors() is located in wp-includes/author-template.php.

Related

the_author(), get_the_author(), get_the_author_id(), the_author_link(), get_the_author_link(), the_author_meta(), get_the_author_meta(), the_author_posts(), get_the_author_posts(), the_author_posts_link(), get_author_posts_url(), get_the_modified_author(), the_modified_author(), wp_dropdown_users(), wp_list_authors()

List & Dropdown Functions

• Function: wp_list_authors()
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• Function: wp_list_pages()
• Function: wp_list_bookmarks()
• Function: wp_list_comments()
• Function: wp_get_archives()
• Function: wp_page_menu()
• Function: wp_dropdown_pages()
• Function: wp_dropdown_categories()
• Function: wp_dropdown_users()
• Function: wp_dropdown_roles()
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