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If you have a multi-author WordPress site and you’d like to recognize your contributors or simply organize your content effectively, listing all the authors can be an excellent solution. But how can you do that in WordPress? The answer lies in using wp_list_authors, a beneficial WordPress function that provides a list of your site’s authors. This article will offer a step-by-step guide to effectively utilize the wp_list_authors function to list all authors on your WordPress site.
function wpturbo_list_all_authors() {
wp_list_authors(array(
'orderby' => 'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'number' => 10,
'optioncount' => true,
'echo' => true
));
}
add_shortcode('wpturbo_authors', 'wpturbo_list_all_authors');
The purpose of the provided code snippet is to list all authors on your WordPress website by creating a new function called wpturbo_list_all_authors(). It is then hooked into a WordPress shortcode via the add_shortcode() function. This allows for the use of [wpturbo_authors] anywhere within our WordPress content to display the authors’ list.
Inside the function wpturbo_list_all_authors(), we call the built-in Wordpress function wp_list_authors(). This function accepts an array of arguments to customize its output, the details of which are as follows:
wp_list_authors(array(
'orderby' => 'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'number' => 10,
'optioncount' => true,
'echo' => true
));The parameters are as follows:
-
'orderby' => 'name': This instructs WordPress to sort the list by the authors’ names. -
'order' => 'ASC': This defines the order of the authors in the list, ‘ASC’ stands for ascending, meaning authors will be listed in alphabetical order from A to Z. If you’d prefer to list them in reverse order, you can replace ‘ASC’ with ‘DESC’. -
'number' => 10: This determines how many authors will be displayed in the list. In this snippet, only the top 10 authors will be listed. If you want to list all authors simply remove this line. -
'optioncount' => true: This lets WordPress display the number of posts each author has made, right next to their name. If you’d rather not show the post count, set this value to false. -
'echo' => true: Lastly, this argument instructs WordPress to display (echo) the list directly. If this argument were set to false,wp_list_authors()would return the HTML required to display the list, instead of displaying it.
Finally, the ‘wpturbo_list_all_authors()’ function has been turned into a shortcode using the ‘add_shortcode()’ function. The first argument is the desired shortcode (‘wpturbo_authors’), and the second is the name of the function to execute when WordPress encounters this shortcode. Now, by simply including [wpturbo_authors] in your posts or pages, you can display the list of authors, according to the customization specified.