Top Authors vs Team List

Top authors allows yoy to list your top authors with plenty of options. You can set the following in each widget: Widget title Roles to exclude Post types to include Authors to show 4 Preset display templates Custom display template that allows you to create a completely custom structure and modify the output before and after the list. Archive (category/tag/taxonomy) specific author lists For a more detailed description of how you can set up custom author lists take a look at the other notes section. The plugin also has some developer friendly features, take a look at the other notes section for more. Thanks Seb Van Dijk for donating this plugin to me for free, I owe you one 🙂 Font Awesome for the plugin icon Usage Most of the options for the plugin are self explanatory, I thought I’d highlight the archive specific authors and the display template. If Archive specific authors is checked the plugin will handle authors differently on category, tag and taxonomy archive pages. It will narrow the posts down to only those in the given archive. Practically this means the following: Say John wrote 10 posts on the website and Jill wrote 5. On normal pages John would be listed first, Jull would be listed second. However, John wrote 3 posts in the “Food” category while Jill wrote 4. On the archive page for the “Food” category – if Archive specific authors is checked – Jill will be shown first with 4 posts and John second with 3. When you select “Custom Structure” as the preset display you should see three new fields: Display Template, Before List and After List. These fields can be used to control the HTML display of your authors. To make sure you can use the data retireved by the widget I’ve added placeholders which will be replaced by real data: %posts_url%: The URL to the user’s post archive page %website_url%: The URL to the user’s website %gravatar_SIZE%: The gravatar of the user at the given size. For example, to display a 50px Gravatar your would use %gravatar_50% %firstname%: The user’s first name %lastname%: The user’s last name %displayname%: The user’s display name %username%: The user’s username %post_count%: Number of posts %meta_FIELD%: Displays the given meta field. If you store a user’s Twitter name in the ‘twitter’ meta field you could use %meta_twitter% to display it. As of 1.0.9 there is also a custom ID field. This is for advanced use, mainly for developers. It allows for custom CSS stylings and even custom queries on a widget-to-widget basis. For Developers Currently there are three filters you can use to control the options available in the widget. ta/usable_roles allows you to change the roles that can be selected. It should return an array of roles in the form of slug=>name ta/usable_opst_types allows you to change the post_types that can be selected. It should return an array of post type objects ta/post_query allows you to modify the arguments of the WP_Query which retrieves the posts that we look up the authors for. Modify the arguments if you want to force category-specific top authors on single post pages, or other similar uses

Team List is a plugin that helps you to create a simple team site using your WordPress users with various display options. Either use a block, a shortcode, a template tag or the built-in widget to display blog authors. After creating similar functionality for a couple of clients, we decided to roll our knowledge into this simple plugin. It’s really straightforward to use: First of all, the plugin adds a small checkbox to the user profile in WordPress to toggle its visibility in the team list. This means you can decide for every user whether he should show up in the team list or not. You can then use one of these ways to display the list anywhere on your site. Action Use the wp_team_list hook to directly display the users in your theme or plugin. For example, you can show users of any role ordered by their name: 'all', 'orderby' => 'name' ) ); ?> Note: Team List supports many of the arguments WP_User_Query supports. Block Use the “Team List” block in the block-based editor to display one or more team lists in any post types. You can select one or more roles and change the order. If you want you can also provide a link to a full team page. Shortcode Use the [wp_team_list] shortcode to display a team list in your posts. Supported arguments: role – Filter users by roles (comma-separated). Use all to show users with any role. Default: administrator orderby Default: post_count order – Either asc or desc. Default: desc. include – Filter users with specific IDs (comma-separated). has_published_posts – Filter users with published posts. Either a comma-separated list of post types or true to filter by all post types. Example: [wp_team_list role="author" orderby="last_name" order="desc"] Pro tip: If you use the Shortcake WordPress plugin, you’ll get an inline preview of the shortcode right in the visual editor. You can also add the shortcode with the click of a button. Widget Want do display the team members in your sidebar? Use the built-in WordPress widget. You can set the role you want, the number of users to show and even link to a separate team page.