Authors List

Easily display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page using a shortcode.

Backend UI can be used to change all the options.

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Shortcode

All the options are available in the WP admin but you can also use a plain shortcode (as it was in version 1 of the plugin). The shortcode is [authors_list] and accepts the following attributes.

• style (1,2,3)
• columns (2,3,4)
• columns_direction ( horizontal, vertical )
• avatar_size (any number, example 500)
• amount (any number, no limit by default)
• show_title (yes,no)
• show_count (yes,no)
• show_bio (yes,no)
• show_link (yes,no)
• orderby ( post_count, post_date, ID, login, nicename, email, url, registered, display_name, first_name, last_name )
• order ( ASC, DESC )
• skip_empty ( yes, no )
• minimum_posts_count ( any number )
• bio_word_trim ( any number, leave empty for no trim )
• only_authors ( yes, no )
• exclude ( user IDs separated by comma, example 1,3,4 )
• include ( user IDs separated by comma, example 1,3,4 )
• roles ( roles separated by comma, example administrator,editor )
• latest_post_after ( for example if set to 7 it will only show authors that have posts published in the past 7 days )