Hi all,
I'm fairly confident that I'd be able to get a list of registered users to display in a Page or sidebar.
But since I developed a site that's completely based on posts and categories, and there is a Post called "users" that needs to show a list of all users.
So ... how to do ?
Use a php exec type plugin and use the template tag, wp_list_authors() in the post.
Or use this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/ and use the wp_list_authors shortcode in your post.
Thank you, Michael, for the quick reply.
What seems easier at first, the template-tag-shortcodes plugin, turns out to be not useful for me, since I need to do some serious formatting with the user list, which I'd need to to with php.
So ... let's look at exec-php :)
Hmm, I decided to create a plugin, but while fiddling around, I realized I can do it all from inside a functions.php.
Here's my code, in case anyone wants to do something similar:
add_filter('the_content', 'display_users_replace_marker');
function display_users() {
global $wpdb;
$authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, display_name from $wpdb->users where id != 1 ORDER BY display_name ASC");
$allusers = '';
$i=1;
foreach ($authors as $author) {
$allusers .= '<div class="usercolumn'.$i.'"><h2>'.$author->display_name.'</h2></div>';
$i++; if ($i==4) {$i=1;}
}
return $allusers;
}
function display_users_replace_marker($content) {
if(!preg_match('[display_users]', $content)) {
return $content;
}
else {
$allusers = display_users();
return str_replace('[display_users]', $allusers, $content);
}
}I'd appreciate any input as to how clean this thing is. I'm not looking for long-term stability since I will not be updating this user's website to newer WP versions. So if it works now, I'll keep it :)
(it's a site that's only interesting for a limited time and will be turned off after the event.)
You might find some info here of use..
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