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1. JPigford
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   So I run a site where I have "contributors" and am planning on creating a "contributors" page to display info about each of them. What I would like to do is just display the name and profile of each user using the info they filled in on the profile in the admin area. I know I could just code up a quick mysql query but didn't know if wordpress had an easier way to do this.

2. Jinsan
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   i assume that you're using 1.5 - people seem to forget to include what version they're using which makes ti difficult to know.

   so assuming you're using 1.5, you can create a template called authors.php. read this for template info:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

   Within that template file, you can use author tags:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags

   read the the relevant tags and see the variables they offer. With a few tags you can create the required effectof having a list of authors on your page, with their profile.

3. Lorelle
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_authors
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/list_authors

   They do the same things but they do it a little differently, but they are what you want to generate a list of authors. They should generate links that will open up pages with a list of the author's work.

4. JPigford
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   I'm semi-getting a hold of this but am having trouble just listing what I'd like. For instance, I have:

   <?php list_authors(FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE); ?>
   <?php the_author_description(); ?>

   on this page: http://www.theappleblog.com/contributors/

   Obviously I'm not doing the author description tag correctly.

   Also, the links aren't working for the author either...how would I fix that?

5. JPigford
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   Hmm...okay, just read this for the_author_description tag:

   "Displays the content of the Profile: field in a user's profile for the author of a post. "

   So according to that it would only show my profile on that page since I created the page (which is what it's doing at this point).

   How could I make it show everyones?

6. JPigford
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   Anybody have some ideas about this?

7. Kathy_P
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   This thread describes one way of doing what you want to.

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