Authors and User Links

  • Resolved badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    I’m really interested in getting my WordPress blog to do the following:

    I want people to be able to come in, register at my blog, automatically get the power to be an author or contributor, and then I want their names to show up underneath my links, so that audience members can come in, click on an authors name, and automatically every blog that they’ve been the author of on my site comes up in the body of the page.

    Is there a tool I can use to create this? I’m sorry, I’m not too good with programming languages. I’m trying to create a community on my blog where people can come in, author a few blogs, and have their name show up as a link on a row of contributors– so that other people can click on their name and suddenly all of their contributions show up.

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  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    List of authors:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates#Linking_to_Author_Page_from_Sidebar

    And the default role for new members – just increase that in Options.

    And if you are allowing open registration – backup. regularly.

    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Will that make it so that all authors are added to that sidebar automatically?

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    yes 🙂

    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years ago

    Is there a way to make the list alphabetical based on “first name” or “last name”, rather than user name?

    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years ago

    Anyone?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years ago

    If your Theme uses the Template Tag the_author_posts_link then ‘sorting’ is not an available parameter.

    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years ago

    im using wp_listauthors or something like that… See the link on the second post to this thread.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years ago

    No sort parameter supported there either.

    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years ago

    Crap.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years ago

    That is sorting by display_name. Guess you could change the ORDER BY clause in wp-includes/template-functions-author.php (around line 179).

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    Please note that modifying core files is generally discouraged, so make a backup of the file(s) before changing anything–just in case it doesn’t work you’ll have something to fall back on. Also, remember you will need to ‘retrofit’ that change upon subsequent WordPress upgrades.
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    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years ago

    What would I change it to if I wanted it to go by Last Name?

    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years ago

    neeeevermind, I did it. Works great…

    Now, anyone know of a way to make the “first name” “last name” parts of the user info mandatory? Is there a way to make that happen?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years ago

    Well the WordPress registration only asks for username so that would require a somewhat extensive change to wp-register.php.

    Thread Starter badkarma9000

    (@badkarma9000)

    18 years ago

    Hmm… For extensive changes like this, i’m thinking I’d be better off hiring someone than messing with core stuff myself… Anyone know where I can find people to do little code tricks like this?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years ago

    That would be available via the wp-pro mailing list:

    Mailing_Lists#Professional

    Thanks for the feedback and please consider marking this thread Resolved.

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