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1. edd_lasthours
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I'm hoping someone one here might be able to help!

   I'm currently working on a website that will have about 100 authors, all of whom need their own page. That's fine, but I want different groups (based on alphabet and what year they became authors in the project) to have different sidebars displayed. e.g. '2009'>'Authors A to G'

   I can do this for each individual author e.g.
   

   <?php elseif (is_author('63')) : ?>
   <div> do something relating to this authors</div>

   But I really don't fancy having 200 lines in sidebar.php just relating to these authors. Is there a way to put multiple ID numbers into one is_author conditional. e.g. if it's an author page ID 63, 64, 65 etc. then 'do something relating to these authors'?

   I've tried a couple of different permutations but I either get a php coding error on the front end or it just shows up blank.

   Any help gratefully received!

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?php
   if (is_author(array(1,2,42))) {
   echo 'this is either author 1,2, or 42';
   }
   ?>

   Conditional_Tags#An_Author_Page

3. edd_lasthours
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks so much. I thought I'd tried that, but clearly must have added some extraneous code somewhere. Anyhow, it's working perfectly now. Many thanks!!

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