Read Authors/other into PHP variable

  • Resolved barelytone

    (@barelytone)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, I’m a first time theme developer, and making a theme for a client to use more as an online journal than as a blog.

    Specifically, I’m wondering if there are ways to read the list of authors / topics etc. into a php array variable. I do this because I display a list of Authors, but like to exclude a specific subset of authors from that list.

    The way I’m currently solving the problem is to read wp_list_authors() into a string, hash it up with PHP’s explode function, and then get the authors using preg_match(). Its a rather unelegant solution, and depends on a specific wp-admin configuration (i.e. permalinks have to be set right, etc.).

    Initially, I tried a direct MySQL query, but that only seemed to mess up “the loop” as other information from $wp_query was corrupted.

    Can someone point me in the right direction here?
    Thanks

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    This little routine has some ideas you might use:

    <?php
//get all users, iterate through users, query for one post for the user, if there is a post then display posts title, author, content info
$blogusers = get_users_of_blog();
if ($blogusers) {
  foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
    $args = array(
    'author' => $bloguser->user_id,
	  'showposts' => 1,
	  'caller_get_posts' => 1
    );
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      // $user = get_userdata($bloguser->user_id);
      // echo 'This is one post for author with User ID: ' . $user->ID . ' ' . $user->user_firstname . ' ' . $user->user_lastname;
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
        <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link() ?> </small><?php
        the_content();
      endwhile;
    }
  }
}
?>
    Thread Starter barelytone

    (@barelytone)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    That’s very helpful thank you. I think this will certainly point me in the direction I’ve been thinking of.

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