Title: contributor/editor/author widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# contributor/editor/author widget

 *  [frankderosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankderosa/)
 * (@frankderosa)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributoreditorauthor-widget/)
 * I’m looking for a widget that specifically lists members with certain capabilities.
   I have a client that wants to have a widget that lists the contributors on his
   site separately from other authors. Is there such a widget? If not, I think I
   will have to either make a little “fake” author widget and code it manually, 
   or else alter the WP-Authors widget with a customized version of wp_list_authors().
 * Thanks,
    Frank

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 *  Thread Starter [frankderosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankderosa/)
 * (@frankderosa)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributoreditorauthor-widget/#post-1152379)
 * I wound up replacing the wp_list_authors() function. It went pretty smoothly.
   Here’s the function I made (sorry, it’s long):
 *     ```
       function custom_list_authors_2($args = '', $user_levels) {
       	global $wpdb;
   
       	$defaults = array(
       		'optioncount' => false, 'exclude_admin' => true,
       		'show_fullname' => false, 'hide_empty' => false,
       		'feed' => '', 'feed_image' => '', 'feed_type' => '', 'echo' => true,
       		'style' => 'list', 'html' => true
       	);
   
       	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
       	extract($r, EXTR_SKIP);
       	$return = '';
   
       	$user_levels = implode(',', $user_levels);
       	$contributors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_id from $wpdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'wp_user_level' AND meta_value IN ($user_levels)" . ($exclude_admin ? " AND user_login <> 'admin' " : '') );
   
       	$contributor_IDs = array();
       	foreach ( (array) $contributors as $contributor )
       	{
       		$contributor_IDs[] = $contributor->user_id;
       	}
   
       	$contributor_IDs = implode(',', $contributor_IDs);
   
       	/** @todo Move select to get_authors(). */
       	$authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, user_nicename from $wpdb->users WHERE ID IN ($contributor_IDs)" . ($exclude_admin ? " AND user_login <> 'admin' " : '') . "ORDER BY display_name");
   
       	$author_count = array();
       	foreach ((array) $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT post_author, COUNT(ID) AS count FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND " . get_private_posts_cap_sql( 'post' ) . " GROUP BY post_author") as $row) {
       		$author_count[$row->post_author] = $row->count;
       	}
   
       	foreach ( (array) $authors as $author ) {
   
       		$link = '';
   
       		$author = get_userdata( $author->ID );
       		$posts = (isset($author_count[$author->ID])) ? $author_count[$author->ID] : 0;
       		$name = $author->display_name;
   
       		if ( $show_fullname && ($author->first_name != '' && $author->last_name != '') )
       			$name = "$author->first_name $author->last_name";
   
       		if( !$html ) {
       			if ( $posts == 0 ) {
       				if ( ! $hide_empty )
       					$return .= $name . ', ';
       			} else
       				$return .= $name . ', ';
   
       			// No need to go further to process HTML.
       			continue;
       		}
   
       		if ( !($posts == 0 && $hide_empty) && 'list' == $style )
       			$return .= '<li>';
       		if ( $posts == 0 ) {
       			if ( ! $hide_empty )
       				$link = $name;
       		} else {
       			$link = '<a href="' . get_author_posts_url($author->ID, $author->user_nicename) . '" title="' . sprintf(__("Posts by %s"), esc_attr($author->display_name)) . '">' . $name . '</a>';
   
       			if ( (! empty($feed_image)) || (! empty($feed)) ) {
       				$link .= ' ';
       				if (empty($feed_image))
       					$link .= '(';
       				$link .= '<a href="' . get_author_feed_link($author->ID) . '"';
   
       				if ( !empty($feed) ) {
       					$title = ' title="' . $feed . '"';
       					$alt = ' alt="' . $feed . '"';
       					$name = $feed;
       					$link .= $title;
       				}
   
       				$link .= '>';
   
       				if ( !empty($feed_image) )
       					$link .= "<img src=\"$feed_image\" style=\"border: none;\"$alt$title" . ' />';
       				else
       					$link .= $name;
   
       				$link .= '</a>';
   
       				if ( empty($feed_image) )
       					$link .= ')';
       			}
   
       			if ( $optioncount )
       				$link .= ' ('. $posts . ')';
   
       		}
   
       		if ( !($posts == 0 && $hide_empty) && 'list' == $style )
       			$return .= $link . '</li>';
       		else if ( ! $hide_empty )
       			$return .= $link . ', ';
       	}
   
       	$return = trim($return, ', ');
   
       	if ( ! $echo )
       		return $return;
       	echo $return;
       }
       ```
   
 * Stick this code at the top of your file and call it in place of wp_list_authors().
   The added parameter is an array of user levels to select for. 10 = admin, 7 =
   editor, 2 author, 1 = contributor. The query probably could have been done better,
   but it saved me lot of time in writing it. Hopefully, somebody will find this
   useful.
 *  Thread Starter [frankderosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankderosa/)
 * (@frankderosa)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributoreditorauthor-widget/#post-1152383)
 * –removed–
 *  Thread Starter [frankderosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankderosa/)
 * (@frankderosa)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributoreditorauthor-widget/#post-1152384)
 * –removed (sigh) —
 *  [ywftdg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ywftdg/)
 * (@ywftdg)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributoreditorauthor-widget/#post-1152542)
 * I am curious how you got this work. I have added this into my functions, but 
   it returns no results.

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