Show users by last names first in alphabetical order in a straight list

Simple User Listing isn’t imposing any CSS/style rules, so you need to tweak your theme to get the style you want. Normally, this would be a single column list, but I’d guess your theme is applying a “float” rule.

As far as changing what is displayed you can create your own templates for SUL. See the FAQ. Sorting by last name is also covered in the FAQ.

If you need help doing this, I am currently taking gigs in exchange for donations to USA Team Handball women’s national team.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by HelgaTheViking.

Ok, can you get in touch via my contact form ? This is pretty straightforward, and I can probably do it today/tomorrow. I will need to know more about your custom meta, such as head count. And will probably need to see your site/theme.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by HelgaTheViking.

Apologies. I crashed my site over the weekend, so I never received your contact.

Here’s a quickly modified content-author.php template that should be a good start, since I don’t know what your user meta keys are named:

https://gist.github.com/helgatheviking/9c205b3e8f725c4d99afcde81c701a36

The content-author.php file goes in your theme’s simple-user-listing folder, which you will need to create.

I added a little CSS that you should add to your style.css to display it without bullet points.

And per the FAQ you need to use this shortcode:
[userlist meta_key="last_name" orderby="meta_value" order="ASC"]

to display the users, ordered by last name. Hope that helps.

Great! If you found my gist helpful, I would really appreciate any donation you can make to my handball team: https://www.youcaring.com/wnt-norca Thanks!

Revenm, the plugin add no styles, and all styling is handled by you in your theme. I don’t provide support for that and am busy playing sports at the moment so can’t even offer to assist in exchange for a donation.