Title: sort authors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# sort authors

 *  Resolved [mlarris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlarris/)
 * (@mlarris)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-authors/)
 * I use the Hybrid theme which has an authors page. I would like to display the
   authors of the blog in descending order by ID. Or maybe by latest entry on the
   blog.
 * Can anybody help me?
 *     ```
       <?php foreach ( get_users_of_blog() as $author ) : ?>
   
       						<?php if ( get_the_author_meta( 'user_level', $author->ID ) > 0 || get_the_author_meta( 'user_login', $author->ID ) == 'admin' ) : ?>
   
       							<div id="hcard-<?php echo str_replace( ' ', '-', get_the_author_meta( 'user_nicename', $author->ID ) ); ?>" class="author-profile vcard clear">
   
       								<a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( $author->ID ); ?>" title="<?php the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author->ID ); ?>">
   
                                           <?php  the_author_image($author->ID);'width="130" height="160"';?>
   
       								</a>
       								<h2 class="author-name fn n">
       									<a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( $author->ID ); ?>" title="<?php the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author->ID ); ?>"><?php the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author->ID ); ?></a>
       								</h2>
       								<p class="author-bio">
       									<?php the_author_meta( 'description', $author->ID ); ?>
       								</p><!-- .author-bio -->
   
       							</div><!-- .author-profile .vcard -->
   
       						<?php endif; ?>
   
       					<?php endforeach; ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-authors/#post-1286628)
 * Here’s one example:
 *     ```
       <ul>
       <?php
       //List of users sorted descending by date of lastest post written by user
       $uc=array();
       $blogusers = get_users_of_blog();
       if ($blogusers) {
         foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
           $userpost = get_posts('showposts=1&author='.$bloguser->user_id);
           $uc[$bloguser->user_id] = '';
           if ($userpost) {
             $uc[$bloguser->user_id]=$userpost[0]->post_date;
           }
         }
         arsort($uc);
         foreach ($uc as $key => $value) {
           $user = get_userdata($key);
           $post_count = get_usernumposts($user->ID);
           if ($post_count) {
             $author_posts_url = get_author_posts_url($key);
             echo '<li><a href="' . $author_posts_url . '">' . $user->user_firstname . ' ' . $user->user_lastname . '</a> (' . $post_count . ') </li>';
           }
         }
       }
       ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mlarris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlarris/)
 * (@mlarris)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-authors/#post-1286813)
 * OK, that works, but not in the right way.
    The authorspage in the Hybrid theme
   puts authorinformation + gravatar, or as I did the authorimage from the authorimage
   plugin. So I would like to use the above code but with an output in descending
   order, to have this nice overview of authors in the blog. Hope You can help me?
 *  Thread Starter [mlarris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlarris/)
 * (@mlarris)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-authors/#post-1286825)
 * Well I figured out myself to change in the user.php file. Line 281 I added DESC.
   ‘
   ORDER BY {$wpdb->usermeta}.user_id DESC”‘

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## Tags

 * [descending order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/descending-order/)
 * [Hybrid Theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hybrid-theme/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mlarris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlarris/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-authors/#post-1286825)
 * Status: resolved

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