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Nevermind. I figured it out.

Here’s the code that worked for me in case anyone else is looking to do the same thing. It orders the users by last name and excludes the admin user (my admin has an ID of 14, you’ll need to change that to the appropriate ID for your admin).

/* List Authors Function */
function knapsack_contributors() {
global $wpdb;

$authors = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT user_id
from $wpdb->usermeta
WHERE meta_key = 'last_name' and user_id NOT IN(14)
ORDER BY meta_value");

foreach ($authors as $author ) {
$user = new WP_User($author->user_id);
if ($user->has_cap('edit_published_posts')) {
echo "<li>";
echo "<a href=\"".get_bloginfo('url')."/author/";
the_author_meta('user_nicename', $author->user_id);
echo "\">";
echo get_avatar($author->user_id,$size='65');
echo "</a>";
echo '<div>';
echo "<a href=\"".get_bloginfo('url')."/author/";
the_author_meta('user_nicename', $author->user_id);
echo "\">";
the_author_meta('display_name', $author->user_id);
the_author_meta('title', $author->user_id);
echo "</a>";
echo "</div>";
echo "</li>";
}
}

Nevermind, found this link about the White Screen of Death. A plugin must be the issue.

Well, thanks for trying to help, Andrew. If anyone else has ideas, please feel free to post them, because I am lost.

The site is no longer broken, but the function still doesn’t work.

It breaks the site.

Okay, now I’m majorly confused. I didn’t change anything else, but the site no longer breaks when I upload functions.php. It works whether or not functions.php is empty or contains code.

That being said, the javascript still doesn’t work.

I am so confused on why this isn’t working.

No, I didn’t. I created a new functions.php. I don’t know what’s going on. I removed functions.php and the site is working again.

This is the only code that I had in functions.php:

<?php
 function toggleAbout() {
 wp_enqueue_script( 'toggle-about', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/js/toggle-about.js', '', '1.0', true );
	}
  add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'toggleAbout' );
?>

What am I doing wrong?