Comments on: Challenge: how to display only authors who have written in a specific category?

By: Ales

Ales — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:50:36 +0000

This might be useful to someone.
I’ve taken the code above and turned it into this…
This works for me and does exactly what is described above…
$author_array = array();
$cat_posts = get_posts(‘numberposts=-1&category=48&orderby=author&order=ASC’);

foreach ($cat_posts as $cat_post) :
if (!in_array($cat_post->post_author,$author_array)) {
$author_array[] = $cat_post->post_author;
}
endforeach;

foreach ($author_array as $author) :
$auth = get_userdata($author)->display_name;
$auth_link = get_userdata($author)->user_login;
echo ‘’;
echo $auth;
echo ‘’;
echo ‘
’;

endforeach;
?>

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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:39:47 +0000

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By: Charly Silaban

Charly Silaban — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:16:21 +0000

I have the same problem here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/169195

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:25:37 +0000

Hi Mark – I tried implementing the code but I think it stopped displaying authors after the first author. any ideas? Did you get it to work for you on your own site? Thanks so much

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:12:11 +0000

argh! lol i must be tired

instead of echo $a, use:

the_author_posts_link ();

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:11:16 +0000

Sorry,

i have the arguments backwards for strstr:

if(!strstr($authors,$a))
{
echo $a;
$authors.=$a;
}

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:10:08 +0000

This will do it for you:

global $authordata;
$a=get_author_posts_url ($authordata);
if(!strstr($a,$authors))
{
echo $a;
$authors.=$a;
}

By: Display the authors that have posted to a particular category in WordPress

Display the authors that have posted to a particular category in WordPress — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:07:25 +0000

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By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:07:11 +0000

@Ryan – I also don’t have the foggiest. That’s why I’m asking here.

@Andrew – what you wrote looks really promising. If no one else solves it by this evening, I’ll send you an email to see if you can help. I really appreciate it!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:48:19 +0000

Missed a bit. I am assuming that the code I have included above would return a user_id which can then be used with the get_userdata function to get the information necessary to create a link, as I say though I am not in a position to check this right now.

I can check this and produce some working code this evening if no one has solved it by then. Feel free to drop me an e-mail.