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

By: Tara

Tara — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:33:20 +0000

Does anyone know how to make a list of categories with a sub menu of authors who have posted in each category so:

category 1
-author who has posted in category 1
-author who has posted in category 1

category 2
-author who has posted in category 2
-author who has posted in category 2

ETC

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:26:02 +0000

this is great however does anyone know how to make a list of categories then under each category a sub-menu of users who have posted in that category

for example:

category 1
-user with posts in category 1
-user with posts in category 1
category 2
-user with posts in category 2
-user with posts in category 2
-user with posts in category 2
etc..

By: dvbii

dvbii — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:22:33 +0000

I know this is a long time after this was posted, however, when googling the problem, I found this, so I thought i would share an update to what we have working..based on the last post, this code was placed in the sidebar.php and only shows on the category pages listing all authors with posts in the current category.

$current_category = single_cat_title(“”, false);
$author_array = array();
$args = array(
‘numberposts’ => -1,
‘category_name’ => $current_category,
‘orderby’ => ‘author’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’
);
$cat_posts = get_posts($args);
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_link;
echo “‘>”;
echo $auth;
echo “”;
echo “
”;
endforeach;
?>

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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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;
}