Custom Author Loop
Looks like you’ll want to use get_users and you might want to take a look at the source code behind wp_list_authors to info on how to use it.
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Author page doesn’t change after username change [duplicate]
take a look at Change the Author Slug from Username to Nickname more specifically at Jan’s answer.
Can I stop authors from changing the font in their post?
You can deactivate the buttons on tinymce and html-editor, but the user can than also create html-tags. Then is is also possible you filter the_content and replace the font-tags with empty fields.
Show selected value in a drop down menu
WordPress has a great little function built in for handling selections. <option <?php selected(‘value1’, ‘value2′);?> value=”foo”>Bar</option> You can also check out these form handling functions: checked() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/checked disabled() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/disabled Your HTML syntax is wrong as well. Per W3C, ‘value’ is not an attribute of the select tag. The value of a select is defined in … Read more
hide something in single page if current author has only one post
count_user_posts will give you the number of posts for an author. get_the_author_meta gives you the user’s ID. Note that this needs to be in The Loop to get the correct user. if( 1 < count_user_posts( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) , ‘post’ ) ) { echo ‘<div>blah blah blah</div>’; }
Author list ‘special’ author first then ‘normal’ author
The ‘special’ authors have in usermeta a meta key called ‘werksortgodmodus’ with meta value ‘yes’. The ‘rest’ of the authors have ‘werksortgodmodus’ = no . You could e.g. order by the meta value with (PHP versions 5.4+): $blogusers = get_users( [ ‘role’ => ‘author’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘werksortgodmodus’, ‘orderby’ => [ ‘meta_value’ => ‘DESC’, ‘display_name’ => … Read more
no emails for a user account
As far as I’m aware, it’s not possible via Add New under the Users tab, however, the wp_create_user function will let you create users without an email address: $username=”someuser”; $pass=”swordfish”; $new_user_id = wp_create_user( $username, $pass ); You’d have to wrap that in a basic plugin and provide some sort of UI for adding users.
Is it possible to get_terms by author?
Not directly, because terms are assigned to posts, not authors. You will need to query all posts, get their terms and authors, and then filter out terms which came with posts that have other authors than get_query_var(‘author’). Note that depending on the number of posts your site has, this kind of query could be very … Read more
How can I add “posted by ‘author'” to each post?
A plug-in might use the_content filter to append / prepend this, but if you’re a theme author or otherwise are able to edit the the theme templates directly. In this case you want to edit your theme’s single.php. (You can always check which template file is being used by a particular page using this answer: … Read more
I only want to Display Author Link in authors bio
You may consider using this function : get_the_author_meta(‘url’) You can see here the implementation of the function get_the_author_link() and you will see how they construct the link with name.