get_user_by will get you the user data by ‘id’, ‘slug’, ’email’, or ‘login’. ‘slug’ is the user_nicename. $user = get_user_by(‘slug’,’nicename’); However, I am not sure what you mean by ‘name’. There are other plausible ‘name’ fields, not all of them required. There is the display_name for example. To search fields like user_nicename you will need … Read more
To answer your problems: Sorting by post count You can collect all the information you need in to an array and sort that array by number of posts , like this: //function to sort array by filed function authors_orderBy($data, $field){ $code = “if (\$a[‘$field’] == \$b[‘$field’]) {return 0;} return (\$a[‘$field’] < \$b[‘$field’]) ? 1 : … Read more
This will retrieve the posts of current author when used in the loop. Put the following in your theme functions.php: function my_get_display_author_posts() { global $authordata, $post; $authors_posts = get_posts( array( ‘author’ => $authordata->ID, ‘post__not_in’ => array( $post->ID ) ) ); $output=”<ul>”; foreach ( $authors_posts as $authors_post ) { $output .= ‘<li><a href=”‘ . get_permalink( $authors_post->ID … Read more
To access the author user object outside of the loop on an author archive, you can do the following: global $curauth; $curauth = (isset($_GET[‘author_name’])) ? get_user_by(‘slug’, $author_name) : get_userdata(intval($author)); echo ‘This is the author page of ‘.$curauth->display_name;
The role “Reviewer” only has special capabilities, no other capabilities. To get into the author list you have to be at least a contributor or author. function rb_addroles() { $role = get_role(‘contributor’); remove_role( ‘reviewer’ ); add_role( ‘reviewer’, ‘Reviewer’, $role->capabilities ); $reviewer = get_role(‘reviewer’); $reviewer->add_cap( ‘edit_review’ ); $reviewer->add_cap( ‘read_review’ ); $reviewer->add_cap( ‘delete_review’ ); } add_action( ‘admin_init’, … Read more
I am using the WP Subscribe Author plugin which does the job. I did some tweaking to the email that is sent in the PHP file as the default email didn’t include a link to the post.
The user_description field is alias of description field. Nothing more. If you echo both of them on one page, you will see that they are identical and shows the same information about user’s bio.
Try it: <?php echo get_the_author_meta( ‘display_name’, $post->post_author ); ?> You can use the_author function in wordpress standard loop, Not foreach. to set global author information you should use the_post function. but in foreach, you can use get_the_author_meta instead of the_author to pass author id $post->post_author.
I believe the function you want is get_author_posts_url.
To do this literally (put authors into groups) best way would probably be to create custom taxonomy for users. See custom user taxonomies in WordPress for reference. However the end result you are looking for does not really deal with grouping users – it deals with grouping posts. Registering custom taxonomy (“company”) for posts would … Read more