WP Authors provides an “Authors” widget in the sidebar, useful for identifying all the different authors in a multi-author blog. This widget used to be present in the Widgets plugin for WordPress-2.1, but was removed for WordPress-2.2.
Installation is the usual for a sidebar widget:
- Download the zip file.
- Unzip it into
wp-content/plugins(or upload thewp-authors.phpfile into thewp-content/pluginsdirectory on the web server). - Go to the WordPress “Plugins” control panel and activate “WP Authors”.
- Go to the WordPress “Presentation” control panel and configure the widgets; add “Authors” to the sidebar.
I’ve written this a sidebar widget for WordPress-2.2.
This plugin is not necessary for WordPress-2.1, because it is already included in the Widgets plugin for WordPress-2.1.
If you like this plugin (or if you don’t), please leave a comment with a link to your website.
#1 by Claude on Thu May 7, 2009 - 10:41 pm
I really like the widget, but won’t be able to use it if a user with admin capabilities is displayed.
Do you have plans to exclude users with admin capabilities in future releases?
cheers!
#2 by Steve on Thu Jun 18, 2009 - 7:39 am
I am testing Wordpress for use in a school. I’m having a problem with the wp_author plugin.
On the side bar the Author links appear as:
http://www.website.comauthor/tom
instead of
http://www.website.com/author/tom
I’ve download it again think it might be a bad file but the second one does the same thing. Do you know of a fix or am I doing something wrong?
#3 by d on Sat Sep 19, 2009 - 3:05 pm
hi, we just switched over to run our own wordpress. I have searched in the plugins for the original ‘authors’ widget, but find that it is no more and instead yours is the upgrade.
After I installed it, which worked great, I noticed when I clicked on the author, it showed their posts, but took out all the images. :( anyway to display their posts as they were published with photos.
new site:
http://elephantcloud.net
old site:
http://theelephantcloud.wordpress.com
thank you
#4 by Zac Pritcher on Sun Sep 27, 2009 - 6:39 pm
I’m having a problem and wondering if anyone can help. My name links to a 404 page for some reason. I used to be the admin, but recently bumped myself down to editor to see if that would solve the problem. It didn’t.
Any help?
#5 by fourthbranch on Fri Dec 18, 2009 - 2:51 pm
For some reason, when I select an author’s name, all of his posts show up in a different font and in all caps. Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks.
#6 by Mom With A Pen on Fri Jan 15, 2010 - 10:59 am
I am wondering if there is a way to add small photos above each Author’s name? We have 10 bloggers on our site and I’d like to identify them on the sidebar with the added photo???