
Easily display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page using a shortcode.
Backend UI can be used to change all the options.
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The free version offers a large amount of features for free, and the PRO version comes with even more amazing features for your authors list.
Some of those features are Styler, Search and Filters.
Styler allows easy change of color/typography/spacing on any of the elements in the authors list.
Filters allow you to create a better organization of the authors list.
Search allows your visitors to search for specific users.
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All the options are available in the WP admin but you can also use a plain shortcode (as it was in version 1 of the plugin). The shortcode is [authors_list] and accepts the following attributes.
Example usage with attributes:
[authors_list style="2" columns="2" amount="4" show_count="no"]
There are additional attributes for custom content before and after each element:
Example usage with attributes:
[authors_list before_title="My custom content"]
These before/after attributes also support dynamic user/author meta fields using
{al:INSERT_FIELD_NAME} Example usage:
[authors_list before_title="My first name is {al:first_name}"] They also support some dynamic output functionality. Currently supports displaying posts links and social links (Yoast SEO needed):
Example usage for posts links:
[authors_list after_title="{alf:posts}"] [authors_list after_title="{alf:posts type=plain amount=5}"] Example usage for social links:
[authors_list after_title="{alf:social}"] Example usage for roles:
[authors_list after_title="{alf:role}"] Example usage for link (the “to” parameter accepts foollowing values: archive bbpress_profile buddypress_profile):
[authors_list after_title="{alf:link to=bbpress_profile}"] Social Icons SVGs by FontAwesome are licensed under CC BY 4.0
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