Popular Authors includes a shortcode that allows you display the list of top authors. If you’re not familiar with shortcodes, please read this article in the WordPress Codex.
[wzpa_popular_authors]
This shortcode takes multiple different attributes which are all optional, as follows:
- number : Maximum authors to return or display. Default empty (all authors).
- daily : Whether daily or overall counts. Default false.
- daily_range : Daily range for custom period. Default null.
- hour_range : Hour range for custom period. Default null.
- offset : Number of authors to offset in retrieved results. Can be used in conjunction with pagination. Default 0.
- optioncount : Show the count in parenthesis next to the author’s name. Default true.
- exclude_admin : Whether to exclude the ‘admin’ account, if it exists. Default false.
- show_fullname : Whether to show the author’s full name. Default false.
- show_avatar: Whether to show the author’s avatar/thumbnail. Default false.
- hide_empty : Whether to hide any authors with no posts. Default true.
- cache: Whether to turn ON caching of the HTML output. Default false.
- include : Array or comma/space-separated list of author IDs to include. If this field is entered, then only authors belonging to the list of IDs will be displayed. Default empty.
- exclude : Array or comma/space-separated list of author IDs to exclude. Default empty.
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