Simon Wheatley

A plugin providing template tags to list all active (or inactive) authors in the WordPress installation.
<pre><code><?php list_active_authors( 'days=30&include_protected_posts=0' ); ?> Will list all the authors active in the last 30 days, not counting password protected posts as "activity". Both parameters are optional.

<?php list_inactive_authors( 'days=30&include_protected_posts=0' ); ?> Will list all the authors NOT active in the last 30 days, counting password protected posts as "activity". Again, both parameters are optional.
</code></pre>
If “days” are not provided the tags default to the last 30 days. 
If “include_protected_posts” is not specified, the tags default to not including password protected posts.
The HTML output is fairly heavily classed, but if you need to adapt it you can. Create a directory in your theme called “view”, and a directory within that one called “author-listings”. Then copy the template files <code>view/author-listings/active-authors-list.php</code> and/or <code>view/author-listings/inactive-authors-list.php</code> from the plugin directory into your theme directory and amend as you need. If these files exist in these directories in your theme they will override the ones in the plugin directory. This is good because it means that when you update the plugin you can simply overwrite the old plugin directory as you haven’t changed any files in it. All hail <a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">John Godley</a> for the code which allows this magic to happen. Can hook into the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/" rel="ugc">User Photo plugin</a> to display the author photos.
Plugin initially produced on behalf of <a href="http://www.puffbox.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Puffbox</a>.
Is this plugin lacking a feature you want? I’m happy to accept offers of feature sponsorship: <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a> and we can discuss your ideas.
Any issues: <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>.

Author Listing

Allows listing of authors who are active or inactive within a defined recent period of time.

WPKube

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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<h4>Shortcode</h4>
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.
<ul>
<li>style (1,2,3)</li>
<li>columns (2,3,4)</li>
<li>columns_direction ( horizontal, vertical )</li>
<li>avatar_size (any number, example 500)</li>
<li>amount (any number, no limit by default)</li>
<li>show_title (yes,no)</li>
<li>show_count (yes,no)</li>
<li>show_bio (yes,no)</li>
<li>show_link (yes,no)</li>
<li>orderby ( post_count, post_date, ID, login, nicename, email, url, registered, display_name, first_name, last_name )</li>
<li>order ( ASC, DESC )</li>
<li>skip_empty ( yes, no )</li>
<li>minimum_posts_count ( any number )</li>
<li>bio_word_trim ( any number, leave empty for no trim )</li>
<li>only_authors ( yes, no )</li>
<li>exclude ( user IDs separated by comma, example 1,3,4 )</li>
<li>include ( user IDs separated by comma, example 1,3,4 )</li>
<li>roles ( roles separated by comma, example administrator,editor )</li>
<li>latest_post_after ( for example if set to 7 it will only show authors that have posts published in the past 7 days )</li>
<li>name_starts_with ( limit to authors whose display name starts with specific characters )</li>
<li>first_name_starts_with ( limit to authors whose first name starts with specific characters )</li>
<li>last_name_starts_with ( limit to authors whose last name starts with specific characters )</li>
<li>categories ( category IDs separated by comma, example 1,3,4 )</li>
<li>terms ( term IDs separate by comma, example 1,3,4 )</li>
<li>taxonomy ( name of a taxonomy, for example post_tag )</li>
<li>title_element (the element that wraps the name of the user/author, defaults to div, can be any element, for example h2)</li>
<li>link_count (yes, no)</li>
</ul>
Example usage with attributes:
<pre>[authors_list style="2" columns="2" amount="4" show_count="no"]</pre>
There are additional attributes for custom content before and after each element:
<ul>
<li>before_avatar</li>
<li>before_title</li>
<li>before_count</li>
<li>before_bio</li>
<li>before_link</li>
<li>after_avatar</li>
<li>after_title</li>
<li>after_count</li>
<li>after_bio</li>
<li>after_link</li>
</ul>
Example usage with attributes:
<pre>[authors_list before_title="My custom content"]</pre>
These before/after attributes also support dynamic user/author meta fields using
<pre>{al:INSERT_FIELD_NAME}</pre>
Example usage:
<pre>[authors_list before_title="My first name is {al:first_name}"]</pre>
They also support some dynamic output functionality. Currently supports displaying posts links and social links (Yoast SEO needed):
Example usage for posts links:
<pre>[authors_list after_title="{alf:posts}"]</pre>
<pre>[authors_list after_title="{alf:posts type=plain amount=5}"]</pre>
Example usage for social links:
<pre>[authors_list after_title="{alf:social}"]</pre>
Example usage for roles:
<pre>[authors_list after_title="{alf:role}"]</pre>
Example usage for link (the “to” parameter accepts foollowing values: archive bbpress_profile buddypress_profile):
<pre>[authors_list after_title="{alf:link to=bbpress_profile}"]</pre>
Social Icons SVGs by <a href="https://fontawesome.com/license" rel="nofollow ugc">FontAwesome</a> are licensed under CC BY 4.0
<h4>What’s Next</h4>
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Authors List

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Use a shortcode to display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page.

Author Listing vs Authors List