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.
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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.

HelgaTheViking

Other plugins output paginated lists of users, but I needed to be able to customize and style this list to fit my theme. So I created this plugin to use templates that can be overridden and customized by theme developers.
To customize any of the templates, copy the file from the plugin’s “templates” folder to your themes “simple-user-listing” folder.
<h4>Usage</h4>
Place this shortcode anywhere you’d like to display a full list of all your blog’s users.
<pre><code>[userlist]
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By default the plugin will print out the users based on the “Posts per Page” setting under Settings->Reading, but this and many other settings can be changed via the shortcode’s parameters.
<h4>Support</h4>
If after reading the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-listing/faq" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> you still need help, support is handled in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-user-listing" rel="ugc">WordPress forums</a>. Please note that support is limited and does not cover any custom implementation of the plugin.
Please report any bugs, errors, warnings, code problems to <a href="https://github.com/helgatheviking/simple-user-listing/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>

Simple User Listing

A shortcode for displaying paginated lists of users.

Author Listing vs Simple User Listing