Bernhard Riedl

<ul>
<li>extends information on Users page in Admin Menu with comment counts</li>
<li>settings page configurable for standard functions</li>
<li>easy to integrate (ships with multi/sidebar- and dashboard-widget functionality)</li>
<li>possible to integrate in “Right Now” box or to display as widget on the dashboard and on the user’s profile page</li>
<li>high performance because users’ comment counts are re-used within a page-call</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/featuring-countcomments/other_notes/" rel="ugc">API for developers</a></li>
<li>fully compatible with <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL" rel="nofollow ugc">https/SSL/TLS-sites</a></li>
<li>fully multisite network compatible</li>
<li>clean uninstall</li>
</ul>
Requirement for this plugin: Your users have to be registered and logged in to comment – Thus, Featuring CountComments will not work properly in weblogs where anonymous comments are allowed!
Please find the version for WordPress
<ul>
<li>3.3 and higher <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featuring-countcomments.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></li>
<li>3.2 <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featuring-countcomments.wordpress3.2.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></li>
<li>2.8 to 3.1 <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featuring-countcomments.wordpress2.8-3.1.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></li>
<li>minor 2.8 <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featuring-countcomments.wordpressminor2.8.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></li>
</ul>
Plugin’s website: <a href="https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/projects/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/projects/</a>
Author’s website: <a href="https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.bernhard-riedl.com/</a> 
Attention! – Geeks’ stuff ahead! 😉
<h4>API</h4>
Parameters can either be passed <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_parse_args" rel="nofollow ugc">as an array or a URL query type string (e.g. “display=0&format=0”)</a>. Please note that WordPress parses all arguments as strings, thus booleans have to be 0 or 1 if used in query type strings whereas for arrays <a href="https://secure.php.net/manual/en/language.types.boolean.php" rel="nofollow ugc">real booleans</a> should be used.
<code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user($params=array())</code>
Counts the number of comments made by a user who is currently logged in or has a particular attribute.
$params:
<ul>
<li>
<code>user_attribute</code>: one of the user’s attributes (matching <code>query_type</code>), for example, the user_id or a WP_User object; if no user_attribute is given, will fallback to currently logged in user
</li>
<li>
<code>query_type</code>: corresponding SQL-field of user’s attribute or WP_User object; default is <code>user_id</code>
<ul>
<li>user_id</li>
<li>display_name</li>
<li>user_nicename</li>
<li>user_email</li>
<li>user_login</li>
<li>WP_User object</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<code>format</code>: if set to true (default), the output will be formatted using the attributes <code>zero</code>, <code>one</code>, <code>more</code> and <code>thousands_separator</code>; false = process plain count value
</li>
<li>
<code>zero</code>, <code>one</code>, <code>more</code>: for formatted output – %c gets replaced with the number of comments
<ul>
<li>‘zero’ => ‘0 comments’</li>
<li>‘one’ => ‘1 comment’</li>
<li>‘more’ => ‘%c comments’</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<code>thousands_separator</code>: divides counts by thousand delimiters; default <code>,</code> => e.g. 1,386
</li>
<li>
<code>display</code>: if you want to return the count (e.g. for storing it in a variable) instead of echoing it with this function-call, set <code>display</code> to <code>false</code>; default setting is <code>true</code>
</li>
</ul>
The following example outputs the comment count of the user with the registered e-mail address ‘j.doe@example.com’.
<pre><code><?php

global $featuring_countcomments;

$params=array(
 'query_type' => 'user_email',
 'user_attribute' => 'j.doe@example.com'
);

$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user($params);

?>
</code></pre>
<code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_comment($params=array())</code>
Counts the number of comments made by a user who wrote a certain comment or the current comment in the comment-loop.
$params:
<ul>
<li>
<code>comment</code>: a comment object or comment id; if empty retrieves current comment
</li>
<li>
<code>format</code>: if set to true (default), the output will be formatted using the attributes <code>zero</code>, <code>one</code>, <code>more</code> and <code>thousands_separator</code>; false = process plain count value
</li>
<li>
<code>zero</code>, <code>one</code>, <code>more</code>: for formatted output – %c gets replaced with the number of comments
<ul>
<li>‘zero’ => ‘0 comments’</li>
<li>‘one’ => ‘1 comment’</li>
<li>‘more’ => ‘%c comments’</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<code>thousands_separator</code>: divides counts by thousand delimiters default <code>,</code> => e.g. 1,386
</li>
<li>
<code>display</code>: if you want to return the count (e.g. for storing it in a variable) instead of echoing it with this function-call, set <code>display</code> to <code>false</code>; default setting is <code>true</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>in_loop</code>: if set to true (default), the query count for all user who wrote a comment which belongs to the post of the handed over <code>comment</code> will be cached; otherwise the comment count will be retrieved only for the user who posted the <code>comment</code>
</li>
</ul>
The following example outputs the number of comments of the author with the current comment in the comment loop:
<pre><code><?php

global $featuring_countcomments;

$featuring_countcomments->count_by_comment();

?>
</code></pre>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">How-to for shortcodes</a>
General Example:
Enter the following text anywhere in a post or page to output the comment count of user <code>xyz</code>:
<pre><code>[featuring_countcomments_count_by_user query_type="user_nicename" user_attribute="xyz"] by xyz so far...
</code></pre>
Available Shortcode:
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_count_by_user
</code></pre>
Invokes <code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user($params)</code>.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_count_by_comment
</code></pre>
Invokes <code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_comment($params)</code>.
<h4>Filters</h4>
<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter" rel="nofollow ugc">How-To for filters</a>
General Example:
<pre><code>function my_featuring_countcomments_defaults($params=array()) {
 $params['query_type'] = 'user_nicename';
 return $params;
}

add_filter('featuring_countcomments_defaults', 'my_featuring_countcomments_defaults');
</code></pre>
Available Filters:
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_defaults
</code></pre>
In case you want to set the default parameters globally rather than handing them over on every function call, you can add the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter" rel="nofollow ugc">filter</a> <code>featuring_countcomments_defaults</code> in for example featuring-countcomments.php or your <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">own customization plugin</a> (recommended).
Please note that parameters which you hand over to a function call (<code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user</code> or <code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_comment</code>) will always override the defaults parameters, even if they have been set by a filter or in the admin menu.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_dashboard_widget
</code></pre>
Receives an array which is used for the dashboard-widget-function call to <code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user</code>. <code>display</code> and <code>format</code> will automatically be set to true and <code>user_parameter</code> to null to receive the current user’s count.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_dashboard_widget_text
</code></pre>
Receives a string which is used in the dashboard-widget. <code>%c</code> will be replaced by the comment count of the user who is currently logged in.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_dashboard_right_now
</code></pre>
Receives an array which is used for the dashboard-right-now-box-function call to <code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user</code>. <code>display</code> and <code>format</code> will automatically be set to true and <code>user_parameter</code> to null to retrieve the comment count of currently logged in user.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_dashboard_right_now_text
</code></pre>
Receives a string which is used in the right-now box on the dashboard. <code>%c</code> will be replaced by the comment count of the user who is currently logged in.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_user_profile
</code></pre>
Receives an array which is used for the user-profile-function call to <code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user</code>. <code>display</code> and <code>format</code> will automatically be set to true and <code>user_parameter</code> to null to retrieve the comment count of currently logged in user.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_user_profile_text
</code></pre>
Receives a string which is used in the user’s profile page. <code>%c</code> will be replaced by the comment count of the user who is currently logged in.
<pre><code>featuring_countcomments_users_custom_column
</code></pre>
Receives an array which is used for the users-page-function call to <code>$featuring_countcomments->count_by_user</code>. <code>display</code> and <code>format</code> will automatically be set to true and <code>user_parameter</code> to the user-id of each row to retrieve the user’s comment count.

Featuring CountComments

Counts the number of comments for each user, who has been logged in at the time of commenting.

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.
<blockquote>
Introducing New Authors List Pro
 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. 
 <a href="https://www.authorslist.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to get the PRO version!</a>
</blockquote>
<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
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Authors List

Excellent

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

Featuring CountComments vs Authors List