danielpataki

<p>Top authors allows yoy to list your top authors with plenty of options. You can set the following in each widget:</p>
<ul>
<li>Widget title</li>
<li>Roles to exclude</li>
<li>Post types to include</li>
<li>Authors to show</li>
<li>4 Preset display templates</li>
<li>Custom display template that allows you to create a completely custom structure and modify the output before and after the list.</li>
<li>Archive (category/tag/taxonomy) specific author lists</li>
</ul>
<p>For a more detailed description of how you can set up custom author lists take a look at the other notes section. The plugin also has some developer friendly features, take a look at the other notes section for more.</p>
<h4>Thanks</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/sebvandijk" rel="nofollow ugc">Seb Van Dijk</a> for donating this plugin to me for free, I owe you one 🙂</li>
<li><a href="http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/" rel="nofollow ugc">Font Awesome</a> for the plugin icon</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Most of the options for the plugin are self explanatory, I thought I’d highlight the archive specific authors and the display template.</p>
<p>If Archive specific authors is checked the plugin will handle authors differently on category, tag and taxonomy archive pages. It will narrow the posts down to only those in the given archive. Practically this means the following:</p>
<p>Say John wrote 10 posts on the website and Jill wrote 5. On normal pages John would be listed first, Jull would be listed second. However, John wrote 3 posts in the “Food” category while Jill wrote 4. On the archive page for the “Food” category – if Archive specific authors is checked – Jill will be shown first with 4 posts and John second with 3.</p>
<p>When you select “Custom Structure” as the preset display you should see three new fields: Display Template, Before List and After List. These fields can be used to control the HTML display of your authors. To make sure you can use the data retireved by the widget I’ve added placeholders which will be replaced by real data:</p>
<ul>
<li>%posts_url%: The URL to the user’s post archive page</li>
<li>%website_url%: The URL to the user’s website</li>
<li>%gravatar_SIZE%: The gravatar of the user at the given size. For example, to display a 50px Gravatar your would use %gravatar_50%</li>
<li>%firstname%: The user’s first name</li>
<li>%lastname%: The user’s last name</li>
<li>%displayname%: The user’s display name</li>
<li>%username%: The user’s username</li>
<li>%post_count%: Number of posts</li>
<li>%meta_FIELD%: Displays the given meta field. If you store a user’s Twitter name in the ‘twitter’ meta field you could use %meta_twitter% to display it.</li>
</ul>
<p>As of 1.0.9 there is also a custom ID field. This is for advanced use, mainly for developers. It allows for custom CSS stylings and even custom queries on a widget-to-widget basis.</p>
<h4>For Developers</h4>
<p>Currently there are three filters you can use to control the options available in the widget.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>ta/usable_roles</code> allows you to change the roles that can be selected. It should return an array of roles in the form of slug=>name</li>
<li><code>ta/usable_opst_types</code> allows you to change the post_types that can be selected. It should return an array of post type objects</li>
<li><code>ta/post_query</code> allows you to modify the arguments of the WP_Query which retrieves the posts that we look up the authors for. Modify the arguments if you want to force category-specific top authors on single post pages, or other similar uses</li>
</ul>


Top Authors

One of the important options of this plugin for me is the 'visibility' option and i can't get it to work at all.



Love the idea but can't get the visibility option to work

A highly customizable widget that allows you to display the top authors of your website easily.

Stefano

<p>Easily calculate and handle authors’ pay on a multi-author blog. Set up payment criteria and let the plugin compute posts payment. Stats are immediately viewable. Both a general view with all users and a specific one for each author are available. It can easily help you implement a revenue sharing/paid to write model for your business.</p>
<p><a href="https://postpaycounter.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin HOMEPAGE</a></p>
<p><strong>Features include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Pay per post, word, visit (<a href="https://postpaycounter.com/pay-writers-per-visit-wordpress?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">tutorial</a>), image and comment (not mutually exclusive).</li>
<li>Pay with an incremental system (eg. each word is €0.01 => 100 words = €1) or with a zonal one (eg. from 200 to 300 words/visits it’s €2.00, up to 10 zones).</li>
<li>No account needed. Data is yours, no need to sign-up to anything really.</li>
<li>Old stats availability. View posts countings since the first written post, disregarding the plugin install date. A fancy date picker lets you shift between days and select the desired range, or pick a ready choice (such as <em>This month</em>, <em>Last month</em>…).</li>
<li>Responsive and sortable stats: optimized stats page for mobile devices and sortable stats table.</li>
<li>Personalize user’s settings, so that special settings only apply to a particular user. Different settings can be made apparent in the stats or hidden depending on your needs.</li>
<li>Customizable permissions to prevent your users to see stats and use functions they are not supposed to.</li>
<li>Extend with your own custom implementation through hooks, filters and special API features (<a href="https://postpaycounter.com/add-custom-payment-types-post-pay-counter-stats?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">learn more</a>).</li>
<li>And… works with custom post types, narrow your payments only to chosen user groups, supports pagination, and even more!</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://github.com/TheCrowned/Post-Pay-Counter/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a> (wanna join us coding?)</p>
<h4>Payment management, more visits tracking methods, and pay with PayPal</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://postpaycounter.com/post-pay-counter-pro?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ppcp" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO version</a> includes integration with Google Analytics, Matomo Analytics, Plausible Analytics, Adsense Revenues sharing, payments management and PayPal payments. Among other stuff, it also allows to keep a convenient log of past payments and to display stats in public pages through a shortcode.</p>
<h4>Integrate with Facebook</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://postpaycounter.com/facebook-pay-per-social-interactions-shares-likes-and-comments?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ppcp_fb" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook addon</a> allows to pay posts for the Facebook shares and comments they receive.</p>
<p>Browse <a href="https://postpaycounter.com/addons?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ppc_addons" rel="nofollow ugc">all extensions</a>.</p>
<h4>Available languages</h4>
<p>Post Pay Counter is available in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French (Alexandre Mark)</li>
<li>German (<a href="http://inside11.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Julian Beck</a>)</li>
<li>Dutch (Elza van Swieten)</li>
<li>Italian (Stefano Ottolenghi)</li>
<li>Portoguese (Marco Dantas)</li>
<li>Turkish (A. Bilgen)</li>
<li>Czech (Jiří Kučera)</li>
<li>Russian (Azat Seyitmuhammedov)</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to <strong>translate it in your own language</strong> and get a discount on the PRO version, <a href="http://www.thecrowned.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>!</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mSFjvR-2zCI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>


Post Pay Counter

Easily handle authors' payments on a multi-author blog by computing posts' remuneration basing on admin defined rules.

Top Authors vs Post Pay Counter