Authors List Pro

Help users view contributors

Authors List Pro displays post authors or customers in other roles as a list or grid. Each listed visitor can link to their post archive. Manage a listing in the WordPress admin area or place the [authors_list] shortcode in content. The Pro edition adds Styler controls for color, typography, and spacing, along with visitor search and filters for finding and organizing users.

Choose which users appear

Include or exclude specific user IDs, limit results by role such as administrator or editor, or show only authors. You can skip users without posts, set a minimum post count, or limit the listing to users whose latest post was published within a selected number of days.

Sort users by post count, post date, ID, login, nicename, email, URL, registration date, display name, first name, or last name, in ascending or descending order. Name controls can also restrict results to users whose display name, first name, or last name begins with specified text.

To focus a listing around content, specify category IDs, term IDs, and a taxonomy name such as post_tag.

Set the layout and profile details

Choose style 1, 2, or 3, use two, three, or four columns, and set the column direction to horizontal or vertical. Set the avatar size and number of users to display. Choose whether each entry shows the user title, post count, biography, or link. Biography text can be trimmed by word count.

Before-and-after attributes let you add custom content around the avatar, title, count, biography, and link. They also support dynamic user or author meta fields in the {al:INSERT_FIELD_NAME} format. Additional dynamic output can display post links and social links; social links require Yoast SEO. Choose the element around the user or author name, with a div as the default and options such as h2.

Add the listing to a page

After adding Authors List Pro to the WordPress website, configure the listing in the admin area or insert [authors_list] where it should appear. Start with the basic shortcode, then add attributes for layout, user selection, ordering, displayed information, styling, search, and filters as needed.