Recent Author Post in Sidebar, How to exclude certain users? WordPress
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Hi, and thanks for your kind support.
I want to list last post by user in my sidebar, with author name (link to profile), and avatar.
I want to exclude admin and other users, but can´t seem to be able to
I am using this code:
<?php
//get all users, iterate through users, query for one post for the user,
//if there is a post then display the post title, author, content info
$blogusers = get_users_of_blog();
if ($blogusers) {
foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
$args = array(
'author' => $bloguser->user_id,
'showposts' => 1,
'caller_get_posts' => 1,
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="bloglist">
<div class="blogavatar">
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '30' ); ?>
</div>
<div class="blogtitle">
<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br /><small>Por <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> </small></h4>
<!--<?php the_excerpt();?>
<p class="more-link"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" style="color: rgb(157, 20, 20); font-weight: bold;"><?php _e('Read', 'news'); ?></a> | Comments (<?php comments_number('', '1', '%'); ?>)</p>-->
</div>
</div>
<? endwhile;
}
}
}
?>
Also, can u show me how to put this into a function that I can call from the sidebar.php instead of writing the whole code each time?
Answers (3)
Jarret Minkler answers:
foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
// Either array of id's or usernames
$exclude_ids = array(
'10' => true,
'11' => true,
'12' => true,
'12' => true,
);
// If using username replace the ->user_id
if(isset($exclude_ids[$bloguser->user_id])) {
continue;
}
$args = array(
'author' => $bloguser->user_id,
'showposts' => 1,
'caller_get_posts' => 1,
);
Luciano comments:
Sorry for being dumb, but as stated in the original question, can u show me how to put this into a function that I can call from the sidebar.php instead of writing the whole code each time I need to?
Thxs!
Jarret Minkler comments:
@Jimish is same solution as mine ..
You just copy the lines that i wrote there the same place you cut them from, why would you need to paste it over again?
Jarret Minkler comments:
<?php
function blogAuthors() {
//get all users, iterate through users, query for one post for the user,
//if there is a post then display the post title, author, content info
$blogusers = get_users_of_blog();
if ($blogusers) {
foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
$args = array(
'author' => $bloguser->user_id,
'showposts' => 1,
'caller_get_posts' => 1,
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="bloglist">
<div class="blogavatar">
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '30' ); ?>
</div>
<div class="blogtitle">
<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br /><small>Por <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> </small></h4>
<!--<?php the_excerpt();?>
<p class="more-link"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" style="color: rgb(157, 20, 20); font-weight: bold;"><?php _e('Read', 'news'); ?></a> | Comments (<?php comments_number('', '1', '%'); ?>)</p>-->
</div>
</div>
<? endwhile;
}
}
}
} // End blogAuthors
?>
put it in functions.php without the <?php ?> etc
Luciano comments:
U got the prize, thxs for the answer...
I wanted a solution to make the code lighter, that´s why I wanted to include it in the functions.php.
How do I call it from sidebar.php once is included in functions?
Jimish Gamit answers:
<strong>$exclude_users_id = array(2,3);
//let suppose admin id is 2 and 3 for some other user which u want to disable</strong>
foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
<strong> if(in_array($bloguser->user_id,$exclude_users_id))
continue;
// This will not execute below code when condition matched and move to next record</strong>
$args = array(
'author' => $bloguser->user_id,
'showposts' => 1,
'caller_get_posts' => 1,
);