WordPress MU

Is it possible to display all the authors and their profile that they have entered on one page? I've taken a look inside the codex and see how to display the information for one author at a time but not all.

Anybody ever succeed in doing this?

All authors for the entire MU site, or per blog?

Either is "technically" possible, but I would think if it was for the overall MU install, it would get to be quite resource intensive without proper caching of the data.

For an individual blog, you could create a page template, run the necessary query or queries, and output in a manner matching the theme.

Then a user could select that template when making a page, not need to input any content, and then make the title/slug whatever they'd like.

For an indiviudal blog or for site wide?

I am also interested in this, a list of authors, with the optio to link to a profile template page - on *a site wide level*. Has it be done?

lunabyte says "if it was for the overall MU install, it would get to be quite resource intensive without proper caching of the data."

Why would this be more resource intensive than say getting a side wide list of latest posts or a list of all the blogs on a MU install?

The closest thing I have found is this on the author template, see the last function, but that's for one blog.

* List all the authors of the blog, with several options available.

http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/author-template.php

This thread is over a year old. Did anyone search anywhere else? Perhaps to find mention of BuddyPress?

Andrea, didn't you do a tutorial on something like that?

Yeah, on the list all blogs - which could probably be easily modified to list all users.

Hi Andrea, Could you post a link to this tutorial? As I understand it, Buddypress will have only one author per blog?

BP has one author per blog yeah, but you still have one database with a bunch of users to pull from.

The tutorial I did was here:
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/making-a-member-list-blog-directory/

Modify it to pull users instead. (probably tweaking the list-all plugin part.)

Authors template page

indojepang, I believe your post will only work for the individual blogs. The posters are asking about a site wide solution.

ups sorry.. :)

Not a problem.

Hi all. I just want to display author's (blog owner's) Biographical Info in the sidebar... for every new blog created. Possible?

Thanks in advance

Yep, with a couple plugins.

First, how are you collecting their bios?

We are talking about folks (programmers, designers,...) that I'm representing. No more than 10 people. I don't mind placing their Biographical Info manually inside Authors&Users. Of course, they can also do it by themselves. Right now I'm using specially designed text widget to display their Biographical Info (at the top of the sidebar: http://zets.boonika.net/)but the problem is that I have to create it for every new blog/profile. So that could be a problem for me in future if more and more people would want to participate.

Ah, i was wondering if you were collecting it on signup. you can also use the "about me" field in their profile. that way they can set it up themselves.

There's an author profile widget out there that does just that. It comes with an avatar plugin.
http://suleiman.hadithuna.com/wpmu-avatar-pack-release/

You could study the code and rip out the bits you want.

Well that's exactly what I did before I wrote my first post but without any luck. But the solution is there so I'll just have to try harder. Thanks Andrea. You always do your best to help others. That's nice:)

@andrea

Still no luck... btw, you said "Ah, i was wondering if you were collecting it on signup". You've managed to modify signup page like that?

Cheers

This, kind of, solved my problem:

About: <?php the_author_description(); ?>

But it works only if blog owner is author of all posts. If I (as top admin) for some reason write some post than my the_author_description will be displayed in desired location (sidebar in this case.

"You've managed to modify signup page like that?"

Yep. Well, Ron did the heavy lifting... Dunno if we're releasing it or when.

Well at least it's nice to know that it's possible:)

As a few of us are fond of saying - "It's php, just abut anything is possible" :D

If I run across it again and see something I can give ya, I'll let you know.

Yeah:)... it should be set as default 'reply' option on this forums. Cheers.

Got an email? I hunted down your contact form, lemme know if you got it.

Got it. Hope you've received my reply. Thanks a lot.

Cheers

Hello,

Hmmm two days ago huh, hope I'm not too late and Boonika will step in again ! I have the same problem. Deleted all admin posts on the blog, but the plugin seems to be stuck on the very first text and photo I inserted. Can't get my user to have his picture (which is uploaded) nor his description appear in the sidebar... This is really, hum, disppointing ! Anyone has an idea or an option to have an About me in the sidebar with uploadable picture for the users, that does not remain stuck on admin ? Thanx !

"Anyone has an idea or an option to have an About me in the sidebar with uploadable picture for the users, that does not remain stuck on admin ?"

Yeah this http://suleiman.hadithuna.com/wpmu-avatar-pack-release/

I know it works, used it on a few sites, but haven't tried it on the latest build.

Hi !

Thanks for your answer !
It's exactly what I'm using...and which remains stuck on the admin picture... so I guess I'll have to look for something else! Thankx for any ideaz !

Diane