If you've had the need to list all authors\/contributors on your WordPress site in a sidebar widget, you may have come across the simple, yet effective List Author's plugin.<\/p>\n
The plugin is great, except for the "Exclude Admins" feature, which actually only excludes users with the username of "admin".<\/p>\n
If you open up list-authors.php and change the following sections, you'll be in business:<\/p>\n
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\n\t $author_posts_join = '';
\n\t $author_where = '';
\n\t $author_group_by = "GROUP BY $wpdb->users.ID";
\n\t}
\n\t<\/code><\/p>\n
\n\/\/ Query the list of users
\n\t$sql = "
\n\t SELECT $author_select
\n\t FROM $wpdb->users
\n\t INNER JOIN wp_usermeta
\n\t ON wp_usermeta.user_id = wp_users.ID
\n\t $author_posts_join
\n\t $author_name_join
\n\t $author_cap_join
\n\t $author_where
\n\t AND (wp_usermeta.meta_key = 'wp_user_level' AND wp_usermeta.meta_value < 10)
\n\t $author_group_by
\n\t $author_having
\n\t $author_sort
\n\t $author_limit
\n\t ";
\n\t<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"