Popular Authors Shortcodes

Popular Authors includes two shortcodes that allow you to display the list of top authors and the top posts by author. If you’re unfamiliar with shortcodes, please read this article in the WordPress Codex.

[[wzpa_popular_authors]]

Use this shortcode to display the popular authors based on their number of visits tracked by Top 10. This shortcode takes multiple different attributes, which are all optional, as follows:

Parameter	Type	Description
number	Integer	Maximum authors to return or display. Default: empty (all authors).
daily	Boolean	Whether to show daily or overall counts. Default: false.
daily_range	Integer / Null	The daily range for the custom period. Default: null.
hour_range	Integer / Null	The hour range for the custom period. Default: null.
offset	Integer	The number of authors to offset in retrieved results. Can be used in conjunction with pagination. Default: 0.
optioncount	Boolean	Show the count in parenthesis next to the author’s name. Default: true.
exclude_admin	Boolean	Whether to exclude the ‘admin’ account, if it exists. Default: false.
show_fullname	Boolean	Whether to show the author’s full name. Default: false.
show_avatar	Boolean	Whether to show the author’s avatar/thumbnail. Default: false.
hide_empty	Boolean	Whether to hide any authors with no posts. Default: true.
cache	Boolean	Whether to turn ON caching of the HTML output. Default: false.
include	Array / String	Array or comma/space-separated list of author IDs to include. Only authors belonging to the list will be displayed. Default: empty.
exclude	Array / String	Array or comma/space-separated list of author IDs to exclude. Default: empty.

[[wzpa_author_top_posts]]

Use this shortcode to display the most popular posts for an author. This shortcode takes multiple different attributes, which are all optional, as follows:

Parameter	Type	Description
author	Integer	Author ID to retrieve posts for. Default: 0 (all authors).
field	String	Field to filter authors by. Options: `id`, `slug`. Default: `id`.
posts_per_page	Integer	Number of posts to display per page. Default: 10.
post_type	String	Post type to retrieve. Default: `post`.
orderby	String	Field to sort posts by. Default: `visits`.
order	String	Sorting order. Options: `ASC`, `DESC`. Default: `DESC`.
daily	Boolean	Whether to retrieve daily counts or overall counts. Default: false.
disp_list_count	Boolean	Whether to display the count in a list format. Default: true.