Comments on: Get WordPress users by role

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:45:15 +0000

Kexin, this code is out of date. Use get_users.

By: Kexin Li

Kexin Li — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:37:30 +0000

Hi Steve,

Thanks for sharing the plugin. Can you please tell me how I can call this function on my template? For example I want to list all administrators

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:47:43 +0000

Hi rayne, sounds like you need some custom SQL querying. Or, if you don’t mind the extra database hits (or you have a caching plugin working and it doesn’t matter), just grab the most recent post for each author in the loop as you output them, and test the date. HTH.

By: rayne

rayne — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:34:20 +0000

Thanks for this script! I found it while I was looking for a way to “gray out” inactive authors – I want a list of authors where every author who hasn’t posted anything in the last 6 or 12 months is applied an extra CSS class (eg. gray font color or 50% opacity). Would that be easy to implement into your script? My PHP skills are too crappy to figure it out myself :/

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:51:43 +0000

Indeed, thanks Brent! I’ve just been updating my plugins to use this new function.

By: Brent Shepherd

Brent Shepherd — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:14:43 +0000

With WordPress 3.1 and newer, we can use the get_users function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users

By: John Franks

John Franks — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:19:58 +0000

You don’t know how much time you saved me. I had a site up that used basically the same code that you wrote. It would select all users in a role.

Anyways the site got infected with a virus and I decided to scratch it and start over. Unfortunately I didn’t have a backup and lost the code.

I was really dreading to have to rewrite it. But thankfully, I found your site now I don’t have to.

By: Mat_

Mat_ — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:05:02 +0000

Thanks for this code! I haven’t tested it yet but i’m sure it works.
It saves me a lot of time!
Many Thanks

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:36:28 +0000

Really cool Steve been trying to write code similar to this myself (but not trying too hard) luckily found you could while doing my research and now I can get to bed early! You’re a prince!

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:18:31 +0000

I can confirm that the SQL in the first example works fine. The second variant seems pretty straightforward, but I don't have time for extensive testing, so let me know if it trips up anywhere. As for WP_User_Search, for me it only returns users in the specified role. Looking at the source, this does seem to be how it works. Let me know if you can confirm a situation where this isn't the case. Interestingly, it seem that WP_User_Search has been deprecated for the next version of WP. I've not looked into how its replacement works.