Go4Expert - Getting Wordpress Blog Authors in Combobox

Introduction

I expected wordpress to have some built in support for listing all authors of the blog in a select box but that is not the case yet in Wordpress 2.9.2.

I was certain that I can get this done using wp_list_authors but actually it was a not that straight forward and so let me share this with you. I think this will help those looking for such functionality.

The Code

What I did is replaced the content of list items ( <li> ) into select box options ( <option> ) and added a JavaScript function to redirect user to the url when there is a change in the selection in the selection box.

So here is the code.

Code:

<select id="AuthorList" name="AuthorList" onchange="goAuthorList();">

        <?php 

        $authargs = array(

                'optioncount'   => false, 

                'exclude_admin' => false, 

                'show_fullname' => false,

                'hide_empty'    => true,

                'echo'          => false, // We will not output using the function.

                'feed'          => false, 

                'feed_image'    => false,

                'style'         => 'list',

                'html'          => true 

        ); 

        $var_list = wp_list_authors( $authargs ); // Take the output into a variable.

        // Replace the tags of list to option box

        $var_list = str_replace("</a></li>","</option>",$var_list); 

        $var_list = str_replace("<li><a href=","<option value=",$var_list);

        // Now output the list

        echo $var_list;        

        ?> 

</select>

<script language="JavaScript">

<!--

    function goAuthorList() {

        // JavaScript function to change the user to the url of the author

                theSelAuthor = document.getElementById("AuthorList").value;

                        if ("" != theSelAuthor) location.href = theSelAuthor;

    }

//-->

</script>

Enjoy !!!