tf_get_authors( $instance ); echo $args['after_widget']; } public function tf_get_authors( $instance ) { $instance = wp_parse_args( $instance, array( 'title' => 'Our Writers', 'max_authors' => 10, 'posted_since' => "All" ) ); if( is_numeric( $instance[ 'posted_since' ] ) AND $instance[ 'posted_since' ] != 0 ) { $since = " AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-' . $instance[ 'posted_since' ] . ' days')) . "'"; } else { $since = ""; } $output = ""; global $wpdb; foreach ( (array) $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT DISTINCT post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND " . get_private_posts_cap_sql( 'post' ) . $since . " GROUP BY post_author LIMIT " . $instance[ 'max_authors' ] ) as $row ) { $firstname = get_the_author_meta( 'first_name', $row->post_author ); $lastname = get_the_author_meta( 'last_name', $row->post_author ); $fullname = $firstname . " " . $lastname; $author_url = home_url( '/author/' ) . get_the_author_meta( 'nicename', $row->post_author ); $author_avatar = get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'email', $row->post_author ), 32 ); $output .= ''; } return $output; } } function register_author_widget() { register_widget( 'TF_Author_Widget' ); } add_action( 'widgets_init', 'register_author_widget' );