wp_list_authors with exclude_admin=true does not exclude administrators

[juliobox]

Hi there.

In wp_list_authors() you can find this :

<?php
if ( $parsed_args['exclude_admin'] && 'admin' === $author->display_name ) {

It's an old function (since 1.2) so it should be correctly done doing this:

<?php
if ( $parsed_args['exclude_admin'] && in_array( 'administrator', (array) $author->roles ) ) {

Thanks

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60071

[sabernhardt]

Related/duplicate: #9165 (see also [979] and [2444])

While sites ideally would not have a user named 'admin' anymore, excluding only the one user (if found) is the ​documented use for the $exclude_admin parameter.

The default value is true, so excluding based on role or capability could remove names and/or links unexpectedly for all administrators.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi there, thanks for the ticket!

This was previously raised in #23498, let's continue the discussion there.