create author page template in wordpress theme

We have many guest authors who writes in our blogs. So creating author page is good idea. Here in this article we created author page template in wordpress theme. There are many wordpress plugins available which will give you facility to show author list.

Without wordpress plugin show author list

Here we created simple wordpress page template for showing author list in wordpress website. we created authorlist.php file in wordpress theme folder and added following code in that file.

01<?php
02/*
03Template Name: AuthorList
04*/
05 
06get_header(); ?>
07 
08&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<div id="primary" class="content-area clr">
09&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<div id="content" class="site-content left-content" role="main">
10&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<div id="authorlist"><ul><?php contributors(); ?></ul></div>
11&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><!-- #content -->
12&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
13&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><!-- #primary -->
14<?php get_footer(); ?>

Open your functions.php file and put following contributors function in that file.

01function contributors() {
02global $wpdb;
03 
04$authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, user_nicename from $wpdb->users WHERE display_name <> 'admin' ORDER BY user_registered");
05 
06foreach ($authors as $author) {
07 
08echo "<li>";
09echo "<a href=\"" . get_bloginfo('url') . "/author/";
10the_author_meta('user_nicename', $author->ID);
11echo "/\">";
12echo get_avatar($author->ID);
13echo "</a>";
14echo '<div>';
15echo "<a href=\"" . get_bloginfo('url') . "/author/";
16the_author_meta('user_nicename', $author->ID);
17echo "/\">";
18the_author_meta('display_name', $author->ID);
19echo "</a>";
20echo "<br />";
21echo "Website: <a href=\"";
22the_author_meta('user_url', $author->ID);
23echo "/\" target='_blank'>";
24the_author_meta('user_url', $author->ID);
25echo "</a>";
26echo "<br />";
27echo "Twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/";
28the_author_meta('twitter', $author->ID);
29echo "\" target='_blank'>";
30the_author_meta('twitter', $author->ID);
31echo "</a>";
32echo "<br />";
33echo '<div >';
34the_author_meta('description', $author->ID);
35echo '</div>';
36 
37echo "<br />";
38echo "<a href=\"" . get_bloginfo('url') . "/author/";
39the_author_meta('user_nicename', $author->ID);
40echo "/\">Visit&nbsp;";
41the_author_meta('display_name', $author->ID);
42echo "'s Profile Page";
43echo "</a>";
44echo "</div>";
45echo "</li>";
46}
47}

add above code in functions.php file. You can change styling as per your website code.