List Authors For Current Category

Question

I want to list all unique authors that have posts in the current category.

My code (location: wp-content/themes/custom-theme/category.php)

<div class="container">
    <div class="row">

      <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

        <?php while( have_posts() ) : the_author(); ?>

            <div class="col-md-2 text-center">
                <?php the_author_meta( 'display_name', 30 ); ?>
            </div>

        <?php endwhile; ?>

      <?php else: ?>

        <p class="text-center">No authors</p>

      <?php endif; ?>

     </div>
</div>

This is not giving expected result, can someone help me?

Answer 1

Execution of code goes to infinite loop because you missed the_post() in loop.

You can list all authors from current category:-

• Create an empty array for author IDs
• Check if current author ID exist in that array
• If No, display the author name and store that author ID in array.
• If Yes, Then skip that post and move to next.

Consider this example:-

<div class="container">
    <div class="row"><?php 

        if ( have_posts() ) { 
            $unique_authors = array();

            while( have_posts() ) { 
                the_post(); ?>

                <div class="col-md-2 text-center"><?php
                    if (!in_array(get_the_author_meta('ID'), $unique_authors)) {
                        the_author_meta( 'display_name' );
                        array_push($unique_authors, get_the_author_meta('ID'));
                    } ?>
                </div><?php 

            }
        } else { ?>
            <p class="text-center">No authors</p><?php
        } ?>

     </div>
</div>