I'm trying to create a custom version of the wp_list_authors function that includes custom post types. I have 3 authors on the site I'm working on (www.healthyeatingadventure.org). Two of them only post regular blog posts and the third only posts recipes which is a cutom post type I created because I wanted it to have a unique layout.
I'm working on a custom plugin that will list the authors in a sidebar widget and will link their names to their posts (whether the post type is post, event or recipe). I want to clone the wp_list_authors function in wp-includes/author-template.php to create a custom function called hea_list_authors that serves the same purpose but will include the other 2 post types I mentioned. Then I'll call that function in my plugin and the world will be a wonderful place :).
However, while I'm getting better at MySQL and PHP, I'm still sort of a novice and am having trouble figuring out how to make this work. The source code for the wp_list_authors function is found at the link below. I'd greatly appreciate any help someone could offer with this.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_authors/#source-code