Get_Users Orderby Page

Question

I've been trying to fix a sorting issue using the codex for get_users(), but I can't seem to get it working.

The codex shows that I can set 'orderby' => 'post_count', but I want to change this so that it orders by page count. It seems like it should be something that's easy to change (page_count?), but it doesn't work.

Can someone please advise me on this?

Answer 1

Use WP_User_Query and the has_published_posts parameter to limit results to users who have published the specified post type(s).

get_users() is just a wrapper for WP_User_Query().

has_published_posts (boolean / array) - Pass an array of post types to filter results to users who have published posts in those post types. true is an alias for all public post types. Default is null.

Here's a basic example of a User Query for users who have published a page post type:

// Set up arguments for query.
$args = [
    'has_published_posts' => [ 'page' ], 
    'orderby' => 'post_count',
    'order' => 'DESC',
];

// Create the WP_User_Query object
$user_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );

// Get results.
$users = $user_query->get_results();

// Check for results
if ( ! empty( $users ) ) {
    echo '<ul>' . PHP_EOL;

    // Loop through each author.
    foreach ( $users as $user ) {
        // Get all the user's data.
        $user_info = get_userdata( $user->ID );
        echo "\t" . '<li>' .
            '<em>' . __( 'User ID: ', 'text-domain' ) . esc_html( $user->ID ) . '</em> ' .
                esc_html( $user_info->first_name ) . ' ' .
                esc_html( $user_info->last_name ) .
        '</li>' . PHP_EOL;
    }

    echo '</ul>' . PHP_EOL;
} else {
    echo __( 'No users found', 'text-domain' );
}