can I check if it's possible to hide some of the authors and display them selectively? For example, I would like to display Jerrell Seah (no avatar shown) into one of the main 12 who have avatars.

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Thanks!


    global $wpdb;
    
    $authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, user_nicename from $wpdb->users WHERE user_nicename != '' ORDER BY display_name");
    $i=1;
    foreach($authors as $author) {
        echo "<div class='col-md-3 individual-author'>";
        if($i<=12){
            echo "<div class='author-image-container'>";
            echo "<a href=\"".get_bloginfo('url')."/author/";
            echo $author->user_nicename;
            echo "\">";
            echo get_avatar($author->ID,200);
            echo "</a>";
            echo '</div>';
        }
        echo "<div class='author-name'>";
        echo "<a href=\"".get_bloginfo('url')."/author/";
        echo $author->user_nicename;
        echo "\">";
        the_author_meta('display_name', $author->ID);
        echo "</a>";
        echo "</div>";
        echo "</div>";
        echo ($i==12)?"<div class='clearfix horizontal-rule'><hr/></div>":"";
        $i++;
    }

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  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/xRQTo.png