random authors, weighted towards authors with more posts. Configure numer of authors, title, display of post count, and author gravatar display.
Version: 1.1.1
Author: Jacob M Goldman (C. Murray Consulting)
Author URI: http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com
Plugin: Copyright 2009 C. Murray Consulting (email : jake@cmurrayconsulting.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
class WeightedAuthorWidget extends WP_Widget
{
function WeightedAuthorWidget() {
$widget_ops = array('classname' => 'widget_weighted_authors', 'description' => __( "Displays authors in random order, weighted by number of posts.") );
$this->WP_Widget('weightedauthors', __('Weighted Random Authors'), $widget_ops);
}
function widget($args, $instance) {
extract($args);
$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty($instance['title']) ? 'Random Authors' : $instance['title']);
$limit = (is_numeric($instance['limit']) && $instance['limit'] >= 0) ? intval($instance['limit']) : 5;
$expand = (!isset($instance['expand'])) ? false : $instance['expand'];
echo $before_widget;
echo $before_title.$title.$after_title;
echo '
';
//the magic
global $wpdb;
$sqllimit = ($instance['limit'] > 0 && !$expand) ? " LIMIT ".$limit : '';
$authors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_author, (SELECT count(*) FROM $wpdb->posts wpp WHERE post_type = 'post' AND $wpdb->posts.post_author = wpp.post_author AND ".get_private_posts_cap_sql('post').") as weight FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND ".get_private_posts_cap_sql('post')." GROUP BY post_author ORDER BY weight*rand() DESC$sqllimit");
$i = 0;
foreach($authors as $author) {
echo ' 0 && $i >= $limit) echo ' class="hidden_author" style="display: none;"';
echo '>';
$author_info = get_userdata($author->post_author);
$name = ($author_info->first_name && $author_info->last_name) ? $author_info->first_name.' '.$author_info->last_name : $author_info->display_name;
if (isset($instance['gravatar']) && $instance['gravatar']) echo get_avatar($author_info->user_email,"16")." ";
echo 'display_name)).'">'.$name.'';
if (isset($instance['show_count']) && $instance['show_count']) echo " (".$author->weight.")";
echo "\n";
$i++;
}
if ($expand && $limit > 0 && $i > $limit) {
echo '