Trying to change display order or items on page

[nickc25]

Hi

There is currently a page on wordpress called "authors.php" which lists each author and their information by join date. So basically the latest person to join is shown at the top, even if they have written NO articles!

I would like to change this so that they are sorted by the date of their last post. Is this possible and if so how?

Copy of authors.php here

<?php
/**
* Displays a grid of authors.
* 
* Called by accessing /authors, which is a custom rewrite rule in functions.php
* 
* @package Wordpress
* @subpackage Anfield Index
* @author Tim Carr
* @version 1
* @copyright n7 Studios
*/

global $paywallPro;

?>
<section id="authors">
    <?php
    // Get authors, paginated
    $authors = get_users_of_blog(); // Note: will need changing for 3.1 to work
    foreach ($authors as $key=>$author) {
        if (count_user_posts($author->user_id) > 0) $authorIDs[$key] = $author->user_id;
    }
    rsort($authorIDs); // Sort IDs highest to lowest i.e. newest to oldest

$totalAuthors = count($authorIDs);
$paged = get_query_var('paged');
$authorsPerPage = ((get_option('posts_per_page') % 2) > 0) ? get_option('posts_per_page') + 1 : get_option('posts_per_page'); // Ensure it is an even number for the grid
$startKey = (($paged == 0) ? 0 : ($paged-1)*$authorsPerPage);
$endKey = ($startKey + $authorsPerPage);
$count = 0;

for ($i = $startKey; $i < $endKey; $i++) {
    if ($authorIDs[$i] == '') continue;
    $user = get_userdata($authorIDs[$i]);
    $userposts = get_posts('author='.$authorIDs[$i]);
    $totalPosts = count($userposts);
    $count++;

    ?>
    <article class="<?php echo (($i % 2) > 0 ? 'grid end' : 'grid'); ?>">
        <header>
            <h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/author/<?php echo $user->user_login; ?>" title="View Posts by <?php echo $user->display_name; ?>"><?php echo $user->display_name; ?></a></h1>
            <ul>
                <li><time datetime="<?php echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($user->user_registered)).'T'.date('H:i', strtotime($user->user_registered)); ?>" pubdate>Joined <?php echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime($user->user_registered)); ?></time></li>
                <li class="comments"><?php echo $totalPosts; ?> Posts</li>
            </ul>
        </header> 
        <div class="content">
            <p>
                <?php echo get_avatar($user->user_email, '40'); ?>
                <?php echo ($user->description != '' ? $user->description : 'This user hasn\'t added a description about themselves yet.'); ?>
            </p>
            <p><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/author/<?php echo $user->user_login; ?>" title="View Posts by <?php echo $user->display_name; ?>" class="button">Read Blog &raquo;</a></p>
        </div>
    </article>
    <?php
}
wp_reset_query();
?>

<!-- Nav: Pagination --> 
<nav id="pagination">
    <ul>
        <?php if ($startKey > 0) { ?><li id="newer"><?php previous_posts_link('&laquo; Newer Entries') ?></li><?php } ?>
        <?php if ($totalAuthors > $endKey) { ?><li id="older"><?php next_posts_link('Older Entries &raquo;') ?></li><?php } ?>
    </ul>
</nav>
</section>

Thanks

[jgetner]

you will need to find the authorIDs query and order it by date.

[nickc25]

jgetner;10977836 wrote:

you will need to find the authorIDs query and order it by date.

Thanks for the reply. How would I go about doing that? I'm a bit ofna php novice! Thanks

[nickc25]

jgetner;10977836 wrote:

you will need to find the authorIDs query and order it by date.

Hi

Your original post came via email:

sort($authorIDs , SORT_LOCALE_STRING);

but make sure your locale date and time are correct or is set period

I did this and it has sorted it in a different way than before, but I am not sure what yet!

The URL that the authors is www.anfieldindex.com/authors

It has sorted it better than before but its not by their last post date as the person with the last post (AI team) is a little down the page.

In wonder also maybe there is a way to sort it on number of posts, so the person with most articles is first on the list? Preferably it would be in order of who made the last post though but it might be nice to have the option.

Thanks for the help here. I need to try and figure out what it is sorting it by now though. Maybe there is something I missed. Nick

[nickc25]

Is anyone able to help? Thanks