Creating a dropdown in menu that lists authors

GOT IT! YAY! Thanks so much for your help! I really appreciate it! Here is the code I used. Only thing I cannot get to work is excluding the admin, but that isnt a huge deal. Thanks so much!!

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'wps_nav_authors', 10, 2 );
function wps_nav_authors ( $items, $args ) {
    if ( $args->theme_location == 'primary') {
        $items .= '<li><a href="#">Authors</a><ul class="sub-menu"><li>' . wp_list_authors('show_fullname=1&optioncount=0&exclude_admin=0&orderby=post_count&order=DESC&number=8&echo=0') . '</li></ul></li>';
    }
    return $items;
}

Isn’t that the same code I posted in my seventh post? Well besides the &exclude_admin=0 part any how. Also is it live on the site because I don’t see it right now.

And by defualt “exclude_admin” is set to 1 which is true meaning it excludes the admin. You are setting it to 0 with make the statement false so it will not exclude the admin.

ya no i tried not putting it, i tried setting it to 1, i tried setting it to 0, nothing worked..the admin is still showing up..really strange
Just happens i posted the one where i set to 0 lol

It is not on the site. I actually was just testing it on my personal site. I needed the code for a client and couldnt get it to work. They actually only have one menu so it probably would have been fine but i didnt want it to break if they added another menu down the line. I really appreciate all of your help!

it is almost exactly the code you had except you were missing the = after $items .

should be $items .=

Yeah your right, yeah my brain wasn’t working that night… to late.

It looks like exclude_admin only works if the admin’s login user name is admin. Is the admin’s name admin?

It is

I actually changed it to show up as FAV because i couldnt get it to not show up

Hi guys!

I’ve been trying to achieve exactly what RaiderKat needs, and so far, no luck!

I’ve added this code to my functions.php, but no luck.

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'wps_nav_authors', 10, 2 );
function wps_nav_authors ( $items, $args ) {
    if ( $args->theme_location == 'primary') {
        $items .= '<li><a href="#">Authors</a><ul class="sub-menu"><li>' . wp_list_authors('show_fullname=1&optioncount=0&exclude_admin=0&orderby=post_count&order=DESC&number=8&echo=0') . '</li></ul></li>';
    }
    return $items;
}

Was this code customized to work only with your example, or is it supposed to work everywhere?

Thanks!!

Eric

Erik it should work for anyone. Only issue i’m having is for some reason its putting an extra

<li>

[Moderator note: In future please wrap all code in backticks]

at the beginning..i’m not sure why. Trying to figure it out now.

Only thing you need to do is specify the theme location and it should work for you.

How to find the theme location? Primary gives no result.
I’ve tried with array('menu' => 'Project Nav' )); also, and no result.
Thanks for the help!!
E.

Of course, you put an extra li, because “Authors” has to be a new list element in the menu, at the same time containing the ul class submenu and the li elements of the different authors (to make the dropdown). All this makes total sense to me. Is on the pure php part that I get lost… And so far no luck

Hi guys!

I got it working by adding the !is_admin() and pasting the code into nav.php and not functions.php. Also, I’m using Roots.io starter theme, thats why the extra classes on link and list elements.

Hope it saves somebody’s ass at some point! : )

function add_last_nav_item($items, $args) {
  if (!is_admin() && $args->theme_location == 'primary_navigation') {
    $items .= '<li><a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" data-target="#" href="#">Autoren <b class="caret"></b></a><ul class="dropdown-menu"><li>' . wp_list_authors('show_fullname=1&optioncount=0&exclude_admin=0&orderby=post_count&order=DESC&number=8&echo=0') . '</li></ul></li>';
  }
  return $items;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_last_nav_item', 10, 2 );