[wp-hackers] wp_list_authors and DB queries

[Bob]

Wow, that's great!  Thanks!  But how can I change the author's sort order? 
It seems to be ordered by ID.  Can it be sorted by display_name?

Bob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Concha" <alex at buayacorp.com>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] wp_list_authors and DB queries


> Bob escribió:
>> I wrote my own version of the widget/plugin.  I hardcoded an array with 
>> the
>> author IDs to display, then called get_userdata() and get_usernumposts() 
>> in
>> a foreach loop.  That cut the number of queries to 44, still 21 higher 
>> than
>> normal, and the time to 0.020 seconds more than normal.
>>
>> That's an improvement over the generic plugin, but I was hoping for 
>> better.
>> I'd appreciate it if anyone has any more suggestions.
>
> Look at the changes I made [1], it only uses one query (two if
> "show_fullname" is enabled) to do the same thing, but probably the
> plugin will fail (if database schema changes) in future versions of WP.
>
> [1] http://wordpress.pastebin.com/m6d2e537
>
> Regards
> -- 
> Alexander Concha
> http://www.buayacorp.com/
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