PowerPack Author List widget helps you display your WordPress site's authors impressively. It comes with a power of customer query that enables you to create a dedicated author page and exclude authors on the page as per your requirements.
Let's take a closer look at the Author List Widget in detail:
Content tab of the Author List Widget#
The content tab of the Author List Widget consists of 2 sections:
- General
- Layout
Let us now go over each of these sections in more detail:
General#
- Source: Choose a source for fetching your site authors on the page. You can select Custom Query as a source, and the option will automatically display a list of authors on the page.
Further, you get the option to exclude authors as per your preference.
If you want to create a manual list, you can select the Manual Selection as a source option.
- Order By: Create a customized author list by choosing from the multiple ordering options like User Login, Email, User ID, etc.
- Order: Choose your author list in ascending or descending order.
Layout#
- Layout: Choose List or Grid layout for the author list display.
- Elements Position: Choose elements position to be stacked or inline.
- Author Name: Select the author name display from the available options. You can check the screenshot below to see the options.
- Avatar Type: Choose the avatar type for your authors. You can select the standard Gravatt option or upload a custom icon.
- Post Count: Enable this option to display the number of posts of the respective author.
- Role: Enabling this option will display the role of the author.
- Email: If you want to display your site authors' email addresses, toggle on this option.
- Author Bio: Enable this option to showcase your site authors' bio.
Style Tab of the Author List Widget#
In the Style tab, you get styling options to customize every single element of the Author List Widget, and this tab consists of 8 sections:
- Layout
- Items
- Avatar
- Name
- Posts Count
- Role
- Author Description
Layout#
- Rows Gap: Adjust the gap between the rows using this option.
Items#
In the Items subjection, you get the option to customize the items by changing their background color, adding Border, adjusting Border Radius, Padding, etc.
Avatar#
In the Avatar subsection, you can adjust the size of avatars, add Border Radius and adjust the Spacing.
Name#
You can customize your authors' names by changing color and altering typography.
Post Counts, Role, Email, & Author Description#
Further, you get styling options to customize the background color, typography, spacing, padding, etc., of elements such as post counts, role, email, and author description.
This was a detailed overview of the PowerPack Author List Widget for Elementor.
Hope this helps!
