How to show custom field information on Archive page

[sstoker]

Hello all,

I have bumped into an issue I am not able to resolve and I'm hoping that perhaps someone here can point me in the right direction. I've built a site (hardcrackers.com) using the genesis sample child theme. The site is for a political journal and the posts are articles written by numerous different people. However, there are just three of us that actually post those articles on the site. To prevent the author field on each of the articles constantly showing the name of the posters, rather than the actual authors, I made a custom field, using the following code in my functions.php file.

/*Add guest-author custom field*/
add_filter( 'the_author', 'guest_author_name' );
add_filter( 'get_the_author_display_name', 'guest_author_name' );
function guest_author_name( $name ) {
global $post;
$author = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'guest-author', true );
if ( $author )
$name = $author;
return $name;
}

This has worked great for this particular problem. However, I am currently building the archive page and I'd like to show a list of the authors whose names were entered into the custom fields that links to a page with everything they have written. I've researched the matter a bit and am unable to find any sort of solution thus far. Does anyone out there have any ideas of how best to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

Best,

Sam

https://hardcrackers.com

[Brad Dalton]

This is not a archive page in the sense it doesn't use the WordPress Template Hierarchy to load the page.

What you're doing is creating a custom page template were you want to list authors with a link to their posts.

If its only 3 authors you can hard code the links.

If its dynamic, you can use wp_list_authors

or you can use get_users
or you can use WP_User_Query

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