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Wordpress Author Search Suggest

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If your site also has registered users that aren't authors, you might have to modify this to cross-reference the usermeta table. Otherwise, this should work pretty well.

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  1. <?
  2.     $term = $_GET['s'];
  3.     $res = mysql_query("select * from wp_users where display_name like '%$term%'");
  4.     if ($res) {
  5.     	?>
  6.     	<p><strong>Were you looking for:</strong></p>
  7.     	<ul>
  8.     	<?
  9.     	while($author = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
  10.     		$shortname = strtolower($author['user_login']);
  11.     		?>
  12.     		<li><a href="<? bloginfo('home'); ?>/author/<? echo $shortname; ?>/"><? echo $author['display_name']; ?></a></li> <!-- may vary based on permalink structure -->
  13.     		<?
  14.     	}
  15.     	?>
  16.     	</ul>
  17.     	<?
  18.     }
  19. ?>

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