Recent Members, Recent Authors

Producing a list of members who've recently signed in is probably going to require access to the internal activity log data, and I'm fairly sure there's nothing around that'll do that for you currently. Interesting idea, though. It probably wouldn't take much to create a plugin to get at that information if you poke the right person, though.

"Authors who recently posted" should in theory(meaning I'm passing through and can't actually try it right now) be nothing more than duplicating the Recent Entries code and outputting mt:EntryAuthor instead of post titles. If that doesn't work, what does come out?

I'm not quite sure I follow what you're referring to regarding header/footer tags. In the context of what kind of listing? Some of the core loops don't have specific Header/Footer containers, but they do all now have access to the meta-variables, so that's one way of accomplishing the same thing.

Thanks Su, the recent entries widget code looks like this:

<mt:IfNonZero tag="BlogEntryCount"> <mt:Entries lastn="10"> <mt:EntriesHeader> <div class="widget-recent-entries widget-archives widget"> <h3 class="widget-header">Recent Entries</h3> <div class="widget-content"> <ul class="widget-list"> </mt:EntriesHeader> <li class="widget-list-item"><a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a></li> <mt:EntriesFooter> </ul> </div> </div> </mt:EntriesFooter> </mt:Entries> </mt:IfNonZero>

And the recent authors code I tried to create (not having any idea what I'm doing) looks like this:

<mt:IfNonZero tag="BlogAuthorCount"> <mt:Authors lastn="10" sort_order="descend">

<div class="widget-new-users widget"> <h3 class="widget-header">New Users</h3> <div class="widget-content"> <ul class="new-users-list">

        <li><a href="<mt:AuthorURL />"><mt:AuthorDisplayName /></a></li>

    </ul>
</div>

</div>

</mt:Authors>

</mt:IfNonZero>

I've included the Recent Authors widget in the Home Page Widgets group, so if it were working, it should show up on the home page, right?

Hmm.. will try that again. The encoding of the code didn't seem to take the last time.

The recent authors code I tried to create looks like this:

<mt:IfNonZero tag="BlogAuthorCount"> <mt:Authors lastn="10" sort_order="descend">
<div class="widget-new-users widget"> <h3 class="widget-header">New Users</h3> <div class="widget-content"> <ul class="new-users-list"> <li><a href="<mt:AuthorURL />"><mt:AuthorDisplayName /></a></li>
</ul> </div> </div>
</mt:Authors> </mt:IfNonZero>

Okay, I see what you were doing. You were inverting things in the wrong spot. The Authors tag doesn't have a "recently" attribute, so we're not going to use that at all. We're still going to be "listing" recent entries but showing the author information instead:

<MTEntries lastn="10">
<p><$MTEntryAuthorDisplayName$></p>
</MTEntries>