wp-admin/includes/export.php:404Outputs list of authors with posts.
$post_idsint[]optionalnull function wxr_authors_list( ?array $post_ids = null ) { global $wpdb; if ( ! empty( $post_ids ) ) { $post_ids = array_map( 'absint', $post_ids ); $and = 'AND ID IN ( ' . implode( ', ', $post_ids ) . ')'; } else { $and = ''; } $authors = array(); $results = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT DISTINCT post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status != 'auto-draft' $and" ); foreach ( (array) $results as $result ) { $authors[] = get_userdata( $result->post_author ); } $authors = array_filter( $authors ); foreach ( $authors as $author ) { echo "\t<wp:author>"; echo '<wp:author_id>' . (int) $author->ID . '</wp:author_id>'; echo '<wp:author_login>' . wxr_cdata( $author->user_login ) . '</wp:author_login>'; echo '<wp:author_email>' . wxr_cdata( $author->user_email ) . '</wp:author_email>'; echo '<wp:author_display_name>' . wxr_cdata( $author->display_name ) . '</wp:author_display_name>'; echo '<wp:author_first_name>' . wxr_cdata( $author->first_name ) . '</wp:author_first_name>'; echo '<wp:author_last_name>' . wxr_cdata( $author->last_name ) . '</wp:author_last_name>'; echo "</wp:author>\n"; } }Introduced in 3.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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