I don't know how it chooses which author to display
Random selection.
To show all authours instead only one, a slight hack to PHP code is needed. So far we do not have this as the option, but the easiest thing to do would be:
1. Open HTML_Function.php
On line 386 (approx.) locate the function HTML_Featured_Author() which returns random author. Instead of returning only one random author - here's code to fetch all authors:
function HTML_Featured_Author()
{
global $url, $tpl_folder,$lang,$showFriendlyURL;
global $db_users, $user_connection;
$user = new Users();
$user->query_list();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($user->query_result))
{
$user->GetIdFromRow($row);
$user->LoadFromDatebase();
$author = $user->Username;
$full_name = $user->First_name.' '.$user->Last_name;
if ($full_name==' ') $full_name=$author;
if ($showFriendlyURL<>"no") {
$author='<a href="'.$url.'author/'.urldecode($author).'.html">'.$full_name.'</a>';
} else {
$author='<a href=index.php?author='.urldecode($author).'>'.$fu ll_name.'</a>';
}
$picture = $user->Picture;
$view_picture=$url."authors/".$picture;
if ($picture=="" or !file_exists(getcwd().'/authors/'.$picture))
$view_picture=$url."files/spacer.gif";
else {
$vp_size = getimagesize($view_picture);
$vp_aspc = $vp_size[0] / $vp_size[1];
$vp_width = min(100,$vp_size[0]);
$vp_height = min($vp_width/$vp_aspc,$vp_size[1]);
$view_picture.='" width="'.$vp_width.'" height="'.$vp_height;
}
$filename="$tpl_folder/box_featuredAuthor.tpl";
$subject=file_get_contents($filename);
$pattern=array(
'/{VIEW_PICTURE}/',
'/{BIO}/',
'/{AUTHOR}/',
);
$replacement=array(
$view_picture,
$user->Bio,
$author,
);
$show_author_of_the_day_HTML.=preg_replace($patter n, $replacement, $subject);
}
return $show_author_of_the_day_HTML;
}
If you compare this to original code, you'll notice that we only placed $user->query_list(); call instead of $user->FeaturedAuthor(); and while loop to iterate thru all users.
2. Edit Templates/box_featuredAuthor.tpl and adjust it to your needs.
Hope this helped