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# Authors dropdown

- URL: https://getpublii.com/dev/authors-dropdown/
- Published: 2019-03-23T13:59:53.750Z
- Updated: 2025-01-18T21:24:44.425Z
- Description: The authors dropdown can be used for a situations where you want to allow users of your theme to use a specific relation to the…
- Author: Tomasz Dziuda
- Tags: Fields, Theme Settings API

The authors dropdown can be used for a situations where you want to allow users of your theme to use a specific relation to the given author.

It can be used e.g. to specify an author which will be used to create posts listing:

```json

{
     "name": "listingAuthor",
     "label": "Post listing",
     "group": "Layout",
     "note": "Creates a list of posts from the selected author",
     "value": "",
     "type": "authors-dropdown",
     "multiple": false
}
```

![Authors dropdown list](https://getpublii.com/dev/media/posts/122/authors-dropdown.svg)

The authors dropdown returns the ID of the selected tag as a value. If the **multiple** option is set to **true**, then string with IDs separated by comma is returned.