Would this also be a way to calculate and display “Firstname Lastname” rather than the two separate fields? I’d like to be able to display alphabetized but conventionally displayed names without using two separate columns.
We’re using a plugin called Media Library Assistant (MLA) to manage images and import image metadata into WordPress, and one key field for image files is “PersonInImage” (populated by photoshop and other image software). Since the people in the images are the same people as the ones listed in our Participants Database, I’m thinking about ways to coordinate the two datasets. It should be possible to use MLA to create a tag cloud of names (pulled from the image attachment metadata) and set the links to the pdb single record page. Then the MLA gallery shortcode could generate a gallery of all images in which that person is tagged. I haven’t looked very far into the single record page yet, but it’s dynamically generated, yes? So I can create one page with the rules for what should display for each individual’s record?
I guess it does make more sense to manage calculated data (like age, or this combination of two fields) on the display end, rather than in a distinct field.