need a foolproof way of making a list of people

  • Hi
    I need a way of easily entering a list of people with the following info:

    • Name
    • Photo
    • Short “about”
    • email
    • website

    I would like my friend, for whom I am building the site, to be able to add to and edit this list. If I lay it out in divs or tables, this isn’t going to work. Is there a plugin that can do this, in the same way as eg quotescollection or gigpress can for quotes and gigs (ie through panels on the admin and shortcoded pages rather than by directly editing posts/pages?) Or any other suggestions gratefully received.

    Thanks
    Julia

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  • You’ve already got most of this and more in the Default WP user profiles. You don’t have a field for an image but you can add that without too much trouble. Now, when you say that your friend needs to edit the list do you mean that your friend needs to edit the content of the list items above or that your friends needs to add new list items, like say an item for ‘Pet Name’ or ‘Favorite Color’? Either is do-able, but of course the latter is harder.

    If I lay it out in divs or tables, this isn’t going to work.

    Yes it will, if you dynamically create the divs or tables.

    Thread Starter juliageek

    (@juliageek)

    Thanks for the speedy response.
    So I could make the user profiles show on the site…I’ll look into that. (The names in question aren’t actually users, but associate artists, but of course I didn’t think out of the box like that).

    Yes, I can dynamically create the divs or tables, I was just thinking that it’s a sure way of busting a page if you leave them in place for an editor to work with directly on the page edit area.

    Thank you for this.

    Thread Starter juliageek

    (@juliageek)

    sorry, and I meant my friend will be changing content from time to time and adding new people, not changing or adding fields.

    So I could make the user profiles show on the site…

    Yes. You’ll need to work some code into a template file– artists.php or something.

    Yes, I can dynamically create the divs or tables, I was just thinking that it’s a sure way of busting a page if you leave them in place for an editor to work with directly on the page edit area.

    Yeah, you don’t want to write the code into the edit form. Really, by default, you can’t dynamically create content that way anyway. PHP won’t execute if entered into the editing forms. A plugin like PHPExec will let you insert PHP into those forms though. Still, not a good idea unless your editors are also programmers.

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