Brett Shumaker

No problem – happy you were able to get it working!

@kencooperjr

It would be on the “Templates” page in the WordPress admin – on your site it would likely be: https://bcmoaa.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=staff-member&page=staff-member-template. But the default template that comes with Simple Staff List does not include tables in the shortcode output.

If someone built your website for you, they may have set this up for you.

Below is the default template:

[staff_loop]
	<img class="staff-member-photo" src="[staff-photo-url]" alt="[staff-name] : [staff-position]">
	<div class="staff-member-info-wrap">
		[staff-name-formatted]
		[staff-position-formatted]
		[staff-bio-formatted]
		[staff-email-link]
	</div>
[/staff_loop]

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Brett Shumaker.

Hi @kencooperjr

It looks like the markup you’re using to style your staff members is the issue. You have them in a table, which is fine, but your <td> elements don’t have a width applied so it’s just going to fill the space it needs to display your content.

The fix is to give the <td> a width with:
`.staff-member tr td:first-child {
width: 25%; /** Use whatever value you’d like here **/
}`

Hope that helps!

No problem. I don’t believe you can delete a review – only modify it.

I appreciate that you’re looking at my plugin as a replacement, but I’ll let you know up front that you can’t (yet) sort staff by name. This was a lapse in foresight by a much less experienced me several years ago. And now with over 9000 active installs, making a change to split the staff member names parts out into their own fields requires great care as to not break anyone’s sites. But I am working on a way to do so – just not ready yet. ??

Thanks again!

No worries! ??

Hi @jefflabonte –
Thank you for your review. I agree that there are some improvements that could be made to this plugin, but as it is a hobby of mine it doesn’t always get as much attention as I’d like. The plugin code is available on GitHub and I’ll always welcome pull requests to make things better.

That being said, I sincerely hope you did not pay for this plugin as I’ve never sold it anywhere nor is it for sale here. It’s available to download for free here and on GitHub. The support here on www.remarpro.com is also free and done on a volunteer basis. I don’t see where you’ve opened any support topics on the www.remarpro.com forums, but if you do, I’ll do my best to assist you.

Thanks again for your review, but I do hope you’ll reconsider some of your comments here as it looks like you’ve potentially paid for a version of this plugin that may or may not be the same as what is available here on www.remarpro.com.

Hi @tejewell
I don’t currently have a way to import built into the plugin, but you can use a plugin like WP All Import to take your existing data (however you can export it from your existing site) and import it into the Staff Member custom post type. That plugin is really easy to use and have used it on multiple projects in the past (I didn’t write the plugin, nor did I use an affiliate link).

Glad I could help! ??

@norlink

I just had a little bit of time so I made a little custom plugin that adds that post nominal field and makes it available for you to use on the single staff member page.

https://gist.github.com/brettshumaker/84a206344961fb7a2206a94dee170029

I’ve tested this and it should work just fine. It will not, however, make your custom field available for output in the [simple-staff-list] shortcode output.

Ok, yeah it looks like at some point someone had made a custom metabox for a postnominal field on the Staff Member post type. I don’t have any specific code examples on how to add a custom metabox, but you’d use add_meta_box. But if you add one to the Staff Member post type, and save your input with something like update_post_meta( '_staff_member_postnominal', $value ); inside the ‘save_post’ hook, it should work again.

Does that help?

Hello Leanne –
I’m pretty sure I’ve never included a Post Nominal field in the plugin. Are you sure you hadn’t customized it at some point to add a new field?

Do you have a url where I can view the existing staff list with the post nominal letters for the staff?

Thanks!

?? Glad I could help!

Hey @amybryde

You can add the search term by adding this bit of code where ever you want to display it on the page: <?php echo $PartNum; ?>

Glad I could help! ??

@americancoatings – After taking a quick look in your site, it looks like your site was built by The Web Development Group and they had done (a really nice) custom integration of my plugin with your site. You’ll need to reach out to them to see if they’ll fix their integration.

Sorry I can’t be more help here.

Hmm. Yeah, if you add a user for the email address [email protected] I can take a quick look and see if I can figure out what’s going on for you.

Thanks!