A very light-weight plugin, designed to easily create and manage a staff directory on your WordPress theme. Admins can manage staff records by importing (from CSV) or editing records individually. Record columns may be reordered (or hidden). Directory is sortable by column header, paginated, searchable, and customizable (by subset of records or number of records per page) using simple shortcode attributes.
Simple, Straight-Forward
The plugin is very light-weight, but robust. It allows for the individual management of staff directory records, or append/replace using a simple CSV (comma-separated variables) document or Excel Spreadsheet.
- Update five standard fields for each staff record (last name, first name, department, email, phone number)
- Import from CSV or XLS allows administrators to keep their staff directory maintained, either by appending new records, or replacing the entire directory with an updated list
- Fields are not required (and may be left blank) for general department mailboxes or numbers
- Updates are performed on-the-fly, so no lengthy reloads are necessary
- Design is split into separate stylesheet for ease of theming
- No edit links or popups, just make your changes in-line
- Case-insensitive substring search, with highlighted matches on front end
- Uses jQuery/AJAX for page handling, sorting & searching without pageload (either on type, on enter, or both)
- Tipsy is incorporated for contact cards, to display additional information about each StaffList record
- StaffList can be placed into content editor using the shortcode [stafflist]
- Multiple StaffLists are supported in a single page and are customizable by shortcode attribute (e.g.: [stafflist subset=”department:marketing”])
- Language is customizable for standard column labels and other messaging
StaffList Public Demo
A demo of this plugin can be found on the developer’s site:
http://www.era404.com/info/stafflist-demo/
3rd Party Services
Be advised about the 3rd Party libraries used by this plugin.
- SimpleXLS, SimpleXLSX, SimpleCSV, SimpleXLSXGen: Spreadsheet utilities written and maintained by Sergey Shuchkin protected by MIT License.
- Tippy.js: A tooltip, popover, dropdown, and menu library also protected by MIT License.
Screenshots
The backend directory manager, for adding or modifying records individually
The backend directory manager, for importing a full directory list from CSV
The backend directory manager, for choosing and ordering your columns
The contact card displays additional information about each contact record
Example of a directory search
Customizing the front-end language (e.g.: Last Name --> Surname)