A page that contains an index of people profiles? Help needed…

  • I have a drop down menu with a sub page titled “profiles”. I want this page to contain a list of names, like an index that links to their profiles.
    From reading the forum I see this method – or is this wrong ….
    1. Create a category – “profiles”
    2. Add each profile as a post entry to that category. Also each entry needs to be custom fields, such as education, jobs, etc.
    3. On my “profiles” I call up a template – say “profile-template-page” that is really the archives.php page duplicate. So now “profiles” page lists the profile entries under the category.

    This is where i now go wrong. I cannot get the page to show a list of names – it just displays an archive link top the category – “profiles”. Also how do I excude all these post entries for this category from going to the real blog page.

    … Or is this the wrong direction – using archives to creat this list? Help needed urgent. Sorry the site is not online yet – I am building locally.

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  • Try setting up a custom page template that uses wp_list_authors().

    Thread Starter emptymindfilms

    (@emptymindfilms)

    Thank you, but I do not think we can use an author to write each post.

    The posts are a list of people – about 100 or so with profiles that need 5 or 6 custom fields. I am trying to get a page that just makes a list of these taken from the category. The list will grow or be added to by staff members.

    I can hard code a link on the page to each profile (post) but that is my last option.

    Can this be done using a category page?

    You could try setting up a category template to handle it.

    Thread Starter emptymindfilms

    (@emptymindfilms)

    Well I found a plug in – and it worked exactly. Here it is index of posts.
    Thanks.

    Thread Starter emptymindfilms

    (@emptymindfilms)

    I am also looking at your idea using wp_list_authors().

    Any idea how I could list these on a page a in defined groups according to the states they are from? Like New York… then a list?

    If I add the people as authors I wonder what power thjis gives me to index them on a page with a link to their profile (which would be a post).

    My last question is to define 5 or 6 custome fields for the profile – I tried the plug ins such as Custom Fields but was not impressed.

    Thanks for the help.

    Thread Starter emptymindfilms

    (@emptymindfilms)

    I put the site online so you can see the problem – site example.

    Two ‘authors’ are listed – one has a profile (post) but clicking this does not take me to that post direct – which is what I want.

    Second, I need to put the authors into categories per state, is there a way to do this?

    I am using more fields plugin to create the profiles.

    thanks

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