Hi, Dear users of WordPress Tooltip , hope this message find you are doing well and having happy days with your family 🙂 In last weeks, we got a lot of request / ticket to ask us can we use wordpress glossary function to build a directory, or a few more tickets tell us they want to use our directory plugin, for example:
Greetings! Back in 2015, our site installed a WP Member Directory for me (that I can see originated from WordPress ToolTips.). The customized it to my settings and interconnected with my Infusionsoft/Keap account (where I house contact details and tags that affect presentation in the Directory).
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> QUESTION: I have version 1.0 installed, yet 1.3.1 is current – BUT updating to current broke its functioning. IF I buy/acquire the plug in from you, is there further detail I can glean about it’s functioning… that would allow MY tech guy to be able to update/understand HOW it works?
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> Is there more I can learn about this from you?
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> Please let me know. Thank you!
Yes, many years before, we do developed a member directory plugin via our original wordpress glossary solution, based on a few user’s request, our plugin are driven by user needs, we update it to version 1.3.1, then we did not get more user’s feedback, so we stopped upgrade it, we are happy to know there are users need it, and there are new feature request, we’d like upgrade for the great user. 🙂 Since 2015, our glossary plugin have been upgraded rapidly, so if we move these functions to member directory plugin, that may need many days, so we think about add member directory function to wordpress glossary section.
And then we got a few more user’s request about build directory based on wordpress tooltip and glossary functionality, for example:
“I was wondering if I can embed a directory of the glossary (One category) on a page, too.
For example, I made a category with a name of (Body parts names) I want to embed this specific category, only, to a specific page then to create another category called (Everyday use words)
then embed it to my lesson page related to this category…”
And a few more ticket related with use wordpress glossary functions to build directory in their tooltip site, it seems there are a lot of similar needs in user side , our developer decide add directory functions in wordpress tooltips too, just like we added glossary functions in wordpress tooltip plugin, based on many user’s request, and then many user said they love our glossary function and some of them said it is the best glossary functions they have ever used, we believe we can build good directory functions for wordpress tootltip users too, this version, we just add member directory function first, and then we will add more and more directory functions for wordpress tooltip admins, for example, business directory…etc 🙂
That’s why we released wordpress tooltips pro plugin 18.3.8 and wordpress tooltips plugin 16.2.2 and wordpress tooltip free 8.1.9 🙂
What is member directory?
Member directory is a list of members in your site, along with user name, user description, contact information…etc
How to build a member directory quickly?
1: click download wordpress tooltip to download latest version of wordpress tooltip lugin
2: upload the wordpress tooltip zip file into your wordpress site via wordpress plugins panel
3: activate wordpress tooltip plugin and click Tooltips menu item in wordpress dashboard
4: click member directory sub menu item, it looks like this:
member directory global settings in wordpress tooltip plugin
5: As you can see, you will open member directory global settings panel, in which you can enable member directory or disable functions of member directory, also you can decide which user roles will be added into the member directory list, for example, you can just add authors into member directory to build a wordpress authro wall for your site, or you can just add teachers directory of your LMS system for your students…etc 🙂
6: In front-end, you can just insert the shortcode “member_directory” in any wordpress post, then you will find member directory which looks like this:
member directory orange style via wordpress tooltip
As you can see, users can click the letter on the Navigation bar to open the list of users starting with that letter.
In the left column of the directory, we display the user name, in the right column of the member directory, we display user information and details of the user information, the user information is come from the biographical info field in wordpress user profile panel, it looks like this:
user profile of wordpress tooltip user
Once user change their information in wordpress user profile, wordpress tooltip will display the new user information in member directory too 🙂
In next version, we will add more options to help wordpress tooltip admin decide which user fields should be displayed in member directory 🙂
7: You can easily to custom the style from the wordpress glossary settings panel, the glossary settings panel looks like this:
glossary custom panel in wordpress glossary 16.0.8
As you can see, you can customize member-directory font background, border color, navigation, search form…etc in here, we believe we can re-use the same settings with glossary section, if we need dedicated settings for member-directory, we will build new panel for member-directory in the future 🙂
8: A faster method to change style for member directory is use our built-in template, for example, one click to change from orange template to gray template, then it looks like this:
member directory gray template in wordpress tooltip
Conclusion:
WordPress tooltip plugin support build member directory via “member_directory” shortcode, wordpress tooltip admin can decide which user roles will displayed in wordpress member directory, and wordpress tooltip admin can customize memebr directory via glossary settings panel to select a pretty build-in member directory template, or customize a unique style for each elements of the directory. In the next steps, we will add more and more directory into wordpress tooltip glossary plugin, if you have any more feature request, please just tell us, we are happy to realize it and offer a discount for you, thanks, have a blessed day with your family 🙂
This actually answered my question, thanks!