Elected officials page…any ideas

[rstyner]

Hey guys,

I just read this thread (http://www.studiopress.community/topic/magazine-theme-need-to-put-up-pict-of-board-members/) to see if it would help with my idea but wanted some input.

I want to have elected officials on my site be actual members that I register manually (gonna call them honorary members) and will categorize them into groups (City Officials, County Officials, State Officials and National Officials (national being the Preisident etc).

Would that be a good idea or would it be better to just do them in posts under the proper categories? What do you guys think would be best?

P.S. I got the idea from (http://www.gagop.org/elected/us-congress/) but I just don't like the way it looks and would like it to look and operate more professionally.

[AnitaC]

You can use the free version of Connections to do that - http://wordpress.org/plugins/connections/. Although it's called a Business Directory - it can showcase of directory of any types of individuals as well.

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[rstyner]

Thanks anitac, I tried it but it looks bad not matching my site. Is there some way to just lay it out on a page that's simple without adding more stuff to the site, or maybe something more lightweight I guess?

[AnitaC]

You can create a gallery using Media and add their names and titles in the Caption area. That might layout nicely for you.

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[rstyner]

Ah thank you that's perfect for our local officers.

Now what do you think about the state and national officials (President, Vice President, House, Senate etc). I would like for them each to have their own page for some photos and details. But also want to have them all on one main page with a photo, some text and a "Read More" link.

Here's a better example of what I am trying to accomplish. http://www.gop.com/our-party/leadership/ Notice how you can click their name and it takes you to their own page.

[rstyner]

Oh, about the gallery. Should I use some kind of plugin? What's good?

[AnitaC]

The way they've set up the elected officials is by giving each one a page, adding the Read More to generate the "read more" link. Then generated one page like you want. You might want to use Widgets on Pages plugin - http://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-on-pages/ to generate the page with everyone.

As for the Gallery, that's a native function already inside WordPress.

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