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August 28, 2015 at 5:07 am

Hi Ellen,

1) Currently people can only be ordered by using the Order boxes in the event editor, add numbers in each box to define order (1 being at the top).

2) Can you clarify, do you mean exclude individuals or hide the full list?

Regarding the excerpts etc.

Would also be great if you could show full entry on event page

The single event pages use the “short biography” section in the Person editor. While deemed short, you can put a lot of text here.

However! If this is used, it is also used on the /people/ page without excerpt, so be aware of that.

and a longer excerpt on ‘all’ people page

Actually, the plugin shows the full description here, but it is theme dependant so your theme is likely over ruling and changing the length of what is shown. I would check your theme settings to see if there are any options regarding excerpt length.

However, you could use this function in a Site Specific Plugin (https://eventespresso.com/wiki/create-site-specific-plugin-wordpress-site/) to force the excerpt length:

  	function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	    global $post;
	    if ($post->post_type == 'espresso_people') {
	    	return 20;
	    }
	    else {
	    	return 80;
	    }
	}
	add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

So 20 is for People, and 80 for everything else (characters, not words) so these are the values you would need to change.

August 31, 2015 at 5:07 am

Hi,

Sort of:

function order_people_by_first_name_az( $query ) {

    if ( $query->is_post_type_archive( 'espresso_people' ) ){
		$query->set('orderby', 'title');
		$query->set('order', 'ASC');
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'order_people_by_first_name_az', 1 );

Right now there is no post meta, so it’s impossible to hack the query and order by meta, which is why it’s ordering by first name.

We have a feature request ticket open asking for more options regarding this so I will add your plus 1 to it.

Regarding a title, the People “page” is in fact an archive page so it isn’t a page at all but dynamically generated by WordPress.

Most themes add some sort of title, usually Archive or PostType Archive, yours doesn’t.

I couldn’t find any filters/hooks to insert one though I may have overlooked it.

September 1, 2015 at 5:40 am

Hi,

No problem!

It didn’t work most likely because People is not a taxonomy like Categories, but a custom post type, like Posts.