Employee Spotlight offers very EASY to use yet POWERFUL employee profile management system with enterprise level features. Using Employee Spotlight you can display your employees, team members, staff, founders, partners and more.
Displaying team members, staff, founder or partner photos on your website and providing bios help you get personal with customers and make it easy for them to connect with your team. Employee Spotlight offers 5 great ways to display your team members or staff profiles:
Employee Circle Grid : Team members or staff name and photo.
Employee Circle Panel Grid : Team members or staff name, photo, social and contact links on hover and brief bio.
Stacked view: Team members or staff name, photo, email and location. Used for team member, staff, founder or partner archives or employee tags and employee locations.
Profile view: Team members or staff name, photo, social and contact links and employee tags and employee locations.
Recent and Featured Team members, staff sidebar widgets display photo and name; all linking to team member profile
There are many customization options available in the plugin settings to make it match to your needs. Once you install and activate the plugin you will see many resources in the getting started section. Pro edition offers enterprise level, best in class features every modern organization needs.
Display 15 team members(employees) in one page, with no pagination. [employee_circle_grid filter=”misc::posts_per_page::is::15;misc::has_pages::is::false;”]
Display 5 team members(employees) per page. If you have more than 5 team members(employees), it will display a page navigation bar: [employee_circle_grid filter=”misc::posts_per_page::is::5;”]
Display team members(employees) with locations in “Miami”. [employee_circle_grid filter=”tax::office_locations::is::miami;”]
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Installation
The simplest way to install is to click on ‘Plugins’ then ‘Add’ and type ‘Employee Spotlight’ in the search field.
Manual Installation Type 1
Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
Click the Add New button.
Under Install Plugins, click the Upload link.
Select the plugin zip file from your computer then click the Install Now button.
You should see a message stating that the plugin was installed successfully.
Click the Activate Plugin link.
Manual Installation Type 2
You should have access to the server where WordPress is installed. If you don’t, see your system administrator.
Copy the plugin zip file up to your server and unzip it somewhere on the file system.
Copy the “employee-spotlight” folder into the /wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress installation.
Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
Look for “Employee Spotlight” and click Activate.
Screenshots
Displays responsive employee circle panel grid in 4 column large screen layout with page navigation. Column size changes on smaller screen sizes. Featured and recent employee sidebar widgets.
Employee circle grid view with page navigation. Border can be changed or disabled from Plugin Settings page. When border color changes, it changes in every view.
Each employee profile resides in its own page with full information. Edit in one place, display it everywhere. Comes with a setup assistant which creates all available pages when used.
Edit each employee profile with a simple interface. PRO version allows to set order of the profile displayed and shows the order in all view layouts
Employee Directory Pro Edition is the most advanced company directory and event management solution ever built for WordPress - designed and developed without writing single line of PHP code
Create and selectively display custom fields easily, set slugs for employees, locations, tags and groups
Stacked views for archives, groups, employee tags and locations
eMD vCard Extension to allow generation of vCards based on employee profiles
TWEAK Added ability to set the maximum number of employees to show in multiple sidebar widgets.
TWEAK Added ability to set pagination support with customization options for multiple sidebar widgets.
4.9.4
TWEAK updates and improvements to libraries
4.9.3
TWEAK tested with WP 5.6.1
4.9.2
TWEAK fixes and improvements for better performance and compatibility
4.9.1
TWEAK updates to translation strings and libraries
NEW Added version numbers to js and css files for caching purposes
TWEAK tested with WP 5.5.1
4.9.0
NEW Added previous and next buttons for the edit screens of employees
TWEAK updates and improvements to libraries
4.8.0
NEW Added support for Emd Custom Field Builder when upgraded to premium editions
TWEAK Emd templates
4.7.0
TWEAK Cleaned up unnecessary code and optimized the library file content.
FIXED Session cleanup workflow by creating a custom table to process records.
4.6.1
TWEAK Misc updates for better compatibility and stability
4.6.0
NEW Created a new shortcode page which displays all available shortcodes. You can access this page under the plugin settings.
TWEAK Emd templating system to match modern web standards
4.5.4
TWEAK Updated how pages are displayed with or without sidebars
4.5.3
TWEAK Misc updates for better compatibility and stability
4.5.2
TWEAK library updates
4.5.1
NEW LIVE DEMO SITE available – https://espotlight-com.emdplugins.com
FIXED HTML code editor in WordPress dashboard compressing output after switching from visual mode
4.5.0
TWEAK library updates
4.4.0
NEW Added ability to limit the size, type and number of allowed file uploads for photos
4.3.2
NEW Added getting started section in the backend
TWEAK library updates and misc. minor fixes
4.3.1
NEW Added custom JavaScript option in plugin settings under Tools tab
FIXED PHP 7 compatibility
TWEAK Updated codemirror libraries for custom CSS and JS options in plugin settings page
4.3.0
NEW Added support for EMD Active Directory/LDAP extension
FIX Fixed misc issues
4.2.0
NEW Email is not required anymore for employee entries
NEW Added ability to set the page templates for single, archive and every taxonomy related to Employees (left sidebar, right sidebar and full width) without modifying the theme files through plugin settings page
NEW Added ability to hide the previous and next post links and page navigation on the frontend for single, archive and taxonomy pages
NEW Added ability to enable, disable or simple hide every available visible field, taxonomy from frontend
NEW Added Tools tab in settings page with options to install missing shortcodes (pages), deleting data and settings and adding custom css rules
Fixed misc issues
4.0.1
NEW Configured to work with EMD CSV Import Export Extension for bulk import/export
NEW Configured to work with EMD VCard extension
4.0.0
Added entity and taxonomy base slugs
Fixed employee images not showing in larger screen size when number of employees displayed are less than 5
Fixed WooCommerce search results issue
Added Employee tags taxonomy
Added ability to display custom fields selectively a.k.a mitigating issues related to junk themes or plugins adding data blindly to everywhere messing up employee profiles
Added views for employee archives and taxonomies
Optimized images to load only thumbnail size improving page load performance
3.0.0
Added ability to create and display custom fields on employee pages
2.0.1
Compatibility with WordPress 4.5 and misc. bug fixes
Fixed posts not getting displayed when the plugin is activated
2.0.0
Added border to person images
Added ability to set the color of person image border from settings
Added link to person images in the grid and widgets
Added three dots when excerpt and person tags exceed their limits
Changed the grid column to 6 columns for medium to large screens
Added a circle grid panel view
1.3.1
Made it compatible for WordPress 4.4
1.3.0
Added page navigation and update employee count to 12 per page for circle grid view
Fixed misc bugs
1.2.0
Fixed issues related to WordPress 4.3 upgrade
Enabled Office location taxonomy in the backend
1.1.0
Fixed the issue related to photos not getting changed in the editor