Introduction
When you hire new staff, this provides an opportunity to add them to your website’s team page. Sometimes it is quite nice to showcase who makes up your company and provide a face to the name.
This guide will explain how you can go about doing this.
Creating new Staff Profiles
End Result
Get in touch
Creating new Staff Profiles
In your dashboard area, find the link for staff profiles on the left. Hover over this and you will see some options appear. If you want to add a new staff profile, select the ‘add new’ option. It will then take you to a page as shown below.
This is where you can being to fill out the person’s details. Most of the following fields are self-explantory but essentially you can fill out the following:
- name of person [where it says ‘enter staff profile name’]
- job title
- image of the person
- email and telephone number
- biography
Additionally further down the page, there is a section for staff profile expertise. Enter the expertise (this is important if you want to list staff by their expertise). You can add new expertise by clicking the + symbol to add a new one.
There is also a section for the role (this is important if you want to list staff by their role). Again, you can add new roles by clicking the + symbol to add a new one.
You can then also enter the excerpt. This is usually a sentence long snippet of information relating to the person. For example, you could just take the first sentence of their biography.
Where this appears is on the main team page, which contains a a smaller, condensed version called a ‘card’. In each person’s card that appears, the excerpt will be shown.
Alternatively,if none of your staff profiles have any excerpt applied then it might be worth leaving this blank. Please be aware here is an odd quirk that if you leave this blank, it will show their biography instead on the team page. To prevent this, simply click into the excerpt box and press once with your spacebar to apply a space.
The system will count that as a character but since nothing is written, nothing will be shown on the main team page.
End Result
When you have entered all the relevant information, click publish on the right-hand side. The staff profile will automatically be published and look something like below, styled to the branding and design of your website.
For your main team page, you’ll see all the staff profiles displayed, allowing visitors and clients to click to view in more detail. Below is a typical example containing a variation of image, name, and contact details. Additionally, the one on the left does not have an excerpt applied whilst the right one has.
Get in touch
And that is it! Hopefully that gives an overview of how to add new staff profiles. We trust this guide has helped but if you have any questions, please get in touch at: support@practiceweb.co.uk
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