Plugin / Nice Team

Once you installed and activated the plugin, you can go to Team > Settings and tweak the options there. Those settings will also be used as the default ones for the shortcode and template tag when you’re not specifying any values for them.

The basic usage of the shortcode is just [team]. That will display a list of your members using the settings you entered in Team > Settings. However, you can specify values for the shortcode using the following fields: id: Numeric ID of a single member (in case you want to display just one). columns: The number of columns to be displayed in a team gallery. limit: The number of members to be displayed in a team gallery. A value of zero means nothing will be displayed. Use -1 for no limit. image_size: Size (in pixels) for the member’s image. orderby: The ordering criteria that will be used to display your members. Accepted values: ID, title, menu_order, date, random. order: The sorting criteria that will be used to display your members. Accepted values: asc (ascendant), desc (descendant). category: Comma-separated numeric IDs of team categories (teams) that you want to display. A value of zero means that all categories will be considered. exclude_category: Comma-separated numeric IDs of team categories (teams) that you want to exclude. A value of zero means that no categories will be excluded. include_children: Choose if you want to show members of sub-categories (or sub-teams) in the list. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). member: Show or hide the name of the member. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). thumbnail: Show or hide the image of the member. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). url: Show or hide the link to the member’s website. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). email: Show or hide the member’s email. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). twitter: Show or hide the link to the member’s Twitter profile. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). facebook: Show or hide the link to the member’s Facebook profile. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). linkedin: Show or hide the link to the member’s LinkedIn profile. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). avoidcss: Choose if you want to remove the default styles for the current list of members. Accepted values: 1 (avoid styles), 0 (not avoid styles). display_empty_message: Choose if you want to display a message when the current list has no members. Accepted values: 1 (show message), 0 (not show message). If any of these values is not declared explicitly, the default value will be the one set in Team > Settings. A typical usage of the shortcode with these fields would be the following: [team columns="2" limit="5" orderby="date" order="asc" category="20,34"]

You can include members in your own templates by using our nice_team() function. This is a very basic usage example: ` ` As it happens with the shortcode, that code snippet will display a list of your members using the settings you entered in Team > Settings. However, you can give the function an array of options with specific values on how to show the list of members: id: Numeric ID of a single member (in case you want to display just one). columns: The number of columns to be displayed in a team gallery. limit: The number of members to be displayed in a team gallery. A value of zero means nothing will be displayed. Use -1 for no limit. image_size: Size (in pixels) for the member’s image. orderby: The ordering criteria that will be used to display your members. Accepted values: ID, title, menu_order, date, random. order: The sorting criteria that will be used to display your members. Accepted values: asc (ascendant), desc (descendant). category: Comma-separated numeric IDs of team categories (teams) that you want to display. A value of zero means that all categories will be considered. exclude_category: Comma-separated numeric IDs of team categories (teams) that you want to exclude. A value of zero means that no categories will be excluded. include_children: Choose if you want to show members of sub-categories (or sub-teams) in the list. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). member: Show or hide the name of the member. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). thumbnail: Show or hide the image of the member. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). url: Show or hide the link to the member’s website. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). email: Show or hide the member’s email. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). twitter: Show or hide the link to the member’s Twitter profile. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). facebook: Show or hide the link to the member’s Facebook profile. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). linkedin: Show or hide the link to the member’s LinkedIn profile. Accepted values: 1 (show), 0 (hide). avoidcss: Choose if you want to remove the default styles for the current list of members. Accepted values: 1 (avoid styles), 0 (not avoid styles). display_empty_message: Choose if you want to display a message when the current list has no members. Accepted values: 1 (show message), 0 (not show message). If any of these values is not declared explicitly, the default value will be the one set in Team > Settings. Using these options, you can have something like this in your code: ` 2, ‘limit’ => 5, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘order’ => ‘asc’, ‘category’ => ‘20,32’, ) ); endif; ?> `

By default, the links to your members will look something like http://my-site.me/team/member-name. If you want to change that team base to something more fit to your needs, you can do so going to Team > Settings > Advanced, and modifying the “Member Slug” option.

You can load a custom stylesheet by using wp_enqueue_script() and adding your custom CSS to your own file. However, if you really want to get rid of the default CSS of Nice Team, so you can avoid overriding our styles, you can check the “Avoid Plugin CSS” option in Team > Settings.

Inside wp-content/plugins/nice-team/templates you will find the following default templates: team-member: The default template for all single team members. team-category: The default template for a team’s index. team-archive: The default template for the index of the team_member custom post type. All you need to do is copy these files to wp-content/themes/my-theme/team, and modify them to your own needs. If you want more specific templates, you can take a look at the Template Hierarchy article in the Codex.