Hello Leanne –
I’m pretty sure I’ve never included a Post Nominal field in the plugin. Are you sure you hadn’t customized it at some point to add a new field?
Do you have a url where I can view the existing staff list with the post nominal letters for the staff?
Thanks!
Thread Starter
Leanne
(@norlink)
It would have been probably in late 2014 when I first installed the plugin.
I’m using this in single-staff-member.php
global $post;
$custom = get_post_custom();
$name = get_the_title();
$name_slug = basename(get_permalink());
$title = $custom[“_staff_member_title”][0];
$postnominal = $custom[“_staff_member_postnominal”][0];
$email = $custom[“_staff_member_email”][0];
$phone = $custom[“_staff_member_phone”][0];
$fax = $custom[“_staff_member_fax”][0];
$bio = $custom[“_staff_member_bio”][0];
$prof = $custom[“_staff_member_prof”][0];
$fb_url = $custom[“_staff_member_fb”][0];
$tw_url = ‘http://www.twitter.com/’ . $custom[“_staff_member_tw”][0];
$li_url = $custom[“_staff_member_li”][0];
It’s being used here: https://www.jonesins.com/staff-members/jordan-zuke/
In the grey box, the BA, B.Ed next to his name.
Ok, yeah it looks like at some point someone had made a custom metabox for a postnominal field on the Staff Member post type. I don’t have any specific code examples on how to add a custom metabox, but you’d use add_meta_box. But if you add one to the Staff Member post type, and save your input with something like update_post_meta( '_staff_member_postnominal', $value ); inside the ‘save_post’ hook, it should work again.
Does that help?
Thread Starter
Leanne
(@norlink)
I’ll try that out! Thanks for the help Brett. I’m wishing I took better notes when I set this up years ago.
@norlink
I just had a little bit of time so I made a little custom plugin that adds that post nominal field and makes it available for you to use on the single staff member page.
https://gist.github.com/brettshumaker/84a206344961fb7a2206a94dee170029
I’ve tested this and it should work just fine. It will not, however, make your custom field available for output in the [simple-staff-list] shortcode output.
Thread Starter
Leanne
(@norlink)
THANK YOU!! That worked beautifully.
