We have worked to identify suitable Gutenberg features to replace the capabilities of our aging Content Blocks system. Article lists, event lists, images, quotes, and other features can all be accommodated with Gutenberg blocks and our “post picker” shortcode. But what about the People List content block?<\/p>\n
We have found a simple solution for this, and it involves our\u00a0website<\/span>‘s oembed feature.<\/p>\n While websites can simply list people on a page using text and images, the website<\/span>\u00a0has a specific type of content avilable called People which allows for the creation of a record that can be re-used on the\u00a0website<\/span>. Updates to the People content will update the places where this content appears.\u00a0More information about this people content type is available in our user guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n For websites that have large lists of people, the\u00a0website<\/span>\u00a0offers an automated directory. By default this automated directory appears a web address ending with “\/people\/” such as the directory for\u00a0University of Maine Cooperative Extension<\/a>. If your site has made use of our People content type, this directory will display all of your published people, alphabetized by last name.\u00a0We recommend reviewing this automated directory for accuracy\u2014 removing people from the People List Content Block does\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0remove them from this automated directory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The automated directory can be customized to change its page location and title, and there are Department, Location, and Expertise areas that can be defined to enhance the directory’s use.\u00a0For example, the “Orono” location in the Cooperative Extension’s directory lists all People with that location defined in their record<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you do not want to rely on an automated directory, or need to list people in a specific order, the “People List Content Block” had been our solution\u2014 but this feature does not exist in the Gutenberg editor. Thankfully, it is easy to list individual people using the “oembed” feature of our\u00a0website<\/span>.<\/p>\n In the People content dashboard you will find a list of all the People that have been added. Published and Draft content appears in the dashboard, and only those People that are Published can be viewed by the public. Select the “View” link underneath the People item you want to embed. For example, this is the “View” link for Mike Kirby in Marketing and Communications:\u00a0https:\/\/ Once you are viewing the People record you want to embed, simply copy its web address (ctrl+c on Microsoft computers, option+c on Apple computers, or right-click the selected web address and choose “Copy”).<\/p>\n On the page you want to list this person, use a Paragraph block in the Gutenberg editor and paste the web address on its own line. The URL will be replaced with an embedded version of the People listing!<\/p>\n The Paragraph block can be used within many Gutenberg features such as the Row Layout, Accordion, or Tabbed Content blocks. To mimic the behavior of the older People List Content Boock, the Row Layout block can be set to two or three columns, and each column can contain an embedded People item.<\/p>\nThe People content type<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The automated Directory feature<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Listing individual people on Gutenberg pages<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Step one: view the People item in your web browser<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Step two: copy the web address of the People item<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Step three: paste the web address of the People item in the page you want it to appear<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Getting fancy: row layouts for listing several People items in a row<\/strong><\/h4>\n