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Loading...This article provides information about the fields required by EMD Active Directory/LDAP addon to successfully sync employee information with Employee Spotlight or Employee Directory plugins.
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Employee Spotlight comes with its own templating system to minimize theme related conflicts. If you'd like to display sidebar widgets in the plugin pages, you need to add them to the EMD Widget area. I will add the default spotlight widgets, change the widget title and set t...
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User roles define what a user can do and have access to which records or pages after logging in. Administrators can assign roles to users using WordPress Users screen.
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To display a segment of your employees, you need to use shortcodes. Shorcodes are simple to write instructions that you put in your WordPress pages to modify how certain elements are displayed. There are some shortcode examples in Employee Spotlight documentation under Creat...
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If you'd like change the default circular shape of employee images, you need to add custom CSS code. Go to Spotlight > Settings > Tools and set the border-radius of emd-img class to 0 as seen on this video. div.emd-container img.emd-img{border-radius:0 !important}
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To change the border color of all employee photos, Go to Spotlight > Settings > Global and set the Image Border color field to a HTML color code or name.
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To remove sidebar area from profile pages, Go to Spotlight > Settings > Entities tab and set the single template to "Full With".
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Employee archive view displays all employees in a stacked layout. To see employee archive view, go to the frontend of your site and add "employees" to your domain name.
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Employee Spotlight comes with very powerful customization module. Let's say you want to disable Job title field from all frontend views. Go to Spotlight > Settings Entities and find Job Title under Attributes section. Select "Hide from Frontend Pages" option from the dropdow...
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Let's say you want to change employee slug to founders. Simply go Settings > Entities and change base slug and save changes. Make sure you visit Permalinks settings page after you saved your change.
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To see all employees in circle panel grid view, go to Pages and the click on the view quick link of the Employee Circle Panel Grid page. Remember this page was automatically created by Setup assistant.
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Employee Spotlight is an employee profile management system. It is designed for organizations wanting to showcase their employees or talent but not requiring extensive directory search or reporting hierarchy views. Although Employee Spotlight provides an easy to use tag b...
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To add or edit employee taxonomies, click on the link corresponding to the taxonomy and fill in the fields. Make sure you all required fields are filled on. We recommend you empty your trash and delete everything in there permanenetly before updating or creating new employee...
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To edit an employee simply click on the employee name or hover and select edit quick link.
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Employee Spotlight Professional WordPress Plugin Changelog provides updates on changes made in each release.
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If you have a large list, you need to display all the records in one page to set their display order. Follow the steps below:Click on the Screen Options tab at the right top of the screen while you're in the employee list in the admin areaUnder Pagina...
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To create a new employee, either click on Add New Employee link in the menu or Add New button in the employee list screen.
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Both Employee Spotlight Pro and Community editions have Locations taxonomy.  The locations taxonomy can be used to categorize employees by location and display them on the frontend. There are two ways to do this:Using a shortcodeCreating a link to Loc...