People

The People content type covers everyone shown in the Staff & Board and Buchholz Fellows sections of the site — staff members, board members, and current and former Buchholz Fellows. Instead of manually building each person’s page, editors fill in a person’s fields once — their Title, contact information, and any external link — and tag them with the right categories, and the corresponding blocks automatically display that information wherever they’re placed on the Single Person template.

Most of the time you won’t need to touch these blocks directly. Fill in the fields and tags on the person, and the page updates on its own.

Person Fields

When you create or edit a Person, you’ll see this field group:

• Title: Their role or position, e.g. “Chief Financial Officer” or “Partner, Blank Rome LLP.” This is different from their name — the person’s name is the entry’s own Title field at the very top of the editor, the normal WordPress post title.
• Email: Shown as a clickable email link, if provided.
• Phone Number: Shown as a clickable phone link, if provided. Enter it however you’d like it displayed (e.g. “(215) 557-3600”) — the clickable link is generated automatically underneath.
• Link: An external website or bio link, if the person has one (for example, a board member’s employer bio page or LinkedIn profile). Displayed as a button.
• Link Label: Optional custom text for the Link button, e.g. “View LinkedIn Profile.” Leave this blank and the button will simply say “More information.”

Tagging People

Every Person should be tagged with at least one Person Category:

• Staff
• Board Members
• Emeritus Board Members
• Buchholz Fellows
• Buchholz Alumni
• Inactive

These tags control where a person’s breadcrumb trail points (see Breadcrumbs below) and which listing pages they appear on.

Two tagging conventions to follow:

• Anyone tagged Emeritus Board Members should also be tagged Board Members.
• Anyone tagged Buchholz Alumni should also be tagged Buchholz Fellows.

Applying both keeps the underlying data complete — the system automatically shows only the more specific tag where it matters (see Person Categories below), so double-tagging doesn’t create duplicate labels anywhere on the site.

Two more taxonomies are available for more specific tagging:

• Board Positions — Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, or Treasurer, for current board officers.
• Buchholz Cohorts — the specific fellowship year (e.g. “2020-2021” or “2026”), for Buchholz Fellows and Alumni.

Editing Person Fields

Just like Events, you’ll find the Person Profile fields in a panel underneath the main content editor — the same panel where the Yoast SEO settings for the page live. Person Categories, Board Positions, and Buchholz Cohorts are tagged from their own panels in the right-hand sidebar, the same way you’d tag a blog post with Categories.

Breadcrumbs

A person’s breadcrumb trail (the “About Us > …” path shown at the top of their page) is generated automatically from their Person Category tags — you don’t need to set it manually:

• Staff, Board Members, or Emeritus Board Members → About Us > Staff and Board
• Buchholz Fellows or Buchholz Alumni → About Us > Buchholz Fellows

If someone is tagged with both (for example, a board member who’s also a former Buchholz Fellow), Staff and Board takes priority. If a person has none of these tags, the breadcrumb simply shows About Us with no third step.

The Person Blocks

You can find these blocks in the Block Inserter under the “Seventy People” category. Most are already placed on the Single Person template and don’t need to be added manually — they’re listed here so you know what each one does.

Person Title

Displays the person’s Title field (their role), if one is entered.

Person Email

Displays the person’s Email as a clickable link, if one is entered.

Person Phone

Displays the person’s Phone Number as a clickable link, if one is entered.

Person Link

Displays the person’s Link as a button. Uses the Link Label field as the button text, or “More information” if no label is entered. Shows nothing if no Link is entered.

Person Categories

Displays a plain list of the person’s Person Category tags (Staff, Board Members, etc.) as text, not as links. If someone is tagged Emeritus Board Members, only “Emeritus Board Members” is shown (not also “Board Members”). Likewise, Buchholz Alumni is shown on its own, without also showing “Buchholz Fellows” — this is why the double-tagging convention above matters.

Person Sidebar

The block used on the Single Person template’s sidebar. Combines the person’s photo, an “About [Name]” heading, their Title, Person Categories, contact information, and Link button into one panel. Contact information (Email and Phone) only appears if at least one of them is filled in — the “Contact Information” heading only shows up when there’s something underneath it to show.

Person Query Outbound

Powers roster/directory pages like Staff and Board and Buchholz Fellows — it’s the block placed inside those pages’ Query Loop that shows each person’s name and Title. The whole entry links out to that person’s Link field if they have one. It deliberately never links to the person’s own page on this site, since some person profiles don’t have a full bio to send visitors to. If you’re building a new listing page like this, ask your developer for help setting up the Query Loop — this block is meant to go inside one, not to be used on its own.