About this plugin
Finally!
A ridiculously light, stupidly-simple plugin to manage and display a directory of anything: production cast, blog contributors, businesses, collectors items, church members, books, club officers, chickens in your flock, departmental employees, students, bowling league teams… you get the point.
Most “directory” plugins out there are way too complicated. One of the more popular ones weighs in at 30 MB! That’s almost as much code as WordPress Core.
That’s uranium heavy. Be careful of meltdowns…
Enter Hydrogen Directory.
This plugin is light and simple, just like hydrogen. Weighing just 62kb zipped, it’s so tiny it might float away.
Whether you need to just list the 3 members on your team, are looking to showcase the 200 cars in your pinewood derby league, or need to import 10,000 employees, Hydrogen Directory manages it all with ease, speed, and predictable grace.
Highlights:
- Quickly add or updated listings in wordpress using familiar interface.
- Organize entries into buckets using taxonomies.
- Display your directories anywhere on your site.
That’s it! Get on to more important things in your life.
Gutenberg Block
The Hydrogen Directory block provides a visual way to add directory listings to your pages and posts.
Block Features:
- Live preview in the editor
- Visual controls for all settings
- Layout Settings: Display style (list/card/text), columns (1-6), show/hide headers
- Content Settings: Content mode (excerpt/full/none), excerpt length
- Filter Settings: Taxonomy selection, term filtering, show entries filter
Simply search for “Hydrogen Directory” in the block inserter, add the block, and configure using the sidebar controls.
Shortcode Arguments:
tax: use to display entries from a single taxonomy
term: use to display entries from a single term in a taxonomy
style: display style (default “list”)
columns: number of columns to display (default 1)
headers: whether to include tax / term headers in the output (default 1 = yes)
content: content display mode – “excerpt” (truncated, default), “full” (all content), or “none” (hide content)
excerpt_length: number of words to show when content=”excerpt” (default 20)
Example:
[hydrogen_directory tax=”role” term=”Alter Boy” style=”card” columns=3]
[hydrogen_directory tax=”role” term=”Staff” style=”list” content=”excerpt” excerpt_length=”30″]
[hydrogen_directory tax=”department” content=”none”]