About this plugin
Lantern Span People Directory provides a straightforward way to publish a professional people directory on WordPress.
Add each person from the WordPress administration area, upload a profile photo, enter contact information, and publish. Visitors can browse responsive horizontal cards, search by name, email, or phone number, and open a complete profile with the person’s address and biography.
The plugin is useful for churches, businesses, nonprofits, clubs, schools, associations, volunteer groups, boards, teams, and other organizations that need a simple photo and contact directory.
Directory features
- Person name
- Profile photo using the WordPress Media Library
- Role or title
- Email address
- Phone number
- Address
- Long-form biography or additional information
- Search by name, email address, or phone number
- Email and phone displayed directly on directory cards
- Responsive horizontal cards
- Two cards per row on wide screens with automatic responsive fallbacks
- Optional A-Z navigation and visible letter section headings
- Alphabetical ordering by last name or first name
- Individual profile views
- Logged-in-only or public directory access
- Lantern Span People Directory block
- [lantern_span_people_directory] shortcode
- Automatic Directory page creation during activation
- Search-engine noindex directives on directory pages
Profiles are stored as a private WordPress custom post type. They are displayed through the directory page and are not directly queryable as public WordPress posts.
Lantern Span People Directory is fully functional on its own. Its directory features do not require payment, a subscription, a license, or a Freemius account. The optional Freemius connection provides upgrade, account, licensing, and product-update services.
Privacy
” Administrators can switch the directory to public access under People Directory > Settings.
Public mode displays the saved information for every published profile, including the email address and phone number shown on each directory card. Only enter and publish personal information that your organization is authorized to share. The free edition does not provide field-by-field privacy controls.
Profile photos are ordinary WordPress Media Library files. Restricting the directory page to logged-in users does not make the underlying media-file URLs private.
Directory profiles and photos remain in the site’s WordPress database and Media Library. They are not sent to Freemius.
Lantern Span People Directory Pro
Lantern Span People Directory Pro is a separately distributed commercial add-on with households, stronger privacy controls, logged-in profile-update approvals, reusable directories, spreadsheet imports, PDF tools, and reporting.
The free plugin does not contain locked premium code or usage limits. Choosing an upgrade or trial opens the Freemius purchase and licensing flow; Pro code is delivered separately to licensed customers.
External Services
This plugin includes the Freemius SDK to provide optional product opt-in, upgrade and pricing pages, checkout, licensing, account management, update delivery, and deactivation feedback.
The free directory works without connecting to Freemius. Freemius may receive site, administrator, WordPress environment, and plugin-usage information only after an administrator explicitly opts in, or information needed to fulfill an administrator’s direct interaction with upgrade, checkout, trial, licensing, account, update, or deactivation-feedback features. Directory profile fields, contact details, biographies, and photos are not sent to Freemius.
This service is provided by Freemius, Inc. See the Freemius website, privacy policy, and terms of service:
- https://freemius.com/
- https://freemius.com/privacy/
- https://freemius.com/terms/