Lantern Span People Directory
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. It contains no payment processing, subscription checks, license activation, tracking, telemetry, or required external service.
Privacy
The default access setting is “Logged-in WordPress users only.” 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. Version 1.0.0 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.
The plugin makes no remote requests and sends no directory data to an external service. Profiles and photos remain in the site’s WordPress database and Media Library.
Lantern Span People Directory Pro
Lantern Span People Directory Pro is planned as a separately distributed commercial add-on with households, stronger privacy controls, self-service profile updates, multiple directories, PDF tools, imports, and reporting.
The free plugin does not contain locked premium code or trial limits. No upgrade link is displayed until an official Pro page is configured in a future release.