Thinkit Staff

Description

Thinkit Staff – A Flexible, Customizable WordPress Staff Directory Plugin

Thinkit Staff is a powerful yet easy-to-use WordPress plugin built to help businesses, agencies, and organizations showcase their team members in a clean, professional, and fully responsive layout. Designed to work with any WordPress theme, Thinkit Staff gives you complete control over how your staff directory looks and behaves—without requiring custom templates or page-builder lock-in.

Easily Manage Staff Members in WordPress

Thinkit Staff adds a dedicated Staff custom post type, allowing you to manage employees just like standard WordPress content.

Staff Member Features

• Featured Image support for staff photos

• Title / Position field

• Rich WordPress editor for staff bios (optional display)

• Built-in Categories to organize staff by department or role

• Supports WordPress REST API and block editor (Gutenberg)

This familiar workflow makes it easy for administrators and editors to add or update staff profiles quickly.

Contact Information & Social Profiles

Each staff member includes optional fields for professional and social details. These fields are displayed only when filled, keeping layouts clean and consistent.

Supported Fields

• Phone number

• Email address

• Website URL

• LinkedIn profile

• Facebook profile

• X (Twitter) profile

• Instagram profile

All contact links are output using proper HTML semantics and best practices.

Display Staff Anywhere with Shortcodes

Thinkit Staff uses a lightweight shortcode system to display staff members anywhere on your site.

Shortcode Options

• Show all staff or only selected categories

• Control number of columns

• Works inside pages, posts, widgets, and page builders

• Outputs clean, theme-agnostic markup

The layout automatically maintains equal-height staff cards for a polished, professional appearance.

Fully Responsive & Mobile-Friendly

The staff grid is built with modern CSS Grid, ensuring it looks great on all screen sizes.

Responsive Design Highlights

• Automatically adjusts columns for tablets and mobile devices

• Equal-height cards across each row

• Optimized image scaling for smaller screens

• No JavaScript dependencies required

Powerful Styling Controls (No Theme Edits Required)

Thinkit Staff includes flexible styling options directly in the WordPress admin.

Built-In Display Settings

• Staff photo fit: contain or cover

• Adjustable photo area height

• Text alignment for name, title, and contact info

• Separate alignment control for staff bio content

Custom CSS Editor

• Edit CSS directly from the plugin settings

• View the current base CSS with all class names

• Custom styles are safely saved to the database

• Styles are loaded only when the staff shortcode is used

This approach gives developers full control while remaining beginner-friendly.

Clean Code & Best Practices

Thinkit Staff is built with performance, security, and compatibility in mind.

• Uses WordPress APIs and standards

• Sanitized and validated user input

• Lightweight, inline CSS (no bloated assets)

• Works with any modern WordPress theme

Perfect For

• Small businesses and agencies

• Corporate “Meet the Team” pages

• Churches and nonprofits

• Schools and organizations

• Developers building reusable client solutions

Thinkit Staff gives you a professional, customizable staff directory that looks great out of the box and scales effortlessly with your site.