Help w/ sponsor page

[Marisa]

Sponsors –

I figured out the different sponsor types but cannot get the Main button for the sponsor page to show up in the menu.

[Bill Robbins]

If you’d like to display all of your sponsors in one archive, the easiest way is to create a master sponsor type that you add all your sponsors too and then add that to your navigation.

There is another option. If you’re using pretty permalinks (Settings>Permalinks), you can add a custom link to your staff. To do that, go to settings and select permalinks. Choose a format for your URL’s other than the default and save them TWICE.

Even if you’ve already selected a pretty permalink structure, save them again TWICE to clear out the settings.

Now you can add the sponsors directly by creating a custom link. For the label (the part that will be in your navigation) you can call it anything you like. For the URL, you will use one like this:

http://www.yoursite.com/sponsors

Just replace the yoursite.com with your own domain.

If you have any questions, let me know

[Brent Lucas]

Bill;

Is there a way to have the sponsors show up in full from the sponsor link on the menu rather than just a list of sponsors?

To re-phrase, right now I have the Sponsor Group linked to my main menu, and when clicked on it lists the sponsors. You need to click into each one to see their details.

Is there a way to have the sponsors displayed with their full bio and pictures on one page, rather than a list folks have to click into to see sponsor bios?

[Bill Robbins]

I’ve been thinking about this and I believe the easiest way to do this would be to change the sponsor archive so it is more like the one for staff members. Here’s how you’d do that:

1. Go to the appearance section and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose taxonomy-sponsor-group.php
3. Look for this spot:

   <div class=”sponsor clearfix”>
   <a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_post_thumbnail(‘sponsor-thumbnail’); ?>
   <h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ? rel=”nofollow”>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   </div>

   and replace it with this:

4. Save your changes

See if that doesn’t give you the results you’re looking for. If you’d like to have a longer description you can change the 275 where you see this:

the_content_limit(275, “Read More”)

to a larger number. It limits the number of characters in the content displayed.

If you have any questions, let me know.

[Brent Lucas]

Absolutely BRILLIANT!. Exactly what I had in mind once I set the featured image.

Thank you so much for the quick help!

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