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1.30.3 | November 22, 2025

Enhancement: Tested again with new WordPress 6.9
Bugfix: Fixed a small bug when an extra div-element was rendered

1.30.2 | October 11, 2025

Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.9
Enhancement: Revised the demo/showcase list
Enhancement: Tested and ehhanced the directory with large amounts of names
Enhancement: Removed Internet Explorer support from the admin javascript and removed IE notice

1.30.1 | April 11, 2025

Enhancement: Use admin-ajax as JS variable
Enhancement: Use nonces when switching name-status (ajax calls)
Enhancement: Updated the javascript a bit

1.30.0 | April 6, 2025

Feature: Pagination (finally?) in the WP-admin (as proposed by @boomlab)
Enhancement: WP-admin aligned styling
Enhancement: Removed calls to deprecated load_plugin_textdomain() to prevent warnings
Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.8

1.29.2 | November 9, 2024

Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.7
Bugfix: strip search term on frontend from leading and trailing spaces

1.29.1 | August 14, 2024

Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 6.6
Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.7
Bugfix: escape searchterm in the WordPress admin
Bugfix: add extra permission-check in ajax-status calls

1.29.0 | March 25, 2024

Enhancement: Improved sorting with diacritic characters
Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.5
Enhancement: Clarify implications of the use of HTML

1.28.5 | November 5, 2023

Bugfix: PHP showed a notice when in debug mode about missing variable, thanks @jibbius
Bugfix: Only select letters from published names (so for example H isn’t shown if there is one unpublished name Henk)
Bugfix: Don’t send an e-mail to the admin twice
Bugfix: Display issue with a title in the admin
Bugfix: Derive the starting character from the cleaned string
Enhancement: Added some WCAG hints to the front-end
Enhancement: Optimized query

1.28.4 | October 29, 2023

Enhancement: Sent the mail to the directory-set e-mail

1.28.3 | October 27 (party, party), 2023

Bugfix: Bug with creating new directories

1.28.2 | October 27 (party, party), 2023

Bugfix: Bug with creating new directories

1.28.1 | October 27 (party, party), 2023

Bugfix: Bug with creating new directories

1.28.0 | October 22, 2023

Bugfix: (Finally!) fixed the issue that editing a names HTML doesn’t break formatting (with quotes)
Feature: Choose whether you want to show the name count
Feature: Choose whether you want to show the instructions on the front-end
Feature: Set an e-mail address (per directory) which receives new-submission notifications
Enhancement: The directory settings screen: readability, now divided into sections, bit more spacey
Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.3
Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.4 Beta
Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.5 Nightly
Enhancement: Reviced the public demo list

1.27.2 | January 20, 2023

Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.2
Bugfix: Quick Import nonce check

1.27.1 | September 28, 2022

Enhancement: Also css-hide images on the ‘Read more’-feature
Bugfix: Closed the div surrounding reCaptha
Bugfix: Trim the name when importing names, so the correct starting letter will be selected
Bugfix: Display the name correctly use entity_decode

1.27.0 | August 27, 2022

Feature: Choose whether an admin has to approve a submitted name first
Enhancement: Nicer error message on (quick) import

1.26.1 | July 19, 2022

Bugfix: After submitting a name, return to the page the visitor came from, without explicitly showing all the names, just use the directory’s default behaviour

1.26.0 | July 16, 2022

Feature: when show_all_index_letters is Off, do an exact query (case sensitive) to make sure special characters are honoured as starting-letter

1.25.5 | July 15, 2022

Enhancement: The edit screen is now standalone
Security: Use wp-nonce on add name action
Security: Rely on the WordPress API and its help functions to assist with security
Security: User rights checking improved
Special thanks: Thank you Erwan Le Rousseau from WPScan.com for pointing out issues and the patience to check my fixes

1.25.4 | June 28, 2022

Enhancement: Some users have huge directories, because of that, there is a mode where the adding form is shown without the list of all the names. This is now the default behaviour if you click the “Add Names” link on the directory overview
Enhancement: Remove extra space in overview table for WordPress admin consistency
Security: Use wp-nonce on delete directory action
Security: Use wp-nonce on delete name action
Security: Use wp-nonce on edit name action
Security: Secured the import script with script-tag-stripper and wp-nonce

1.25.3 | May 8, 2022

Bugfix: Fixed XSS vulnerabilities reported to me by Donato Di Pasquale, thank you!

1.25.2 | April 16, 2022

Bugfix: The ‘All’-link jumplocation did not work since v1.25.1
Bugfix: URL-component ordering

1.25.1 | April 7, 2022

Improvement: Made the anchor-links unique so multi-directory-pages are working OK when you click the index-links
Improvement: When there are multiple directories on one page, only show the correct submit form when it’s requested
Improvement: When there are multiple directories on one page, only do the name-exists-check in the right directory

1.25.0 | April 5, 2022

Improvement: When there are multiple directories on one page, and you use search, jump to the right directory
Maintenance: WordPress 6.0 compatible

1.24.0 | February 1, 2022

Bugfix: Fixed duplicate hidden input field, thanks @pavelinnuendo for the tip!
Improvement: Speed up performance by adding database indexes
Maintenance: WordPress 5.9 compatible
Enhancement: Add TasteWP links to description where you can try Name Directory instantly

1.23.2 | September 16, 2021

Bugfix: Removed natural sorting for now as it’s messing up the sorting for non-numeric characters

1.23.1 | August 6, 2021

Feature: Natural number sort
Enhancement: Tested with WordPress 5.9 alpha

1.23.0 | June 20, 2021

Feature: Compatible with Relevanssi
Feature: Search terms can be highlighted in the search results
Enhancement: Compatible with WordPress 5.8

1.22 | March 3, 2021

Bugfix: ‘latest’ option did not show any entries

1.21 | March 1st, 2021

Bugfix: the regex which splits the words (limit at 10, 25, etc) was not UTF-8 ready yet

1.20 | February 28, 2021

Feature: Optionally secure your submit-a-name form with reCAPTCHA (v2) from Google (Thanks for the idea Aung!)

1.19 | February 16, 2021

Feature: Show a heading when the next starting-letter will begin (show B after all the A-words, C after the B-words, etc)
Feature: In admin panel replace the ‘Yes’/’No’ link (which was a clickable ajax link) with a fancy toggle button (much more userfriendly)
Enhancement: Added a few extra help texts
Enhancement: Used a more narrow javascript selector for the import page
Enhancement: Made the CSS classes more consistent
Enhancement: Compatible with WordPress 5.7

1.18.1 | January 13, 2021

Bugfix: Fixed wrong usage of $wpdb->esc_like

1.18 | January 10, 2021

Bugfix: Implemented pull request from Jack Barker (http://jackbarker.com.au/) with search enhancement
Security: CVE-2021-20652: Fixed CSRF vulnerability, thank you Yuta!

1.17.4 | November 22, 2020

Enhancement: Just a small enhancement to see if translations are working

1.17.3 | November 19, 2020

Enhancement: Use the correct plural when there is result in searching
Enhancement: Compatible with the new WordPress 5.6

1.17.2 | October 22, 2020

Security: Added additional checks for the front-end submits
Enhancement: Edited some code to not show native PHP notices on dev-enabled sites
Enhancement: Did some initialization of values in the new-directory admin
Enhancement: Display an error message when a directory with a non-existing ID is called
Enhancement: Compatible with the new WordPress 5.6 beta
Enhancement: Compatible with PHP 8.0

1.17.1 | September 2, 2020

Bugfix: Capability race-condition

1.17 | September 2, 2020

Feature: Name Directory is now also available with capability ‘manage_name_directory’, compatible with the commonly used Members plugin
Bugfix: Better value-checking at import, so it doesn’t wing any PHP notices for the sites which enabled them
Maintenance: WordPress 5.5 compatible

1.16.1 | July 3, 2020

Bugfix: Database constraints loosened

1.16 | April 18, 2020

Feature: You can now disable the duplicate protection in the General Options
Enhancement: Ability to use shortcodes in descriptions
Bugfix: Better use of the ‘singular’ term for name directories
Bugfix: Linebreaks are preserved when you use the visual editor

1.15.6 | March 15, 2020

Bugfix: Update DB to unicode at setup too
Bugfix: Translation of ‘Show less’ did not show up due to wrong classname
Enhancement: CSS Extra spacing on index characters

1.15.5 | March 7, 2020

Maintenance: WordPress 5.4 compatible

1.15.4 | January 7, 2020 | Happy New Year!

Bugfix: Determining number of columns
Bugfix: Replaced ‘ellips’ with ‘…’ to broaden compatibility for other themes/plugins
Maintenance: WordPress 5.3 styling

1.15.3 | November 2019

Maintenance: WordPress 5.3.1 compatible

1.15.2 | October 13, 2019

Feature: Added an option to the import screen to empty a directory before importing (useful for people who use a spreadsheet for name management)
Enhancement: Added a special import-option the import screen which uses UTF8 import.
Maintenance: WordPress 5.3 compatible

1.15.1 | August 16, 2019

Bugfix: Added an exact match query to the “exact” search functionality

1.15 | August 14, 2019

Feature: You can now choose (per-directory) whether to search in the description
Enhancement: Added extra explaination / documentation on the subject of importing to the plugin
Enhancement: Refined the “exact” search functionality in the directories
Maintenance: Cleaned up the plugins CSS
Maintenance: Changed the way the database is installed and kept in sync on updating, way less code

1.14.2 | August 1, 2019 (my nephew’s birthday)

Improvement: Empty the edit form on Ajax submit and scroll to the top to see the success message

1.14.1 | August 1, 2019 (my nephew’s birthday)

Feature: You can now use a visual editor! You just have to enable this on the General Settings (the one of Name Directory) screen
Bugfix: Fixed small import bug with accent characters
Bugfix: htmlspecialchars sometimes issued a warning to the error_log

1.14 | July 17, 2019

Feature: Added Quick Import from menu, imports into a new directory
Enhancement: Translations/naming
Enhancement: When searching with (double) quotation marks, it will not perform a wildcard search. So searching for “media” will not return ‘mediator’.
Bugfix: Directory sorting in the admin is now on most recent added named, but with empty directories on top

1.13.7 | June 2, 2019

Bugfix: SQL improvement for selecting and grouping

1.13.6 | June 1, 2019

Feature: sort name directory on most recent added name
Bugfix: also show empty directories

1.13.5 | May 28, 2019

Refactored some code
Javascript is handled cleaner (more WordPress-alike)
Bugfix: Fixed One-click status toggle (published/unpublished)

1.13.4 | May 28, 2019

Feature: sort name directory on most recent added name
Bugfix: remove debug output

1.13.3 | May 16, 2019

Bugfix: utf8_encode in import functionality, so non-latin characters are supported too

1.13.2 | April 18, 2019

mb_string enhancement, this is used on non-latin character sets.
Bugfix: Do not use mb_string functionality when it’s not available (so it does not crash)
Feature: Test whether the mb_string extension in PHP is enabled and display a notice when it’s not
Tested WordPress v5.2 (beta)

1.13.1 | February 28, 2019 (my birthday!)

Bugfix: When exporting, rows were not properly separated
Bugfix: When exporting, HTML markup cannot support linebreaks

1.13 | February 20, 2019

Introduced [namedirectory_single], to display a single name entry on the website. Useful for widgets
Bugfix: When exporting, HTML markup is now saved to the CSV
Added ID’s in the admin (so you can actually use the new shortcode)
Created a render-helper for nameboxes to be reused by [namedirectory], [namedirectory_random] and the new [namedirectory_single]
Finally using separate .js and .css for the admin!
Numurous small enhancements to the admin

1.12 | January 31, 2019

Added search in the backend -> Code kindly provided by @mpmarinov
Added shortcode for displaying a random name ([namedirectory_random]) from a given directory -> Code kindly provided by @mastababa

1.11.6 | January 21, 2019

Also added the ‘jump to’ functionality when clicking on index letters. Earlier, this was only done at the searchbox (Thanks Ana!)

1.11.5 | January 12, 2019

Better support for your own name term
Admin link to the add-form

1.11.4 | December 27, 2018

Fixes bug in WordPress site search hook when no preferences for site search were set

1.11.3 | December 27, 2018

Temporary disabled the search because of bug reports

1.11.2 | December 26, 2018

Fixes bug in WordPress site search hook where all posts were included on no results

1.11.1 | December 26, 2018

Temporary disabled the search because of bug reports

1.11 | December 18, 2018

Added the ability to give your own term for ‘names’. So it does not have to be a ‘name’ directory, you can customize it to be like ‘movies’. It’ll state “There are currently 10 movies in this directory”, instead of “There are currently 10 names in this directory”.
WordPress 5.0.1 compatible

1.10 | December 17, 2018

It’s now possible to include Name Directory in your WordPress (site wide) search results. Offcourse, Name Directory still has it’s own searchbox!
Added a new General Settings page which allows you to enable and tweak the search-behaviour. You can also choose to search in descriptions and whether it should be a wildcard search.
Added a screenshot of the new General Settings page
Updated screenshot #2 (Directory overview)
Updated Frequently Asked Questions

1.9.7

PHP 5.3 compatibility
WordPress 5.0 compatible

1.9.6

Cleaned up code to prevent errors in debug-mode

1.9.5

Startswith character can now be non-latin

1.9.4

Confirm-delete message did show an alert, but no text

1.9.3

Added a confirm-delete message when deleting a directory.

1.9.2

Sorted index characters when they were not shown by default: A-Z

1.9.1

Compatible with WordPress 4.9.1
Ability to limit the amount of words in the description, shown on the frontend of the website. You can manage this in the directory settings. Names with a description which exceeds the setting, are limited with a “Show more” link.
Optimized code, rewritten the directory options screen to prevent lots of duplicate code and make it easier for myself to maintain
Added some more descriptions to what the directory settings do
Updated screenshots

1.9.0

You can now use words that start with non-latin characters (like Chinese, Arabic, Nordic/Danish, etc)
Updated Readme, which includes the Description, Changelog and the Frequently Asked Questions
Updated php code to follow development guidelines

1.8.2

Compatible with WordPress 4.9 final
Update php code to follow development guidelines

1.8.1

Compatible with WordPress 4.9b3
Removed old translation file, since Name Directory uses the WordPress translation platform
Moved an admin add_action hook
Updated Export to work with Javascript, possible denying Internet Explorer 9 (and lower) users export
Fixed compatibility with AJAX Front-end plugins
WordPress moves all divs with class ‘updated’ to the top of the page, which isn’t very handy for the Add-Name form, which is on the bottom of the page. Created a workaround, all success-messages will be displayed above the add-form again.

1.8

Added export function, export your name directory to .csv file. Offcourse, it’s compatible with the upload function

1.7.15

WND-46: Created a new option the admin for jumping to the searchbox on the front-end, useful on long page or onepage website
Support bumped to WordPress 4.8.2

1.7.14

WND-45: Better multisite support

1.7.13

WND-44: Front-end submit form now requires at least a name

1.7.12

WND-42: Option to use latest was broken, treated as L

1.7.11

WND-41: Verified translation from translate.wordpress.org
WND-40: Fixed bug there selecting only names that start with numbers, everything was shown

1.7.10 | July 23, 2016

WND-39: Added name_directory_active class on index to indicate which character was activated
WND-39: Added name_directory_empty class on index to indicate there are no entries for a character
Started working with the Stable tag: https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/svn/#task-3
Removed translations so we can benefit from translate.wordpress.org 🙂
Do you want to help me translate this plugin in your own language? Let me know in the support forums! I will credit you!

1.7.9

WND-38: Database structure adjust

1.7.8

WND-35: Fixed CVS import
WND-36: Tested WP 4.4.2

1.7.7

WND-24: Fixed Possible XSS vulnerability

1.7.6

WordPress 4.3 compatible
Added Arabic translation (Thanks Ahmad from http://www.ams.ly)
Updated some PHP-code
Prevent possible function collisions

1.7.5

Updated Norwegian translation (Thanks Mikael!)
Some improvements for English language
Synced .pot and .po files

1.7.4

WND-25: Send e-mailnotification to WordPress admin when a new name is submitted
Generated new .pot file and synced all .po files

1.7.3

Ordering enhancements
Generated new .pot file and synced all .po files

1.7.2

WND-32: Show X latest (most recent) names
Updated Dutch Translation

1.7.1

Added Norwegian translation thanks to Mikael
WND-31: Search for searchterm in description (but only if show_description is enabled)
Moved common code to helpers, preparing for better code

1.7

WND-11: Import names and descriptions by csv-upload, find this option at the manage-screen
WND-24: Toggle published-status for name (easily show or hide names)
Name in WordPress settings menu is now “Name Directory” instead of “Name Directory Plugin”
Extended FAQ
Code improvements
Updated Dutch Translation

1.6.16

WND-26 & WND-28: Honour the Show Description setting in frontend

1.6.15

Added little spacers in the admin on the Manage names screen
Every name on the front-end got an anchor name

1.6.14

Added new translation file
Updated Dutch translation

1.6.13

WND-23: New option to only show letters on the index when there are entries, so A B D E when there is no entry with C
Fixed small legacy db-convert bug
Gave the admin panel for directory settings some space

1.6.12

Expanded FAQ
Updated documentation / edited screenshots
Updated information displayed at the WordPress Plugin Repository page

1.6.11

Search URL’s didn’t function properly
Search argument didn’t work together (selected name and input filter)
function didn’t work when WordPress was running without SEO tools
URL improvements (also tested with Yoast SEO plugin)

1.6.10

URLencoded the # sign, so entries starting with a number will show up

1.6.9

WND-21: Checked translation strings. Also edited two fussy strings in the Dutch translation
WND-22: Fixed wp-admin paths for WP Multisite users

1.6.8

WND-17: Added option which let’s the user choose a default starting-character when displaying the name directory. For example: use [namedirectory dir=”X” start_with=”j”] to start with the letter J.
WordPress 4.0 compatibility
Added Icon to the installer gallery

1.6.7

Updated Russion Translation (Thanks to: Rig Kruger http://rodichi.org)

1.6.6

Fixed small display bug

1.6.5

Showed submitted name

1.6.4

Updated French translations
Fixed too-many-slashes issue

1.6.3

Updated Dutch translations
Fixed display bug.
The All-link is hidden when you a visitor HAS to choose a letter from the index

1.6

Added option ‘Show all names by default’, this can be disabled to hide all entries if a user hasn’t chosen a letter from the index.

1.5.2

Fixed bug in CREATE TABLE and backlink in form, thank you very much MerlIAV for the patch!

1.5.1

Fixed bug that prevent saving searchform preference in admin

1.5

Added search box on front-end (You can enable this in the name-directory settings)
Added support for four-column layout
Added Russion Translation (Translated by: Rig Kruger http://rodichi.org)

1.4.3

Fixed bug which allowed non-published items to be shown

1.4.2

Fixed support for Chinese characters
Added French Translation (Translated by: Patrick BARDET http://www.web-studio-creation.fr)

1.4.1

Fixed sorting issue at the frontend

1.4

WND-19: Added support for HTML in the name description

1.3

Name lists can now have multiple columns at the frontend
Added css in a separate file
Added database upgrade module

1.2.1

Plugin url’s are now compatible with third party SEO modules

1.2

Added support for submission form on the front-end
Added possibility for admin to filter on published/unpublished names
Rearranged directory overview for admin, overview now shows totals for published/unpublished

1.1

Added double name detection

1.0 | November 8, 2013

First major public release

0.5

First version for private use

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Name Directory: Build your own glossary!

This plugin adds name/term directories (glossaries) to your WordPress installation.
\nThe output on your website is like a glossary/index, including a search function.
\nThis plugin supports multiple directories in one WordPress installation.
\nI recommend you to take a look at the screenshots, they illustrate more than words.

The Name Directory plugin was originally developed for ParkietenVilla.nl to show a directory of names to name your budgies.

Create multiple directories and customize them!

You can create multiple directories with this plugin.
\nEvery directory can be embedded with a very simple shortcode which you can just copy-and-paste
\nin your own pages and posts. Every directory has a few configuration options that customize
\nthe layout and functionality of the directory:

Show/Hide title
Show/Hide description
Enter the subject of the directory (i.e.: movies, birds, countries, names)
Show/Hide suggestion form
Show/Hide submitter name
Show/Hide search function (searches names/titles and description)
Show/Hide a horizontal rule between the entries
Show/Hide all entries when the user has not chosen an index-letter yet
Show/Hide the newest entries (and choose an amount of newest entries to show)
Choose the amount of columns to display
Whether to jump to the name directory when a visitor is using the search box (for onepage websites)
When you embed a directory, you can configure it to start with a letter of your choosing. E.g.: start on letter J.
You can limit the amount of words in the description (and display a “Read more” link which reveals the rest of the text

The administration view of this plugin has the familiar look and feel of (the rest of) the WordPress Administration panel.
\nI have done my best to enable some AJAX-features in the administration panel, so you can work efficiently while adding new entries.

Since v1.7 and v1.8, simple import and export functionality is also supported through .csv-files.

This plugin is also tested compatible with:
\n * the popular Members plugin which makes role permissions easy
\n * Relevanssi plugin, the better search plugin

Try the plugin without installing it yourself.

Do you want to try Name Directory instantly? Thanks to TasteWP, you can start with an empty demo-site, just for you!
\nAlso, it’s free.
\nClick here to create the instant demo-website with Name Directory installed.

Embed the directory in the WordPress default search engine

When you go to the General Settings of the plugin, you can enable WordPress search compatibility.
\nThis will include the pages who have a matching entry of Name Directory in the search results

Language support

Do you want Name Directory to be available in your language?
\nPlease help us translate!
\nYou can translate directly by going to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/name-directory,
\nlogin with your WordPress account and click Select your language and click ‘Contribute Translation’.

Support

If you like this plugin and want to support and/or thank me, please buy me a coffee.

References

We are proud to be featured on:
\n – WordPress tutorials
\n – Kinsta: The best Directory plugins (no. 7)
\n – WPBeginner: Best Directory plugins (no. 5)
\n – QuadLayers: Best Directory Plugins (no. 3)
\n – ThemeGrill: Business Directory Plugins (no. 6)
\n – WP Wax: Best Directory plugins

Thank you

Thank you to the few who have donated to me already, or bought a custom version of Name Directory.

Additional and a special thanks goes to JetBrains, the creator of PhpStorm,
\nfor providing me with a free open-source licence to their products. This helps me maintain this plugin!

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\nWhat does the shortcode look like?\n\n

The shortcode for this Name Directory plugin is like this:
\n [namedirectory dir=1]

The 1 in this example is the internal ID of the directory, the rest of the shortcode should always look like this.

\nI created a directory, how do I show it on my site?\n\n

Go to the Name Directory settings page
Hover over the directory you want to add to the page.
A few options should show now, like Delete, Manage and Shortcode – see screenshot https://ps.w.org/name-directory/assets/screenshot-2.png
Click ‘Shortcode’, a little textbox will show now.
Copy-and-paste the content of the textbox into the page you want the plugin to show up.
Save and view the page to see the result.

\nCan I customize the appearance / styling of the Name Directory?\n\n

Yes you can, with CSS. If you know your way around CSS you might already know that you can style elements by their class name or HTML structure.
\nThis plugin was written with styling / CSS in mind. Using the HTML inspector of your favourite browser you should be able to discover the classnames, but here are a few popular classes:

.name_directory_index: Index links (the letters A-Z)
.name_directory_name_box > strong: Name / Entry title
.name_directory_name_box > div: Name / Entry descriptiong
.name_directory_total: Total count of names / entries
.name_directory_index > form: Search form
.name_directory_submit_bottom_link: Link to submit form
.name_directory_active: Currently active character on index
.name_directory_empty: Indicates that there a no entries for character
.name_directory_character_header: Indicates a new starting-letter header
#name_directory_search_input_box: Search input box
#name_directory_search_input_button: Search button

Also, I do offer help on styling / CSS if you are willing to make a small donation.
\nPlease contact me at the Support Forums or my website to discuss this.

\nIs there a bulk-add or csv import in this plugin?\n\n

Since v1.7, yes there is! You can import a .csv-file into a directory.

Go to the Name Directory settings page
Hover over the directory you want to import names into.
A few options should show now, like Delete, Manage and Import – see this screenshot for an example
Click ‘Import’
Select your .csv-file
Upload

You can add names, descriptions and submitter entries, just the first column (name) is required. Good to know: the first row is always ignored (they should be headers).
\nYou can download an example import file to take a look at the format.

Might your first try does not work, please use https://www.freefileconvert.com to convert your file into a valid CSV file.
\nAlso, importing works best if you export the files with ‘UTF-8’ character set, ANSI does not always work.

If you need any help, contact me on the Support Forums.

\nCan I export my directory?\n\n

Since v1.8, yes you can! This export is also compatible with the import-functionality offcourse. If you want to export, use the following steps:

Go to the Name Directory settings page
Hover over the directory you want to export.
A few options should show now, like Delete, Manage, Import and also Export – see this screenshot for an example
Click ‘Export’
On the new page click the button and your .csv-file will be downloaded

\nAre there demo’s / examples to see the plugin in action?\n\n

Yes, every now and then I come across an installed version of the plugin. Here is an incomplete list.

If you see a dead link, would you please let me know?

\nCan I try the plugin myself before I install it?\n\n

Yes, click here for in instant demo-website with Name Directory installed

\nCan I use HTML in the name description?\n\n

Yes, this is possible! Please do be careful to use valid HTML only though.

\nCan I use a WYSIWYG editor to edit the name description?\n\n

Yes, you can, since v1.14.1. You can enable this yourself when you go to the General Settings (also see screenshot 7)

\nIs it possible to be a Name Directory admin without being a Site Administrator?\n\n

Since version 1.17 his is possible by also using the Members plugin.
\nName Directory registers a capability called manage_name_directory there.
\nWhenever you give a user this capability, they will see the Name Directory admin menu’s and will be able to manage the Name Directories.

\nCan I also display a random name?\n\n

Yes, since v1.12 this is possible. You can use this shortcode for that:
\n [namedirectory_random dir=1]

The 1 in this example is the internal ID of the directory.

\nCan I also display a single name?\n\n

Yes, since v1.13 this is possible. You can use this shortcode for that:
\n [namedirectory_single id=10]

\nHow come some characters don’t show, or show as questionmarks?\n\n

If so, please check that your PHP version has mb_string enabled. If that is the case, please check if your database is UTF-8 supported (utf8mb4_unicode_ci).

The 10 in this example is the internal ID of the name, you can find it in the last column when you view all names for a directory in the WordPress admin.

Also, if this does not work, there is a setting called “Show all letters on index”. If you switch this off, it should work.

\nHow can I contact you?\n\n

If you have questions about the plugin or if you have ideas to share, the best way to contact me is through the Support Forums.
\nIf you want me to do custom, paid work for you, you can get in touch by contacting me on website.

\nDo you also offer customizations?\n\n

Yes, I do. For this I offer paid help. Please contact me at my website to discuss this.

\nHow can I report security bugs?\n\n

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
\nThe Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities.
\nReport a security vulnerability.

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Displaying a directory on your site

Go to the Name Directory settings page
Hover over the directory you want to add to the page.
A few options should show now, like Delete, Manage and Shortcode (see screenshot https://ps.w.org/name-directory/assets/screenshot-2.png).
Click ‘Shortcode’, a little textbox will show now.
Copy-and-paste the content of the textbox into the page you want the plugin to show up.
Save and view the page to see the result.

What does the shortcode look like?

The shortcode for this Name Directory plugin is like this:
\n [namedirectory dir=1]

Installing the plugin

Installation is very easy. You can just download this plugin through the Plugin Finder in your WordPress Administration Panel.

If you download the zip-file, installation isn’t that difficult either:

Unzip the file which results into a directory called name-directory
Upload that directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Create a new name directory and add some names
Copy the shortcode and paste it into a post or page to show it on your website

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The output of a name directory on a standard WordPress website. It's a full-featured name directory (search form, index links, descriptions and submit button)
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Overview of all the name directories in the WordPress Administration screen for this plugin
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List of all names in the selected directory and the 'Add name' form
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Settings screen for a name directory
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Where to find the Name Directory plugin settings page
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Another example of the plugin on a website
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