Member Directory Templates

How to Customize Member Profile Template, Directory and Membership Card with ARMember Pro Plugin

To add user profile and member directory to your website, “Profiles & Directories” section will available when you activate “Social Feature” from ARMember -> Add-ons

ARMember Provides six ready-made templates for member listing/member directory. You can check the front-end view of these templates by clicking here.

Following are the operation that can be performed with Member Directory Template:

Add Template

You can add a directory template by clicking on Add Template box in Members Directory Templates section.

All options to set template are dynamic. You can set by your own that whether you want to display administrator users in members listing, Member badges, Redirect To Author Archive Page, sorting option, search box etc.

Here you can select template layout from different template layouts. Also, you can set color scheme, font setting & other options like whether to display member badges or not, display specific plan(s) members, which filters to display, pagination style & custom CSS.

Also, ARMember does provide two types of searching facility. Single Search Field And Multi Search Field.

If you select Single Search Field then it will display only a single text box to searching result. And it will search the members based on single value matched as entered in text box.

If you select Multi Search Field then it will display the list of selected fields to search the members with multiple value matched.

You will get following search parameter options:

Directory Options

Edit Template

You can edit template options anytime from profile template listing. Hover on specific template & click on edit icon to edit template options to change settings.

Copy Template

With this option you can copy the same template in which you have made custom changes and add new feature in the copied template.

Delete Template

If you wish to delete the templates which are no longer used at your site then you can hit the delete icon.

Preview Template

You can have preview of template to see how the template will look in front-end. Also, you can check responsive view of template. As you can see in the below screenshot, responsive options are available in top belt.

How to add Default Search Parameter?

In the member directory, many sites require a facility to display members that match a specific search parameter, with the results being filtered accordingly by default. ARMember provides two parameters that can be added to the directory shortcode to support this functionality. These parameters enable targeted searches and streamlined member discovery directly within the directory.

The two parameters are default_search_field and default_search_value. These parameters work together to tailor the search:

1. default_search_field specifies the meta_key of the field you want to search within the members.
2. default_search_value provides the value to filter the members by, as entered by the member on your site.

Below is the shortcode you can add:

[arm_template type="directory" id="DIRECTORY_ID" default_search_field="META_KEY" default_search_value="FIELD VALUE"]

Replace DIRECTORY_ID, META_KEY, FIELD VALUE parameters as per your site.

Let’s understand this through an example, if your site collects the value through a dropdown field for the user’s interest in social media. At the dropdown field, you have added 5 different values. Further wise to filter the directory by default as per the members who selected the value “Instagram”, then shortcode as below can be applicable if you set the same meta_key:

[arm_template type="directory" id="2" default_search_field="social_media_platforms" default_search_value="Instagram"]

When this shortcode is added to a field at that time, all the users who selected Instagram will only show up in the directory.