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Not  Wordpress expert, but in CiviCRM you should do the following:

Profiles can be used to create listings of contacts. These can be used for membership directories.


Set up a group that will contain the contacts that you want to list. It’s a good idea to make this a smart group. That way any contact that matches the smart group criteria will automatically be added to your group and thus to your listing.

Make sure that the smart group is set to public.

Navigate to Administer | Customize Data and Screens | Profiles and add a new profile that will contain the fields you wish to display on your directory.

Used for: Select Standalone form or directory.

Navigate to Advanced settings.

Limit listings to a specific Group: select the smart group that you created previously.

Click Save and begin adding fields to your profile.

The fields have been set for public pages and view only.

Note that you do not have to include the name of the organization itself. CiviCRM puts the contact display name in the search result set by default.

Once we have done this we can create a profile URL to display the directory.

civicrm/profile?gid=17&reset=1&force=1&search=0

will display our directory as a list.

You might want to control permissions for profiles. For example, you may only want members to be able to see the member directory.

profile listings are not possible with WP + Civi v4.2 due to permissioning issues

this has been fixed for 4.3 since we've integrated WP permissions with Civi (thanx to Jag and Rajesh from MTL, UK)

lobo

Hi Lobo,

I've downloaded the 4.3 Alpha release and installed on my Sandbox. Are you able to point me in the right direction on where I enable the profile listing to be public? I'm currently exploring the ACL's settings but nothing is obvious for me

Cheers
Jason

Hi.  Has the public directory feature been implemented in version 4.3? 

This message board says that it has, but the book says it hasn't: book[dot]civicrm[dot]org/user/current/the-user-interface/profiles/

Very much looking forward to this feature and thanks so much for Civi!

 

I'm a new user on Civicrm.  Thanks for a fantastic product!  It's been really great to use (in a lot of ways).

However, I'm disappointed that the public searchable member directory and mapping feature is apparently still not officially supported in Wordpress.  How close is this to working?  Is there a technical reason that a shortcode is not yet implemented for this feature?

I can kind of get it working by hacking in my own url, appending this ?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/profile&gid=14&reset=1 to my a page on my site (e.g http :// mywebsite.com/mydirectory?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/profile&gid=14&reset=1

I've set out to implement this shortcode myself which led to new questions about the coding choices made when designing the civicrm plugin for wordpress.  What is the proper forum for discussing these/raising questions so that I don't wind up retrying what someone else has already tried?

Anyway, I hope that info is helpful to others.

Also, here's how I setup that profile (gid 14):

1 field: individual, first name, required, public visibility, searchable, results column
profile settings: used for standalone, used for search views

We are also waiting for public listings for WordPress, with exposure via shortcode. Thanks for any efforts to make this happen.

Alas, some grassroots nonprofits have no coders, no staff and no discretionary budget. I suppose we're leeches on the community, but we do offer our profound thanks and try to offer constructive feedback in these forums.