Link people to productions and stories, create personal pages for a person or present them on a production page or story. The possibilities are endless.

In the dashboard you will find three modules in the "people" section:

To add new people, just click "Add".

A Person is an individual with first name and Surname.

If you choose the option "Group" you can add a theatre company or musical band as a whole. This would then be one item. If you want to specify band members as individuals, don't use the "Group" option, but just create the individual "Persons".

You can enable automatic personal pages for each person/group just by checking the box. Choose whether you want to show all related productions and/or stories that are linked to this person. Once activated, a person or group on your website will automatically be clickable and link to a personal page. (Layout of this page can be changed in the "People detail" section in the Routes & parts module)

If you want more than a simple personal page, you can also create your own bespoke page for a person, add linked stories and productions and more content. Check out the section "Creating custom biography pages" at the bottom of this article for more information.

Once you created your own bespoke biography page, just paste the page url into the "Custom personal page" field you see above. This will overrule the link to the automatic personal page.

Don't forget to upload a nice photo, and click "save.

Clusters are used to filter different subsets of people on your website. This can be used to give different sets of people a different look on your website, or to include/exclude subsets on particular pages.

Think about if you want different subsets of people and create your clusters accordingly.

For instance, you can create clusters "Big", "Regular" and "Small" to use as a filter for different parts that show that cluster of people with big photo's, small photo's or just as a list.

The name of the Cluster will be displayed above the People Part on a Production or Story page.

When multiple people parts are used, they all can now have different headings, based on the Clusters that are used in the people part.

Every person has a role in a production. However the role can be different for a person in different productions or stories. In this module you can add a general set of all the roles you want to use throughout your website. Assigning roles to people is not done here, that happens when you connect people to a specific production or story.

Go to a story or production page in your dashboard. All the way at the bottom of the page you will find the new people section and the "add" button. All people you add to this production will be displayed here in a nice overview.

A drag&drop feature enables you to change the order of the added people.

Click "add" and choose the person (or group) from the first dropdown list. You can also search in that box, which is usually quicker when you have a lot of people.

Choose one or more roles. Roles are specific for the person in this production or story. For different productions/stories you can select different roles for the same person.

Now you are done with all your content! You created people, clusters, roles, and linked people to productions and stories, assigning them specific clusters and roles per production/story.

Featuring people on your website can be done in different ways:

To display people on a production page, just add the part "People (for a production)" to your production page in the "routes and parts" module.

In this example we have added three People parts, based on three different filters.

Each part displays a different cluster, and has a different template. Templates determine the look of items within the part, just like anywhere else on the website.

You can select different templates to display your people. Some examples:

Combining multiple parts with different settings can create great overviews of different subsets of people in different layouts.

Every part has the same title. If you use multiple parts, you can hide the title of the following part to prevent the title to be repeated above all parts.

To display people on a page or story page, just select the "People" part in the part dropdown on your page or story and click "add".

In the "People" part you can display all people at once, or filter on cluster or role to make a sub selection of people you want to show.

You can use the "People" part multiple times with different filters (roles, clusters) and add the same "variant" parameters here as we used on the production page to create different looks for each part.

Check the box "Only people for this page" to show only the people you have linked to this page/story. With the clusters and roles filters you can narrow that selection down even further.

For each person, you can create a bespoke biography page. Add all biography content you want in the usual way.