WordPress

Overview

The ExpertFile WordPress plugin provides ExpertFile users the easiest, SEO-friendly way to quickly add your experts and their valuable content to any website. For current non-WordPress users, firing up a WordPress instance provides you a quick option when looking to create a microsite for your expert content outside your core CMS. Once installed, you can control your content updates from your ExpertFile dashboard with your changes automatically reflected on your website, all without having to log back into WordPress.

Display all your important Expert Content elements from profiles to posts.

Your expert content can be added as part of a “new” purpose-specific page such as an “Expert Directory” or as a component of a current page such as your homepage or newsroom section of your website. All your expert related content is available to be added which includes:

• Expert Directories

• Expert Profiles

• Inquiry Forms

• Feature Expert Callouts

• Spotlights (News Posts)

• ExpertAnswers (Q&A)

Get started quickly without the need for complex IT support.

The following are the basic steps for adding your ExpertFile content to your WordPress pages or posts.

1. Create a new page for your website or determine the current page you’d like to add the content to.

2. Open the "Settings" tab to add your ExpertFile organization credentials and new URLs created.

3. Access the HTML code for the page or add an HTML element/container to the page using your editor.

4. Copy the shortcode text (eg [expertfile-directory]) from the "Shortcodes" tab and paste it onto the page/post.

5. Hit Save & Publish when ready.

Settings

Connecting your ExpertFile account and accessing your data is simple.

Access your Expertfile dashboard at expertfile.com/login and locate your credentials in the “API” area of the “Settings” section. Once applied, your credentials provide access to all your expert content. Don’t have access to the ExpertFile platform? Contact your organization’s admin.

We take the work out of linking all your pages together.

By adding the new page URLs you’ve created to the settings tab, ExpertFile is able to dynamically link various elements of your expert content together such as directory listings to profiles, profiles to inquiry forms, Spotlight listings to full Spotlight posts, and ExpertAnswers listings to individual questions with answer(s).