Your Past Directors page

The Past Directors page (/past-directors) is a place to remember the people who have led your choir: former music directors, accompanists, founders. Each is shown as a card with a photo, name, role and years. It is in Site Settings → Past directors page.

The public Past Directors page: a heading and introduction, then a row of cards, each with a round photo or an outline of a person, a name, a role, the years served and a short note

Before you start

The page is shown only while Past directors page is ticked in Features. It is on for a new site.

How visitors find the page

The page is not in the menu at the top of your site. Visitors reach it from a link under your leaders in the About section of the home page.

The words of that link are a setting in a different section: Site Settings → Home: About → Link to past directors page. If that box is empty, there is no link, and the page can only be reached by its address. See About your choir and its leaders.

You can also point a button, a promo box or a Resources link tile at /past-directors.

The settings

Setting	What it does	Limit
Heading	The page's heading. Empty means "Past Directors".	80 characters
Introduction	A paragraph under the heading.	500 characters
People	The people, in the order they are shown.	Up to 30

Each person has:

Setting	What it does	Limit
Name	The person's name. Someone with no name is not shown.	100 characters
Role	Such as "Music Director" or "Accompanist". Shown in capitals.	80 characters
Years	Such as "1998 – 2010". Typed as plain text, so "Founding season" works too.	40 characters
Photo	Optional. Shown in an oval, cropped around its centre. Without one, an outline of a person is shown.	A picture
Note	One line, such as "Founder of the choir".	200 characters

Add someone

1. Go to Site Settings → Past directors page.
2. Under People, select Add.
3. Type the Name, Role and Years.
4. If you have a photo, select Upload image under Photo. A portrait with the face in the middle works best: see Upload a picture into a setting.
5. Add a Note if you wish.
6. Select Save.

The Past directors page section of Site Settings with one person open in the People list, showing Name, Role, Years, Photo and Note

A new entry goes to the bottom of the list. Use the arrows on its title bar to move it: most choirs list the most recent first, or the founder first. A list of more than three people opens with every entry closed; select a name to open it. See Lists of entries.

How the cards are laid out

People	On a wide screen
One or two	Two to a row, centred
Three	Three in a row
Four or more	Four to a row

With nobody in the list, the page says "Nothing here yet." If you have nobody to list, untick Past directors page in Features instead.

When a director retires

Move them here from your current leaders:

1. Add them to People on this page and Save.
2. Go to Home: About, remove them from Leadership and Save. See About your choir and its leaders.

The two sections are saved separately, so do one, save, then the other.