Tips for making a staff area

[Matthew Nuzum]

Matthew Nuzum

December 29, 2021 at 3:01 pm

Hello, I have an e-commerce website where I will sell digital products. Right now people call in to order, but later they will just use Woocommerce.

I have installed the Membership plugin from the WordPress website. My goal is to create a part of the website for the team to use as their hub. You have to be logged in and also have the “Staff” role to see it. At the moment, the only way to log in is to have a user account created by an admin, so everyone has either “Staff” or Administrator roles. I think when I setup Woocommerce I will allow people to log in as a different role to see their account.

Staff members have the staff page as their homepage. We add links to it and we have some sub-pages with special forms that connect to our external database system.

I would love tips on how to help make an awesome staff area. Here are some of the issues I know of:

* Child pages of the staff page do not automatically inherit the need to have the Staff role, so it’s possible to make a new page public.
* When you click to a child page, there is no automatic navigation to return back to the staff page, so it would be nice if there was a way to show a few navigation links either on the child pages of the Staff page (preferred) or to users who have the Staff role
* Is there a way to show breadcrumb navigation on only some pages? That would also be a good solution.

Do you have any other suggestions to help me and my team more productive?

I am using the Kadence Pro theme and package of plugins.