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How to add, remove, and edit team members |
To add or remove a team member, create or delete a Markdown file in /_members.
Each file will automatically generate its own page according to its filename. For example, a file with the name tim-member.md will generate a page at /members/tim-member.
{% hint style="info" %} After adding members, you can display them on your site with the list and portrait components. {% endhint %}
Example:
{% code title="tim-member.md" %}
---
name: Tim Member
image: images/team/some-image.jpg
role: programmer
description: Senior Programmer
aliases:
- T Member
- T. Member
- Timothy Member
links:
home-page: https://tims-website.com/
email: tim-member@email.com
twitter: tims_twitter
---
A bio for Tim, written in Markdown.
A descriptions of his academic studies, his recent accomplishments, his goals for the future, his likes/dislikes, etc.
One or two paragraphs is probably best.{% endcode %}
| Parameter | Description |
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name | Display name of team member. |
image | URL to portrait photo of team member. |
role | Team member's role in your organization. Determines the icon and default description text to show. See /_data/types.yaml for what types of roles are built-in or to add your own. |
description | Description of team member's role in your organization. Overrides any default text set from of role. |
aliases | By default, team member pages have a link at the bottom that goes to the "Research" page and searches for any papers by them. This field is a list of aliases/variations/abbreviations of the team member's name to search for. |
links | Social media links for the team member, without any prefixes like @, www., etc.See /_data/types.yaml for what types of links are built-in or to add your own. |
{% hint style="info" %}
role vs description
You can organize your team members any way you want with list.md filters and by customizing /_data/types.yaml. However, by default, role is intended to be a high-level type (only a few unique ones in your organization) that you assign an icon and use for coarse list filtering (e.g. "always list PIs first, then postdocs, then undergrads"). description is intended for a more specific description that might be unique to each member.
{% endhint %}
The skeleton arrangement and style of team member pages are based on the /_layouts/member.html template, which you can freely edit to your liking.