People, Roles & Clusters

Updated: 12 June 2025 for Release v214

In the Dashboard you will find three modules in the People section:

Go to Dashboard > People and select Add people.

A Person is an individual with First name and Surname.

A Group could be a Theatre Company or Musical band as a whole, for example. This would then be one item. If you want to specify band members as individuals, do not use the Group option. Create the individual Person Pages.

You can enable automatic personal pages for each Person/Group by checking the box Enable automatic personal page.

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 the default personal page can be changed in Routes & Parts > People detail.

To change the circular photo into a full width image, add Parameter variant to the Hero part and enter the value “default”.

If you want a boxed image layout, add the Parameter bg with value “image_boxed”.

Custom Personal Pages

If you want a more 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, paste the page URL into the Custom personal page field. 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. For example, grouping the Cast and the Creative teams.

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.

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. At the bottom of the page you will find the People section.

Select Add and choose the Person (or Group) from the first drop-down list. You can also search in that box.

To change the order of People, use the drag & drop feature, select the 6 dots at the end to change the order of the added People.

Select the Cluster you want the Person to appear in.

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, add the part "People (for a production)" to your production page System> Routes & 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.

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