WordPress plugin for service bodies and committees to publish meeting minutes — PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, or links to Google Docs / Dropbox / OneDrive — via a single shortcode. Built by the bmlt-enabled community.
[bmlt_minutes]
Filter, limit, or change the grouping per-page:
[bmlt_minutes committee="hospitals-institutions" group_by="year"]
[bmlt_minutes limit="10" group_by="none" show_excerpt="true"]
- Upload to
/wp-content/plugins/bmlt-minutes/ - Activate in WordPress admin
- Add minutes under Minutes → Add New — upload a file or paste a Google Doc URL, choose a committee, set the meeting date
- Add
[bmlt_minutes]to any page or post
Configured under Minutes → Settings.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Default Sort Order | desc (newest first) or asc. Applies when [bmlt_minutes] has no order attr. |
| Maximum Upload Size | Per-file cap (MB) applied to uploads on the Minutes editor. Default 10 MB. Clamped to the server limit on save. |
| Attribute | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
committee |
all | Slug or comma-separated slugs of Committee terms to filter. |
year |
all | Restrict to a single year by Meeting Date (e.g. 2026). |
limit |
-1 |
Max items to render. -1 = no limit. |
order |
desc |
desc (newest first) or asc. |
group_by |
committee |
committee, year, or none. |
show_excerpt |
false |
true to show each post's excerpt under the link. |
Some service bodies redact personal details from minutes before posting, others share unredacted minutes with members only. Each minutes post can be optionally locked:
- Per-post: set a value in the Password Protection field of the Minutes Document meta box (or use WordPress's native Publish → Visibility → Password protected). Locked entries show a padlock in the
[bmlt_minutes]list and require the password before the document URL is revealed. - Whole-page: set a password on the page that contains
[bmlt_minutes]via the same Visibility control — WordPress's standard password form gates the entire page.
Default behavior with no password is fully public access.
PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, TXT, RTF, CSV — plus arbitrary URLs (Google Docs, Dropbox, OneDrive, anywhere else).
See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, code standards, and the release flow. Security issues go through SECURITY.md.