Best approach to create a user direction, both archive and single template?

Hi @lukelee,

This is a bigger topic than can be covered in a single post and requires a lot of careful planning and development.

Some points:

  1. You will most likely need to create a custom post type and custom post archive for this

  2. You will most likely need to add custom fields to the User and display those and the default fields in your custom single template

  3. You may want to use a User Query:

  4. Cwicly does support author archive pages which may or may not be useful for your purposes: