How to loop through custom fields for a staff directory list in WordPress

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I have a number of pages for staff members in my WP installation and each of these has additional custom fields for telephone, email, fax and classroom number.

I need to create a directory listing page which will pull all the custom fields from these pages depending on the department they are in.

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It would be useful if pages had categories too but that does not seem to be the case, so my next option I guess would be to loop through a list of subpages under a parent pages, then extract the custom fields from these pages and order them alphabetically.

Could someone perhaps tell me if there is a better way to do this or show me what code snippet I would use to get this started please?

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  1. Pages can have categories , you need to declare a custom taxonomy in your functions.php

    add_action('init','register_catalog_taxonomy');
function register_catalog_taxonomy(){
  register_taxonomy(
      "department",
      array('page'),
      array(
        'hierarchical'=>true,
        "label"=>"Department",
        "singular_label"=>"Department",
        "rewrite"=>true,
        "capabilities"=>array('manage_terms','edit_terms','delete_terms','assign_terms')
        )
      );
}

    you need to check the following page in the wordpress codec :

    register_taxonomy