Portfolio–How to set up??

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  • #16255
    fiatlux
    Participant

    I’m super new to this. I saw one or two posts about Portfolio issues, but the responses were basic and vague.

    I want to set up my site to look like the demo, with blog posts on the front, and a four column portfolio page, accessed by the link in the menu. I want my blog to be separate from the portfolio, but from what I was seeing, you have to create your portfolio from the blog function, making your Portfolio a category? I don’t understand.

    Originally, I thought the Portfolio was a Page function (because “Portfolio” options are listed in the page template options), and each portfolio item (ex, “Kitten” in the Demo) was a subpage of a Portfolio page, but when I did that, it didn’t show up when I clicked the page I named Portfolio in the menu. I got Content Not Available.

    Can anyone just give me a simple step by step on how to set up a Portfolio as a four column page like the demo?

    #16258
    hmelp
    Participant

    You create a Portfolio Page (with the template option)

    then to add stuff to the portfolio that is where the categories come in. You have to create a Portfolio category and you can create sub categories if you want like in the demo (animals, etc)

    To add the images, you create a Post and add a featured image and make sure on the right you click the portfolio category (and any sub categories if you want)

    To add more images to portfolio, you create more posts.

    #16695
    joan w
    Participant

    hum. just tried a portfolio test there. created a new page, titled it ‘portfolio’, selected the portfolio template….and all my general posts show on it….?

    why would that be? that is an open question and something i will have to return to, to find out. as it is likely i will want to set up a portfolio section to just show the art work, down the road. but i don’t want to have the general posts showing up in the portfolio.

    for now i will make a new category in catergories called portfolio.

    thanks, joan

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