Post Category vs Portfolio Item Type

Kadence Themes Member answered in https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/category-to-portfolio:
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One main thing would be if sail races are time sensitive.

A portfolio isn’t something where a date is an important part, especially an posted date. Where as a post is something that is date sensitive. And a posted date could be important.

For example with your sail race, one of the important things would be when was this posted, when is the race. vs a portfolio post of an illustration that you created. it’s more about showing past work and you can have a project date in the details but it’s not front and center.

Some other things to consider, portfolios don’t have a sidebar option for the post. They also don’t show an author info unless you manually add in the description. And general layout, portfolios and posts are laid out differently.

All this isn’t really what Dddt was talking about though, his had to do with showing portfolio posts and blog posts together I think.

Kadence Themes
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Thanks, much appreciated. I (novice) hadn’t considered the time aspect of things.

Say there are 30 sail races, many of which already occurred. And a few in the future. I think in my case the date of when things get posted/added to the site is not so important but the date when the sail race occurred is. If I use blog posts using category “sail race” I think I could set or modify the “published date” to be the date of the sail race, a date in the past, to perhaps get some functionality from that.

Portfolio being “more about showing past work” and in my case the work is the sail races I may have participated in and want to present.

I guess the similarities I mentioned in my original post and am thinking about, is perhaps the grouping aspect – either way allows one to group and present similar items in some way.

So I am trying using the Portfolio concept to present the sail races. And I may also have other types of races in the portfolio, e.g. “bike races”.

I create a bunch of portfolio items, set their portfolio type to “sail race” and I create a custom page “Sail Races” which uses the “Portfolio Grid” as page template and it filters to display only portfolio items of type “sail race”. And it all looks great.

The url of each individual sail race is/becomes example.com/portfolio/[sail-race-slug], which I guess is to be expected since a sail race is a portfolio item after all.

But, it would be really nice if I could cause replace the “portfolio” with “sail-races” (or “sail-race”) in the sail race urls, i.e. so they would be example.com/sail-races/[sail-race-slug] (or example.com/sail-race/[sail-race-slug]).

Is that possible? Using Virtue functionality or using WordPress functionality?
I am operating with a child theme so I have the powers of/in functions.php available…

Hey,
There are options for this in the premium theme. in free you would have to edit the virtue toolkit plugin. change the custom post type slug. and that would only mean you could change the main word from portfolio to say race. You can’t change that slug for each category.

But in premium you can use the theme options to change the base and also add the portfolio type slug. So you could have example.com/race/sail-race/sale-race-slug

Kadence Themes

Thanks!

I now see the “Portfolio Permalink Base” setting in your online documentation.

If I have other portfolio types, unrelated to sport races, I would still end up with that “race” base in the urls, though. I don’t know if it is, or would be, possible but I think it might be nice to be able to specify when editing a portfolio type “omit the portfolio base” in the permalink in urls to portfolio items of this type.
Anyway, thanks for your elaboration.

Hey,
It’s unfortunately it’s not possible with wordpress to do that, it’s not a theme or plugin issue wordpress just doesn’t support it.

Kadence Themes