no image on portfolio pages

Hi there,

Orvis is using the featured image only for the project’s thumbnails. To display your images inside a project you need to insert those images.

You’re saying I have to manually add the html <img src="link-to-the-image"> in the body of the page? Okay, I’ve tested that and it does seem to work (I’m surprised it doesn’t show it in the sidebar). Thank you.

But I have some concerns… this means if I ever switch themes, I’ll have duplicate copies of the same image in the page, right? I’ll have to manually remove each duplicate image from every item in the portfolio right?

This seems really strange when the standard portfolio behavior is for the Featured Image to be used in the thumbnail and the body of the portfolio item, right? That’s what it looks like in other themes when I use the [portfolio] shortcode.

Is this a workaround to a bug or this is really how it’s designed?

Quick followup:

It seems like I must be misunderstanding something about portfolios.

I’m reading the orvis documentation here: https://wordpress.com/theme/orvis and it seems to describe adding the Featured Image but I can’t find where it says to add the image a second time in order to show the full image on the page.

I am also reading the general portfolio documentation on wordpress.com https://wordpress.com/support/portfolios/ and it seems to show in the screenshot a duplicate image manually added, but it doesn’t describe that.

Is it that I’m just misundertanding and portfolio pages have to have media manually entered all the time?

Is the featured image supposed to just be a “cover page” for something else or something?

Thanks.

Hi there,

I’m reading the orvis documentation here: https://wordpress.com/theme/orvis and it seems to describe adding the Featured Image but I can’t find where it says to add the image a second time in order to show the full image on the page.

It doesn’t mention that in the theme documentation, no, because the theme documentation only explains how the theme’s features work, not how the portfolio custom post type works.

Is it that I’m just misundertanding and portfolio pages have to have media manually entered all the time?

Correct. Portfolios are a type of post, so just like with posts, any content you want to be visible when the published project is viewed, need to be added to the project’s content via the editor. This includes any images which you can add via an image block, just like you’d add them to a post or page.

The Orvis theme has additional special treatment for portfolio projects, in that it displays thumbnail images on the portfolio page template, and for that specifically a featured image is required.

Is the featured image supposed to just be a “cover page” for something else or something?

No, a featured image is something you can apply to any post or page in WordPress. That’s the image that gets listed in the post meta data in the HTML head for search engines and social media to use for the link, and themes can use featured images as post thumbnails, in post sliders, etc.

A featuread image is not part of the content of a post, page or project, but neither is it something separate. It’s something that’s attached to the post, but over and above the actual content.

this means if I ever switch themes, I’ll have duplicate copies of the same image in the page, right? I’ll have to manually remove each duplicate image from every item in the portfolio right?

This would depend on the theme. Some themes show the featured image in the single post/project view, and other don’t. Some themes that do show the featured image also have an option to switch that feature off, some don’t.

If you ever do switch to a theme that displays the featured image and don’t give you an option to switch it off, you can just add some custom CSS to hide the featured images instead. There shouldn’t be any need to manually edit every project and remove them.