Portfolio – WPESP Theme

Anyone have any insight on to how to just create a new page for this theme? I cannot figure it out for the life of me!!! Thank you!!!!

@aichandmokie – I am available for hire if you are interested. Email addy is corgan1003 : gmail : com

@victor – great looking plugin but it causes my “add new post” form not to load. maybe it is a WP 2.8 issue. i think it would also make more sense if the portfolio feature was a plugin

Look pretty nice thanks for sharing

Hi Victor! Beautiful theme, I am trying it out now. I have not had the problem others have had with the about us or the contact page.

My problem is none of the thumbnails are appearing. Do you have any suggestions? The paths are correct and if I manually type in the page that should be associated with the portfolio site…example say my featured portfolio is “foo”. When I go to work/foo the text information is there but the image is not showing on the homepage or the work/foo page.

Any suggestions?

Answered my own question 15 minutes later of course. When you use slugs, it changes things! Have to take that into account!

Hcard problems and Contact form appears twice

Similar to user DGiscombe, I cannot get the hcard part of the template to work. There is no place for me to enter any information. When I am inside a page template, I get the text “No Options for this Page” under hcard post settings.

My contact form is shown twice: At the top of the page, unstyled, and again in the correct grey area with all the styling. I cannot, for the life of me make the unstyled disappear.

Eternally grateful to any who can help.

Anders,
Denmark

This theme looks great, and thank you to Victor for taking the time to build and share it. However, for whatever reason, this theme is extremely difficult to install and get working properly on the current version of WP (2.8.2). I have a fair amount of experience installing and customizing themes but this one frankly doesn’t seem worth it. If I’m going to spend hours tweaking a theme to get it up and running I’d rather build my own where I can take full credit.

The documentation is exceedingly poor (what is repeatedly referred to as a “tutorial” is nothing of the sort) and though some of the posts in this forum contain partial solutions to specific problems, many of those don’t work right either. Unless you have a lot of patience and very good WP skills, I would recommend looking elsewhere for a portfolio solution. I’m not posting this to be mean, but rather to save others from wasting a lot of time with this as I just have.

Hi Sonnet18,

Sorry, I forgot to post that I fixed it by following the instructions properly. I had to change the ID of about and contact pages in Portfolio_Custom-Write-Panel.php.

Can be found around 164.

Like several other users, I am trying to limit the number of posts on the home page. I have narrowed it down to this code in home.php:

<div id="works">
			<div class="minus14">
				<?php // Featurd Work goes first
					$the_query = new WP_Query('category_name=featured&showposts=1');
					while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
					$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
					// We show just one post of category work and don't duplicate it after | https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action
				?>

					<div class="thumb">
						<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="View Case Study - <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img src="<?php $src_thumb_value = get_post_meta($post->ID, "src_thumb_value", true); echo $src_thumb_value; ?>" width="276" height="115" alt="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" title="Thumb of <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" /></a>
					</div><!-- .thumb -->

				<?php endwhile; ?>

				<?php // Rest of works
					if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
					if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts);
					// https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action
				?>

					<div class="thumb">
						<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="View Case Study - <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img src="<?php $src_thumb_value = get_post_meta($post->ID, "src_thumb_value", true); echo $src_thumb_value; ?>" width="276" height="115" alt="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" title="Thumb of <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" /></a>
					</div><!-- .thumb -->

				<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

			</div><!-- .minus14 -->
		</div><!-- #work -->

However, I do not have enough PHP experience to know what to edit to keep thumbnails from repeating after one row.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Has anybody worked out to do the multiple page/category thing yet?

If home.php is automatically the front page, does that mean it should be changed to a different name to fall in line with other category pages such as ‘category-work.php’ and ‘category-illustration.php’ for example?

This is why I love WordPress, makes my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for this Victor. Muchos appreciated.

Thank you, Victor, I love your theme!

I wrote a tutorial for myself (in case I ever need to install this again) and I’d like to share it, B U T ::

I have the same problem sixsixmedia mentioned 2 weeks ago…when I make a post, I see white rectangles where the images should be. I’ve checked and rechecked the path, (though that shouldn’t be necessary because I copy and paste the url from FireFTP) … so that path doesn’t appear to be the problem.

Then sixsixmedia says:

Answered my own question 15 minutes later of course. When you use slugs, it changes things! Have to take that into account!

and, um, I don’t get it.

Can you or anybody help?

Thanks y muchas gracias, Victor!!!!

Rosemary

Solved…but…

Solved
I was trying to link straight to the image instead of thru the WP media library from the post.

But
The two image boxes on the “WORK” page have different proportions (x:y) which stretches one or scrunches the other. I’m going to try to work with 2 distinct images for each post…unless somebody knows if I’m doing something wrong to cause this behavior. (I notice that the images on Victor’s site look fine…)

Also, I had to undo something that Victor’s “tutorial” suggested: to
change the featured catagory ID in the portfolio_panel.php file to match my own. when I did that, the large image on the “WORK” page shifted to the left.

When I get this right I’m going to post a tutorial on blogger…

Thanks again, Victor!

Hey everyone…I’ve just implemented this theme and broken it down / modified / added some things to it. Check it out.

Andrew Norcross

I got the contact page working, I’ve had some success with the side panels showing correct, and I’ve added a “portfolio” page that lists them all in one page.

Norcross: Looks fantastic. If you feel like sharing any insights, please do:o)