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This is not related to the theme or the plugin. This is an issue related to the WordPress and/or server configuration. As of WordPress 4.5 the default quality is 82%. You’d need to up the default image quality.

Here’s a more in depth article: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-increase-or-decrease-wordpress-jpeg-image-compression/

Sorry, but this is outside the scope of support for this product. Also, this is not an option I plan on adding to the plugin.

No worries. You’ll need to contact Theme Zilla support for information on the theme.

Are you referencing the right plugin? That function does not exist in ZillaPortfolio.

This is not something that the plugin will do out of the box. You would need to create a couple of custom page templates with custom loops to load the portfolio pieces with the portfolio types you want displayed.

For both, you should be able to define the slug to be used in your theme functions file:

define( 'TZP_SLUG', 'portfolio' );
define( 'TZP_TAX_SLUG', 'portfolio-type' );

There may be, but off the top of my head, I cannot make a recommendation for a plugin.

Sorry, that was a bit of a stupid question on my part as the resulting answer doesn’t impact my response. You can add portfolio-types to menus (if not visible in the menu page, expand the screen options in the upper right corner and check the box to make them appear in the menu page). Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to have new portfolio types automatically added to a menu. There may be a plugin that allows for this or you could add a custom function to output the menu where you’d like it.

What is the new theme that is being used?

A portfolio is like a post. It is a custom post type of it’s own. Regardless of whether a theme has built in support for the plugin or not. It will load all portfolio posts at /portfolio/ using the archive template (or the fallback). Similarly it will use single.php to display the singular portfolio post.

If you want to customize the layout, you can add archive-portfolio.php and single-portfolio.php to your theme (preferably your child theme).

I’ve used portfolio as it seems to be a common usage for similar plugins. Additionally, images uploaded to a portfolio are attached to a portfolio so they would be easily accessible. The meta data is unique to the plugin, but would never be erased unless you went in and erased it. It would still be accessible if you moved on to a different plugin, but you would need to add some code to pull it from the database.

The portfolio plugin does maintain the same portfolio custom post type. However, I can’t say if the meta data will be preserved. I’m fairly certain that gallery images will be maintained, but other special meta data may not transfer. I tried to make the plugin work with the older themes as best I could, but did not write a script to port old meta data over to the new structure.

While I’m still maintaining the plugin, I am no longer affiliated with ThemeZilla. I would suggest a quick test with a different theme and the plugin. You’ll be able to to quickly tell what data isn’t carried over. When you switch the theme back, any data “lost” in the switch will be present again.

The plugin doesn’t resize the image. By default, the plugin will use default image sizes generated by WordPress. The Base theme, however, does add an image size that is used for the portfolios. You’ll need to contact ThemeZilla support (makers of the Base Theme) to get a fix for your issue.

You could add something like this to your functions file:

if( ! function_exists( 'set_portfolio_order' ) ) :
/**
 * Set the order for portfolio
 *
 * @param  obj $query the query object
 * @return void
 */
function set_portfolio_order($query) {
	if ( $query->is_page_template( 'template-portfolio.php' ) && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'rand' );
    }
}
endif;
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'set_portfolio_order');

Unfortunately, I am not able to answer this question as the theme has included a custom page template for the portfolio type archive. It appears that either the pagination has been omitted or the theme fails to load all portfolios of a given portfolio type in the portfolio type archive pages.

You’ll need to contact the ThemeZilla support team to get this item sorted. I am no longer a part of the ThemeZilla team.

I believe that this is an issue that WordPress has in resizing animated gifs and isn’t related to the plugin per se. I think that you’ll need to upload an image that is the required size so as to prevent a resize from occurring.