Portfolio- what the heck?

ausagventures · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 3:44 am
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I’ve been googling and googling and googling and can’t find a step by step guide as to how to actually create a freaking portfolio.

I click create a new project- then what? Where do I actually insert the images? As media or as a gallery or what? There’s no step by step guide that actually goes through creating a portfolio anywhere!!

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justjennifer · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 6:15 am
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Have you seen this Support doc? http://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/
justjennifer · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 6:16 am
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FWIW-the Support docs are a laser beam search for information about working with WordPress.com. If you google it, you’ll get back all kinds of information that may not have a thing to do with how we get things done here.

best wishes.
ausagventures · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 6:54 am
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yes of course i have seen the support doc which is entirely useless
justjennifer · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 7:21 am
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I agree that the Portfolio feature needs some Staff love (even the News announcement was rather terse), so I’ve tagged this for their input. Maybe a feature in The Daily Post is needed.

Meanwhile, does looking at any of the demo sites for the themes mentioned on that Support doc help? http://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/#portfolio-themes
kpuro · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 8:34 am
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I so agree! I have been loosing my mind with the portfolios. There is no (valuable) information anywhere. I want to set the portfolio view as my frontpage, but can not find a way to do it. Any ideas? – my theme is Sketch.
jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 7:36 pm
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Hey everyone!

Thanks for the feedback here. I’ll put the idea of a portfolio feature on the future roadmap for The Daily Post.

@ausagventures –

I click create a new project- then what? Where do I actually insert the images? As media or as a gallery or what? There’s no step by step guide that actually goes through creating a portfolio anywhere!!

You’ll want to add a featured image to your Portfolio items similar to how you would a blog post. Each theme displays portfolio items a little differently. Having a featured image ensures that you’ll always have a great looking image beside your portfolio items.

As for inserting images within the actual portfolio item, that really depends on what kind of work you’re going to be displaying. I prefer using mostly text, but I also set a featured image for each piece. What kind of work are you displaying?

@kpuro

I want to set the portfolio view as my frontpage, but can not find a way to do it. Any ideas? – my theme is Sketch.

Have you tried following the instructions here?

http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sketch/

Setting the portfolio as your front page is covered under “Portfolio Page Template” on that page.
kpuro · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 10:43 am
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It Works! Thanks so much! Last time I tried it was only really funny, but now looks like it should.
jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 6:17 pm
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It Works! Thanks so much!

Great! Happy to help.
jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 8, 2015 at 5:31 pm
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Hi everyone!

I just wanted to drop a note here mentioning a Daily Post that just went up regarding portfolios:

Showcase Your Best Work With a Portfolio

Hope that helps!

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