Any advantage to a Grid Page vs a Portfolio Page (Goran vs Lodestar)

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  monongahelamsp · Member · Mar 13, 2017 at 12:39 am

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  I am torn between two Themes: Goran and Lodestar.

  I am making a website for an organization which hopes to revitalize the downtown area of the city where I live. One of the ways I will be using my website is to make as section with a page featuring each building in our downtown (this will require about 50 pages or so – one page for each building). Each building page will have photo, history of the building and address among other information.

  I am having trouble figuring out whether the Goran theme or the Lodestar theme is best. I can’t figure out the pros and cons of a Grid page vs a portfolio page for this feature. I would like to know what you think.

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 13, 2017 at 5:19 pm

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  Hi @monongahelamsp!

  The biggest difference between the Grid Page and Portfolio Page is going to be how the items are grouped together.

  Pages are generally independent items – they each stand on their own for the most part, unless you give them a Parent Page.

  An example of Parent Pages might be (to create a page for a given street or neighborhood. Let’s say a Main Street page.

  Then, using Main Street as a parent page, you could give the individual buildings their own pages.

  So you’d have addresses like this:

  yourcitysite.com/main-street/clifton-tower

  (if you wanted to do it that way)

  Portfolios, on the other hand, are more similar to blog posts, in that they can be organized into “Project Types” (similar to categories) and “Project Tags” similar to tags.

  The addresses for those would look a little different as well, something like this:

  yourcitysite.com/portfolio/clifton-tower

  Apart from those variables, you can really go with whatever one you think looks the best :)