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  lindamcmanusimages · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 4:33 am

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  Hi There,

  I just started playing around with the Illustratr theme. My question is how to NOT show all my projects on my home page, but only a few projects and then link to that page when clicked on the project from the home page. Here is my webiste…. http://lindamcmanusimages.com/ Thanks in advance!

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  lizthefair · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 12:50 pm

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  My question is how to NOT show all my projects on my home page, but only a few projects and then link to that page when clicked on the project from the home page.

  If you mean you only want to show your most recent 3 (or whatever number) projects instead of up to 10, you can change those settings on the Settings>>Writing page of WP-admin. I’ve included a direct link for you below.

  https://lindamcmanusimages.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php

  At the bottom of the page you can set how many projects you want to appear on your portfolio pages.

  If instead you are looking to hand pick which projects appear on that page let me know. That’s is also possible, but instead of using the portfolio template, we would use the portfolio shortcode. You can learn more about it here:

  Portfolio Shortcode

  If you want to go the short code route, but need extra support getting it set up let me know and I’ll be happy to help.

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  lindamcmanusimages · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 4:07 pm

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  Hi There, thanks for the response. Yes I think I’d like to go the shortcode route, but would need some assistance. What I’d like is a home page with say 6 of my latest projects AND also add some other image links underneath, like a Houzz button and images for my other websites, is that possible?

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  lindamcmanusimages · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 4:42 pm

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  Ok, so I played around with the short code. My next question would be “where” to put the short code?

  I copied the sample from the instruction page, [portfolio display_types=true display_tags=false include_type=ui-design,app-design columns=3 showposts=10 orderby=title]

  Began with and ended with in the text area on my home page, but nothing happened? I did also change to "architecture" for type instead of ui-design,app-design

  Nothing changed...

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  lindamcmanusimages · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 5:15 pm

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  If you could give me the proper code for picking portfolios by title, that would be great. I assume they go in the text area and you click code first? Thanks.

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  lizthefair · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 10:49 pm

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  My next question would be “where” to put the short code?

  You’ll put the code on your Home page. In order for it to work correctly, you’ll also want to change your page Template back to the Default Template.

  If you could give me the proper code for picking portfolios by title

  It’s not possible to choose by title, but if you give all of the projects you want to appear on the front page a project tag you don’t use anywhere else (like front), we can use the shortcode to use that as a selector.

  Let me know when you’ve added the tag, and what tag you decided on, and I’ll give you the code you need.

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  lindamcmanusimages · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 12:07 am

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  I gave the projects the same tags as their title, is that bad? For instance my Memory project, I gave the tag “memory”. Let me know if they need to be unique and if so I will change all the ones I want on home page to “front” and the code. Thanks so much!

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  lizthefair · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 1:21 am

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  Let me know if they need to be unique and if so I will change all the ones I want on home page to “front” and the code. Thanks so much!

  It needs to be one unique tag that all the posts you want on the front page share. You can keep the current tags as well, just add “front” to the ones that should be on the front.