Link portfolio image to image page, etc.
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I’ve had a blog using WordPress for a few years that I’m now trying to expand with portfolio pages. I’ve chosen a new theme, “Sketches,” but I think my questions are related more basically to WordPress functionality.
1) I have two portfolio pages, one for book covers and one for photography. Clicking on any cover or photo brings it up as an enlarged image in a simple slideshow, where a person can move from image to image. I would like to have an actual page for each cover to which one can go by clicking on the cover in the portfolio. How do I do this? I can’t for the life of me figure that out.
2) This may be a theme-specific question: is it possible to turn off the header image on a page? The only option I’ve found so far is to “Turn off title and content on portfolio page layout,” which does exactly the opposite of what I want to do and leaves only the header image.
3) I don’t know the difference between a “project” and a portfolio-layout page. Is it just an archive of images one can add to to update the portfolio page? I’m sure this is explained somewhere but I haven’t been successful digging for it.
Apologies if this is squeezing too many questions into one post. I’ve done enough basic html pages that when I use a tool meant to make things easy by hiding everything under the hood, I’m easily lost.
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Hi,
1) I have two portfolio pages, one for book covers and one for photography…I would like to have an actual page for each cover to which one can go by clicking on the cover in the portfolio. How do I do this? I can’t for the life of me figure that out.
Your Book Covers and Photography features are static pages, and each contains a gallery. Neither contains what WordPress.com refers to as a portfolio. It looks like you might have inserted portfolio shortcode in each page, because the message “No Project Found” is displayed below the gallery in each case.
“No Project Found” means that you haven’t created any portfolio projects. Portfolio projects are similar to pages, but they are a different type of content. How to create and manage them is described in the Portfolios support page.
If you had projects published, then they would also appear on your portfolio page, which by default has the URL https://robehle.com/portfolio/. There are no projects displayed there, and instead we see the message “Nothing Found,” which again indicates that there are no published projects.
2) This may be a theme-specific question: is it possible to turn off the header image on a page?
The question is not theme specific. Do you intend to hide the header image on one page or some pages and not on other pages? If possible this would require CSS customization. If, on the other hand, you mean to hide the header image everywhere (across the whole site), then this is easily done at Customize > Header Image. Just click the button labeled “Hide image” and save the change.
3) I don’t know the difference between a “project” and a portfolio-layout page.
A project is an individual content entity, similar to a page or a post, but of a specfic type that is only used in the construction of a portfolio. Projects are the building blocks of a portfolio. I’m not sure what a “portfolio-layout page” is? Where did you find that term used?
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It looks like you might have inserted portfolio shortcode in each page, because the message “No Project Found” is displayed below the gallery in each case.
Or you might have chosen the “Portfolio Page Template” for each of those pages. Is that what you meant by “portfolio-layout page”? A page with the portfolio page template assigned will display projects, but only if projects have been created and published.
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Thanks very much, musicdoct, for the really clear explanations. And re your second post, yes, I’d been thinking of the Portfolio Page Template as simply a different layout.
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