What are Portfolios for?

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  donmiguel58 · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 11:40 pm

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  I’m a photographer and use NextGen on my site to generate and display galleries. What might I use Portfolios for.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 22, 2015 at 8:26 am

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  Portfolio projects are specifically designed for people to showcase samples of their work, in your case, your photography. You create a number of portfolio projects, say, one containing landscapes, one for portraits, one for macro photography, etc. Then you use a theme that showcases the projects on the home page. That way, when someone lands on your site they immediately see a broad sample of your work. http://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/

  I do see you have a self-hosted site. The info I gave above applies to WordPress.com sites and I don’t know if you can have the same functionality on a self-hosted site. They might be able to give you more information on the WordPress.org support forums: http://wordpress.org/support/

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  donmiguel58 · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 1:00 pm

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  Thanks Kokkieh. Sounds like since I use Galleries to display my work that Portfolios might be redundant. Again thanks for your time.