WPFolio uses WordPress’ blogging features to create a section that displays news about your work, upcoming exhibitions, press, and works in progress. This section can provide visitors a window into your practice. You can include pictures from your studio, news articles on topics related to your projects, anything you might hang in your studio, write down in a notebook, or tell someone about when they visited your studio.
To make this section work you need to create a Category with a specific name, these are your options for names:
- News
- Latest
- Updates
- Notable
- Blog
You must use one of these Category names for it to appear in news/blog format.
When this format is enabled you are able to apply widgets to the Sidebar mentioned in the Widget section.
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Loving WPFolio so far. The features, stock layout, and overall thesis are pretty damn close to exactly what I was looking for. And what a bonus finding such an engaged developer and community here on the back-end!
The only thing I’d humbly request is a little more flexibility on the pre-set “blog” category names. For example, I’d like to title my section “notes.”
Is this a simply change in the JS, or would that be a crazy undertaking? Because I’m totally familiar with JS,CSS,HTML etc., and would be glad to tweak it.
well, you can add a name to the list on:
(these are all WPFolio 1.6 files)
I think that would work, let me know.
I suppose this should be a custom function where users could specify which category/categories should be treated as a blog. If you want to write that, that would be super.
Hi Steve,
I’m switching over to WPFolio, and I’ve got a couple issues that I was hoping you could help shed some light on.
The big one is that my blog posts aren’t being shown in a news/blog format. The posts list is being rendered as a gallery, and single blog posts are rendered as an art item page. I added a Category named Blog, and added all my old posts to that category (I had only had blog posts, and my art stuff were done as externally-linked pages). Was there a step I’m missing? I’m using 1.6, by the way.
Also, in my menu it lists various years in addition to Category, and I’m not sure how to fix that.
Thanks!
looks like it’s working now?
Yes, sorry, passed out after I fixed it. For some reason the slug for the new Blog category was being set to ‘blog-2′, and I couldn’t change it or figure out why it was doing it. So I added a reference to ‘blog-2′ in single.php, category.php, and the two lines on date.php.
I had a few other problems (mostly with my menu), but I think that was a result of starting with 1.5, then switching to 1.6 while I still had 1.5 files running around. So I deleted 1.5 and 1.6, did a fresh reinstall of 1.6, re-added the aforementioned references for my Blog, and, and it’s all gravy now.
Thanks for the hard work you’ve done on this! I really like the layout and organization, it’s going to make managing my work a lot easier. I plan on making a donation once I have disposable income again.
Ah interesting. Thanks for posting the update. Looking forward to seeing how this develops. Looked at your site, and if you want, you can turn off your feed temporarily while you are reposting stuff. Not sure of specific instructions but there’s info around on how if you do some searching.
Hello Steve!
i really like your theme and appreciate your good work and assistant!
how can i make my blog look like that:
link to rachellechinnery.ca
mine currently shows only excerpts. i want it to contain images as well. i also like that posts are framed!
thanks
isaac
If you look at the code you can see she is using an earlier version of WPFolio – 1.4.1. If you wanted to add back these outlines and styles, you would create a child theme and modify your css – if you don’t know how you can hire someone.
Hi Steve,
I just recently started using your amazing theme, you can view it at my website link, as well as my blog. Although, I have just ran into a problem, for my blog…I noticed, it displays only 10 posts on the blog, then things start disappearing, such as the posts. It doesn’t go, next page, and archive every post…how do I get it to archive the posts, and have more posts? Such as next 10 posts on second page or something like that?
Thank you
Justin
Your answer is here: link to codex.wordpress.org
And you’ll probably want to update to the latest version. Watch the first video on this page to see how.
link to wpfolio.visitsteve.com
Hey Steve,
Thank you so much for such clear help, I really appreciate that, I will take a look at it some more, and try and apply it.
Great info on this site as well!
Justin
Hi again Steve,
I read the above link you gave me and watched the video. I tried changing the number of posts my blog shows, but my blog just gets larger(on one page), such as continuously scrolling down…..what I need is to have a limit on my page…then have it to click next/more posts….on my blog after x amount of posts.
I have my front page set to home and posts page set to blog. And have it static. For example, my settings are currently this:
Blog pages show at most — 13 posts
Syndication feeds show the most recent — 13 posts
Also, I want to update to the new version of wpfolio, but I was wondering, if I do that, will all my plugins/widgets/images/layout etc….change/get messed up?
Thank you Steve, I really appreciate your help!!
Justin
change that number to 3 and it will show 3 posts, then the prev/next navigation. Change it to 13 and it will show 13 posts, then the prev/next navigation. You get the idea.
Looked at your site briefly and you might want to look at this posts vs pages thing:
link to wpfolio.visitsteve.com Vs. Pages
you’re using posts for your work, which is less than ideal. I just wrote a post about it.
Your plugins and widgets are independent. You can upload the new version and see. You can always switch back, but the update has a lot of improvements.
Hey Steve,
Thank you for the help.
Ok, when you say the prev/next navigation, do you mean this – – I tried to insert that into a post to break up my blog into more pages…so I would have something like 12 posts total…then have 6 on one page and 6 on the other….instead of continuously scrolling down and down and down on 1 page of my blog.
So I am a little confused…I changed the number in the Reading Settings….but nothing happened….if I put it to less, my posts would disappear and only keep what I chose. If I put more…it would just keep scrolling down….I can seem to figure out if I am doing something wrong and how to make the remainder posts go on to another page on my blog, to break it up…..
Thanks again!
Justin
Hi Justin -
The previous/next links are the links with arrows at the end of your posts. Changing the Reading Settings should do exactly what you want – each page will only show 6 posts then hit next and you go to the next 6 posts, hit previous and vice versa.
Hope that helps!
Hey Lara,
Thank you. Although, the thing is, I did try and change the posts under Reading settings, hoping that it would just automatically go to say 6 posts, then on the next page another 6 etc…like you said. Although this does not happen when I do this… I am not sure why.
Maybe it could be because I have my home page as static…and my blog to receive posts, aka the way to set up the WPfolio…I am quite stuck…
Justin
Post this on the wordpress.org support forums. I think your problem is not with WPFolio, but more understanding how WordPress handles this in general.
Also, check this Posts vs Pages post out.
Thank you, I will do that now, hopefully get this figured out. I will update here after.
Justin
I posted on the wordpress forums, and anyways, before I was having problems updating to the new version of WPfolio. I now updated to the new version of WPfolio, and all my problems are fixed, thank you so much, for an amazing theme! IT is so perfect for what I need.
Justin
Hi steve, was hoping you guys could help me with a small problem I’m having with my blog.
When ever I upload sum new work to any of my pages, for example to my “paintings” section, it will
also post it in my blog,when I delete it in my blog, it also will be deleted in the “paintings” section as well.
I don’t want every photo I put up to show on my blog etc?is there a way to stop this? change it?
Thanks very much for help
james
Sounds like you are marking more than one category.
Thank you for this nice theme!
I have a question regarding the blog section. While all pages are “centered”, the blog appears on the left side, with the sidebar on the right.
I disabled the sidebar. Now, I want to have the blog “centered”, like the pages. Which div do I have to “align: center” ??
I tried “”, but it didn’t work.
By the way: it is easy to add a category in the “category.php”, if you want to have your own.
I don’t have this one memorized and you may have to make more than one change. If you removed the sidebar you might want to think through some decisions to make sure your text remains readable. A 900+ px wide column can be difficult to read, as can longer sections of centered text (as opposed to left aligned). If you want to make the whole blog section the same width, left-aligned, but add margins on the left, that would be something else. So you’re on your own! Think about what will work for your design and your readers and dive in there with your CSS editor. Good luck.
Steve,
I am using WPFolio version 1.75 and would appreciate very much some assistance with an issue I’m having with photos being undesirably cropped in my posts. I have scoured the WP codex, forums, google etc for some kind of answer, and now I turn to you…
I am trying to post images at the full 600×900 resolution. My intention is to have images in posts appear at the 900x resolution, stacked on top of one another if there are multiple ones, and not have them link to anything. All of the images are being cropped about 2/3 down the right hand side. This only seems to be an issue when I have the post categorized as “blog” or “latest”. I have set my top menu so that if you click on “BLOG” it will show all posts categorized as “Blog”. When I have the post in question categorized as “Test Post” or something other than “blog” or “latest”, the cropping does not occur.
Things I’ve tried so far are: resetting images sizes to exactly 600×900 in media editor; creating a new category and adding a link to that category in the menu bar (this links to a page that has each post listed as a thumbnail); double checking that there are no widgets installed on the right hand sidebar; reviewing media settings; as mentioned above, searching for some kind of help through WP codex and forums.
Any light you could shed on this issue would be so appreciated- this is really getting in the way of my being able to put my work out there.
Nathaniel
The blog category adds a sidebar (as described on this page) so you can add widgets. If you don’t want the sidebar, don’t name the category blog.
Thank you for getting back to me. I forgot to mention in my previous post but thank you for creating this theme- as others have said it is pretty much exactly what I was looking for in a website.
I’ve played around with not categorizing the posts in question as “blog”, and the sidebar goes away as you suggested. However, when I’ve tried categorizing posts with the category “test post” and creating a Menu link to the category “test posts”, the posts are displayed as tiles that link to the full post. Is there any way to preserve the blog feature where the posts are listed in reverse chronological order, but get rid of the sidebar?
Many thanks,
N
Not really. I’ve mentioned it elsewhere, but the theme is really meant to be “pretty good” for most people. Once you hit the edges of what it can do, you can learn to customize it, or hire someone to. It should be pretty easy and inexpensive. I have had great experiences with wpquestions.com.