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I'm gonna activated and the first thing it does is add B. W. S.
plugins down here and you can access the settings on this tab
and also "add portfolio." Now the problem already is that what
you're not adding is a portfolio you're adding portfolio items.
By definition a portfolio is a collection of creative works so
yeah this should say portfolio items that's actually what you're
doing. What they don't tell you and after some research I've
realized you have to add a new page called something like my
portfolio and then use a template of portfolio and that's where
you actually add a portfolio. Now back over here, I'm gonna add
a new item so let's say I'm a photographer and I took a cool
picture of a bonsai tree and I'm gonna describe it here
[mumbling...] [mumbling...] Okay and obviously you would write
more maybe you'd explain where you were when you took the image
sell yourself whatever you wanna do. I'm gonna copy that and use
it for a short description also and the date of completion...
let's say I took it on the second and link. I'm just gonna throw
a link to Google keep things simple I'm not gonna use the S. V
N. so now if I publish this, what we'll see is just some simple
information here right. And I'm gonna add the image now and I
add the image by come come down down to set featured image the
and I've already got a couple pictures here I'll choose the
bonsai tree I'll set it, and I'll take that and over here we'll
see the image is now included. So for executor profiles are well
that the and technologies I didn't understand what that meant
right away but this is basically a profile for you, but I
wouldn't recommend using it because you already have an author
profile and why would you link to that when you could just link
to the profile that you've already created or you're about page
which you surely have. Not to mention the executor profile
itself all it does is just list all of the portfolio items
you've added that's also exactly what your profile page or
excuse me, you're portfolio page does so there's really no
reason to use an executor profile. And technologies as just
another form of tags that you can add in this just as you might
as well just use tags for technologies they want to say you know
I used photoshop and whatever you could do that if you want but
I don't think it it really adds a lot of value. Now there's a
way to get more screen shots down here and it took me a while to
figure it out, I went through some comments and I realized the
only way to get more and just to show up is if you re upload
them while you're in that post. So I already have these uploaded
and the only way I can get them to show up is if I come here and
I re-upload them again I don't click insert page, I just
re-upload them. I'll refresh here, and now they show up, and
that's just very strange I've never seen a plugin work like that
and you don't wanna keep having to upload your images at this
point it would make more sense just to use a gallery plugin and
and just and just add them down here. Doing it this way makes no
sense. Now on the settings page there are few options down here
you can adjust the album cover size the portfolio image size,
how they sort, I would remove these and link you might wanna say
something more like my what my full portfolio that would make
more sense because why why would you like to a different web
page if they're already on your site looking at your portfolio
on your site. It doesn't make sense to link out and you might
whant to change some of these options and then save changes and
they'll update and there are the changes and yea your full
portfolio page it'll list all of them I also found that when
using this short code to include the last couple items to the
end of a post well you know what, I'll show you right now. Some
random blog post it doesn't say anything obviously I'll paste
this in an update so this would be so you could show off kinda
like this an excuse me kinda like this show off your last couple
portfolio items at the end of a blog post, but the problem is
that a well the format eh I haven't seen it messed up like this
but the formatting seems to always be wrong and it's stacks them
vertically even though your supposed to be able to put three in
a row I couldn't get to work earlier and so I have this blog
post and then this long stack of portfolio items which is not
user friendly and doesn't work well so sad to say it, but
overall I would not recommend the portfolio plugin. recommend
the portfolio okay