Portfolio website Wordpress

This is a full beginner set-up manual that will help you build a custom portfolio website without paying a penny! It is a real life portfolio website that I help you build by accompanying you every step of the way.

It also uses a free themes and portfolio plug-in! As this is done in a step-by-step tutorial format, I would like to invite you not only to browse it, but to do the same with me, and at the end of this post you will have your own classy website!

We will use a minimalist kid topic for this lesson, which is inspired by the nice WordPress Hamilton topic. Subordinate design is a WordPress design that takes its appearance and function from another design - the superordinate design. Minimalist Portfolio" has been developed especially for this purpose and you can find it here for downloading.

So why use a child's topic instead of the initial one? We use a sub design when you want to apply customized optimizations to your site without loosing the chance to update the design in the future. What's more, we use a sub design when you want to improve your site without loosing the chance to update the design in the future. What's more, you can use a sub design when you want to make your site more customized. Our minimalist portfolio topic in this case has an additional style for the portfolio we will work on.

Login to your WordPress administration area. First thing we need to do is get our free Hamilton Childrenme installed. And if you haven't done it yet, click here to get the minimalistic theming. Press the "Add New" and then the "Upload Theme" buttons. Now you have an energetic setup of two topics - Minimist Portfolio and Hamilton themed.

They need these two topics because one is in charge of the overall theme (Hamilton) and the other is in charge of the portfolio part of the theme (Minimalist Portfolio). If you open a new web page and enter your website in the URL box, you can see it "live".

Let us make this website look as if it were ours, even if we don't have any contents yet. You can either modify the page title to your company name or get a free wallpaper from our 100 free photo gallery if you don't have your own photo gallery.

To organize ourselves, we need to note down our website layout before we begin setting it up. As we are creating a photo portfolio website, I will go to the following pages: The portfolio will be my homepage because I want my work to be visible to the public as soon as they visit my website.

I will then divide all my art gallery into two categories: "people" and "objects". Those catagories are placed in the navigational pane and act as a filter for my portfolio, so if someone just wants to see my peoples gallery instead of browse the entire portfolio page, they can go to "People" and only those Galleries will be displayed on that page.

When you specialize in marriage and pair photographing, you can make "weddings" and "couples" instead of "people" and "objects". You can also jump over the entire section and have only one portfolio page. Whatever you select, it is important to note down your website layout before you begin to build the website.

But I want you to familiarize yourself with your topic and think about it now because it might influence your decisions later. You' ll find your menus and blogs columns number option under the Topic Option page and your colour option under the Colours area.

I decided to open my menue for this demonstration site, change the website's wallpaper colour and follow the 2-column design for my blogs. We' ll begin with the most important and funniest part, namely our portfolio page! At the moment, our WordPress topic has only blogs and pages, we need to add a plug-in that allows us to build a portfolio.

Enter "Easy photograph portfolio" in the area of the seek tool. Now click on the "Install Now" icon and let it work. Click on the "Activate" pushbutton. Once the plug-in is enabled, you will have a new section in your dashboard portfolio. As you go to pages to build a new page for your website, you go to Portfolio whenever you need to build new portfolio galleries or administer your current ones!

Prior to starting to build our portfolio listings, we must include our portfolio in our menus so that we can view it from our website. Currently there is no menue, so we have to do one. Enter in the area "Menu name" POSITION and click on the pushbutton "Create menu".

The Pages section shows a page named "Portfolio". The Easy Photography Portfolio Plugin was generated by default when you install it. Choose this Portfolio page and click the "Add to menu" icon to include it in your menus. Because we want our menus to appear on our website, activate the Primary Menus option and click the Save Menus icon.

Like already said, I have adjusted my settings so that it is shown in the head area. From the Appearance > Customize > Topic Option window, you can modify the appearance of your menus. At the moment my homepage shows my blogs posting example, but in the design stage I agreed that my homepage should be my portfolio, so I have to do this now.

Choose your portfolio as start page and click on the "Save changes" icon. Skip to Portfolio > All Entries. You will see that there is a portfolio item that was added to your portfolio for you. Either remove it and recreate it by going to Portfolio > New Portfolio Entry.

I' ll clear this and restart by going to Portfolio > New Portfolio Entry. When you need more guidance on how this Portfolio plug-in works, take a few moments to view this film. When creating each new galleries, there are 6 things you should do:

In our other reviews, we've reviewed both the best picture size for your portfolio and how to optimise your pictures for performance, so make sure you flip through them. Now you can build some gallery for your portfolio. Twelve gallery for my portfolio page.

In order to rearrange the order of your portfolio gallery, we need to have a plug-in installed to help us do this. Installation and activation of this plug-in, then go to Settings > Post Types Order and just click the "Save Changes" will work. Return to Portfolio > All Entries.

Just pull your portfolio items by drag-and-drop to place a new order! Our portfolio page is now finished! Already in the design stage I chose that my whole portfolio would be my homepage and then I would have 2 seperate portfolio pages - one would only show my "objects" photograph and the other - "people" photograph.

Of course, you can skiip this part if it is not important to you, but this way you can quickly append your portfolio classes to your menus. As I was building my portfolio arteries, I categorized each artery into either "people" or "objects". When you have not done so, you can open each portfolio item and associate each of them with a particular type of record.

After you have allocated your items to your catagories, go to Appearance > Menus. Press the "Screen Options" pushbutton and enable Portfolio Categories. Choose the required portfolio catagories and include them in your menus. Click on the "Save Menu" pushbutton. Your navigational area now has a portfolio page and your categorie pages.

Info page is an important part of any face-to-face website, because although your images might be great, visitors to your website will want to know who is behind all this work. In order to build the About page (or another page), go to Pages > Append New and begin typing!

Next we will build a contacts page with a working contactsheet and some information. Here is what we will create: And if you don't see your excerpt box, click the "Screen Options" icon in the upper right hand corner of your desktop and select "Excerpt". While you could keep your contacts page as it is now, it's a good idea creating a contacts page that allows users to fill out without having to exit your site.

Every message from the web site request page will be sent to this e-mail-adress. Press the "Save" pushbutton. And the last thing you need to do is put it in your meal, and I rely that you already know exactly how to do that! I' m firmly convinced that any good face-to-face website should have a blogs that is often refreshed for a number of reasons: it shows that you are still living, that you are actively working and that your blogs can be used as a storefront for your photographic work.

However, I realize that you will not be going to make a series of contributions here and now, but at least make a "Welcome to my new website" or "My latest photoshooting" contribution to get you going. We have to make a blogsite before we write a contribution.

Make a new page and call it a blogs. Press the "Save changes" pushbutton. To have a quick message for your favorite page, you can simply click Appearance > Customize, and then click the Topic Options page. You will need to upload your postal contents to the text area and your postal artwork to the featured images area (just like your portfolio galleries).

See the Hamilton topic demonstration here for samples and directions. Most important is to be imaginative, to be experimental and to work. We' ve just built our free portfolio website and if you' ve pulled this off so far - you' re fantastic! This last part is just to name a few plug-ins and promotions you might want to take to give your new website the finishing touches.

This is a small symbol associated with your website and shown in the browsers table. So if your website contains photographs or other works that you want to preserve and prevent humans from just right-clicking on your work > saving as...., you can download and use our free picture preservation plug-in that deactivates right-clicking on your pictures.

So if you are looking for a website that is more progressive than the one in this review, we focus on high-end photographic website designing, so take a look. Our set up procedure for our premier topics is very similar to the one described in this manual, yet the site is designed to be more progressive and professionally designed, with easy and personal help available through our dedicated forum!

If everything and everyone is on-line, a face-to-face website is a must for every creator. When you have followed this manual and if it has in any way assisted you, please divide your website into the commentaries we would like to use! We' re very pleased that so many of you liked this example and that we were able to build your own website with this minimalistic topic!

Should you have any queries on the subject or have difficulty doing something right, please visit the MINIMALIST THEEME FORUM.