[Plugin: Simple Portfolio] Creating the PHP files

  • Resolved sholdstock

    (@sholdstock)


    12 years ago

    Hey,
    I’m not an expert programmer or anything so this could be a really easy and stupid question – but could someone please help me with the installation of this plugin?

    I have installed it the usual way, but when I go to the portfolio options under settings, there is something going on with the slug.
    It’s asking me to create a portfolio.php file and a single-portfolio.php file. Which I can do, but what do I put in them?

    After reading a bunch of explanations, the best I could get was “the loop”, which I read up on the WordPress – but it just goes straight over my head.

    Could someone please explain what I need to put into these files?

    Thanks so much in advance! 🙂 🙂 🙂

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-portfolio/

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  • radiantstatic

    (@radiantstatic)

    12 years ago

    This plugin requires additional files to operate according to it’s Usage section and the author of the plugin has asked that you take a look at all the documentation before attempting. That being said, I’ll try and explain what they are asking for.

    The author of the plugin has created a seperate function that acts like the index page and perhaps a single.php page. The ‘portfolio.php’ file will consist of the default wordpress loop which returns or aggregates all you portfolio related posts. ‘single-portfolio.php’ will act as you ‘single.php’ for each and every project you post.

    In order for you to really get the results you are looking for I would consider going over the WordPress Documentation regarding both ‘The Loop’ and the functions behind the pages you want to create. It’s a little more work, but significantly more beneficial.

    Here’s some stuff to take a look at.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

    Thread Starter sholdstock

    (@sholdstock)

    12 years ago

    Great. That’s added some clarity to it.
    Thanks for the fast reply! 🙂

    Thread Starter sholdstock

    (@sholdstock)

    12 years ago

    I used the template theme as well and then adapted it for mine.
    Thanks again!

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