• Are portfolio types and portfolio categories the same thing? If not, how do they differ? I simply want to use portfolio for photos for a gallery. I do not know if I should categorize them via Type or via Categories.

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  • hannah

    (@hannahritner)

    Hey,
    Type and categories are the same. If you’re just wanting a gallery I would suggest using the gallery feature, rather than portfolio.

    Hannah

    Thread Starter holiday101

    (@holiday101)

    The Ascend theme I am using has a Gallery page which currently uses portfolio template. Then there are portfolio pages that have images. So I know I can drop images into a blog post, set a post as Gallery type, I do however want the same images to show up in my gallery pages dynamically, so I’m not sure how the gallery page would work without portfolio.

    Thread Starter holiday101

    (@holiday101)

    It also appears that creating a new “category” also creates a new “type”. Merely selecting a “category” for a portfolio item without also checking the same for “type” does nothing in the end result, the “type” has to be selected, which makes categories redundant.

    hannah

    (@hannahritner)

    Are you seeing both type and categories for portfolio? They mean the same thing, but you shouldn’t be seeing both.
    As for galleries, you can add a gallery to any page. If using the block editor you can use the gallery block. Or if using the classic editor you can click “Add Media” then create a gallery.

    Hannah

    Thread Starter holiday101

    (@holiday101)

    I have portfolio type and categories. Type was populated when I imported the demo content for the Ascend theme while Categories was empty. I created some portfolio categories. Testing a new portfolio item post I assigned a category but it doesn’t seem to do anything. I noticed that the breadcrumbs show that a portfolio post with a type checked off I will get Home>>Gallery>>[Portfolio Type]>>[Portfolio Post] but with no Type checked off and a category checked off it is merely Home>>Gallery>>[Portfolio Post]. So not sure what to do at this point. I suppose I can just use “Type,” “Categories” makes more sense to me.

    As for Portfolio I only use it because that’s the only way I can dynamically get my latest image posts to show up on pages like Home with the Ascend theme. I have no idea how to create a whole separate gallery that I can add to my home page like in the Homepage Layout Manager with Portfolio Grid.

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