Projects Management

This theme use the built-in WordPress custom post type feature for managing and showcasing your work. In this section, you will learn how to add and manage your work.

Creating your first project

Head over the projects menu item in the left navigation area, click on Add New.

  • Enter the project title.
  • Set your featured image.
  • Assign categories for this project.
  • Enter a small description of your project in the Case Study field.
  • Use the content editor to create any content you want about your project. You can build a gallery by clicking on Add Media button. Refer to the Create a gallery section to learn more about galleries in this theme.
  • Use the available Built-in shortcodes to create a beautiful showcase layout for your project’s showcase.

Options

Project Metadata

  • Case Study: If you set the project layout to With sidebar, this text will be displayed under the project title along with the project’s metadata. By the way, project’s categories are displayed as Sector(s).
  • Enter your project’s informations in each field if desired (Client, Location, Cost, Status)

Layout & Style

  • Project Layout
    • Fullwidth: Be free to build anything you want with this layout. Use the available Built-in shortcodes to create a beautiful showcase layout for your projects.
    • Width sidebar: Useful if you want to create a gallery only. The sidebar will display the project title, case study and categories. You still can use the content editor to create anything you want.
  • Cover Text Color: Used to set the text color displayed on the project cover image.

Galleries

Building a gallery

The built-in WordPress gallery feature has been altered within the theme functions to display nice and large gallery images with the possibility to click on them to display a fullscreen slideshow with thumbnail navigation.

  • Click on Add Media button.
  • Click on Create Gallery link.
  • Upload or select your images. When done, click on Create a new gallery button (bottom right of the windows).
  • Organize your gallery, drag and drop to reorder images.
  • Within the Gallery Settings, set your images to link To Media File and set the number of columns you want to use.
  • Click on Insert gallery.