Would that be possible to add one more portfolio

[Splendor]

Hi,

This is a general question, and I wonder if it would be possible to add one more portfolio but of course with a different name?

[sharmstr]

The portfolio is just a custom post type. Obviously there are plugins that allow you to add post types easily. The issue you’ll have is duplicating all the *special* functionality. If that’s an important part, you’re better off using categories or something to section your portfolio.

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[Splendor]

mm..I have an idea and maybe to connect one portfolio, I call it “Projects” to guest posts. So user can do guest post directly from their profile. I don’t know if that is possible… But found this plugin, https://buddyforms.com/ that could make certain part happen easy direct in the buddypress profile. But the connection to the portfolio part is something that is a little more unknown. Let me know what you think?

[sharmstr]

Well, again, it really depends if you need the *magic* that Kleo does to portfolios. A lot of that magic happens because of visual composer, so using something like buddyforms isnt ideal for a kleo portfolio post.

There are a few guest post plugins out there. Seems like you might be okay with one that will allow you to automatically assign those guest posts to a category (without user intervention), then build a page using either a VC Post Grid or Kleo’s Post Grid and filter the post by that category. Maybe?

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[Splendor]

I think your thought is getting somewhere, but how about the connection to their profile?

1. Every user can make a unlimited projects, where they write a little about what they have done for a certain image or video besides having the gallery from rtmedia where the can upload artwork.

2. I should be connected to their profile, so maybe an icon on their profile, and named “my projects” in buddypress, so they see the projects they have written and access them for editing if so needed.

3. I’ve been checking on a little of behance type of showing, artist projects, https://www.behance.net/ ,like the front page, that would be like the portfolio/post grid as you mention, creating a page and that can be done with kleo grid.

4. https://www.behance.net/gallery/29280801/Nixon-Star-Wars , it would be like a post, they can describe their project and add vimeo link or so.

So this is my thought.. So they can provide as well content to the site beside me writing on regular basis.
What you think my dear @Sharmstr? Possible?

[sharmstr]

I was thinking ‘buddypress compatible’ when I typed up my response, so we are on the same page 🙂

So really, you just need a way for them to make posts. Yes yes, you can call them projects if you want, but at the end of the day, they are just posts. With that said, I dont know of anything out-of-the-box that will give you exactly what you want, but its certainly doable. I would steer clear of trying to make a duplicate of Kleo Portfolios as what you mentioned in your original post.

So, options…

There’s always social articles: https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-articles/

Buddyform as you mentioned

Buddyblog: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/reintroducing-buddyblog-supporting-custom-post-typestaxonomies-for-buddypress-user-blogs/ Which looks like it supports custom post types which you might want to consider for 2 reasons. 1 – it will seperate it from wordpress posts AND B – you can tailor the fields you want. I havent used it, but it might play nicely with a plugin I LOVE which is WP Types: https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/

I think there a others out there….

Remember long ago when I wrote that plugin to show user posts in their profile AND it used the kleo masonry layout? Well I did that so I could display Stories written by my users. “Stories” were a custom post type that I created with the WP Types plugin. 🙂 (They were actually a parent post for the ‘chapters’ child custom posts that were also created using WP Types, but that’s probably beyond the scope of this conversation) I chose to not set up a frontend posting form because of the complexity of my parent/child post types, but for you it should be pretty straightforward.

So, if it were me, I would first find out if Buddyblog can easily integrate with custom posts types created with WP Types. If so, then I would download WP Types and spend some time setting up your post type with custom fields for video links (and whatever else you need) and some categories and tags. Once you have that set up, then you can really test out buddyblog for frontend posting. After you’ve done that, it shouldn’t take much effort to stylize the display in their profile since buddyblog is doing most of the work.

To take this a step further, you can then set up a main site page showing the latest submitted portfolios from across the site (similar to behance) and, if it makes since, you can create a gallery type page that pulls out the latest videos and/or images from the latest portfolio posts. You can even add likes, comments, a way to follow people so you get an email notification when they add something new, and all that good stuff.

The Behance interface is awesome. I’ve stolen several of their ideas over the years 🙂

Anyhow, that’s how I’d approach it. I obviously cant guarantee this will work as easy as I’ve made it sound, but it should at least get you headed in the right direction. If you want, I can give you a list of all the stuff I used for my fiction site.

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[Splendor]

Very nice answer, I guess we are getting on the same page here.. 🙂 Well, I already have the wall for artwork. http://www.3dconceptart.com/the-wall/ but that is connected only to rtmedia gallery globally (unfortunately rtmedia haven’t added so user can embed videos, maybe this is because they have servers for uploading videos, a conflict of interest maybe.) By the way, I present you 3D Concept Art, that is my site.

I remember your plugin Sharmstr, it was very nice indeed! 🙂

Anyway, when it comes to the blog thingy, it must be easy to understand for users. User don’t like to play around with to many shortcodes and h tags for making a post, simplicity is a must. So that is a very important part otherwise nobody will use it.

It seams that buddyforms support custom types, https://www.youtube.com/user/MrRheingut/videos . And buddyblog seams promising as well and it’s cheaper but buddyforms seams to be more flexible, as you add elements as you wish. I will ask both of them if it can be used with the types plugin and will make thing much easier indeed:)

Yes, if you are available to make a jump and do some of the work. I will happily hire you to do this. My time is little thin right know. I need to make my site stand out even more. This is my mail if you are interested felipe.chamorro@3dconceptart.com

[Splendor]

http://docs.buddyforms.com/article/152-integrate-any-custom-post-type-related-plugin-into-buddypress
http://docs.buddyforms.com/article/153-create-a-new-post-type-and-taxonomy-with-the-cpt-ui-plugin
https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/custom-post-type-ui

[sharmstr]

Unfortunately, I’m finishing up a new website for a friend then digging into evaluating, purchasing and implementing an new ERP system for my manufacturing business. That’s going to take a good 4 months. I probably wont even have time to help out here. (shhhh, dont tell abe yet. lol)

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Hehe..anyway sharmstr, I’ve fiddling a lot with the theme, and I find it difficult to run it efficient. I’m thinking of moving the blog part from the site to a subdomain, call it, journal or magazine. But I maybe,start building an own theme.. get developer to get it working exactly as I want and have fewer core plugins around. Right know I have 46 plugins, thanks to Rtmedia. I need really to get the site more production ready… This is not holding up 🙁

[sharmstr]

Yes, the rtMedia move to individual plugins was more than just annoying 🙂 Good luck.

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Yes, well.. they want to earn money, but thirty + plugins,it was a little to many. And I said to their boss, I understand 10-15 plugins but over 30.. are you kidding me. And then higher the price. I think they lost a lot of customers.

Anyway, yes..One question, how many seconds does it take for you to load the landing page at my site? And where are you located? I get six seconds on GTMETRIX from Vancouver and the dom is loaded in about 3,5 to 4,5. Which is not super great. But ok. I want that the every I viewed on the landing page in about 3 seconds. I’ve been checking this site out. https://www.artstation.com/ They load like 9mb images, super duper fast. I don’t get it how really. The scores on GTMETRIX are like 5 second worse than mine but still.. no render blocks at all..heheheh.. crazy…

[sharmstr]

From Los Angeles through my cellular hotspot

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Ohh.. that is not ok..and still using maxcdn… YikeS! Now I feel worse! hehe..

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