This plugin is the ideal solution for creating portfolios, showcases or teasers. You can create new custom post types or use your existing blog posts, custom post type posts or products.
If you would like to create a portfolio or looking for a complete solution managing portfolios, this product is a useful tool for you. It’s very easy and fast to create stunning portfolios and integrate them into your WordPress site using Admin Panel. You will surely find the one most appropriate for you, which can be customized in a few seconds.
1. Features
- Visual Composer compatible
- Supports pages
- 2 Filtering types (classic isotope and opacity change) [NEW]
- 4 default styles (FLEX, DOOR, VARIO, DELUX).
- Reponsive grid layout or horizontally slider layout (up to 10 columns)
- Flexible, percent based grid system with customizable vertical and horizontal spaces
- Optional responsivity with custom settings
- Huge Admin Panel. with tons of options
- Unlimited portfolios
- Unlimited custom post types
- Works with your existing custom post types and regular blog posts, attachments and pages
- Custom category and tag taxonomy support for attahcments
- Visual gallery builder (adding, removing multiple images, sorting via Drag and Drop)
- WPML support
- WooCommerce support - Product showcase
- Advanced post query options to show posts, setting the limit and order of the posts, filtering by taxonomies and terms
- Different thumbnail and lightbox types: - Image (JPG, PNG, GIF)
- Thumbnail and lightbox image size selecting options using your existing images
- Thumbnail aspect ratio settings option to use the their default aspect ratio or a custom one
- Built-in Template & Style editor with adding, editing, importing options
- System and Google Web Font (650+ fonts) support
- Translation ready with .mo .po files
- Advanced Import & Export settings
- Supports all modern browsers (including IE9)
- Compatible with the latest WordPress version (currently 4.4)
- Video (Vimeo, Youtube, Screenr, Dailymotion, Metacafe)
- Audio (Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Beatport)
Version information
v1.6.4 – February 15, 2016
- [FIX] Fix for not applying custom fonts bug in 1.6.3
- [IMPROVEMENT] Added an option to load plugins CSS and JavaScript files for selected pages/posts (include or exclude) only
- [IMPROVEMENT] Added a function to fix broken HTML if HTML is allowed and the exceprt is limited
v1.6.3 – February 11, 2016
- [FIX] Visual Composer shortcode missing parameter fix
- [FIX] WooCommerce add to cart URL fix when post loaded via ajax
- [IMPROVEMENT] Changed the method of generating CSS styles - Less file size, faster page loading
- [IMPROVEMENT] Added fully support for image alt tags
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improved lightbox close button
- [IMPROVEMENT] Visual Composer portfolio select improvement
- [IMPROVEMENT] Visual Builder image size reduction in admin - Faster loading
- [IMPROVEMENT] Added option to order items when Visual Builder used
- [IMPROVEMENT] Minor admin and frontend CSS & Javascript improvements
v1.6.2 – May 1, 2015
- [FIX] Wordpress 4.2 Compatibily fix
- [FIX] One-colum layout bug in mobile view fix
- [FIX] Missing SALE badge of WooCommerce
- [FIX] Layout bug on window resize fix
- [FIX] Overlay button cursor fix
- [IMPROVEMENT] Added support for HTML content in post title
- [IMPROVEMENT] Added alt tag to images
v1.6.1 – September 22, 2014
- [FIX] Minor Filtering and "Load more" bug fix
- [FIX] Minor Javascript & CSS fixes
- [IMPROVEMENT] Visual Composer Integration
- [IMPROVEMENT] Page based portfolio
- [IMPROVEMENT] Filter vertical positioning options (Top & Bottom)
- [IMPROVEMENT] New filtering type without changing layout
- [IMPROVEMENT] Confirmation is required for cloning custom post types and portfolios
Browser support
- Chrome
- Firefox 3+
- Internet Explorer 8+
- Opera
- Safari
2. Sources and credits
Following sources has been used.
Notes
Please read the licenses.txt in 'licences' folder.
3. Install WordPress
First, you should install WordPress on your server if you don't have a working version already installed.
Installation steps:
- Download the latest release of WordPress. http://wordpress.org/download/
- Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.
- Upload the the unzipped files to a folder on your server, using ftp. (example: http://yourserver/wordpress)
- Type this folder path to your browser's address bar.
- Follow the instructions until the installation is complete.
Further instructions can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress.
Notes
Before installing WordPress ensure that you and your web host have the minimum requirements to run WordPress. http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
4. Install & update the plugin
There are two ways to install the plugin. Using Wordpess Plugin Uploader or FTP. Before intstalling the plugin you should unzip the downloaded package to a folder on your hard drive. After extracting the file you can find some folders and a zipped file "go_portfolio.zip" in the root of your folder. Go_portfolio.zip contains the plugin data.
WordPress Plugin Uploader
If you use "WordPress Plugin Uploader" to install the plugin, then you should NOT unzip go_portfolio.zip file.
Installation steps:- Log into your WordPress admin panel.
- Navigate to Plugins » Add New.
- Click to Upload.
- Click to Choose File and select the go_portfolio.zip file.
- Click to Install Now.
FTP
Installation steps:
- Unzip the go_portfolio.zip file to a folder on your hard drive.
- Upload the go_portfolio folder to the WordPress' plugins folder (example: http://yourserver/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/) on your server using FTP.
Notes
After uploading plugin, you should activate it. Navigate to Plugins in WordPress navigation, then find the Go Portfolio - WordPress Responsive Portfolio plugin, then click to Activate.
After activating the plugin you can import demo data to use the portfolios included in the package.
5. Setting up and creating portfolios
The plugin has tons of features to fit your site best. It's very important to set it properly before inserting shortcode.
Notes
The plugin has 5 menu items:
- Go Portfolio - Manage portfolio
- Custom Post Types - Manage custom post types
- General Settings - Set general settings
- Template & Style Editor - Manage templates & styles
- Import & Export - Import & export data
5.1 General settings
You can enable or disable responsivity and modify minimum and maximum widths for tablet and mobile devices.
You can set primary and secondary font (system or Google). When you create a portfolio you can choose font family for a font type.
When you would like to use your regular blog posts or other (not the plugin generated) post types you should enable them on this page. After enabling the Go Portfolio Options metabox will appear under WP editor when you edit a post.
Notes
You can fine tune the plugin to fit your site or CSS framework best.
5.2 Import & Export data
You can import & export data. This feature helps you importing demo data or moving your portfolio from your site to another or create a backup file. This data doesn't contain posts or custom type posts content, it contain only portfolio and custom post types data. If you would like to import or export posts as well you should use WordPress Importer plugin.
Importing data:
- Open the file that contains data in a text editor and copy its content to the clipboad.
- Navigate to Go Portfolio » Import & Export and select "Import data" action then paste the content of the clipboad into the textarea and click to "Save".
- Then you should select from the list of portfolios and custom post types.
Exporting data:
- Navigate to Go Portfolio » Import & Export and select "Export data" action and you should select form the list of portfolios and custom post types and click to "Save".
- Then a textarea will appear including the exported data. Copy its content to the clipboad.
- Create a new file on your hard drive using a text editor and paste the content of the clipboad into this file, then "Save".
Notes
The plugin imported/exported data doesn't contain the post content data. If you would like to import or export posts, then you should use the WordPress Importer plugin.
Steps of importing demo data:
- After extracting the the downloaded zip file you can find a folder "demodata" in the root of your folder. The "demodata" folder contains the demo portfolio files. The demodata.txt contains all portfolio.
- Open this file in a text editor and copy its content to the clipboad.
- Navigate to Go Portfolio » Import & Export and select "Import data" action then paste the content of the clipboad into the textarea and click to "Save".
- Then you should select from the list of portfolios and custom post types.
5.3 Create custom post types
You can create unlimited post types with the plugin. You should enable it to register the post type and use it. Without enabling it, its data (name, slug, etc.) stored it database. You can import or export these data. The exported data doesn't contain the post content data itself.
After creating and enabling a new custom post type its name will appear in WP navigation, then you can add or edit posts for this custom post type.
Notes
Every custom post type (created by the plugin) has its own category and tag taxonomies.
5.4 Template & style editor
The plugin comes with several templates and styles. These templates and styles originally stored is separate files in "templates" folder. These files are automatically imported to database when you activate the plugin or can be reseted under Navigate to Go Pricing » Template & Style Editor.
When you create a portfolio these database stored data is used.
Under Go Pricing » Template & Style Editor you can customize the default templates and styles but whenever you click reset to original data will be restored from files.
Notes
Templates & Style storage method:
1. File (the default data) - this data will be loaded when you click to reset under Go Pricing » Template & Style Editor.
You can edit them in templates folder.
2. Database (default data when you edit portfolio) - this data will be loaded when you create a portfolio and don't customize the template.
You can edit generally them under Go Pricing » Template & Style Editor.
Reset source: file data.
3. Portfolio - when you create a portfolio the default database-stored template and style can be customized for the current portfolio only. When you click to reset the original database-storeddata will be reloaded.
Reset source: database data.
5.5 Create a portfolio
To create tables navigate to Go Portfolio. You can create new or modify and clone existing portfolios. You should set a Portfolio name, Portfolio id and select a Post type for portfolio first then you should set other parameters.
Don't forget to enable the portfolio before you insert the shortcode into pages/posts.
Notes
Portfolios can be inserted into pages/posts via [go_portfolio id="my_portfolio"] shortcode. The portfolio id must be unique.
6. Inserting portfolios into content
Portfolios can be inserted to pages/posts via [go_portfolio id="my_table"] shortcode.
The shortcode supports three parameters:- id: the pricing table unique id (required)
- margin_bottom: space below pricing table (optional) - its default value is "0".
- margin_top: space above portfolio (optional) - its default value is "0".
for example: [go_portfolio id="my_portfolio" margin_bottom="50px"].
Notes
You can insert any number of portfolios on your site or even on one single page using these shortcodes.