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Controlling what the Portfolio Page Template Shows

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I’m using Orvis for my theme, but I can’t figure out how to control what the “portfolio page template” shows. Right now it automatically shows all portfolio projects, which isn’t what I want. I like how the page template looks and want to use it, but it’s only really useful to me if I can control which project-types are being displayed on that page.

You can see the site I’m trying to build here: http://new.michelleprosek.com (it’s a bit messy after the main page as I’ve been experimenting with what I can do with this theme…)

I’m using the static main page, set to ‘portfolio page template’, which is great, but I only want it to be showing specific portfolio items with the project-type “Projects”, not literally everything. I’m just not sure what to change to specify that only a particular project type is shown, even if I do make a child theme for that specific reason.

So far I’ve ‘hacked’ this by limiting the number of projects shown to 6, and to modifying the creation date of the projects I want visible on the home page so that they are the ‘newest’, but as I add more projects, I’m going to have to keep editing that, which seems a bit ridiculous. There must be a better way?

Any help or suggestions you can give me to get more control over the portfolio page would be great.
(I am aware of the portfolio shortcodes that can be used in Pages, but I don’t like how that looks and would prefer to use the proper portfolio page template – just with a bit more control over what it shows)

One other side issue I’m having with the Portfolio Projects – if I try to add a NextGen gallery to a project, it keeps being shunted into the left-hand column area rather than the main part of the project….is there some way to specify how that gets displayed? I seem to have trouble making even text show up in the main area rather than the left side of the project post. I mostly want to use NextGen because of how the images are displayed – when you click on an image, you just get a nice enlarged pop-up with the details. If I do the built-in ‘create gallery’ option, and then you click on an image, it takes you to a whole new page for that one photo, which is a bit much and I really don’t want that. I either want to change the settings on the built-in gallery, or just find a way to make the NextGen gallery show up where I want!

Thanks again for any help that can be offered!
Michelle

The blog I need help with is new.michelleprosek.com.


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