I’m trying to build an online portfolio for a quantity of text content I’ve produced. I don’t have to skills to design it myself or the money to pay someone, so I thought using a CMS with a free theme might be a possible way to solve my problem.
Is it possible to use WP as a portfolio rather than a blog? (i.e. not have content appear date-stamped any in reverse chronological order?) If so, what kind of theme or other add-on would I look for?
I’m looking for someone really simple, but sleek and polished looking. I could just put a bunch of *.txt files on an ftp server, but I’m looking for something that looks just a little better and more professional, while still being free.
Thanks!
Well you could use Pages inside WP. They differs from Post in the fact that are not chronological order and so doesn’t present date-stamped. The order of appearance you define.
Simplefolio is a great option. (Note a new version will be out soon)
Features:
No need to select a specific theme,just use this plugin:
Portfolio for WordPress
With this script you can easily manage your portfolio (images and videos) items on your website. Because this plugin uses a custom post type to manage your portfolio this is a very clean and powerfull way to build a portfolio into your website.
The visual part to style your portfolio items is not included in this plugin because most of the time there is already styling included in a theme for a portfolio.