WPFolio (Archived)

WPFolio was a free and open source theme for WordPress designed by artists specifically for visual artists. It was created at a time when there were few portfolio oriented themes available, many of which were inadequate and/or costly.

more info: http://wpfolio.visitsteve.com/ (archived)

Features included:

minimal design that emphasizes your images (at 900px wide!)
Features separate design for your portfolio and a news/blog section
widget-ready sidebar
automatic rss feeds so users can subscribe to updates to your site
easy to update and maintain
includes Theme Options so you can customize colors and fonts without modifying code
uses the latest web standards
allows you to choose thumbnails to represent your project
easy for users to navigate
free and open source code
Sample Child Theme included
Custom Background and Menus
designed by artists to meet artists needs

Layout

WPFolio had 2 layout styles, one for your portfolio and one for news.

The following category titles automatically used the news layout:

News
Latest
Updates
Blog
Notable

ANY other category title (like artwork, portfolio, elephants, burgerburger, asdfgh, or hhhhhgggh, for example) automatically used the Portfolio layout.

What's the diffrence?

Portfolio style

designed to display your artwork at 900px wide
no sidebar
uses the full 900px layout for your large work samples.
Title and metadata appear below the post instead of at the top.

News style

designed to display your show announcements, studio blog, and other news
has a widget enabled sidebar
looks more like a tradtional blog

Note: when embedding videos in the portfolio layout, you can auto embed (using oembed and your video will span the full 900px. On the news layout, unless you specify the embed size they will bleed over into the sidebar and get cut off. So, when embedding in the News section, specify a smaller embed size.

Widget Areas

WPFolio has 4 Widget Areas

SIDEBAR - appears on the default index page and in pages with a "news" layout

FOOTER CENTER - spans the entire width of the footer (above Footer Left and Footer Right)

FOOTER LEFT and FOOTER RIGHT - divide the footer in half

Custom Widgets

WPFolio includes several custom widgets. * Add RSS, Credits to Footer * License and Name in Footer

MISC

We use the term "more" rather than "previous / next" in navigating between posts.

We automatically format the year for displaying the year the artwork was made in portfolio format posts. For art, the date is usually just a year. We use detailed dates on the blog layout.

MODIFYING CODE

Want to modify this theme? Do it the smart way: http://themeshaper.com/modify-wordpress-themes/

Got a great addition? Send us code, or fork the project in github and let us know. http://github.com/slambert/WPFolio

CHANGELOG

try here: http://github.com/slambert/WPFolio/commits/master

or here: http://wpfolio.visitsteve.com