Please forgive me for being a total amateur when it comes to this.

I’m trying to add a gallery of recent work to my home page, exactly like the Folly demo site, but I absolutely cannot figure it out. I’ve read the docs and all that, and Im just not getting it. When i create a new page, the only Templates shown in the Page Attributes are “Blog”, “Contact”, and “Portfolio”; I don’t have any of the ones listed in the description.

Also, I don’t have any widget options. When I go to Appearances-Widgets, it says “The theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change”. Please help! Thanks so much!

– Gary

No problem. We’ve all been newbies in everything.

To show some of your work on your home page you need to create “Portfolio” items.

To do this: When you are in the admin section, you’ll see at the left that there’s a section for portfolio items. You can add them the same way as you do with pages: inserting a title, a description, and a featured image ( http://nicethemeswp.com/support/theme-docs/folly/#wordpress-featured-images ).

Regarding widgets, that’s correct. This theme doesn’t count with widgetized spaces.

Best,
Juan.

do i make a separate portfolio for each item? or import them all to one as like, a gallery?

and then how do i implement that on the front page?

Last question, can i change it so that instead of saying “This is my work”, it can say “Recent Work”? Where would i go to do that? Thanks!

You can edit the file index.php, on line 25:

< ?php _e('This is my work', 'nicethemes');?>

and replace it for

< ?php _e('Recent Work', 'nicethemes');?>

Best,
Juan.

I’ve created my gallery on the home page, and I’m very happy with it. However, when I click the first item, it appears in a slide above and then in the post itself, but none of the other images have a slider. Is it possible to remove the slider altogether?

Thank you so much for your patience and all of your help!

To remove the slider you have to edit the file single-portfolio.php (I would recommend you to make a backup before modifying any file).

You can remove from line 7 to 73 to have it the way you want.

that would be removing the following code:

< ?php

            $embed = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'embed', true );

			$attachments = get_children( array(	'post_parent' => $post->ID,
											/*'numberposts' => $repeat,*/
											'post_type' => 'attachment',
											'post_mime_type' => 'image',
											'order' => 'DESC',
											'orderby' => 'menu_order date')
											);

			if ( has_post_thumbnail() || !empty($attachments) || ( $embed <> '' ) )
			{	?>

            	


				< ?php

				if ( $embed <> '' ){

		            echo nice_embed( array ( 'id' => $post->ID, 'width' => 620 ) );

	            }elseif ( !empty($attachments) && ( count($attachments) > 1) ) {

					?>
					


					


						
						

						< ?

						foreach ( $attachments as $att_id => $attachment ) {

							$src = get_nice_image_path($att_id);

							?>
							

								< ?php nice_image( 'width=620&height=265&class=wp-post-image&src=' . $src );?>
							
						< ?
						} // endforeach
						?>

						
						

					
					

				< ?php
				}elseif( !empty($attachments) ){

					nice_image('width=620&height=265&class=wp-post-image');

				}
				?>
                
                
			< ?php
            }

?>

Best,
Juan.

Have a nice weekend,
Juan.