Extending portfolio

Hey, I’d like to drop an update to this issue.

After playing around with Enfold for quite a lot of time I’ve decided to put this piece into a own plugin instead of messing with a child theme.

The main reason to do so is just the fact that Enfold comes along with a own framework. It’s nearly impossible (and really time consuming) to mess with existing arrays within the child. Impossible? No, not really. But you’ll have to copy so many files from the parent it is pretty much useless. So I had to decide if I mess up the theme itself making the automated updates useless OR go for a plugin.

Of course I do use the Enfold styles adding only a few more to keep things in place. The categories are read through the post type and taxonomy provided by the portfolio. For each category a certain amount of single entries are read (at the moment 4) and beeing displayed inside with the use of the Enfold slider capabilities. Still messy, but working.

The product browser is simply inserted by a shortcode. Some attributes are planned (like category id’s and amount of single entries for each category and also a feature to select random products) but first everything has to be working perfectly.

The final plugin will take quite a while to be finished as the customer is a slow pacer. So if you are interested, just drop me a note and I’ll keep you informed.

At this point there’s nothing really exiting to show to you. Sorry.

Regards,
Joschi