Multiple nonrelated portfolios in one site

Hello again,

I’ve tried it the way you suggested and it works like a charm. In the CMS, however, it’s a bit of a hassle as all items are unordered in the same list (hundreds of cutsomers, tens of partners, tens of products and tens of photographs). Not very structured.

But what I am most afraid of is that when I use the portfolio shortcode at the bottom of a different page, I will run into trouble when I add a new category. An example in a few steps:

1) I have literally hundreds of customers to add in the CMS. The list of customers has several different countries as categories. and,

2) At the bottom of every customer page I add the portfolio grid shortcode showing 4 other customers to trigger the visitor to check out those as well. I don’t want that to show product categories, so for each page I select which categories to show (only countries).

3) One day I get a customer in a country that hasn’t been added as category yet. This becomes the problem. I add the new country category and customer assigned to that category, but the new category will not show up on the hundreds of portfolio shortcodes in the customer detail pages, unless I change the hundreds of shortcodes to also show that new category.

So my question now would be: Can I make some kind of templates of the portfolio grid shortcodes so that I can add one template to the bottom of those pages and only have to change that template once to update it everywhere?

Another related question: Can I make the portfolio shortcode show a random 4 of the selected categories? At the moment it seems to show only the 4 most recently added. As there are hundreds, it would be sad to always show the same 4 customers untill there is a new one added.

Thanks in advance!

Working well with the templates, yet I can’t seem to find how to modify existing templates. I was able to create a template, it even remembers the selected categories etc., I can add it anywhere I want, but no “edit” option to be found. Logically, if I edit the added items in a specific page, then it’s changed only for that page, not for all pages using that template.

So where can I find the option to edit the existing templates, please? Otherwise it’s of not much use (in case I want an extra category added)

Then it pretty much misses the whole point of being a template. Creating a template, in my opinion, is not just about being able to quickly add the same information, but more about being able to change it once and have it updated wherever the info is shown.

There is also no way to find it behind the scenes? Directly in some code somewhere? I suppose it has to be written somewhere, so if I could find that and add any new category that way, it solves the problem.