Project Pages – Portfolio Template, Portfolio Maker, Work Context Explorer!
Created by: Woody Hayday (Project Pages)
This is for the makers.
We all love to share those final shots of completed works, but what really captivates your audience is the story of the how you made it. Project Pages helps you express your work in all its glory, share it with others consistently, and learn from what you’ve made.
🛠️ ProjectPages.io | 📚 Docs | 👊 Join the Community
🕶️ Project Pages Benefits:
- Record your work easily: Add and edit your projects easily from within WordPress admin.
- Build up a Portfolio of your Work: By repeating the flow of making a project page for each thing you make
- Connect the dots backwards: Seeing all of your work in one format helps you, and others, infer the larger brush-strokes of your work
🍻 Now available: PRO version – pay what you want: Upgrade now
🧰 Is This a Portfolio Maker? A Portfolio Theme?
Well it’s a little of both, and more. There are portfolio themes out there, and other portfolio plugins. For me these lacked structure and didn’t ever end up looking how I wanted them to. Project Pages was built from the ground up for makers & creators who make cool stuff.
Fundamentally: Project Pages helps you record projects, and present them in your WordPress site.
🥸 Who’s it for?
Project Pages is for…
- Indie Makers
- Artists
- Creators
- Designers
- Film Makers
- Craftspeople
- Illustrators
- Entrepreneurs
- Photographers
- Software Engineers
🛠️ Who made it?
👋 I’m Woody Hayday and I built Project Pages to showcase the things I’ve made, but along the way it showed me how important ‘making’ was for me. It helped me Connect the dots of my life.
- Maker – I enjoy metalwork, carpentry, architecture. I can’t not build things
- Software engineer & entrepreneur – I’ve built 30+ plugins/apps, and many profitable businesses
- Permaculturalist – I’ve planted thousands of trees and am building a cabin in the woods
You can see my Project Pages here, my homepage here, and my blog here.
🎟️ How to get started (Try out this Portfolio Maker)
You can find all this in more detail on the Getting Started guide
- Download and install this plugin
- Click “Project Pages” from your WordPress admin bar
- Follow the “Steps to Project Pages Mastery” on the Welcome page
- Enjoy adding all of the things you’ve made!
- If you like it, pay what you want for the PRO Version
🗺️ Project Page Features
Here you can read through the main features of Project Pages. If you think there’s a killer feature missing, please do tell me in the support forum.
- 🔩 Features & Benefits
- 2 minute install
- Record ‘Projects’ in WordPress
- Add Logs to your project as you go
- Tag your projects
- Stylise your projects with custom hero backgrounds (New: Video backgrounds)
- Showcase your projects on your WordPress website
- Share your projects via Social Sharing (Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Telegram)
- Gutenberg friendly, Block-built
- Can be used as a ‘Portfolio Maker’
- Customisable
- Self-hosted: stand-alone at yourdomain.com/projects (NEW: customisable root slug)
- Ready to be translated into your own language (Translation ready)
- Fully modify via theme template files or block templates
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And always:
- Zero feature bloat
- Modern, clean code, designed to perform
- Works out-of-the-box
- Helpful docs
- Regular updates
- FREE! I made this to give back. Enjoy it, share it if you like it 🖖 (PRO Version is ‘pay what you want’)
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🆕 New in 2.0!
- Added Blocks Templating (kept support for legacy PHP templates)
- Improved editor experience (more to follow in updates)
- Added Video Backgrounds to Project Hero sections
- Overhauled log system
- Refactor of data access layer
- Added Welcome screen & assistant
- Created Knowledgebase (docs)
- Improved menus
- Improved Hero background options
- Added Timeline views for Project Archives and Tags
- Added feedback requests
- Added social sharing options to front end: FB/X/LI/Telegram
- Added custom templates for tweets and telegram messages
- Added ‘Recent Project Logs’ block
- Added Hero block
- Added Query Loop block
- Added Project Summary block
- Added single project caching to DAL
- Added Project Status Card block
- Added Project Body block
- Added Project Logs block
- Added Archive Hero block
- Added Archive Body block
- Added Tag Cloud block
- Added Gutenberg Block Templates for Single, Archive, and Taxonomy pages
- Cleaned and tidied everything 🧹
- Added Default/Legacy template support
- Refined settings model to better support v2.0 features, while sustaining legacy project pages
- Added ability to change permalink root (
projects) to other strings (e.g.achievements) - Updated translations for UK and US
- Added Social Sharing OG Meta tags (optional) for better sharing
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🩻 Template Modes
- PHP or Blocks
- Now supports Gutenberg Blocks Templates
- Easy to modify Templates (Guide)
- Works best in child theme
- Continued support for Legacy Templates (PHP templates)
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🧊 Portfolio Blocks
- Global Blocks:
- Query Loop
- Tag Cloud block
- Project Page Template Blocks:
- Breadcrumb block
- Hero (Single / Archive / Taxonomy)
- Project Summary
- Project Card
- Project Body
- Project Logs
- Archives / Taxonomy Loop (body)
- Global Blocks:
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- Awesome Automatic Share Image Generation
- Generate OG Meta images automatically
- Choose from 25+ backgrounds
- Improves sharing reach
- Makes your project pages look very pro when sharing
- Requires Imagemagick PHP extension (mostly everywhere)
- Extra Blocks:
- Related Projects
- Featured Project (can show a random project too!)
- Prompts system:
- Pre-written prompts to help you write up your projects
- Individual prompts or prompt sets
- Designed for makers, creators, artists, entrepreneurs
- Pay What You Want
- The PRO version is pay what you want. If it helps you out, or you like the concept, I appreciate your support.
- Get Pro
- Awesome Automatic Share Image Generation
Project Pages – The online home for stuff you make
Whether you make furniture, buildings, art, take photos, collect rare objects, or invent things: Project Pages is the perfect place to log and share your projects, (especially if you’re already using WordPress).
Built by a maker, for makers. This is adaptable, simple (but not shallow!). Project Pages helps you take the essence of each thing you make, record the making process, and share it in the most constructive way possible.
🛠️ ProjectPages.io | 📚 Docs | 👊 Join the Community
❓Common Questions and Answers about Project Pages / Online Portfolios
How do I make my own Portfolio website?
There are many ways to make your own portfolio website. I’m biased, but I think Installing WordPress and Project Pages is a great way.
What should be in a Portfolio website?
That all depends on your aims. If you’re intending to get work from this, try highlighting the work you’ve done already which qualifies you – perhaps client case studies, or particular projects.
If you aim is to document your work, for yourself and others then maybe put the meaningful projects in, or all of them so you can connect the dots later.
How do I get my portfolio noticed?
First up the thing 90% of people miss: MAKE A PORTFOLIO. So many people leave folders on their computers never to be shared publically.
Once you’ve got your Project Pages up, sharing becomes a consistent part of the workflow. Consistently sharing your work will get it noticed.
How do I make my portfolio stand out?
There’s obviously a marketing aspect here, that would be better answered on the Project Pages blog. Fundamentally though, people want stories. They want to see what you’ve made, how you’ve made it, and why.
There are many ways to make your portfolio stand out, but for me it starts with selecting projects you deeply care about or really interest you; this makes the standing out easier later because you can use the bigger context to reach more people.
How do you promote your portfolio on LinkedIn/Social Media?
Use Project Pages. Upload your Projects, give lots of context. Share consistently.
How much of this plugin is really ‘free’?
The core is most of the code, and it’ll always be free. It’s totally usable, in fact it’s epic, on it’s own. I’m building a few extra features that I needed personally, and that users have asked for; these are available in the PRO version…but even that is pay what you want, it’s just there for you to support the plugin if it’s valuable to you.
