Project Pages for WordPress is a plugin which helps you showcase your work in a fun way, while building up posterity and a portfolio. Here’s my guide on getting going with Project Pages:
- Download and install:
If you haven’t already, please download Project Pages from our download page, WordPress.org, or via your wp-admin, (go to ‘Plugins’ -> ‘Add new’ -> Search ‘Project Pages’ and click install).
2. Familiarise yourself with the plugin:
Once installed, you’ll see Project Pages in your sidebar:
From this menu you can click ‘Project Pages’ at the top for the welcome screen:
3. Explore the welcome checklist.
The welcome page has a helpful checklist for you to get familiarised with the plugin:
… working through the steps here is a great way to get yourself started with Project Pages, but more important than anything is to get adding projects!
Adding your first project #
To get started click ‘Project Pages’ -> ‘Add New’ from your wp-admin left-hand navigation bar.
You’ll be greeted with a screen like this:
This page is quite self explanatory, but basically it’s a way to capture what you’re making, have made, or want to make. I enjoy adding all my ideas as I commit to making them, then following the full project workflow of updating the project as I build it.
If you have any questions or feedback on the editor, or anything in Project Pages, please do let me know in the support forum, but you’ll probably find your way around this screen easily enough.
Bonus: Add logs #
What I’ve found useful when working through a project is to add notes as I go. Many of these are useful to others, or add interesting context to the project as a whole.
To this end, as well as a ‘body’ text which a Project can have to tell the long-form story, premise, or outcome; a Project can also have a trail of ‘logs’ which can enhance your project story in a timeline fashion:
… if you’re not into logs you can turn them off in the settings 🙂
Publishing Project Pages #
Once you’ve added enough info to your Project for it to be a good addition to your Project Portfolio, you can publish via the usual WordPress publish box:
… but after your Project Page is live, you have a few more options! You can share your project via social media (always good to do when you’re ready to spread the word), or (coming soon), you can publish a summary of your project to our directory for extra exposure!
Viewing the settings #
Some of us like to explore the settings before we even start using a plugin. I totally get it. You can check through the settings for Project Pages by clicking ‘Project Pages’ -> ‘Settings’ from your wp-admin nav bar.
Further, if you use templating, you can modify the Project Page templates and change settings per-block for each element used in Project Pages:
Join the community list for more #
Click here to join the list, get help, regular updates, and join the Project Page community.
