Go – Responsive Portfolio for WPby Granth

1. Features

• 4 default styles (FLEX, DOOR, VARIO, DELUX).
• Reponsive grid layout or horizontally slider layout (up to 10 columns).
• Flexible, percent based grid system with customizable vertical and horizontal spaces.
• Optional responsivity with custom settings.
• Huge Admin Panel. with tons of options.
• Unlimited portfolios.
• Unlimited custom post types.
• Works with your existing custom post types and regular blog posts and attachments.
• Custom category and tag taxonomy support for attahcments.
• Visual gallery builder (adding, removing multiple images, sorting via Drag and Drop).
• WooCommerce support - Product showcase.
• Advanced post query options to show posts, setting the limit and order of the posts, filtering by taxonomies and terms.
• Different thumbnail and lightbox types:
           - Image (JPG, PNG, GIF)
           - Video (Vimeo, Youtube, Screenr, Dailymotion, Metacafe)
           - Audio (Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Beatport)

• Thumbnail and lightbox image size selecting options using your existing images.
• Thumbnail aspect ratio settings option to use the their default aspect ratio or a custom one.
• Built-in Template & Style editor with adding, editing, importing options.
• System and Google Web Font (600+ fonts) support.
• Translation ready with .mo .po files.
• Advanced Import & Export settings.
• Supports all modern browsers (including IE8).
• Compatible with the latest WordPress version (currently 3.8.1).
• Only the point.

Version information

v1.5

• [FIX] WooCommerce price formatting bugfix.
• [FIX] Unclickable filter bugfix.
• [FIX] Hidden slides after vieport change issue fix.
• [FIX] 7 or more column slider & grid layout in mobile view problem fix.
• [FIX] Prevent lightbox conflict with other lightboxes (theme or plugin).
• [FIX] Minor lightbox issues fix.
• [FIX] Import bugfix.
• [FIX] Template customizing bugfix.
• [FIX] Retina image loading bugfix.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Disabled transitions during page load and orientation change prevent crash on IOS devices.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Transitions can be disabled on touch devices.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to modify the thumbnail image x and y position.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to make thumbnail linkable (go to an URL, or open lightbox).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to set the first post image as portfolio image (forced and fallback mode).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option set different image from featured image as portfolio image.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option set different image from portfolio image as lightbox image.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option set custom iframe in the lightbox.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to set fixed height for portfolio image thumbnails.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to disable lightbox.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added a new filter to modify the Query before output.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added a "variable" to print post author in the template - {{post_author}}.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added a shortcode for taxonomy terms - [gopf_list_terms taxonomy="taxomy" post_id="{{post_id}}"].
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added RTL support for grid and slider view.

v1.4

• [FIX] Visual gallery builder admin js bugfix.
• [FIX] Main and styles CSS fixes and improvements to prevent mobile browsers crashes.
• [FIX] Unattached image update term fix.
• [FIX] Exclude current element fix.
• [FIX] WooCommerce SALE badge fix.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added support for WooCommerce variable product and variations post type.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the "Order by page order" option for Post query order parameters.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Dropped "retina.js" and replaced with new custom code to load retina images more efficiently.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to add any taxonomy to the plugin registered post types.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Registering custom category and tag taxonomy became optional for the plugin registered post types.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added new columns to the custom post type list table (author and additional taxonomies columns).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to enable or disable overlay buttons globally (they can be still disabled per post/attachment).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Deep linking became optional.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added new excerpt function.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to set custom excerpt delimiter string.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to allow or strip shortcodes and HTML tags from the excerpt.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added the option to create a manual excerpt from content with the "<!--more-->" tag (useful when you allow HTML tags and shortcodes in the excerpt to prevent the unlosed HTML tags and layout breaks caused by limiting the length of the excerpt).

v1.3

• [FIX] Meta shortcode fix (e.g. [gopf_meta key="my_key" post_id="{{post_id}}"]).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added "Load More" feature.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added gallery option to lightbox.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added caption option to lightbox.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added deep linking to lightbox.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added backward to compatibility to WP3.3+. Limited support for attachment based and full support for post based portfolios. All features are available from WP3.5.

v1.2

• [FIX] Touch event fix for effects.
• [FIX] Excerpt length fix.
• [FIX] CSS Transition fix after closing Iframe lightbox.
• [FIX] Go Portfolio Options metabox save problem for attachments fix.
• [FIX] 'Open in new window?' metabox option problem fix.
• [FIX] Filtering fix (show only selected terms).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Removed very slow filtering animation in IE8.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added option to set maximum width for Mobile (landscape) view under General Settings.

v1.1

• [FIX] Retina bug fix.
• [FIX] Fixed the conflicts with themes and plugins using Isotope plugin.
• [FIX] Overlay icon alignment problems fix.
• [FIX] IE8 post thumnail bug fix.
• [FIX] Minor fixes in loop.
• [FIX] Minor fix in shortcode HTML output (stripped the unneded code).
• [FIX] General Settings page error output fix.
• [FIX] Minor fixes in backend (PHP, CSS and Javascript).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Minor immprovements in public CSS (layout and skin) to prevent conflicts with 3rd party CSS files.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added new templates (e.g only excerpt, no date).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added touchswipe support for slider.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added touch support for style effects.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added to option to exlude cpts from search and set or unset archive for cpts.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Minor improvements in export function.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Separate query taxonomy and filter taxonomy (e.g. using category in post query then filter by tag).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added shortcode to show custom field data in template.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added attachment (media) support, with category and tag taxonomy support with visual gallery builder (adding and removing multiple images, sorting via Drag and Drop).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Optimized Javascript code for faster performance.

v1.0

• Initial release.

2. Sources and credits

Following sources has been used.

• FONTS
  • - 600+ Google Web Font
• IMAGES & ICONS
  • - See in 'licences' folder
• JAVASCRIPT
  • - JQuery More info
  • - Retina.js More info
  • - Magnific Popup More info
  • - Isotope plugin More info
  • - carouFredSel plugin More info

3. Install WordPress

First, you should install WordPress on your server if you don't have a working version already installed.

Installation steps:

• Download the latest release of WordPress. http://wordpress.org/download/
• Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.
• Upload the the unzipped files to a folder on your server, using ftp. (example: http://yourserver/wordpress)
• Type this folder path to your browser's address bar.
• Follow the instructions until the installation is complete.

Further instructions can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress.

4. Install & update the plugin

There are two ways to install the plugin. Using Wordpess Plugin Uploader or FTP. Before intstalling the plugin you should unzip the downloaded package to a folder on your hard drive. After extracting the file you can find some folders and a zipped file "go_portfolio.zip" in the root of your folder. Go_portfolio.zip contains the plugin data.

WordPress Plugin Uploader

If you use "WordPress Plugin Uploader" to install the plugin, then you should NOT unzip go_portfolio.zip file.

• Log into your WordPress admin panel.
• Navigate to Plugins » Add New.
• Click to Upload.
• Click to Choose File and select the go_portfolio.zip file.
• Click to  Install Now.

FTP

Installation steps:

• Unzip the go_portfolio.zip file to a folder on your hard drive.
• Upload the go_portfolio folder to the WordPress' plugins folder (example: http://yourserver/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/) on your server using FTP.

5. Setting up and creating portfolios

The plugin has tons of features to fit your site best. It's very important to set it properly before inserting shortcode.

5.1 General settings

You can enable or disable responsivity and modify minimum and maximum widths for tablet and mobile devices.

You can set primary and secondary font (system or Google). When you create a portfolio you can choose font family for a font type.

When you would like to use your regular blog posts or other (not the plugin generated) post types you should enable them on this page. After enabling the Go Portfolio Options metabox will appear under WP editor when you edit a post.

5.2 Import & export data

You can import & export data. This feature helps you importing demo data or moving your portfolio from your site to another or create a backup file. This data doesn't contain posts or custom type posts content, it contain only portfolio and custom post types data. If you would like to import or export posts as well you should use WordPress Importer plugin.

Importing data:

• Open the file that contains data in a text editor and copy its content to the clipboad.
• Navigate to Go Portfolio » Import & Export and select "Import data" action then paste the content of the clipboad into the textarea and click to "Save".
• Then you should select from the list of portfolios and custom post types.

Exporting data:

• Navigate to Go Portfolio » Import & Export  and select "Export data" action and you should select form the list of portfolios and custom post types and click to "Save".
• Then a textarea will appear including the exported data. Copy its content to the clipboad.
• Create a new file on your hard drive using a text editor and paste the content of the clipboad into this file, then "Save".

5.3 Create custom post types

You can create unlimited post types with the plugin. You should enable it to register the post type and use it. Without enabling it, its data (name, slug, etc.) stored it database. You can import or export these data. The exported data doesn't contain the post content data itself.

After creating and enabling a new custom post type its name will appear in WP navigation, then you can add or edit posts for this custom post type.

5.4 Template & style editor

The plugin comes with several templates and styles. These templates and styles originally stored is separate files in "templates" folder. These files are automatically imported to database when you activate the plugin or can be reseted under Navigate to Go Pricing » Template & Style Editor.

When you create a portfolio these database stored data is used.

Under Go Pricing » Template & Style Editor you can customize the default templates and styles but whenever you click reset to original data will be restored from files.

5.5 Create a portfolio

To create tables navigate to Go Portfolio. You can create new or modify and clone existing portfolios. You should set a Portfolio name, Portfolio id and select a Post type for portfolio first then you should set other parameters.

Don't forget to enable the portfolio before you insert the shortcode into pages/posts.

6. Inserting portfolios into content

Portfolios can be inserted to pages/posts via [go_portfolio id="my_table"] shortcode.

• id: the pricing table unique id (required)
• margin_bottom: space below pricing table (optional) - its default value is "0".
• margin_top: space above portfolio (optional) - its default value is "0".

for example: [go_portfolio id="my_portfolio" margin_bottom="50px"].