New Wordpress, 3.0. Useful for simple portfolios

Rick Stirling

As some of you know, I've often extolled the virtues of the Wordpress blogging platform as a simple portfolio site. They have a new upgrade

http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

cw

I might have to look into this! Thanks Rick.

Michael Knubben

Rick, I tried Wordpress a while back and had some trouble getting it set up to my liking, could I bother you with some questions some time?

Andreas

Hmm that's quite nice. I already use wordpress for my portfolio though

http://artbyandreas.wordpress.com/

Tis handy.

Jeremy Lindstrom

yup i use da wordpress as well, tis loverly. Wonder how smooth the upgrades are going for folks..

Purplepaint

Soon i will be using wordpress, well sometime this year :P

mickyg

Blenderhead wrote: »

Hmm that's quite nice. I already use wordpress for my portfolio though

http://artbyandreas.wordpress.com/

Tis handy.

Wow, that's the same theme that I use for my travel journal,

http://transientjourneys.com

I've never thought of using it for an online folio though, looks great!

Jeremy Lindstrom

one button upgrade for 3.0 was a success..

MikeF

i'd also recomend this.
i set up at bluehost for a year, cost me just over $70, plugged wordpress into it and started chopping away at all the bloggy bits. With zero knowledge of any html i had things going in about a weeks time.

I'd recommend the option of hosting independently of wordpress. I didnt realize it with my first portfolio, but a lot of companies block most blogs and social networking sites. And while bluehost isnt the cheapest out there, i've had no issues with them, wordpress is tied in already, and when i was transferring domains i had a live person on the phone within minutes and they helped me out all the way through

Andreas

Jeremy Lindstrom wrote: »

one button upgrade for 3.0 was a success..

Where be that button? It's quite hard to find stuff on wordpress

m4dcow

I finished my portfolio about 2 weeks ago, using wordpress 3.0 (was still in beta upto that point).

I set it up with custom post types (portfolio) and created taxonomies that I can add to each entry. What sort of portfolio entry it is environment, prop, character etc... I also added what type of tools I used, and all those when setup nicely with permalinks will work like http://url/tools/maya to browse eveything that uses maya, same thing with the type of entry. I did the same thing with a "status" taxonomy, where completed entries display on my portfolio page, but I can have WIP entries which don't, but can still be reached at status/wip so I can show progress to my professors etc...

It's all really cool stuff (well to me anyway since I studied web development stuff before any 3D).

Main thing for me is now is to make some good art to show off on my shiny new portfolio

Jeremy Lindstrom

mine was on my dashboard (current wordpress user) supported by my host.. so your mileage may vary, but said Wordpress 3.0 Upgrade and I clicked it and it updated.

Andreas

Oh maybe its automatic for people who use the actual wordpress site...

Jeremy Lindstrom

my website isn't the actual wordpress site, tis on a regular old host siteground.com so not sure, but was just a link under the dashboard to upgrade to 3.0.

mickyg

I remember reading that all updates apply automatically to wordpress.com.

As a matter of fact, wordpress.com is being continuously updated all the time, whereas wordpress.org needs to save up all the updates to be applied at once, like this.