Daisho - Flexible WordPress Portfolio Theme

Yes, we’ll keep updating it on a regular basis, no worries The nearest update is coming this month or at the beginning of a new month. I see many ways to improve it too.

Great I’m glad that you like it!

To be honest I haven’t tried SlideShowPro Director so I’m not sure but if you’ve got these images in Media Library then they will stay there.

Nonetheless, slides editor generates shortcodes and I’m afraid that you’ll need to generate them again (and maybe yet again in the distant future once we release SuperSlide Editor v2).

The good news is that you do this only once (or twice) and images will stay there permanently. I think it’s acceptable even if it’s not particularly interesting task. If you’re planning on having not too many projects (up to 50-100) then it shouldn’t take more than 1-2 hours.

Please let me know if you need more information about that

You need at least 1 post.

Ideally, each post type should have at least 1 post but just standard ‘post’ will do I hope that helps.

You can upload thumbnail image to [Portfolio > Add New] and you can pick mouse over color right next to it. If it doesn’t work then you’re probably using external URL image and v1.9.0.1. I suggest that you upload that image to your own Media Library or update to v1.9.0.2 in such case – that’s the first version to support external URLs.

Why external URLs were not supported?
Due to security reasons. To sample color from an image your computer had to download it first from potentially untrusted source (external URL that is beyond your control and may replace that image with something else). This limit is still present because it’s in-browser limit. We use workaround to make it work (if an image is from external server, it is temporarily downloaded to your server first).

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy

I hope that helps!

In short it’s like:

1) You install WordPress (automatic)

2) You install Daisho (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvf2dcPfiHM) and import sample content

3) You have a website that look and works like demo

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4) Now you need some plugin to add translation tools because Wordpress doesn’t have them. Daisho is compatible with WPML and their plugin is additional cost ($29 or $79). There are free solutions out there but this one seems to be the only that works just fine and supports everything (menus, post types, custom fields, widgets and basically everything).

5) And lastly you spend like 10 hours on getting to know WPML and translating your website. You’ll certainly need to contact our and their support several times if you haven’t used that plugin before but it’s not that difficult – I think that you’ll understand everything and after doing it once you’ll know how to translate also other themes Many other themes also use WPML.

Some basic guide: http://docs.devatic.com/daisho/locale.html (some kind of step by step guide is there).

WPML has many more guides. They alone are enough to configure everything.

Many thanks Flow for the quick reply. I will look into it.

Yes, the selector: .project-coverslide-visible { opacity: 0.97; }. You can use it under [Daisho > General > Custom CSS Code]. Please change the value to 1 to have no transparency at all.

“Is it possible to have a fixed left-sided menu with all my projects listed?” – it’s a bit hard to imagine how this should look like but… you can check out trial website – this will tell you what’s already possible and obviously custom modifications are also possible (like moving filter to the left).

Yes. You can do that under [Portfolio > Add New] when you click on “Video” icon. It’s recommended to use YouTube or Vimeo though – they have optimized videos and professional player. Players built in browsers are not that advanced.

Please create a support ticket if you believe that something disappears and requires our attention. We can login to your admin panel and check that.

Hi, when i add a selfhosted video..it disapper from “new portfolio”..but can i add simple video?..or a embedded page with player, code and video? sorry but i’m beginner..

Yes, you can add a HTML5 Video, YouTube video or Vimeo video. You can do that in posts, on pages or in portfolio projects.

It’s best to use YouTube or Vimeo but if you need HTML5 Video for some reason then please keep in mind that you need all HTML5 Video formats for it to work: WEBM, MP4, OGG.

It surely works if done correctly. If you have any difficulties making it work then it’s enough to create a support ticket and we’ll check (and setup) that for you.

1) ”...would it be possible to have a different picture as rollover…” – Not without a modification.

1a) ”...we wanted to make b/w images that get colored when hovering the mouse over them…” – that’s easy with SVG filter. It will take you like 2 minutes to enable. I even created that mode a few months ago but it’s disabled and hidden. After purchase please create a support ticket to get the code.

2) Here I would first consider how would this work for average user – would all of them understand this? It’s not a good idea to make something accessible with 2+ clicks. Users don’t think too much when they browse websites – they need everything presented in a clear manner. Maybe it’s a better idea to create sub-portfolio-pages and have sub-categories there instead?

If you’re sure that it has to work this way then the thing that you describe would require a custom modification to the original script. You can test what’s currently possible on a trial website. And to have a developer complete that modification for you please visit “Hire Developer” support forum area (available after purchase). If you need to get a quote from developers before purchase please email me to get a temporary item purchase code that will allow you to register. Rough estimate is that it’s at least 2h task. Developers work for whatever the current worldwide average hourly rate for 5+ years in WP/HTML/CSS/PHP/JS development field is (~$50/h as of 2013). Completion time: 1-3 weeks (depending on the current volume of requests).

Hi there Flow,

it’s going to be a photography portfolio site, and with growing projects that should be promoted you’d have dozens of icons that have to be available on the front page (in the sample-site it’s only 13 items, but think of 30, or more). So getting them into sub-categorys (e.g., one only Portrait, one Landscape, etc) is a must IMHO. Using sub-portfolio-pages would introduce the need of having one license for every category, also making it hard to change between categroies – or do I understand you wrong? Sorry, I’m not native english.

Thanks for the quote on the additional modification-support, it’s definately considered.

best regards, lucas

I’m looking at the past comments and I just noticed that your one is left unanswered yet. Please accept my apologies for delay! You can contact developers in Hire Developer and get comments and quotes before purchase.

Daisho is highly flexible and customizable so it should be a good base website for further modifications. Many people modify a theme in various directions – it’s often only a start point.

Thanks! I’m glad that you like it

Footer description is used only in admin panel under [Appearance > Widgets]. It has no role other than that It’s there to remind you what kind of footer columns is this.

You can easily remove that description under /framework/miscellaneous/sidebars.php (on line 20) if you don’t need it there.

Wow, very fast reply, thx its works! Please, tell me where I can change the lines height from the Homepage Welcome Text?

Ideally, I’d like to ask you to create a support ticket and we’ll be able to provide you the code It’s hard to paste any code in TF comments. You’ll find everything related to Welcome Text in style.css – selector: .welcome-text (line height, fonts, top/bottom spacing etc. – almost everything is attached to this selector).

I’m glad that you like it

Here is more information:

1) http://docs.devatic.com/daisho/locale.html#rightOption

2) http://support.forcg.com/topic/daisho-common-changes

The most elegant way would be to use PO/MO translation files but you can also do that directly in theme files.

Putting an iframe in a post or page should work the same way like in Twenty Twelve – there are no differences between the way we print post and page If you’d like me to take a look please link to the page that you created.

I responded to you in the support ticket on your question

Nevermind. I paid another tech person to look into this matter. Thanks anyway. They found some CSS errors.

Great! If I knew what exactly was missing I would certainly help as well but it looked quite normal when I logged in (like everything is in place).

I’m glad that you like it

Sure, you have two options:

1) Do that directly in template files: project-container.php (and also these files may contain some strings: single-portfolio.php, template-portfolio.php, index.php).

2) Or use PO/MO files and translation: http://docs.devatic.com/daisho/locale.html#rightOption

If you need more information or exact places to change please create a support ticket – I’ll be able to paste screenshots or code then.

Cool. I had tried changing them in project-container.php with no success, but looks like it worked this time. Thanks for your help!

If it worked then that’s fine If you still need help then it’s much easier for us to paste any code, screenshots or to login to your admin panel to help you using support forum. So if you need help again I encourage you to visit it to get more accurate and quicker answers Thanks!

Lightbox is implemented but it’s not added as an option to the portfolio. Nevertheless, it’s something that is easily doable. Developers in Hire Developer support forum area already completed such modification for some people so I’m sure that they can quickly do that for you too.

We use this Lightbox: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/ so if you take a look at their demos and at Daisho’s thumbnail structure it will become clear that it almost matches and only slight changes are necessary. In short, developer will add rel="prettyPhoto" to each thumbnail, will disable current function that opens a project and will add one or two additional HTML elements to match demos from Lightbox page.

Difficulty: Easy
Time required: ~1h

I hope that helps

appreciate your response, thank you

Yes. Google will pick something it chooses (and that’s usually content located at the top) unless you specify your own META tag with description for that page.

thank you Flow

Yes and luckily this option is coming very soon. For now you can use “Custom Code” to insert some code but it’s passed as an argument of a shortcode (and therefore it doesn’t allow nested shortcodes or some characters) and in v1.9.1 you’ll be able to use this to insert any code (including shortcodes).

For now please try standard object or embed code in that field – just like you would do it in post or on a page.

I can login to your admin panel and help you do this if you create a support ticket with your website address, login and password.

The page loading speed may depend upon your location. For me Daisho without any content loads in just 300-500ms and if we add a few portfolio images it goes up to ~1.5 seconds. There is no IE6, IE7 or IE8 support – we’re not planning to add it. There is IE9 and IE10 support and support of all browsers that meet current standards. The browser must support for instance:

• SVG http://caniuse.com/#search=svg
• ECMAScript 5 support is highly desirable http://caniuse.com/#feat=getelementsbyclassname
• Canvas (essential) http://caniuse.com/#feat=canvas
• Video http://caniuse.com/#feat=video
• Opacity http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-opacity

As you can see all browsers support these things except IE8. Here’s very long and official information about compatibility, with screenshots and statistics from multiple sources: http://support.forcg.com/topic/daisho-not-working-in-ie (available after registering).

Sub-categories are indeed WordPress standard for all post types but not all themes will list them with indentation or drop-downs.

Currently there’s no way to show them as drop-down in portfolio filter. They will be listed in standard style. You perhaps didn’t try that on a trial website before purchase – it works the same way so I believe that everything is 100% transparent.

We don’t have such suggestion yet and I think that having such complex structures may result in more disadvantages than advantages. It’s recommended that you split your portfolio into sub-pages rather than sub-categories and that you limit each page to at most 20-30 works (to reduce number of HTTP requests).

Nevertheless, that’s something that is relatively easy to be added if you really need such feature. It’s as simple as extending HTML filter structure and adding it some style to make it pop up on mouse over. Developers in Hire Developer support forum area can surely do that for you.

Difficulty: Easy
Time required: 1-2h

If you’d like to drop such suggestion please create a support ticket – we’ll be able to discuss that and you’ll be able to monitor updates related to such thing. However, please keep in mind that there are many more suggestions and we treat them with low priority – we’re focused on bug reports, crucial issues and core mechanics more.

Hi Flow!

Ok, no problem, so I´ll try another formula to sub-categorise these items, maybe using the main menu and it´s submenu items as you say.

Thank you for fast reply!

Regards,

I’m looking at the past comments and I just noticed that your one is left unanswered yet. I’m sorry for delay! It’s best to use the support forum to get quicker help.

I hope that you already managed to do something about this. If not, please let us on on support forum and we’ll do our best to assist.

We’re planning WooCommerce integration but that’s of low/medium priority. It’s not something that will appear in the nearest update. Nonetheless, you can use WooCommerce with its standard templates and style. It should be fully compatible even at this point but there’s simply no style for it, yet.

thanks Flow