Portfolio breadcrumb and link issues

[phoenix04]

Hi

We have created a portfolio with three different categories:

– category A

– category B

– category C

These categories are about completely unrelated topics and it would be confusing to site visitors to be able to go into the category A portfolio and see items in the category B or C portfolio etc. We want to have these categories to be effectively separate portfolios.

 

We set up each portfolio in admin as follows:

– added the portfolio items and assigned them to the appropriate categories

– created two separate content pages using the Swift builder and used the Portfolio asset in each of the pages.

In the portfolio asset we set up each of them as follows:

– Pagination : no

– Category dropdown: the category that applied

– Exclude categories: id of the other portfolio category

so for category A asset we had pagination: no, category: A, exclude: id for B and id for C, and for category B’s asset we had pagination: no, category: B and exclude: id for A and id for C, and for category C we had paginatino: no, category: C and exclude: id for A and id for B.

 

However the following problems are occuring:

 

Problem 1: breadcrumbs

If breadcrumbs are turned on, you get a breadcrumb called “Portfolio” on each of the category pages.  For example:

Home > Portfolio > A > ItemName

Clicking on the breadcrumb “Portfolio” can be used to go to a confusing page with the url /?post_type=portfolio which has a mixture of items from all of the portfolios on it and the default sidebar which is only relevant in the blog section of the site. We need to know how to remove the link called “Portfolio” in the breadcrumbs.

 

Problem 2: pagination links still on

The pagination links are still turned on even if disabled in admin. For example if you go to the last item in the portfolio A you get a “next” link to the first item in category B. If you go to the first item in category B you can get a previous link to the last item in category A. i.e. the portfolios are being linked to eachother even with the pagination: no setting enabled in admin.

 

We can workaround the first problem by disabling breadcrumbs (which will be a bit frustrating for site visitors) and work around the second problem by editing the theme to not show the next/forward links, but it would be much better if these could be fixed. We are also not sure how to remove the page /?post_type=portfolio because if someone goes to this url directly they will still be able to see a mixture of category A, B and C. We could use a 301 redirect to redirect this to a default page, but again it would be better for your portfolio system to deal with this scenario without patch-jobs.

 

[phoenix04]

 

We have solved problem 1 – it’s in the settings to the breadcrumb plugin. We saw your post on themeforest about this to another person and applied the same change.

Problem 2 (items linked between portfolios in prev/next) persists – if we find a solution to this we’ll post otherwise can you please advise.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

#2 – The pagination is for different pages in the index, not the actual items. You can hide the item navigation by adding the following to Flexform Options > General Options > Custom CSS:

.portfolio-pagination {
display: none;
}

– Ed