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Create a Multi-Layout Portfolio with WordPress

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

My latest tutorial for NetTuts discusses about how we can use WordPress as a CMS and flex it to our needs to create a stunning portfolio with multiple layouts. In this tutorial, we are going to extensively use powerful features of WordPress, such as custom posts, custom taxonomies, and we’ll also write a function to fetch our own custom excerpts. This is what we are going to create

Create a Multi Layout Portfolio Using WordPress

The multi-layout theme will function in such a way that the user can select between a grid and list layout.This is the basic design of how our portfolio site will appear in grid mode:

Multi- Layout Portfolio - Grid View

Once the user clicks on the list view control, the whole layout will smoothly change to a list view which will contain the title of the project, the tags associated with it, and a short description.

Multi Layout Portfolio With WordPress - List View

Check out the complete tutorial on Nettuts and get started on creating that cool portfolio you always wanted! Do share your creations, suggestions with us :)

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