Sharpfolio: Wordpress Portfolio Theme
About
Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.
Preview
Live Demo
So if you’re not totally convinced yet, have a look at the Live Demo.
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Setup Instructions
After installing Sharpfolio (WordPress 2.5+ is highly recommended), you must go to the Settings page of your WordPress Dashboard, then the Miscellaneous panel. Set the Medium Size to 500px wide and 800px high. This will ensure that the images you post appear nicely in your portfolio.
How to post in Sharpfolio
It’s a little different to posting in a normal blog. I seriously recommend reading these instructions on how to post projects in your portfolio.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License. If you like my work, then tell your friends!
Bugs and Suggestions
If you have any issues with the theme, have found a bug or want to abuse me about something, scoot over to the contact page and drop me a line.
Support Future Development
Sharpfolio is released and developed free of charge, but it still takes time and money. If you find it useful, please consider making a small donation.
Stay tuned for updates
Sharpfolio will be continually improved and updated, so make sure to subscribe to the RSS Feed to stay up to date.
Hey guys.
Just a quick note, I’ve updated the theme to fix the “ugly serif text” bug. Enjoy!
The portfolio CMS idea isn’t too tough. Without comments it should be rather easy. Create ‘posts’ under different categories then display them. Thats it, the user then designs the design. Comments make things a little more difficult of course. Other bits like contact info are also easy, just hold it in the database.
And thats my 2 cents on the idea (I thought it was a good idea),
-Nick
Hey Nick.
I actually had a pretty big portion of the foundations of the system done (down to a Google Maps integration, which placed pins at each designer’s location). I’m by no means a good enough PHP coder to continue the project (design is the name of my game).
If you’d like to discuss it further with me, perhaps you might like to continue the project? You know where to reach me
Much better! My only worry now is the size of the post-date text, and how dark it is. You’ve gotta kinda look out for that when you’re reading the site.
Thanks Biscuitrat!
I didn’t really think there should be much emphasis on the actual date of the portfolio images. I may have a think about increasing it, but I’m not really sure if it’s completely necessary.
Interesting idea, perhaps ought to do something similar with textpattern.
Hi Matt. Thanks for this simple and slick theme! I’ve seen my share of minimalist-themes with Wordpress, but none of them do what this one does
There’s a little question I have about making a new page though if that’s ok;
At the moment I have 3 pages: Recent works, About, and a contact page (nice tip btw). But what if I wanted to make one extra page that acts the same as ‘Recent works’? Basically what I mean is having 2 blogpages; one with my recent work, and one that acts as my blog. Could you tell us how to pull that off please?
Nice idea, but i cant post flash objects using your theme, why?
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did you ever do the archiving part of this site?
i think its a very important section thats missing..
cpouple of tings that i think could make this a perfect template for any portfolio are:
ability to create duplicated pages that act the same as the main blog… so you can split your portfolio into sections.. ie 3d/ graphics/ web etc etc
the archive section
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This is an excellent idea and one I think a ton of people have been hunting for. One little question, are you aware the demo is giving an error page?
Not wonderful, but good.
Hey, just wanted to let you know I’ve added Sharpfolio to http://www.bestwpthemes.com, which is a new hand-picked list of the best Wordpress themes from around the web.
Congratulations!
The demo don’t seem to work anymore
the demo is broken.
Aug 6 2007 and the demo is still not working. I am looking for something for my photo site [http://balkophoto.com] that will not only accomodate regular image portfolios, but also the free WP Header Images I have just completed. I plan on offering the images free for use in WP or any open source CMS - and there the thumbs are 400px and full-sized is 1000px.
There are a couple of sites around the web that are running this theme or variations there-of (in lieu of the non-working demo):
http://www.antoniociccarone.com/
http://www.cognitivecreative.com/
Has anyone tried to get a lightbox effect working with this theme (where images pop forward when clicked and the background greys out)? If so, would you mind passing on the plug-in source?
i am using but a modified version at http://www.kinkypixel.co.uk
can anyone tell me how to get the archieving system to work please
What about RSS?
BTW - this theme is tits!
nevermind…
feed://url/feed
doh!
The live demo is down.
i’m also interested in getting lightbox/slightbox working with this… any news on that yet?
sorry, GREAT theme by the way
I got lightbox working by adding a script to the header.php file. I found the script on the wp.org forums. Don’t have it handy right now.
I am, however, having trouble getting it to work with safari. I changed a couple of colors and other settings in the stylesheet and now its a mess.
Well, i seem to have fixed my safari issues. I’m sold that i still have IE6 issues though with the footer line crossing through one of my links.
Can’t wait for the new version!
hey folks - i got lightbox working. it seems the header.php file is missing ths line of code:
you need to put it right before the tag and then it should work.
sorry, it dissapeared - take out the * it’s just so it shows..
hmm
third time lucky
no spaces!
oh for goodness sake…
put it before the
tagleft arrow ? php space wp _ head ( ) ; space ? right arrow
put it before the closing head tag
woo hoo! cryptic
hope it makes sense…
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This is my first post
just saying HI
Hey !
Great theme - this and cold blue as well.
This theme’s live demo got db issues. check it out
Hi
great job!!!
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thanxx a lot thesmu that worked !! Lightbox is now enabled !!
It was a bit tricky to understand
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Loving this, looks great and works very well. Are you still thinking of adding archiving etc?
Demo is fucked.
waiting for the comment and archive support. hope to see it soon.
like your style.
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Hi,
Is there a way for me to add comments with the sharpfolio layout? I played around with it last night but can’t quite figure it out. I’d love for visitors to be able to post comments to the blog. Thanks.
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the live demo link doesn’t work, and your contact page goes to a 404 error… so, i’ll download and test the theme with caution.
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FYI, the demo doesn’t work…
I had a little trouble at first but it seems to work ok.
Hi there. I just wanted to let you know that I love the Sharpfolio theme. I’ve tweaked it to fit my website and added a bit more to it, but without this simple theme, I would probably have ended up with some boring old default. Thanks for making it! Always appreciated.
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Hi Matt
Have searched the net but can’t find out how, how do you activate the comments and posts within your thmeme as its a great design but I need these elements activate, any ideas would be great.
cheers
gareth
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Demo link appears to be down…
Dig the template, though. Thanks for making it available.
Thank you so much for this theme!
great theme! i’ll start to use it on my site.
thanks!
how can i add my logo next to the company title??
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Beautiful theme. Thank you for your work.
the live demo link is broken,…. just an FYI
hey,
the link to the demo has no content.
When will it be back up? I’m really interested in seeing it.
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I’m having two issues:
1. When inserting the image into the post, it won’t force the image to the 500 pixel width. I have to do it manually.
2. The ‘description’ custom tag won’t take. I enter the info, it shows up, but after saving the post, it doesn’t appear in the control panel or in the post.
Great theme, it’s minimal enough to work well. Would be nice to have thumbnails in the archives, quite a useful feature for photographers. Would this be a large task?
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I dont think date should be a big thing. A portfolio should never be dated. Thats why this is a portfolio not a blog. I am in the process of downloading this and testing it out. But i hate ignorant people that come here to leech and say something of no merit
Thanks for this theme, I am using it in my site, take a look!!!
Great theme! It’s simple and exactly what I was looking for. The archives page was a little iffy, but I just edited it to do the same as the main index template to keep it minimal. Works perfect now.
Thanks again!
http://conorandthepurplecrayon.com/
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I LOVE this theme! It is a very unique way to lay out a Wordpress blog. I haven’t been able to find anything else like this. Great Job! : )
I’ve used the theme for my portfolio, available at:
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The theme is great! But I have a little problem, when I add a custom field, it doesnt work… it doesnt appear on the blog. Does anyone have the same problem?
I tried with IE, Firefox and Safari but nothing changes…
I’m using Wordpress 2.5.1
Please help!!!
Great theme! Thank you.
Using it on my site, but still got a lot of work to do.
http://www.staschi.com
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Hi there,
First of all great theme
Is it easy enough to customize? i would like to be able to have dates on posts and also maybe at the top or side the ability to choose a category and have it show all posts.
Trying to use it kind of like a gallery if that makes sense.
Keep up the good work.
Ben
This is perfect !
Thanks++
-Mike
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Hi Matt - great theme. It would be great to have a flickr integration for posting.
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Great simple theme
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We’re using your template. We made quite a few mods like adding a blog and other stuff. I think this is a great theme.
OK, what is the Previous Work link at the top supposed to do? It seems to just be a Home Page link.
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Hi Matt, first of all thanks a lot for this theme.
I want to use it as my personal portfolio, but I have a problem.
When I navigate by Category my post doesn’t look well.
Here is the 2 images, the first is the home of wordpress, and the 2nd is surfing by category: (you can see it in the url bar)
http://www.midtonedesign.com/img.png
http://www.midtonedesign.com/img2.png
I’ve deleted the contents of sidebar.php by still show the “Archive”. Please can you tell me what php file I’ve to moddify? thanks a lot!
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Hi how are you I was intrigued by your word press theme, I downloaded the theme but I cannot get it to work, this is what comes up when I install it can you please help me.
my domain name is: http://myavserver.com/
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_lightboxjs_init() (previously declared in /nfs/c01/h02/mnt/35999/domains/myavserver.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-lightboxJS/wp-lightboxJS.php:16) in /nfs/c01/h02/mnt/35999/domains/myavserver.com/html/wp-content/themes/sharpfolio/wp-lightboxJS/wp-lightboxJS.php on line 14
Simple and neat! Well done!
With an add-on of a twitter box it’s perfect!
Thanks!
This is a great thme but cannot get it to work can someone please help me I am fairly new to WP
my domain name is: http://myavserver.com/
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_lightboxjs_init() (previously declared in /nfs/c01/h02/mnt/35999/domains/myavserver.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-lightboxJS/wp-lightboxJS.php:16) in /nfs/c01/h02/mnt/35999/domains/myavserver.com/html/wp-content/themes/sharpfolio/wp-lightboxJS/wp-lightboxJS.php on line 14
Great theme. I’m using is right now as a temp layout for my portfolio, until I find some time to make my own theme
Great wordpress theme! I’m using it on my portfolio site. Thanks much!
Hey. I love this theme. Like, really, it’s great.
Ok, I kinda hate the background, and I’ve tweaked the theme significantly, but I still absolutely love it as a base.
I was wondering, however, how I might be able to replace the built-in lightbox with fancybox. It’s kinda nicer, that’s all.
okay theme if it worked …
really, all bogs (sic) are overly complicated. Have you heard of Apple … it just works.
hi,
i’m just wondering how to use or add the sidebar?
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