Portfolio Settings & Permalinks

Portfolio → Settings holds the options that apply to your whole portfolio: URL slugs, the design of category archive pages, and (with PRO) video-player preferences and extra post types.

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Table of Contents

1. General: slugs and permalinks
2. General: Custom Post Types (PRO)
3. Taxonomy: category archive pages
4. Video Settings (PRO)

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General: slugs and permalinks

• Slug — the URL base of single projects. Default project → https://yoursite.com/project/my-work/.
• Taxonomy Slug — the URL base of category archives. Default portfolio → https://yoursite.com/portfolio/branding/.

Two rules to avoid broken pages:

1. Neither slug may match the slug of an existing page (e.g. a page called “Portfolio” at /portfolio/ clashes with the default taxonomy slug — rename one of them).
2. After changing a slug, visit Settings → Permalinks once so WordPress refreshes its rewrite rules. Getting 404s? See How to Fix 404 Errors.

On WPZOOM themes with a built-in portfolio (Inspiro family), the theme controls these permalinks — the fields here are read-only and the same options live in the Theme Options panel.

General: Custom Post Types (PRO)

Custom Post Types lists your site’s other post types; ticking one makes it selectable as a source in the Portfolio block’s Post Type dropdown — display products, team members or any CPT in the portfolio grid design.

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Taxonomy: category archive pages

Each portfolio category gets its own archive page (e.g. /portfolio/branding/). This tab styles those pages when “Use the template provided by the plugin” is enabled:

• Layout (Columns / Overlay / Masonry — plus Eccentric with PRO), Number of posts, Amount of columns, Columns gap;
• Colors — primary and secondary;
• Fields — thumbnail (+size), author, date, excerpt, read-more button and its label;
• Lightbox — open items in a lightbox, show captions.

Turn the template off if your theme ships its own portfolio archive design (themes can also override it by providing a taxonomy-portfolio.php file).

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Video Settings (PRO)

Preferences for self-hosted videos opened in the lightbox:

• Self-Hosted Video Player — WordPress MediaElement Player or Native HTML5 Video Player;
• Video Player Style — Default / Minimal / Liquid (MediaElement only);
• Video Border Radius (px).

More on portfolio videos: Video Lightbox & Background Videos.