Love the Kalium theme, but can't seem to get it to do what I need, despite what I thought I saw in the demos. I have a photography site, and I need be able to show all images at a glance (not grouped by 'portfolio' under separate tiles).
Having tested out a few ways over the last day, I've run into the following issues:
Can't seem to create a Masonry layout showing all the images in a Portfolio Item (or multiple PIs) as their own tiles. Instead, I just get a single tile per Portfolio Item.
Tried to work around this by adding all the photos to a Masonry Media Grid on the page via the Visual Composer, but it refuses to add any after the 10th image.
I bought this theme over cheaper ones because of its elegance and it seemed to be able to meet my needs. Structurally, what I'd like to achieve can be executed one of two ways (see figures attached). Excuse the food metaphor, but wanted to explain the desired structures as universal and digestible as possible.
Option 1 (fig 1)
3 Pages, each with its own Masonry grid. Again, showing all 20 images between them on the grid.
i.e., on the Food page, I want to show all 10 photo tiles, rather than only 2 tiles -- for Black & White (revealing 3 images in the lightbox) and Color (showing 7).
Option 2 (fig 2)
One page, from which the user can drill down to not just the subcategories like "vegan" or "dairy," but even larger main categories like Food and Drink.
For this to work, the Portfolio Category feature isn't a viable solution, as
Ideally, I'd like to be able to use Option 2, but either is fine. In fact, showing all tiles in the Masonry arrangement is the absolute most important element of this. Again, I bought this theme over much cheaper ones because of the filtering (and support) features, but for me the most crucial thing is at-a-glance viewing.
The Portfolio Category feature isn't a viable solution for the filtering approach detailed above to work, as even if we went with Option/fig 1 and structured things as below, it wouldn't work.
Page: Food
Portfolio: Food In Color
Categories: Starters, Meats, Vegan, Dairy
If we went with that approach, all color photos of food would need to be marked as Vegan, despite the fact only 3 of the individual images actually are vegan (and 5 explicitly contain meat). Even if we reversed this so we had Portfolios for Meat, Vegan, and Dairy dishes and the color designations were the categories, that would still require all meat dishes to be in color, despite there being 2 that are not.
(I know very few people actually photograph food in B&W, but suspend disbelief with me. I actually shoot portraits/headshots/etc, and not food).
Please help, ideally with both tiers of the problem, but if nothing else, at least with getting all 20 images to appear as tiles without creating an individual Portfolio Item for each. I have hundreds of photos in my Media Library already, and that's just not a manageable solution.
Firstly before proceeding to any changes in your site I want to let you know that using the Lightbox can only get the featured images to the portfolio, you will have to create a post for each of the items as they cannot automatically show.
That's not a viable solution for any photographer needing to show more than a dozen photos (which is why one buys a theme to begin with, rather than just share a drobox folder). Themes are meant to make this kind of thing easier, not harder.
This is a crucial issue, and we photographers would greatly appreciate a fix in the near future. In the mean time, I suggest updating your photography demo to make this deficiency a little clearer. Right now, it looks like it supports nesting a gallery in the main gallery among your other images in a Masonry grid, when it actually forces you to create individual galleries for every image.
Unfortunately this is the way our portfolio works, we do not plan changing the way it works but maybe we will check any fix only for the photography demo, anyway we it's not on our plans right now to change the portfolio functionality.
Hi,
Love the Kalium theme, but can't seem to get it to do what I need, despite what I thought I saw in the demos. I have a photography site, and I need be able to show all images at a glance (not grouped by 'portfolio' under separate tiles).
Having tested out a few ways over the last day, I've run into the following issues:
I bought this theme over cheaper ones because of its elegance and it seemed to be able to meet my needs. Structurally, what I'd like to achieve can be executed one of two ways (see figures attached). Excuse the food metaphor, but wanted to explain the desired structures as universal and digestible as possible.
Option 1 (fig 1)
Option 2 (fig 2)
Ideally, I'd like to be able to use Option 2, but either is fine. In fact, showing all tiles in the Masonry arrangement is the absolute most important element of this. Again, I bought this theme over much cheaper ones because of the filtering (and support) features, but for me the most crucial thing is at-a-glance viewing.
The Portfolio Category feature isn't a viable solution for the filtering approach detailed above to work, as even if we went with Option/fig 1 and structured things as below, it wouldn't work.
If we went with that approach, all color photos of food would need to be marked as Vegan, despite the fact only 3 of the individual images actually are vegan (and 5 explicitly contain meat). Even if we reversed this so we had Portfolios for Meat, Vegan, and Dairy dishes and the color designations were the categories, that would still require all meat dishes to be in color, despite there being 2 that are not.
(I know very few people actually photograph food in B&W, but suspend disbelief with me. I actually shoot portraits/headshots/etc, and not food).
Please help, ideally with both tiers of the problem, but if nothing else, at least with getting all 20 images to appear as tiles without creating an individual Portfolio Item for each. I have hundreds of photos in my Media Library already, and that's just not a manageable solution.
Thanks in advance!
Hi there,
Firstly before proceeding to any changes in your site I want to let you know that using the Lightbox can only get the featured images to the portfolio, you will have to create a post for each of the items as they cannot automatically show.
Best regards,
Laborator Team
Hi Art,
That's not a viable solution for any photographer needing to show more than a dozen photos (which is why one buys a theme to begin with, rather than just share a drobox folder). Themes are meant to make this kind of thing easier, not harder.
This is a crucial issue, and we photographers would greatly appreciate a fix in the near future. In the mean time, I suggest updating your photography demo to make this deficiency a little clearer. Right now, it looks like it supports nesting a gallery in the main gallery among your other images in a Masonry grid, when it actually forces you to create individual galleries for every image.
Thanks,
R
Hi radetiba,
Unfortunately this is the way our portfolio works, we do not plan changing the way it works but maybe we will check any fix only for the photography demo, anyway we it's not on our plans right now to change the portfolio functionality.
Best regards,
Laborator Team