My Portfolio - v. 1

Background

I wanted to showcase my WordPress chops on my original portfolio site while displaying a range of completed projects. That meant building a dedicated “Project” custom post type to manage portfolio items, along with the metadata and classification needed to organize them. The build needed to support:

• A custom post type for portfolio projects
• Multiple custom taxonomies for “about”, “job”, and “degree” classifications
• A field for each project’s completion date
• Functionality that persists across different WordPress themes

My Role

• Built an “About” taxonomy as a hierarchical structure, allowing nested topics (e.g., Web as a parent term with WordPress as a child)
• Built non-hierarchical “Job” and “Degree” taxonomies
• Registered the custom post type and both taxonomies as mu-plugins so they’d persist independent of the active theme
• Configured the Project post type to support title, editor, author, thumbnail, excerpt, and revisions, and enabled the REST API
• Added an Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) field to track each project’s completion date

Outcome

This taxonomy and post type structure powered the original WordPress version of this site, feeding directly into the project template built in the WordPress Theme project, until the site moved to Astro’s content collections in version 2.

Code Snippets

Code to Create the About Taxonomy

register_taxonomy( 'about', array( 'post', 'page', 'project' ), array(
    'hierarchical'      => true,
    'labels'            => $about_labels,
    'show_ui'           => true,
    'show_admin_column' => true,
    'query_var'         => true,
    'show_in_rest'      => true,
    'rewrite'           => array(
                             'slug' => 'about'
                           )
  ) );

Creating the Project Custom Post Type (CPT)

• To show the completed date required the creation of an Advanced Custom Field (ACF) for completion date.

register_post_type( 'project', array(
   'public'        => true,
   'labels'        => array(
                        'name'          => __('Projects'),
                        'singular_name' => __('Project'),
                        'add_new_item'  => __('Add New Project'),
                        'edit_item'     => __('Edit Project'),
                        'all_items'     => __('All Projects')
                      ),
   'menu_icon'     => 'dashicons-list-view',
   'show_in_rest'  => true,
   'supports'      => array(
                        'title',
                        'editor',
                        'author',
                        'thumbnail',
                        'excerpt',
                        'revisions'
                      ),
   'has_archive'   => true,
   'rewrite'       => array(
                       'slug' => 'projects'
                      ),
   'menu_position' => 9,
   'taxonomies'    => array(
                        'job',
                        'degree',
                        'about'
                      ),
 ) );