My Portfolio - v. 1

Background and Objectives

I wanted to showcase my WordPress chops on this 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.

Requirements

• 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

Implementation

• 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

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'
                      ),
 ) );