Introduction
Portfolio Manager – Powered by Behance is a professional Joomla! extension developed by eLEOPARD Design Studios. It provides users the capability to integrate Behance Projects on their Joomla website and develop a neat flexible and effective portfolio based website.
Portfolio Manager also helps in reducing the efforts required in project management by picking up the project details from Behance server so that user can manage all their projects at a centralized location in Behance and present them on their websites using different styles and views provided.
Portfolio Manager works in these simple steps.
- Create a Behance profile and add all the projects that you want to present on your website.
- Download and Install “Portfolio Manager – Powered By Behance”.
- Enter your Behance App Client ID and Secret in Configuration.
- Get a Coffee and start Adding your Projects 🙂
Features
Portfolio Manager provides a lot of features for customizing project presentation on your website. Some of the key features include:
- Multiple styles for Mosaic/ Grid Views.
- Categorization of projects.
- Filters to show/ hide project specific information provided by Behance.
- Tab customization for Mosaic/Grid view.
- Different menu item types to present single or multiple projects of specific or number of categories.
Advanced Configuration for the following:
- To Show/ Hide “back” button in single project view.
- To Show/ Hide “back” button in single project view.
- To open single project in modal popup with the specified width and height both in pixel and percentage.
- To add custom styling for the Project view.
View Change Log
Release Notes - Portfolio Manager - Version 1.2.1 - 2018-04-02
Bug Fixes
- Bug fixes to support media collection from behance
Release Notes - Portfolio Manager - Version 1.2.1 - 2018-04-02
Bug Fixes
- Bug fixes to support Videos from behance
Release Notes - Portfolio Manager - Version 1.1.8 - 2015-11-19
New changes
- Now Single Project View will have new look similar to that in Behance.
- Directory Structure of the component is changed:
Following are the new directories for CSS:- Mosaic Styles: /media/com_bportman/site/css
- Project View Style: /media/com_bportman/common/css
Release Notes -Portfolio Manager - Version 1.1.0 - 2014-10-13
New Features Added
Advanced Configuration added for the following:
- To Show/ Hide “back” button in single project view.
- To enable/ disable the responsive behavior of the single project view.
- To open single project in modal popup with the specified width and height both in pixel and percentage.
- To add custom styling for the Project view.
Technical Requirements
- Joomla!– Version 3.1 and above (Download:http://www.joomla.org/download.html)
- PHP – recommended version 5.3.28
- MySQL – recommended version 5.5
- cURL should be enabled on your server
Installation
Setting up the Portfolio
1. Configuration
2. Adding a Project
Let us start creating your portfolio. Please follow the below steps:
Step 1: Go to Components -> Portfolio Manager > Projects and click on New button.
3. Presenting Portfolio on your website.
Till now we have configured our portfolio using Portfolio Manager – Powered by Behance backend panel. Now we will see how to present this portfolio at front end of our website. In order to do that, create a new menu item of types provided by “Portfolio Manager”.
Please follow these steps.
Layout Modes
Here are all the Layout Modes explained