Projects

A project is one job, written up. What the customer needed, what you did, how it turned out. One entry is one project.

Every project you publish gets a page of its own. They all show on your Work page.

Go to Content, then Website, then Projects.

What goes in a project

Click Add New to start one. Only the title is required. Leave a box empty and your website leaves that bit out.

Box	What it does
Project title	The name of the job, such as “Deck Rebuild in Maple Falls”.
Cover image	The photo of the job. It shows on the card and on the project’s page.
Client	Who the job was for. A first name and a last initial is plenty.
Year	The year you did it, such as 2025.
Short summary	One or two lines. It shows on the card and under the title.
Case study	The long version. Type plain text, or add blocks the way you do on a page.
Author	The person on your team who wrote it up. See below.
Gallery album slug	Adds a photo album under the case study.
Featured	A switch. It only matters for a block set to featured work.
Sort order	A number. It sets the order your projects appear in.
Search & social	How the project looks in Google and when it is shared.

Case study takes the same blocks a page takes, plus photos, videos and more. Pages shows how. What Google shows covers Search & social and the SEO boxes.

Categories and tags are not in the form. They sit in the Settings panel on the right. See Categories and tags below.

Adding a project

1. Click Add New.
2. Fill in Project title.
3. Add a Cover image, the Client, the Year and a Short summary.
4. Write the job up in Case study.
5. Click Save as you go. Save stores your work. No visitor sees it.
6. When it is ready, click Publish now, then Publish now again to confirm.

Publish now puts the project on your website that second. Saving and publishing covers both buttons.

The author

Author credits one person on your team with the write-up. Click the box and pick a name from your Team. Leave it on - No author - and no name shows.

It works the same way as on a blog post. Posts shows what visitors see.

Categories and tags

Categories and tags sort your work into groups, such as “Kitchens” or “Decks”. A visitor can click one and see every project in it.

1. Save the project at least once. The box only shows on a saved project.
2. Open the Settings panel on the right.
3. Find Categories or Tags, under Taxonomies.
4. Click the box and pick one from the list. To make a new one, type its name and click the Create line under it.

To take one off, click the small cross on it.

Your projects and your blog posts share one list of categories and one list of tags. Every category and tag gets a page of its own for your work. See Categories and Tags.

Use the same few on every project. That is what makes them useful.

Adding a photo album

A case study can end with a set of photos. That set is an album, and it comes from your Gallery.

1. Go to Content, then Website, then Gallery, and open the album you want.
2. Copy its slug. The slug is in the Settings panel on the right.
3. Come back to the project and paste it into Gallery album slug.
4. Save and publish.

The album’s photos then show under the case study, on the project’s own page. Leave the box empty and nothing extra shows.

Type a slug that does not match an album and no photos show. Nothing breaks, and your website gives you no warning. Check the page after you save.

Featured and Sort order

Sort order sets the order. The lowest number goes first, and an empty box counts as zero. Two projects with the same number fall back to A to Z by title.

Give every project a number, or none of them. Numbering only some is what makes this confusing.

Featured is a switch. On its own it changes nothing, and your Work page shows every project either way. It only matters for a Projects block set to show featured work, which is covered below.

What people see

Your Work page. Across the top sits a row of chips: All, then one for each category and tag your projects use. Each chip opens that category’s or that tag’s own page. Then comes a grid of cards. Each card shows the cover image, the title, the client and year, the summary and its categories and tags.

With nothing published yet, the page reads “No projects published yet.”

A project’s own page. The client and the year sit above the title, then the summary, the cover image and your case study. The album follows, if you set one.

Down the side sits a strip with the client, the year, the categories and the tags. Under those come the side panels, which you choose on the Article Sidebar page. Out of the box that is On this page, a list of your headings, and Written by.

At the foot come the About the author box, any comments, and More work, which offers two other projects.

Comments

Visitors can leave a comment under a project. Comments are off until an Admin turns them on for projects. See Content Types. New comments wait for you under Comments. See Comments.

The Projects block

A block puts a grid of your work on any page, such as your homepage. Open the page under Content, then Pages, and add the Projects block. It sits under Sections.

Setting	What it does
Headline	A heading above the grid.
Subheadline	A line under that heading.
Which projects	All projects, or Featured only.
Maximum projects to show	A number, such as 6.
Columns	2 (large), 3, or 4 cards across.

Featured only is where the Featured switch does its work. The block then shows just the projects with that switch turned on.

The block shows nothing until you have published a project.

Putting Work in your menu

Nothing links to your Work page out of the box. Add the link yourself.

1. Go to Plugins, then Site Layout, then Navigation.
2. Pick Primary Navigation in the menu box at the top.
3. Click Add item.
4. Type Work as the Label and /work as the URL.
5. Click Save.

The link is live as soon as you save. Menus covers that screen.

The Work page itself

The grid is built for you. The page around it is yours.

Go to Content, then Pages, and open the entry named Work. Blocks you add there show above the grid. The page’s SEO boxes are there too. Pages covers both.

Before you launch

Your website came with one project, to show you the shape of one. Its title starts with EXAMPLE. It uses the same example category and tags as the example blog post.

Then delete the example category and tags. See Categories and Tags.

Replace the examples covers the rest of the sample content.