Portfolio Theme Readme
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You can use this Portfolio Theme for your own websites and projects.  No attribution is needed, but always appreciated.

To leave comments or ask questions about the theme, please visit the theme page: http://wptheming.com/portfolio-theme/

Instructions and Common Questions
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How to Set Up a Portfolio Item:

When you activate the Portfolio Theme, you will see a new post type called "Portfolio".  Click "Add New Item" and you will be taken to the edit page where you can add a title, description, and tags for your portfolio piece.

To add the portfolio image, click "Set featured image" on the right side of the screen beneath "Portfolio Tags".  This will take you to the media uploader to add your image.  When you finish, click "Use as Featured Image".

404 Errors:

This theme uses custom post types.  If you are getting a 404 error when you try and view the portfolio posts, reset your permalinks.  You can do this by going to "Settings > Permalinks" and re-saving the permalink structure.

Portfolio Items Disappear:

If you change themes, chances are your portfolio pieces will disappear from the dashboard.  Fear not!  They are still saved in the database- your new theme just wasn't programmed to list and display them.

If you are handy with code, you can just copy the two extensions "portfolio-post-type.php" and "simple-custom-post-type-archives.php" into your new theme and call them from the functions.php file.  You'll also have to build new template files to display the custom post types in your theme.  If coding isn't your thing, you could hire a WordPress developer to help you out with the project.

Credits
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WordPress projects always stand on the shoulders of others.  Please take this theme and build upon it for you own work!

Portfolio was built on the solid foundation of Toolbox:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/toolbox

Styles, especially the menus and buttons, were inspired by Canvas:
http://www.woothemes.com/2010/02/canvas/

Jquery rollovers for portfolio items was based on code by:
http://graphpaperpress.com/themes/workspace/

Uses Custom Post Type Archives plugin to enable portfolio paging and permalinks:
http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com/software/wordpress-custom-post-type-archives/

Testing and extremely helpful code reviews were done by Michael Fields (http://wordpress.mfields.org/) and Jacob M Goldman (http://www.cmurrayconsulting.com).