Sheesh, that title sounds like an infomercial, right? 
But we just can’t help it, because that probably best sums up our latest theme, Elefolio.
Chris Rowe – who also designed Spectrum this year – is back with another absolute beauty in Elefolio, which is designed to be both a blog and a portfolio. In the past though, our portfolio themes would’ve just included your traditional blog, but since we’ve been making such a splash on microblogging of late, Elefolio has been enhanced to function like that instead.
Elefolio thus adds a bit of uniqueness to our portfolio themes collection, which is perfectly suited to the designer that wants to showcase his / her content & portfolio in the most trendiest of ways.
A Thing of Beauty
What’s Different?
We mentioned it above, but it’s important to mention it again… Elefolio has built-in integration of our WooTumblog plugin, which means it supports a whole bunch of related goodies: publishing of different post / media types, publishing from our awesome Dashboard widget and finally publishing on the go with our iPhone app, Express.
In addition to this, we’ve also included a few other things that makes Elefolio a pretty awesome theme:
- The homepage’s welcome area (in the header) is totally customizable and will allow you to add any of those social icons which you can see on our demo;
- Portfolio items are all custom post types and can be intermixed with your Dribbble shots (via this cool plugin which Elefolio supports out-of-box); and
- And for those of you that love to play with the typography of your designs, we’ve included a whole bunch of typography options to tweak.
Sounds pretty awesome, right? Well, the demo is even more awesome and we bet that once you buy the theme and modify it to your needs, it’ll be an even greater Microblogging Portfolio.
25 Responses to “Elefolio: The Microblogging Portfolio”
Chris Rowe,
It looks awesome! The Portfolio Section is nicely designed
Nice – really like it !
Just noticed the drop down when viewing the themes says it was released in October!
cheers Dave
Thanks for the notice
I guess I’ll need to give microblogging (outside of twitter) a try at some stage. Nice way to coax me in wooteam.
That’s how we roll. It’s called subliminal development.
I think you’ve answered this, but the gallery at the top of the homepage doesn’t need to be dribble links – it can just be hosted images, right?
Great theme guys – back to your best with this one.
Yes you can have your own portfolio posts without Dribbble posts
Really Charming
In my IE7 & IE8 a little buggy, you don’t know how to use jQuery and CSS?
I checked in IE8 and it looks fine to me… See some small bugs with IE7 that we’ll fix.
So the widgets in the portfolio could also be replaced with, say, video widgets?
Anything is possible
But the theme has been coded to show images there. A bit of code customization could make it show videos on the single page though.
Magnus
Yes, so the portfolio could show screengrabs, and the single page could show the video, correct?
It can’t do it now, but yes that would be possible through customization
I’ve now added ability to show Video on single portfolio page!
http://demo.woothemes.com/elefolio/portfolio/woo-video/
I also added a Portfolio page template to show all your portfolio items
Going to have a look at this nice and sexy theme. The Background of the Default fits with my site currently and thus I find this perfect for a easy implementation of a site that’s sat dormant for me.
I’ve wanted the site (http://www.iphonemadephotography.com) off Tumblr! This nice layout and the WooTumblog feature will work awesome. I have an idea for the top portfolio spot that could highlight and photographer that shoots with the iPhone.
The cool thing here now is the express app! If I want to get a few other photographers on board, they can get the app, set them up with a user profile to the site and easy posting from iPhone.
Love it!
Is it possible to make the portfolio items function as ‘featured posts’ leading to regular blog updates? (I.e. not through a special custom post type).
That should be possible yeah with a couple of tweaks to the query_posts
Thanks. Any tips on which files to edit to save me hunting around?
Great Site. Can I turn a portfolio square into a button for a link?
In other words, when I put an image there can I turn that into a link that when pressed will go to a custom page?
Thanks.
Great post & it looks awesome. Well designed collections are in the portfolio.
Thx for sharing this charming portfolio designs. Keep up posting great things. Congrats.
Quick question here, I was hoping to have a registration form on this theme something like the tumblr.com signup form. Anyone have any knowledge of getting a custom signup form like that into this theme? Thanks in advance
Try Gravity Forms: http://woothemes.com/gravityforms
I checked out Gravity but it seems more of a contact form plugin than a core signup form for wordpress where any signups get assigned as users in the wordpress database. Maybe Gravity forms can do this also and assign users to the wordpress database itself but I did really see this from there website.
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