Mostafa Shahiri

The Modern Portfolio is a simple widget that displays posts as portfolios based on different filters. 
It is a very useful and applicable plugin for news website, company websites, shopping websites and other 
websites that work with portfolios or filterable items. The Modern Portfolio enables you to show your posts 
based on different filters and items. You can set the options of this widget to filter posts based on their 
tags, their categories or their authors. It gains AJAX method for loading more posts to improve the performance 
for your website. The Modern Portfolio is very flexible with customizable settings ( See screenshot images ).
Some Features of The Modern Portfolio:
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Displaying posts based on tags, categories and authors
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Gainig AJAX method for loading more posts
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Easy to use
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Customizable settings
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Limiting the number of posts
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Ordering posts and pages based on created date, modified date, comments count and random.
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Limiting the length of posts descriptions
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Custom text for readmore links.
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Using a pretty style for displaying the items.
Settings of the Widget:
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Title: A title for widget.Leave it empty if you don’t like to show the title.
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Source Type: The plugin can filter posts based on tags or categories or authors.
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Tags: Selected tags as the filters.
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Categories: Selected categories as the filters.
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Authors: Selected authors as the filters.
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Count: Number of posts are shown in first review before loading more posts.
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Limit Description Length: Number of words for truncating posts descriptions.
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Order By: Ordering type.
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Order: Determine to order posts ascending or descending.
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Readmore Text: A text for readmore button.
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Other options are used for showing or hiding posts items.
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Modern Portfolio

The Modern Portfolio is a simple widget to show posts as portfolios based on different filters.

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Particularly suitable to all multi-nested categories and multi-authors website, with lots of posts and complex category layout (i.e.: academic papers, newpapers articles, etc), as weel as for single-user websites (read below). This plugin allows the user to place a shortcode into any page and get rid of a long and nested menu/submenu to show all site’s posts (including custom post types assigned to a standard category). A customizable selector in the page will allow the reader to select grouping by Category/Author/Title.
Shortcode’s options include:
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<li>excluding any category from the list</li>
<li>excluding/including admin users from the list</li>
<li>single-user website usage</li>
<li>select what list(s) to display</li>
<li>limit number of posts in list output </li>
<li>Show (optional) post date</li>
<li>Show in reverse date order</li>
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Output grouped by Category will look like:
<pre><code>CAT1
 post1 AUTHOR
 SUBCAT1
 post2 AUTHOR
 post3 AUTHOR
 SUBCAT2
 post4 AUTHOR
 ...
 ...
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Shortcode generator
The plugin installs a new menu ACT List Shortcodes in Admin->Tools. The tool is a helper to automatically generate the required shortcode. It will parse the options and display the string to be copied and pasted into any page. Please refer to the plugin admin page for a full list of options.
Default manual usage:
[ACT-list]
all categories and subcategories post, excluding administrator’s posts, grouped by (upon selection) Category/Author/Title
Exclude categories:
[ACT-list exclude=”cat1-slug, cat2-slug, …”]
listed categories will be excluded. Categories must be listed with their slugnames.
Include admin’s posts:
[ACT-list admin=1]
this option will also include all admin’s posts in the list.
Single-user website:
[ACT-list singleuser=1]
this option is suited for websites with a single author (or when you don’t want to show the authors). It removes grouping by Authors and any author name. This option includes the admin=1 option, so that it will list any post in the website. You can still apply “excluding categories” option.
Select what list(s) to display
The parameter “show” will allow the admin to select what lists will be shown and if the dropdown selector is needed or not. i.e.:
[ACT-list show=”Category, Author”]
or
[ACT-list show=”Title, Category”]
Allowed terms for the “show” parameter are: Author, Title, Category.
Split the lists into separate pages
By selecting only one variable in the “show” parameter, you will be able to show only one list without the dropdown selector. This will enable you to put the 3 lists into separate pages, or separate tabs of the same page.
Page#1 (or tab#1) 
[ACT-list show=”Category”]
Page#2 (or tab#2) 
[ACT-list show=”Author”]
Page#3 (or tab#3) 
[ACT-list show=”Title”]
Limit the number of posts in the lists
If you have a large numbers of posts (>2,000), it could be convenient to limit the number of posts in the lists, including only a certain amount of the most recent posts. This can be achieved separately for the 3 lists using the following parameters: postspercategory, postsperauthor, totalpoststitle. i.e.:
[ACT-list show=”Category” postspercategory=”20″] will show only the 20 most recent posts for each category.
Show posts list in reverse date order
By default, the posts will be listed from newest to oldest. To change this behaviour, use the reverse-date=1 parameter.
Show posts date (v.>=2.7.0)
The date of the post could be printed out before the post name, optionally
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List all posts by Authors, nested Categories and Titles

This plugin lists all posts by Author, nested Categories and Title, allowing to place the lists in any page.

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