Add Portfolio section/pages to store

On a Shopify store we are looking to have a portfolio section. This will feature projects that we have worked on previously (not products). It would be similar to a blog with a standalone page for each project. The structure should be like this:

Portfolio (list all portfolio items)

  • Category A (list all portfolio items assigned to category)
  • Category B (list all portfolio items assigned to category)
  • Category C (list all portfolio items assigned to category)

The screens would be:

  • Portfolio main page
  • Portfolio category page
  • Portfolio item page

Fields for each portfolio item:

  • Title
  • Description
  • Gallery of images
  • Category
  • Tags

Can anyone suggest an existing app that we can use or would we need to build a custom app for this?

You can probably adapt the native Shopify blog structure for this purpose.

  • Portfolio main page → blog page

  • Portfolio category page → tag page

  • Portfolio item page → the blog post itself

A few things to take note:

Shopify supports multiple blogs within 1 store.

  • This means if you have non-portfolio content (eg. company updates), you can still create a different blog to host those content

Shopify doesn’t support the concept of category within a blog, only tag is supported

  • Tagging system is actually sufficient for many stores.
  • If you do find the need to have additional categorization, you can still create additional blog(s), and use each blog as a category. However the tagging would also be contained within a blog.

Source: we run a blog search and filter app, and have a few customers who use it on their project portfolio blogs