WordPress Wedding Portfolio Plugin
$75.00 / year
Are you a wedding industry pro who needs a better way to show off your work? Enter LaLa’s WordPress Wedding Portfolio Plugin. This robust tool gives you everything you need to effectively organize and share the details of your events on your website. From highlighting couple stories and promoting Michigan vendors used to displaying photos and sharing happy testimonials from the big day, pairing this plugin with your wedding biz website will be a match made in heaven.
You spend months planning every detail with your engaged couple only to have the big day come and go, leaving you with a piece of cake (if you’re lucky). After the dust settles and the images and thank yous are in, it’s time to showcase all the work you put in with a wedding portfolio that has your future duos swooning.
Frontend Features
Give your site visitors an easy way to navigate and view your wedding and special event work.
Features include:
- Text blocks (can be used for introductions and process)
- Masonry-style photo gallery (think: Pinterest look)
- Image gallery slideshow/light-box
- Testimonial block for reviews
- Vendor highlight block (with links to LaLa Insights-driven directory listings via the Wedding Vendor Plugin)
Backend Features
We built the Wedding Portfolio Plugin to work smoothly with WordPress’s easy-to-use content management system because we know you’re already super busy planning your next events. Features include:
- Tabs on Portfolio pages (allows you to fill in only the fields you want to use)
- Integration with LaLa’s Wedding Vendor Plugin (display vendor logos and info with the simple tick of a checkbox)
The LaLa WordPress Wedding Portfolio Plugin was built to be compatible with LaLa Theme 4, but we are also able to use it on websites using LaLa Theme 3. While we’d love for it to work with all WordPress themes, there are some dependencies. (see Dependencies tab)
The WordPress Wedding Portfolio Plugin is dependent on the Advanced Custom Fields PRO plugin as well as Bootstrap 4. If your WordPress website has both of these wired up, then it’s likely that your website will support this plugin.
ACF PRO must be installed before the License key can be entered into the WordPress settings.
Once you’ve completed your purchase, here are the steps you’ll need to start showcasing your wedding biz portfolio.
Install the Plugin
- Download .ZIP file onto your computer.
- Head on over to your WordPress (WP) dashboard.
- In the left-hand navigation of WP, click into the PLUGINS menu item.
- On the PLUGINS page, click the ‘ADD NEW’ button in the upper left, next to the plugin page title. (This brings you to the free plugin library, but since the WordPress Wedding Vendors Plugin is a premium plugin, you’ll need to manually upload it.)
- Click the ‘UPLOAD PLUGIN’ button in the upper left, next to the plugin page title.
- Click the button to ‘CHOOSE FILE’ and locate the .ZIP file you saved to your computer (Note: the file should remain zipped when you upload it)
Activate the Plugin
- In the left-hand navigation of WP, click into the LALA PRODUCTS menu item. (Located toward the bottom)
- Enter the master license key
- Click the Updates Button
- Then click the Activate Button
Your Lala Products license key can be found on the “Downloads & Licenses” page of your account on the LaLa Projects site or in the email you received after purchasing/renewing a license.
Build out your portfolio content
- Your portfolio page already exists. You can visit it by going to [yourdomain.com]/weddings
- Add individual weddings by going the WEDDINGS menu in the WP navigation >> Click on ADD NEW.
- First, add a title, this will determine the url slug of the wedding. we suggest the couple’s names followed by the year. For example: Matt Susan 2021.
- Then use the tabs to fill in as much information as possible about the wedding.
- Add as many weddings as you like.
Image Recommendation
Many of our plugin users get a ton of images from the wedding photographer, which is fantastic, but you are should make sure they are sized for the web before you upload them to your media library.
You’ll want to do this for 2 reasons
- Smaller file sizes will mean fast page load speeds.
- Adding a tremendous amount of large images/files to the media library can sometimes incur extra storage fees from your hosting provider because you are using more space on the server.
To learn more about photo sizing, check out this blog article How to size a photo for a website in Adobe Photoshop
Add to Navigation
Finish it all up by adding a new “Portfolio” page to your website navigation, and you’re ready to roll!
Learn More
To learn more about WordPress plugins in general and how to install a plugin, check out this blog article How to Install a Premium WordPress Plugin.
Do you need help integrating the plugin with your existing website?
We love nothing more than setting our clients up with a winning website. Give us a shout and we’ll give you an estimate for the integration work.
Amp up your Search Engine Optimization by adding the Yoast Plugin and ACF Yoast Plugin to your website. These SEO enhancing plugins integrate seamlessly with the Wedding Portfolio Plugin, allowing you to effectively optimize each page.
View Live Examples
- theme4.lalaprojects.com/weddings
- starrynightbarnandstudios.com/weddings
- timberleehills.com/weddings
- bayviewweddings.com/weddings
- sonshinebarn.com/weddings
Curious about the backend settings of this plugin? We’d love to show you around. Schedule a demo and we’ll give you the tour.
