Projects
Not everything a publication makes is an article. Wire keeps a separate track for the things you are building: a post tagged #project is presented as a portfolio entry on the /projects/ page and in the Projects widget in the homepage sidebar.
Setup Instructions#
- Create a post for the project
- Open Post settings → Tags and add the internal tag
#project - Add a feature image
- Write a short summary in Post settings → Excerpt
- Add the public tags that describe the work, with the most important one first
- Click Publish
Use an internal tag that starts with # so it stays hidden from your public
site.
The /projects/ route comes from the routes.yaml file that ships with the theme. If you have not uploaded it yet, follow the Getting Started guide, otherwise the page returns a 404.
What a Project Card Shows#
| Field | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Image | The post's feature image |
| Title | The post title |
| Label under the title | The first public tag on the post |
| Summary | The Excerpt field, or the post's own excerpt when that is empty |
| List at the bottom | Every public tag after the first one |
Because the first public tag becomes the label and the rest become the list, tag order matters. Put the kind of work first — Design, Research, Open source — and the tools or topics after it.
A project without a feature image falls back to a lettered placeholder, and a project without an excerpt simply drops the summary line.
The Projects Page#
The page opens with a Projects heading and lists project cards in a grid, newest first, 12 per page. The grid is fixed: project cards ignore the site-wide Post list style setting, so switching the rest of the site to List or Overlay Grid leaves this page untouched.
With the pagination feature on, which it is by default, the remaining projects load behind a Load More button. See Features.
The Sidebar Widget#
The Projects widget lists the 4 newest projects next to the homepage post list. Each row shows the feature image, the title, and the summary — the Excerpt field, or the first 12 words of the post when that is empty.
The widget only appears when:
- at least one published post is tagged
#project - the sidebar is on: ⛭ Settings → Design → Customize → Theme → Show publication info sidebar
- the post list style is not Overlay Grid, which uses the full width and drops the sidebar
See Sidebar widgets for the rest of the column.
Linking the widget heading#
By default the widget heading is plain text. To turn it into a link:
- Go to Pages → New page
- Enter a page title, for example
Projects - Open Page settings and change Page URL to projects
- Click Publish
The heading becomes a link to /projects/. The page can stay empty — the theme only reads its address.
Notes#
- A project post is still a post. It keeps its own URL, appears on the tag and author archives, and can be sent as an email.
- Project cards carry the same padlock as post cards when the post is gated. See Membership.
- To rename the Projects heading or its subtitle, edit the matching strings in the theme's translation file, as described in Section Headings.