Filter and display Portfolio objects by custom taxonomy

[Thomas]

Thomas

June 20, 2016 at 8:11 am

Hello dear Kadence Team,

after purchasing the premium version a few issues with custom templates and custom-fields resolved automatically which is very satifying, still I need your advice on how to achieve the following:

I have about 60 events as portfolio-products separated in 3 categories (musical, theater, comedie). Those events eventually get repeated in several different “seasons” which I defined and assign to the events as custom-taxonomies so I can query them in other custom fields/pages.
My client wants an archive page where the events are displayed grouped “by season” and yet possibly could be filtered by categories (see attached image).

I tried to use the Portfolio shortcodes on a standard-page, but apparently it only allows to select from product-categories. I would rather keep the seasons separated from the categories so they do appear in the filters.
Is there a simple way to achieve this without messing too much around with the template, so it stays “update-safe”?
Is the portofolio archive limited to 48 objects as the option-page seems to indicate?

Also, I have about 270 staff entries (lot of actors) so the staff-archive-grid can become slow to load. Is there a way to display only the title and no excerpt at all? CSS would allow to hide it, but I guess the data still get loaded in background…

Thanks in advance for your wisdom on those questions.

Kind regards, Thomas