Portal
Admin settings
Last Updated: 06/05/2026Smithy Portal is a document sharing platform. Over time the aim is to extend it into a lightweight, fully integrated membership plugin including paid subscriptions. For now, it allows you to create some basic user roles and permissions, a CPT and custom fields, and add files to the posts which can be downloaded. You can...
Creating Templates
Last Updated: 08/05/2026Like any other custom post type, you need at least two templates to make things work, an archive and a single post. If you want users to be able to submit posts front-end, we’ll need a page for that too, but it doesn’t have to be a template. These will both be built using familiar...
Adding Documents
Last Updated: 07/05/2026Admin Posting Most of managing Portal posts is the same as managing any post. The difference is the extra meta-boxes which are available on the post itself. Portal Documents – here you can remove or download a document, and upload a new one to the post. For files removed from posts, you can manage these...
Editing Documents
Last Updated: 07/05/2026Admin Editing Editing posts is the same as editing any post. The difference is the extra meta-boxes which are available on the post itself. Portal Documents – here you can remove or download a document, and upload a new one to the post. For files removed from posts, you can manage these in the Smithy...
Create an account page
Last Updated: 08/05/2026We will assume you know how to add user details and other general dynamic data. The obvious extra for Smithy Portal is to provide users with a list of their own posts, and a list of all the posts they have tagged (or have followed, wish-listed etc.) – or posts they created that others have...