Amedeo

The portfolio is the product here

Many creative themes give you one project grid and one project page. Amedeo's vendor description splits that into a set of separate pieces: list shortcodes, list layouts, pagination styles and single-project layouts, each chosen independently. The vendor sums up the result as "a set of whopping +20 portfolio layouts."

That structure suits a studio whose work pages do different jobs. A homepage teaser, a filterable archive and a full case study page are three different displays, and the theme expects you to pick a different tool for each rather than styling one grid three ways.

Four list shortcodes and two grid styles

The feature list names a Portfolio List shortcode, a Vertical Portfolio List, a Portfolio Slider and a Portfolio Category List. The first of those also comes in two layout variants, Gallery and Masonry.

The distinction matters more than the count. A Gallery layout gives every thumbnail the same shape, which keeps a grid tidy when your images come from different sources and eras. Masonry lets uneven image proportions set the height, which reads as looser and is harder to tune if one project has an unusually tall hero image. The vertical list and the slider are for placements where a grid would not fit — a narrow column, or a full-width band where work scrolls sideways.

Pagination is a decision about volume

Three pagination modes are listed for portfolio lists: Standard, "Load More" and "Infinite Scroll."

Standard pagination gives each visitor a page number and a footer, and it keeps long archives cheap to load. Load More and Infinite Scroll both extend the list in place; the difference is that Load More asks, while Infinite Scroll does not wait to be asked. Whichever you pick becomes a property of the list shortcode, so a portfolio with a few dozen projects and one with several hundred can be handled with different settings on different pages.

How a single project page gets built

The five named single-project options are Gallery, Images, Masonry, Custom and Full Width Custom, with a separate "Portfolio Full Width Images" layout also listed. In the first three, the theme lays out the media for you in a chosen pattern. The custom variants are the ones to plan around: the project page becomes something you build yourself in WPBakery, which is a real advantage for a studio that writes long case studies with text, video and pull quotes, and a real cost if you wanted consistent project pages without touching each one.

Lightbox support for portfolio images and videos is a separate switch in the feature list rather than something baked into a specific layout, so media can open over the page instead of navigating away.

The social feed plugins were removed while the feature list still names them

Version 1.7, dated 4 November 2025, removes the Amedeo Twitter Feed plugin "due to Twitter API changes" and the Amedeo Instagram Feed plugin "due to Instagram API changes." The current feature list above still advertises an Instagram list shortcode, a Twitter List shortcode, an Instagram Feed widget, a Twitter Feed widget, and both feed plugins' widgets.

Read the changelog as the more recent statement. If a live social strip on your homepage or sidebar matters — the pattern where recent posts pull automatically into the layout — assume you will need a third-party plugin or an embed for it rather than the theme's own widgets. Everything else in that list, like the Social Icon and Social Icons Group widgets, is icon-based and not dependent on a feed API.

One-page anchors and five header types

The second structural choice is the page frame. Amedeo lists one-page site anchor functionality, five header types (Standard, Centered, Minimal, Vertical and Vertical Sliding) and three header behaviours, with sticky and fixed-on-scroll named among them.

A vertical or sliding vertical header changes how much horizontal room the content column gets, which for a portfolio grid is not cosmetic: it decides how wide the thumbnails can be. Combined with anchors, the same settings produce a one-page site where navigation jumps between sections instead of loading new pages — a reasonable fit for a small studio presenting six or seven projects and an about section.

The frame around the work: passepartout and boxed layouts

Two entries in the feature list describe a border treatment rather than a layout: an option to enable a passepartout border around the website, and a boxed layout. A passepartout border frames the whole viewport the way a mat frames a print, and it pairs with the art-gallery positioning the theme is aimed at. Boxed layout, by contrast, constrains the site to a fixed width inside the browser window.

Both are visual choices with layout consequences. A border reduces the usable canvas, so image-heavy grids and full-width project images need checking against it before the design is settled.

What ships, and what the listing declares

According to the vendor, the package includes WPBakery Page Builder and Slider Revolution, a child theme, image or SVG logo source options, dark and light logo variants, widget-ready sidebars including header and footer widget areas, and WooCommerce product shortcodes with a dropdown cart widget for studios that also sell prints or goods.

The marketplace attributes, observed on 4 November 2026, list compatibility with WPBakery Page Builder, WPML, WooCommerce 9.x.x and 10.x.x, and software versions from WordPress 6.3.x through 7.0.x, with files in PHP, CSS and JavaScript. Those are product-page declarations rather than results from a particular server, and the version 1.7 notes record PHP 8.3 support alongside a WPBakery 8.7.2 and Slider Revolution 6.7.38 update.

One point from the vendor is worth repeating because it affects launch planning: the demo images are demonstration material only and are not licensed for your site, so portfolio and header imagery has to come from your own archive or a stock licence.

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