Upgrade Your Membership. You always have the option of moving up to the next membership level to create additional space in your port. A Premium Membership is the level the site recommends to "get the most" out of your membership here and, as someone who has maintained a Premium or higher membership for over a decade, I can tell you that it took years of regular activity before I even came close to hitting the 1,000 item limit, and that includes leaving all of my old activities and writing in my port. Many members also choose to run fundraisers to help pay for their memberships every year.

Delete Items. If upgrading your membership to the next level isn't an option (and in fairness, jumping from a $50/year Upgraded Membership to a $140/year Premium Membership is a big leap), you can always delete items from your port that you no longer need. I'd start by focusing on old items that you're no longer working on, whether that be stories and poems you feel have run their course, or defunct activities that you no longer operate. Over the years, you'll be surprised at how many old contest entries, fundraisers, etc. can build up! CAVEAT: Keep in mind that if you delete an item, it will also delete all of the related materials: any reviews, ratings, awardicons, etc. So be sure you really want to delete it! Also, don't forget that in my last newsletter I went over how to export items from your portfolio so you can save them offsite if necessary!

Delete Folders. As mentioned above, folder items count toward your portfolio item total. Are there any portfolio folders you can consolidate and delete? If you have separate folders for each genre you write, can you combine or eliminate them? Maybe those "Science Fiction" and "Fantasy" folders can become "Sci-Fi & Fantasy" and save you a folder. Or better yet, maybe you can consolidate all your genre folders into a general "Short Stories" or "Poetry" folder!

Consolidate Static Items Into A Book. If you have an Upgraded Membership or higher, you have the ability to create Book items, which can store a number of entries. Many people use a book item as their blog, and some multi-entry contests even require all entries to be stored in a book item rather than as separate static items. You can use that same strategy to save portfolio space by copying and pasting individual static items into entries in a book item. For example, if you routinely enter daily flash fiction or poetry contests, you could create an "archive" of your old items as entries in a book, allowing you to delete the original static items and free up all that space for newly-written static items.

Consolidate Static Items Into A Static Item. Even if you don't have an Upgraded membership or higher, the same concept of consolidating static items can be applied to static items themselves. Instead of a different static item for each poem you write, why not have a single static item with multiple old poems that you want to showcase? Each membership level provides for a different maximum static size limit. They are:

          Free Account - 50 KB per item
          Basic Membership - 100 KB per item
          Upgraded Membership - 250 KB per item
          Premium Membership - 500 KB per item
          Premium Plus Membership - 750 KB per item

A 2,000-word short story is approximately 10-12 KB give or take. A 20-ish line poem is somewhere in the vicinity of 1-2 KB. That means even Free Accounts could store around five short stories or as many as 25-50 poems per static item. A Basic Membership would double the number of items you could store in each static item. Just like with a book item, you could create an "archive" static item that contains old contest entries, or works that you're not looking for feedback on anymore, which will help you conserve space and dedicate standalone static items to new content.

On this site, links that say "invalid item" mean that the item being linked is no longer in an active portfolio on Writing.com. While that does occasionally mean an item that has been removed for violating the site's Terms of Service, it's most often because the user who owns it has decided to remove it for some reason. WDC is actually quite supportive of a user's right to post whatever content they please... as long as it's correctly rated and again doesn't violate any Terms of Service.