About Portfolio Settings

Hi! I'm starting a blog about travels and photography. Thank you very much for developing this theme, I think it's fantastic. I have a question regarding the configuration of the "portfolio": I read the FAQ section about the option to add categories in "portfolio", This would be very useful since the landing page would be updated all the time. I'm not sure if this is only for pro version. If it isn't, the only option available is to create an entry going to: “Portfolio => Add new” using Essential Content Type and then add this entry manually using the editor in: “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Portfolio”. The same goes for featured content. I would like to keep the pages and categories originally created and not add manually in each of these sections. Could you please tell me how can I solve it? Thank you very much for your time!