Fluxus - Portfolio Theme for Photographers

Hi Matt,

thanks for the good words. Since this is not the first time I get this question, I’ve just wrote an answer to the FAQ.

Here it is

Let me know the instructions are clear

Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

so I suggest you to do the following:

You are using 1.0.3, there is 1.0.5 already available. Update your theme to 1.0.5 by downloading again from ThemeForest. Then you should remove your css modification, the theme should work fine without it, all the images should be without any distorsion. If that is not the case, let me know and I’ll surely fix it.

Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

so my recommendations are:

1. If you have not changed any theme files, then just replace everything. The fastest way.

2. If you have modified update safe files, then replace all files except for css/user.css js/user.js inc/user.php

3. If you have edited theme core files, then can replace everything and redo your changes. In the future releases I’m going to include changelog, which will show the list for files that were changed since the last version. So power users can even compare the changed files with their modified versions and manually incorporate the changes into theirs modified files.

Method two is the favorite

Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

yes, you are right. If you use zip file to update your theme, then be sure to have your user.css/user.js/user.php files copied in a safe place.

Regards, V

Hi,

thanks, I’m working on it already. We’ll see it in the next major release

Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

this was a very pleasant surprise. I was focusing for photographers, that’s the reason why I didn’t include it in the first place. This is the most requested feature, so I’m doing my best to deliver it asap.

Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

it works perfectly for me. Is there any specific browser?

BTW. Try including this into your user.css file. Your homepage navigation will become more useful

.slider-navigation a {
border-color: #eaeaea;
}

Cheers, Vilius

It was on Chrome, but I think it was cache file that cause the problem. After deleting all history & cache data, it works perfectly. Thanks for your help and I am going to use the line above. Thank you!!!

Good to know ; )

Hi,

could you be more specific? I need to know which images are stretched and which browser are you using and how big is your screen. I see that you use the most recent version so the stretching issue should be already solved. Thanks.

On the Full Page Slider, you have to upload new pictures to see them in slider. I guess you’ve already figured that out.

Also few notes:

1. Logo. Remove white space from your logo (the white margin). It will look much better.

2. You should optimize your photos. Try reducing the JPEG image quality to 90% and if you’re using Mac, you could seamlessly reduce the size of your image with this tool http://imageoptim.com/ before uploading them to your website.

Cheers, Vilius

Hi Vilius , thanks for the tips, i’ll work on the logo. regarding the picture size – i was mistaken, the proportion is OK , the problem is size of the picture. given that the pictures don’t automatically resize to fit the screen – what sizes should i use for landscape and portrait orientation ? i’m working with photoshop so i change the size to whatever is best- i’m using two computers to check the site- a mac with a 1440900 screen size and a windows one with 1366768.

Hi,

I don’t get which website section are you talking about.

1. Images in Portfolios – they get automatically resized, so any image would do.

2. Full Page Slider – the default option is crop, so it will crop top and bottom of the image if user’s screen has different aspect ratio than the image uploaded. But you can change that, in the slide options there is an option called “Image Scaling”. You can choose: crop top, crop bottom, crop top and bottom and fit image.

Still I don’t really know if I answered your question, so if I’ve missed, don’t hesitate to ask again : )

Cheers, Vilius

Thanks again,

thats a pitty that you cant add that function to this awesome theme, i know that in other themes you can show 2 different portfolios with different galleries. The theme that i’m using ( http://goo.gl/o2ldX ) can do that actually.

Anyway, i think that i going to try this

Good work.

Hi,

I’m not saying that I can’t add this. In fact I will Just give me a few days ; )

Cheers, Vilius

Great news

Hi Augusto,

thanks for the good words! I’m very busy updating the theme with new features at the moment. So here it goes:

1. Grid Portfolio is not based on widely used masonry plugin, so you can’t really get the “pinterest effect” without customizations. I may consider making it if there are more requests.

2. That’s a big monitor! Thanks for the screencast, your issue was super clear. Actually the correct behavior would be not to upscale images, this will get fixed in 1.0.7.

3. I haven’t used the plugins, but they seems to be self contained, so they should work just fine.

Thanks for feedback! Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

have you read the docs? Here’s a link to the section that describes how to do it http://inthe.me/documentation/fluxus/#full-page-slider-25

You should also read the Getting Started section, as I can see that you’ve missed one point.

Let me know how it goes.

Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

leave the bravos once I publish the video support ; ) You could follow @in_theme to get notified when the video support is available.

Thanks, Vilius

Brilliant! Would you consider joining the support team : D

On the other hand it shows that no one likes to read the docs and I should add some explanations to the Admin UI.

Thanks again! Vilius

I would help out for sure. One of the things I found in another theme that I completed for one of my clients was to have the demo site also have “sample codes” included because people don’t like to read the documentation.

Let me know if you want more info on that as I think I still have the theme somewhere that has the code samples in the demo.

Hi,

I’ve tried to include shortcodes this way. But for other things I think it will mess up the demo verion, so I’d rather focus on more intuitive UI, integrate more explanations, or even integrate basic getting started into the theme itself.

Thanks for suggestion though!

Regards, Vilius

Hi,

I’ve never did anything with RTL, so it is difficult for me to say. There’s probably two issues:

1. You will need to realign everything to the right. This will require decent knowledge of CSS.

2. Scrolling from right to left is will require you to adjust some parts of JS.

Unfortunately I think that making the theme RTL would require quite an amount of modifications.

Regards, Vilius

Hi,

do you use Envato Toolkit plugin to update the themes on TF? If so, then you should be already able to do so.

Cheers, Vilius

After really looking at the site and tweaking the CSS I did decide that the cropping looks way better than having the image “fit” the screen. Thanks for looking into the iPhone5 issue.

I was actually able to get the white stripe across the slider in my browser on my PC also. If pull the width so the window is narrow the white band shows up on the PC just like the iPhone5.

Hi,

you are right! The stripe appears when there is no content, it will get fixed in 1.0.7.

I see you’re using brand new automatic slideshow : )

Cheers, Vilius

Hi,

thanks for purchasing. First step for you is to check the documentation that comes with the theme. You can also find it online – http://inthe.me/documentation/fluxus – which is usually a bit more up to date version.

After completing Getting Started section of the documentation your website won’t look empty any more.

Let me know how you’re doing.

Cheers, Vilius

Great!

I should consider making special “link control”, which would allow to set the settings requested or even more.

We’ll see how it goes! Thanks, Vilius

Hi,

I was actually thinking about it. As my guess was that photographers tend to play with instagram on the daily basis and their photos might get quite interesting. There are plenty of plugins that does that, but seamless integration is always nice

I have to finish with video portfolio first and then think about funky options : )

Cheers, Vilius