Vendor – Premium WordPress Portfolio Theme

Hi Athen,

that’s great that it fixed the problem.

I’ve also uploaded v1.0.3 which includes the new version of the jQuery Validation Plugin which should become available for download shortly.

Thanks again for raising the problem.

Cheers

Olaf

Hi Curtis,

thanks for your query and feedback. That’s great that you find it simple to use

Regarding the comments, you can disable them on page level. You need to go into the edit page admin screen and under Discussion you can Allow/Disallow comments.

If you can’t see this option then you need to enable “Discussion” in the screen options and the is a pullout menu at the top right of the page. This was added in WP 3 + and it’s a bit confusing as a lot of the options are hidden by default.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Paul,

this is a little bit tricky and we are working on a fix for you and we will also update the theme file once we’ve addressed this.

Kind regards

Olaf

Hi Paul,

we have a workaround for this until we address this in the next release for Vendor.

Can you please email us via the contact form on our profile page and I will email you a patch for this:

http://themeforest.net/user/awesem

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Paul,

thanks for your query. That’s a very good point and the slides currently get ordered in date order in which they were added.

However, it is fairly easy to change this. You need to edit the following two files:

functions.php – here you need to add ‘page-attributes’ so that you can define the order on the edit slide screen:

'supports' => array('title', 'editor' ,'thumbnail','page-attributes')

Next you need to edit header.php and add the order and order by parameters to the query:

<?php query_posts('post_type=slide&order=ASC&orderby=menu_order'); ?>

Finally, you need to specify the order numbers on the edit slide screen and that should be it.

I will also wrap up this fix in a quick release which I will upload this week.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Actually, in header.php it’s line 123 rather than line 145 as our demo site includes the colour switcher which is not part of the release.

Cheers

Olaf

Hi Olaf, thank you for the quick reply. I will try the fix and get back to you with the results. I also have another which I will post below.

Hi Paul,

thanks for your query. You need to create a new portfolio item:

wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=portfolio

and then you need to set the number of portfolio items you wish to display:

/wp-admin/themes.php?page=theme-options.php

Other Settings > Portfolio Settings > Number of Related Items

The template single-portfolio will then load related portfolio items of that same type first and it will fill up the remaining items (if necessary) with items of other types.

Please let me know how you get on with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Nfb1204,

that’s great that you managed to resolve this.

Thanks for letting us know.

Olaf

Hi Remindology,

thanks for your query. I will have a look to see if there is anything we can do to speed things up in Internet explorer.

Kind regards

Olaf

Hi Remindology,

I’ve had a look into the speed issue you’ve been experiencing in Internet Explorer.

I used Google PageSpeed to check for any speed issues and the following issues got flagged up:

1.) Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by 175.8KiB (71% reduction).

2.) The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources:

3.) Optimizing the following images could reduce their size by 90.9KiB (46% reduction).

4.) The following images served from awesem.com should be combined into as few images as possible using CSS sprites.

If you are using an Apache Webserver then it’s really easy to address item 1 and you simply need to add the following code to your .htaccess file:

<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
# Insert filters
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

# Drop problematic browsers
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary 
</ifmodule> 

Addressing points 2-4 requires a bit more time and effort. I will put point 3 + 4 onto my todo list for a future release of our Vendor theme.

It would be great if you could also install Google PageSpeed and run it against your site. Then implement the .htaccess code and re-run it to see how much of an improvement it has made to your site.

Please let me know how you get on with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Fabio,

thanks for your query. We are pleased to hear that you like our Vendor theme

Can you post / email your URL and we will have a look to see what might be causing the problem with the button.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Fabio,

thanks for sending over the URL . I will have a look at your issue as soon as we receive your validation code.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Fabio,

thanks for validating your purchase. I’ve had a look at the issue with the shortcode on your site and it turns out that this is a bug in the theme.

Currently, shortcodes don’t work in widgets and an addtional function call is required in functions.php:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

Simply add this to functions.php just before the widgets get included:

Add the 125×125 Ad Block Custom Widget

I will also add this patch to our next Vendor release.

Thanks for pointing out the problem and please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Kind regards

Olaf

Hi Fabio,

thanks for your query. It looks like the portfolio item type is not set to “video” as it displays the item in a fancybox rather than a video box.

Can you please check that you have checked the “video” type.

Please let me know if you have any queries on this.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Junkie2,

If you’ve not made any code changes then upgrading is really easy. Simply download the theme from ThemeForest and extract the main zip file. Then rename your existing vendor folder to e.g. vendor20110616. Now you can upload the vendor.zip theme file and that should be it.

If you’ve made any changes to custom.css then simply overwrite the custom.css with your version of the file.

If you’ve made any other changes then you need to merge them into the new release (e.g. using WinMerge).

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Cheers

Olaf

P.S. You should also take a full backup of your site just in case anything goes wrong

Hi Remindology,

thanks for your query.

The template for blog posts is single.php and for default pages is page.php.

In order to remove the page title you could either consider removing it completely from page.php (Line 16) or putting a condition around it:

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>        

Alternatively, you can create a new template, e.g. a copy of template-full-width.php rename it to template-no-title.php, modify the file header and then remove the title in this new template.

Please let me know how you get on with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Paul,

in order to increase the width of the navigation items you could do the following:

#header ul li ul { width: 314px !important; /* YourWidth + 14px */ }
#header ul li ul li ul { left: 300px !important; /* YourWidth */ }

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Hi Jason,

thanks for your query regarding pagination. We will have a look into this to see what is involved and I will let you know if it’s easy to add.

Cheers

Olaf

Thanks! Also, do you know if it is possible to add a video to the individual portfolio item’s slider?

Hi Jason,

thanks for your query regarding the slider on the individual portfolio page. The slider uses attachments and the template is only geared towards images at the moment.

If you need to display videos then I suggest you modify single-portfolio.php and add the videos manually.

Please let me know how you get on with this.

Cheers

Olaf

Hi Junkie2,

thanks for letting me that there is a new version of FancyBox and I will see if we can update this in the next update. Currently Vendor uses 1.3.1 and the latest version of FancyBox is 1.3.4.

Cheers again.

Olaf

Hi OGarcia,

thanks for pointing out the problem with the comments page. As you said, there was a small bug in the template and it was missing a closing div tag.

I’ve fixed this and the template is now 100% W3C compliant and should now work fine in Safari. FF, Chrome and IE were a little bit more forgiving

Thanks again.

Cheers

Olaf

Hi dttg,

Unfortunately, we don’t have an XML import file for our Vendor theme (yet). Please let me know if you have any questions on any of the pages and I will be happy to talk you through setting them up.

Cheers

Olaf