Discussion on Invent - Education Course College WordPress Theme

Discussion on Invent - Education Course College WordPress Theme

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Is it SCORM 1.2 and Multi SCO compliant…for LMS intergration

We use LearnDash plugin for LMS functions and it is a paid plugin which needs to be purchased separately. Last I checked it was SCORM compliant but can you pls check with LearnDash folks at http://www.learndash.com/ once to be really sure about this? Pls feel free to ask them any other queries you have regarding LMS features. Thanks for your interest.

“All” specialization missing from Faculty & Staff template after switching from “Full Width” to “Left Sidebar” layout.

Can you pls share a link to your site?

Not sure why that would happen. Pls register and open a thread at the end of our support forum page – http://support.portfoliotheme.org/forums/forum/invent-theme-support/.

To resolve this issue, pls include temp login and site URL and have the box “Set this as private topic” checked when creating the topic. Thanks.

Hi. I recently purchased a theme called Austin and have found that another of your themes, Invent more meets my need than Austin does. Is it possible to switch to this theme instead? Without paying extra for it?

This would be most helpful if you can do this for me. My purchase code for the Austin theme can be provided as well as my username for Envato.

Regards, Jason

Pls contact Envato support regarding the same. The author really does not have a say on this. Hope they will be able to help. Thanks.

Hello, I am new to this theme and I seem to be having problems adding the theme gallery and portfolio to my pages. Please help

Pls go through the documentation on the same. Basically you create Portfolio and Gallery entries just like you create the blog posts in the admin screen and then use the page templates like Filterable Portfolio/Gallery to display them.

Hope you have the sample data loaded which has examples of this. If you have not, I would strongly recommend you do so.

Hi,

I have to translate the theme into Dutch and have both tried Poedit and the Loco plugin to do the translations. I can see my changes in the nl_NL.po and nl_NL.mo files both stored in the /theme/languages folder. As a start I translated the words News into Nieuws and Courses in Cursussen but I cannot find anything translated on the site. I expected it to be translated in the backend and for instance on the frontend on the News template. I’m not new to this and have done it before on other themes with success.

The language setting to Dutch is done in the settings menu because the WPLang is deprecated.

I was wondering if the theme was prepared for the new way of handling translations and language settings. For instance where is the textdomain loaded?

Furthermore I see in your framework.php a function i18n with a variable which does not exist: $locale_file = get_template_directory() . ”/languages/$locale.php”;

I hope you can help me out here, the theme looks very promising but I need the translation.

Regards,

Paul

Thanks for answering. For now I have changed the custom-post-types.php in the theme. I was wondering how I could get this file to function in a child theme. I replicated the directory structure /framework/presentations/ and have copied the file there, but it does not override anything.

You will need to override individual functions in your child theme functions.php file. Most of these functions that define custom post types have a function_exists() check and hence you would be able to define them ahead in the child theme functions.php file so that the parent ones are ignored due to the check being present. Hope this is clear.

BTW, if you have already created a file in your child theme folder, just have an require() function importing this file in your child theme functions.php file. The effect will be same as above then. Only disadvantage would be – if even one of the functions are missing the function_exists() check in the parent theme, you will encounter a PHP error and site will go down.

Thanks a lot! I will try this.

Hi there,

I was recently given this code to keep the footer fixed to the bottom when there was not enough content, and it seemed to work but I’m wondering if it caused the issue i’m having with IE.

container {

display: -webkit-flex; display: flex; -webkit-flex-direction: column; flex-direction: column; min-height: 100vh; } #main { -webkit-flex: 1; flex: 1; }

The footer in internet explorer is right under the menu bar and not at the bottom of the page. See here: http://lpsd.us/

I am able to reproduce the above specified issue when i have checked my installation in IE 11. The flex property is not supported IE 9 or earlier, in IE 10 this property is supported with the prefix ms. Can you pls remove
display: flex;
from the custom CSS and see if that makes any change.
Can you pls try the below custom CSS -
#container {
  display: flex;
  -webkit-flex-direction: column;
  flex-direction: column;
  min-height: 100vh;
}
#main { 
flex: 1 0 auto; 
}
#footer-bottom{
flex-shrink: 0;
}
We tested this code in IE 11, IE 10 and IE 9 .and seems fine.

That did the trick! Thank you so much

Is there a way to hide the menu bar on certain pages?

Yes , you can hide the same by adding custom CSS in Themeoptions.

You need to target the specific page’s id and give custom CSS (display: none;) for header element/menu bar. eg:
.page-id-11 #primary-menu {
display: none;
}
You have to replace 11 with your page-id.

Just purchased starting with adding page sections. The help documentation shows a number of available page sections to be dragged into chosen page sections when creating a new composite page. Yet these are not showing on my wordpress dashboard.

Could this be the theme is not installed correctly or could it be another reason?

Otherwise can you install the demo site for me?

For getting sample pages you need to import demo data first. Pls go through this video tutorial – http://support.portfoliotheme.org/faqs/invent-theme-how-to-replicate-the-demo-site-in-10-min/ If you still have issues, pls send us an email through the ThemeForest profile page contact form – http://themeforest.net/user/LiveMesh#contact , with the URL and a temporary login to your site. Thanks for your purchase!

Hello! Is there any way to categorize the staff page? I have staff profiles made for my staff and for my board of trustees for example.. and need them to be displayed on different pages rather than all together in one page. But creating a staff profile puts them all together obviously. Is there a way to make this happen?

Scrolling across the top? Not sure what that means. Are you facing some issues?

I am, is there a way I can get more help? I’ve really got to get this one figured out!

Sure. Pls open a support thread in our support forum and reply to the thread with a temp login to your site and we will take a look. It’s hard to know what’s happening unless we see it ourselves. Thanks.

How can you sort alphabetical when you have chosen a specialization in staff? with the code below (in loop-staff.php) I am able to sort the staff page fine http://portfoliotheme.org/invent/staff/
if (is_page_template('template-staff.php')) {

mo_show_page_content();

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

$query_args = array(
'post_type' => 'staff',
'posts_per_page' => 8,
'paged' => $paged,
'orderby'   => 'title', /* mouret */
'order'     => 'ASC' /* mouret */
);
query_posts($query_args);

}

But when clicking on e.g. Biology (like http://portfoliotheme.org/invent/specialization/biology/) the order is not alphabetical (ascending)

(I know the demo site isn’t “orderby title” – but I can’t show the site we are working on atm)

If you grab the latest version of the theme, you should find the code for sorting in framework/extensions/framework-extender.php at line number 328 and you will also find that the loop-staff.php has changed a bit. Pls have a look and get back to me in case of trouble. Thanks

hello, the menu has third level ? or only two ?

Yes – it does have third level too. Thanks for your interest.

There are a lot of useless shortcodes:

-Livemesh Shortcode —Custom Post Types —-Gym Features —-Fitness Classes —-Trainers —-Trainers Slider

Invent is an “education” theme. How about offering shortcodes for the education area or, better yet, for the LearnDash addon?

Thanks.

My mistake – the shortcodes themselves do not exist but due to oversight, the list was not updated fully although I do not see ones like trainers in my list. Will take a look and add a few related to staff, courses etc. although the [show_post_snippets] is versatile enough to handle many of these needs, IMO.

For LearnDash, I think we have enough of them already supported by the plugin.

I appreciate that you will update the list, but, with respect to LearnDash, I partially agree with you. Let’s look:

In Invent documentation, there is reference to only two widgets:

Course Progress LearnDash course progress bar

The theme displays the following customizations:

Course Information LearnDash – Course attempt and score information of users. Visible only to users logged in.

Lesson Displays a list of lessons for a course and tracks lesson progress.

Course Progress LearnDash course progress bar

In the forum, with respect to the ” LD CourseGrid Addon blocks following ‘Selection Pages’ ” topic, you suggested the following solution:

[show_post_snippets layout_class=”rounded-images” post_type=”sfwd-courses” number_of_columns=3 post_count=6 image_size=’medium’ excerpt_count=100 display_title=”true” display_summary=”true” show_excerpt=”true” hide_thumbnail=”false”]

I’m sure you can provide the solution as one of the shortcodes, although the [show_post_snippets] is versatile enough to handle many of these needs.

I did not research thoroughly the forum, but, it is possible that you have suggested other solutions, which can also be available as shortcodes.

You have a great theme, but, I’m sure that, whathever you add ( that does not require much effort ), will make our lifes easier, enhance your theme and, of course, increase sales.

Thanks, John

John – thanks for your detailed feedback. We will try to improve the theme as per your suggestions. Let’s hope it will happen soon.

Hi Now, there is a BuddyPress-LearnDash add-on. Can you provide the styling changes (CSS) in the next version of your theme? Thanks.

Our theme at present does not style BuddyPress plugin and hence, I am afraid we won’t be able to provide styling for the above addon as well. Thanks.

I must say after spend money on this theme I was very disappointed with the layout. Here is another coder that forgets a large percentage of people who purchase templates don’t code. Even the sample demo does not deploy correctly.

I am sorry if we gave an impression that you can build an education website of this scale by dragging and dropping things. We do not include a page builder into our theme since it is hardly useful beyond the home page and mostly there to improve sales by giving a false impression everything can be accomplished without coding. We do our best to make the lives of our users easier by including the required shortcodes and large number of custom post types which help ease development to a great extent but basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is always assumed.

Regarding sample demo, we help our users setup the site exactly like the demo one. Pls send us an email via our profile page contact form – http://themeforest.net/user/LiveMesh#contact.

You can seek a refund in case you think this theme does not meet your needs. Thanks for your understanding.

Presale question: Is there a way to change the menu background? I mean color or an image?

Thanks for your interest. Yes – you can change the same using simple Custom CSS.

Hi! My issue is that the “text” widgets do not show up in my sidebar. Other widgets show up just fine, but any content within a “text” widget is hidden.

Also, pls disable all plugins once and check if the problem goes away.

I disabled all plugins, but the issue persists. I’ll send you that login.

Have replied to your query. Pls check and get back to us.

can we have full list of students as one page ? after they take the course, and quick can a badge be added automatically to the student profile

We do not capture students as part of our theme function. You can check with LearnDash sales though if they have such a function that meets your need. Thanks for your interest.

Hi there, I know this is common among many WordPress themes but figured it couldn’t hurt to ask. Any CSS solutions to keep the footer (the actual footer and the 3 columned widgets above it) to stick to the bottom of the page? For the pages that don’t have as much content there’s a huge white space below it. Thanks!

I am sorry this took so long. We initially thought you have an acceptable solution. Having position fixed can cause issues like footer being always visible when scrolling and hence not desirable, IMO. Pls use the following custom CSS and see if this meets your need -

#container {
  display: -webkit-flex;
  display: flex;
  -webkit-flex-direction: column;
  flex-direction: column;
  min-height: 100vh;
}
#main { 
  -webkit-flex: 1;
flex: 1; }

I understand. That did the trick! Thank you so much.

You are welcome. Glad that helped.

this is for a high school site. i would like to be able to upload student results, and have the students create an account and login to view results. is that something I can do with this theme

Thanks for your interest. At present, we do not have such a functionality as part of the theme itself. You will need to use a custom plugin to achieve this. You can check with LearnDash sales on whether they have something that helps achieve this.

Hi! the theme looks great. Is it adapts to different screens? ( Smartphon , tablet , etc. )

Yes it does. Invent is a responsive theme. You can check the demo site with various devices before your purchase. Thanks for your interest.

Hi: I was installing the e-commerce plugin. When I upgraded /wp.admin the page is blank. They know what can it be? Look: http://www.colegioauroradechilesur.cl/wp-admin/ Thanks

Looks like it is back up. I am able to see the screen. Pls check the error log to see the actual error which caused this.

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