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Hi, is this modified Visual Composer fully compatible with standard visual composer plugin? Are there all original blocks included?
Hey – you can only use one or the other, the Salient one does not contain all original blocks but also adds a bunch of custom ones. If you use the raw VC you won’t have access to these
When I insert the Google Map element through visual composer, and select both “greyscale color” and “dark color scheme”, the copy is unreadable. All street names become a dark gray outlined by a slightly lighter gray. I’ve tried playing with the row text color /modes and background settings, but that doesn’t seem to affect it. Please advise.
Hey,
You can modify this in the map.js file which is located in the js folder if desired. The section to look for is:if(darkColorScheme == '1') {
If you need a reference for google map styling this is a useful tool https://snazzymaps.com/editor Cheers
Thanks, I’ll check that out.
You’re welcome 
Out of curiosity, what’s the default behavior for text on a dark map though? It looks like the default switches aren’t producing the correct results – before I start editing code. You only get the “dark” option if you hit “grayscale”, and when I check off dark I get gray text outlined with gray. So you can’t read it. That looks like bug? Here’s a link to the problem – https://www.dropbox.com/s/5wwrsfyf4zm0kv2/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-01%20at%2011.49.05%20PM.png?dl=0
Hey – It’s true that the street names are obscured with the default dark color scheme, the next update will fix it however if you’d like the fix earlier please open a ticket in regards and let me know the ticket ID here https://themenectar.ticksy.com
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Hi, Please, how can I revert the mobile menu to look like the original one (dark gray dropdown, as in the ‘Viking’ demo), and not the newer right side sliding one (with Back, ‘X’ to close and such)? Thank you very much.
Hey,
Yes – you just need to turn off the sticky mobile header in your Salient options panel > header navigation tab
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Hi Guys,
How do I stop the links in the footer from changing colour when you hover over them?
Thanks
Hey,
Add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
#footer-outer #footer-widgets .col a:hover {
color: #fff!important;
}
Cheers
Dear themenectar. I hope you’ve had a great Easter Weekend.
The new updates on the theme are really great. Thanks for improving the theme over and over again
However, I have a question regarding text blocks. I am working on a page at the moment and wanted to add a border to one of the text blocks. I assigned a border colour, border radius, a background colour, the type of border and also changed the margins. Then I clicked ‘save changes’. It saves everything (margins and background colour), except the border colour and border type. And everytime I save it and go back, those two settings will be blank again. And of course no border is showing. I tried this in both Firefox and safari and can’t seem to get it saved, while the other settings do save. Can you perhaps explain if this is a little bug, or am I missing something?
Thanks so much in advance, Best, irrimiri
Hey, thanks a lot!
Could you please open a ticket in regards with your admin credentials and let me know the ticket ID here once you’ve done so?https://themenectar.ticksy.com
CHeers
I’d like to remove the titles and social media buttons from under images in my portfolio. How would one go about doing this? In the Salient Options Panel I have gone into Portfolio>Styling>Project Style and tried checking all of the different boxes, but they change nothing…
Hey,
Could you please share your URL so I can see what settings you’re currently using?
Cheers
Hey. I don’t have a URL, I’m using Xampp to host locally until I get it all set up properly. Is there another way to get you this information?
Could you share a screenshot of you portfolio page?
Hi Team, is it possible to get a video blog post to play straight from the blog page? Rather than going into the detail of the blog post? Please see here, the “How to put the past in the past” is a video blog…http://www.sharneebennett.com/blog/, thanks so much! Sharnee
Hey!
Yes – but you’d have to use the classic masonry blog style since the one you’re using doesn’t support that
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I am using Yoast (ver. 3.1.1) with Salient (ver. 7.0.7) and Visual Composer (ver. 4.1) The site for Visual Composer says it is fully compatible with Yoast, but the Yoast SEO check for each portfolio page says that I have no text words and no images. I have read through the comments for Salient and for Visual Composer and see how this has been a problem for many people but cannot find a fix anywhere or anything saying what settings might be causing this problem. This only appears to be happening with Portfolio – the text and images are correctly identified with Pages so it looks like it is a Salient issue rather than a Visual Composer issue since I am using Visual Composer on both Portfolio and Pages. Any suggestions? An example url is www.childbirthinternational.com/themetesting/portfolio/birth-doula
Hey,
The Salient VC gets active for the “extra content” metabox, by default Yoast only checks the regular textarea for content which in Salients case is used to populate the sidebar area http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-ascend/portfolio/london-office/ – the Lorem Ipsum part of that demo page. Therefore if you’re using the fullwidth layout or only adding in content in the extra content metabox it’s not going to get checked by Yoast
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OK thanks for the reply. This is a real shame. Yoast works great when the page builder is used for posts and pages. Is it possible for a future update to adjust the theme so that Yoast also works for portfolios? I understand that search engines will still see the content but it would be so much better if Yoast could correctly show the content and images being read for those that are using full width portfolios.
Hey – i’ve noted to try and add a workaround in the next feature based update
There seems to be a problem on my blog, the quote post shown in masonry format with the post type set to “regular alt”, the whole quote is not showing…..is there a limit to how much can be put there? thank-you, Sharns http://www.sharneebennett.com/marketingblog/
Hey – the size of that blog style is cut into squares so longer quotes would get cut, however if you wish to continue using that style you could make the text smaller to allow it to fit. Add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
@media only screen and (max-width: 1300px) and (min-width: 990px) {
html body #post-area.masonry.meta_overlaid .masonry-blog-item.regular h2.title {
font-size: 11px!important;
line-height: 18px!important;
}
}
Hey Team, How do I make the button on this page styled for the “Extra Color 1”? Here is the html button code I am using….[button open_new_tab=”true” color=”see-through-4” hover_text_color_override=”#fff” image=”default-arrow” size=”large” url=”https://sharneebennett.clickfunnels.com/optin8400155” text=”Find out more” color_override=”extra-color-2”], thanks so much, Sharnee
Hey,
Change the #27ccc0 in the following button shortcode to match the hex color of whatever you have set for your extra color 1
[button color="see-through-3" hover_text_color_override="#fff" image="default-arrow" size="large" url="https://sharneebennett.clickfunnels.com/optin8400155" text="Find out more" color_override="#27ccc0" hover_color_override="#27ccc0"]
Cheers
Hi there. Great theme! Just wondering – is it possible to add a linea icon shortcode before the page title in page-sidebar.php? Been trying for ages!
Hey!
This would require modding the page.php file as of now – which could be done in a child theme as well
Cheers
Can’t seem to get a nectar slider to show above my blog content. Also, having trouble with some column spacing issues. No matter what I do, cant seem to get content to center in the column with padding on the top and bottom.
rvrtest.wpengine.com is the site. rvrtest.wpengine.com/blog is the blog. rvrtest.wpengine.com/solutions is where I’m having issues with spacing on grey column that includes no.3 and no4.
Thanks, Robert
Hey,
1. Instead of using the posts page as defined in settings > reading create a regular page and use visual composer to populate the Nectar slider and the blog under it
2. Those columns appear to have centered content – have you already sorted this?
Cheers
1. Thanks, that makes sense
2. No, if i make them vertically centered, the icons and header text just looks weird because the columns are side by side. And i cant seem to make the padding on the top and bottom of equal so that the positioning of the left and right icon and header text remains at the same level. Ideally what i want is same positioning as now, but the padding on top and bottom to be equal so they appear vertically centered inside the column.
Hey,
Could you please open a ticket in regards with your admin credentials for item #2 so I can take a look at what’s going on themenectar.ticksy.com/
Cheers
Hello
I wish to change the link (URL) of the portfolio, how do, thank
Hey,
In the Salient options panel > portfolio > functionality tab there are options for this
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to update the theme , I downloaded the latest version on Themeforest , then I transfer via FTP, is not it ?
Hey – are you saying you already updated the theme and it’s not showing the latest version? If so please give the Envato toolkit a try http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/toolbox-of-the-smart-wordpress-developer-the-envato-wordpress-toolkit--cms-23883
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Hey guys, just wonderign something – How do I add vertical lines between navigation labels? So they looking like HOME | WORK | STATEMENT | RESUME | CONTACT.
Thank you!
Hey – add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
header#top nav>ul>li:after {
display: block;
content: ' ';
position: absolute;
left: 0;
height: 20px;
width: 1px;
background-color: #000;
top: 5px;
}
Thank you for this quick responce. That worked just fine.
You can check it here : http://trade2grow.com/
Nectar team Rlz
Glad to hear
Hi. how can i translate the nectar slider with WPML? i have enabled the “Make ‘Slides’ translatable” feature, but the text does not show up in the string translation?
Hey – please open a ticket in regards with your admin credentials so I can take a further look for you https://themenectar.ticksy.com/
Cheers
Please say if new versions of Salient support and will be supporting WP Multisite or not because we updated it to 7.07 and there is still no salient icon/menu in WP back end 
Also, over 6 weeks passed and you didn’t help us to solve our problem although we had SUPPORT at that point.
We have to make a decision if we will move to another theme or keep using Salient. Please help us. tnx
Hey, please share your ticket ID in regards as there’s no confirmed issues with multisite that I’m aware of as of now
Cheers
its Private Ticket #637765 ... I just removed all older Salient and VC versions and installed new versions but the problem still presists… there is no Salient theme menu in WP back end I will upload screen shot in ticket
Hi there,
I have extended my Support like 2-3 weeks ago for ~$40.
Unfortunately i haven’t received an answer for my Ticket in the Last 5 days now. I haven’t paid that amount of Money if you guys aren’t able to handle the raising Numbers of Support enquieries. Even if you can’t help me out with my issue it would Be nice Be inform me about that so I could search elsewhere…
https://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/710881Thanks
Hey,
Checking with support as to why that’s been overlooked, I’ll see it’s answered shortly
Cheers
Hey Team Nectar! Thanks so much for such an amazing theme!
I am loving everything about this so far, but one question I have is around the Masonry blog:
1. Right now each of my blog items in the “News” page are really tall, and when compared to the “Coporate Demo” each item in the masonry grid seems way taller than I want it to be (ideally the items would be the same height as what you have in the demo).
so my question is… How is the height of blog items determined in the masonry grid, and is there any way to make them shorter?
Here is my current test site btw: http://noblylandingnew.azurewebsites.net/index.php/news/
Thanks again!
Hey, glad you’re digging it!
All posts in the masonry grid enhanced style are set to equal height of the tallest post. If you’d like ones with long titles to effect the overall height of others less you can reduce the size you have set for the h3 tag in your typography options or add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
body .masonry.classic_enhanced .masonry-blog-item h3.title {
font-size: 23px;
line-height: 24px;
}
Cheers
Hi,
My website load times are very slow. I receive a score of 5.7 seconds or higher every time I check. I have contacted my hosting provider and they said it has nothing to do on there end.
When I viewed my report on GTmetrix.com
I received an “F” In :
1) Specify image dimensions 2) Leverage browser caching 3)Remove query strings from static resources
and a “C” in :
1)Optimize images 2)Combine images using CSS sprites
How exactly can I improve upon these areas?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
(url : www.varanno.com)
Thanks
Hey again,
I responded to your last post in regards about my recommendation for caching and still while checking your site on my end, i’m seeing between 2-3 second loads. I’m most likely located closer to your server than you though
Cheers
Hi Theme Nectar, After update the Theme seen to change my settings such a way the logo was placed above the menu. Please I need your help.
Hey – could you please share your URL in regards so I can take a look for you
Cheers
You need to set your nav font size a little smaller to give everything room on smaller monitors. Or you can add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
body #header-outer[data-lhe="default"] header#top nav > ul > li > a {
padding-left: 8px;
padding-right: 8px;
}
Cheers
