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Found a new bug – when tapping a phone number link on mobile (tel:number) and clicking “cancel” the whole site turns white, and you can’t see it unless you reload. Safari iOS and Chrome iOS.
Hey jstamb,
Do you have the page transitions turned on? Is there anyway you could share your URL as well?
Cheers
Turning page transitions off fixed this bug.
After doing an SEO audit on my site http://stambaughdesigns.co it shows an EXTREMELY low HTML to Text ratio on pages that have mostly text.
Is there an SEO fix in the works for Salient? I’d hate to switch themes (been with Themenectar for 4 years) but I need better SEO. Perhaps removing embedded scripts and styles? Thanks.
Hey, there’s no quick thing that can be done to change the ratio. Using different elements could help a bit, however any theme that uses Visual Composer or another page builder like likely have a similar amount of markup used on the front
Well that’s a shame now, isn’t it? If a theme isn’t SEO compatible in 2016 it shouldn’t be on the market.
By no means does that one factor alone make the theme incompatible with SEO, and again – quickly checking any of the themes on ThemeForest through an online ratio calculator will yield similar results. Please try out some others to compare using your own tool or a free one such as https://www.site24x7.com/text-ratio.html – even running the WordPress stock theme shows only a few single digit percentage points higher, which is not including any elements you’d find in a premium theme.
I am getting a soft 404 error on my website for these links
www.domain.com/?s=%7Bquery%7D
www.domain.com/search/%7Bquery%7D/
Not ready to show my site just yet. However, I can show you the same issue on your demo themes themselves. Does not really have to be my own site.
http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-frostwave/search/%7Bquery%7D/and here is the 2nd one
http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-frostwave/?s=%7Bquery%7DI have tried blocking the urls with robots.txt file Disallow: /search/%7Bquery%7D/
However, it does not work. After blocking the files I checked a day later and google robots.txt tester tool says allowed!
How do I fix these? Would you please check these on the demos and provide a solution?
Thanks
Hey seseskiz, are you talking about the exact URL placed above with the string “{query}” entered as the search term or are you saying that whenever a query is searched for that does not exist, you’d prefer to send the user to a different 404 page rather than the default no results found page?
HI, I am talking about the URLs
Here, in this screenshot you can see the 404 errors in Google Search Console.
http://imgur.com/a/BGSeqAnd the error message is: The target URL doesn’t exist, but your server is not returning a 404 (file not found) error. Learn more Your server returns a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404). This creates a poor experience for searchers and search engines.
What is best solution to block these urls from search engines so they wont return a 404 not found error.
This is not something specific to Salient – but rather how WordPress handles the search function, you’ll see the same occurring other themes but you could work around it with these solutions https://www.oxhow.com/fix-404-soft-errors-wordpress/
I have just replayed to this and some how my replay does not show. So, I’ll type it again. If for some reason decides to show the first replay too, and you have two replays just blame it on themeforest lol
Anyways, what you said makes sense. I am new to Wordpress and still learning:)
I have read what you sent me. And that article is using a code that was written and tested for Genesis themes. And the author advices to check the code if we are using a different theme before making permanent changes. Would you please check the code and see if it will work with salient and all the plugins that came with salient? I want to be sure before I thought the functions.php, i to avoid breaking anything on the site 
My goal is to return an actual not found 404 for those urls. Not a 200 OK page that has 404! which is what I have right now.
If you know an alternative way to make those actual 404 pages please do let me know!
Thanks
If it was a simple url, i could delete it and have it return a 404. But in this case I am not sure how to do that.
Hey, that snippet actually wont work as is in Salient but it shows the method needed to accomplish it – unfortunately I can’t provide the mod here because it goes outside of the scope of the theme
I see. And alternatively. Would you suggest blocking these urls in robots.txt
www.domain.com/search/ and www.domain.com/?s=%7Bquery%7D
I mean how would you fix these on your themes or wordpress installation?
Thanks
I understand that this issue is something that is not supported. However, If I pay you for a custom job. Would you be able to fix these soft 404 issues for me based on your demos?
http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-frostwave/search/%7Bquery%7D/ http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-frostwave/?s=%7Bquery%7DThank you.
I found a way to fix this. and It looks like it was theme issue. Can you double check my code and see if its all good? I modified the search.php file
Here is the screenshot of my code. From line 3 to 9
http://imgur.com/a/VcLn4Hey, that code is valid and should work
Thank you, everything is perfect now. It would be great if you could add this in your next update to help anyone else has who might have the same soft 404 issue.
404 soft errors are very critical for SEO.
Thanks
If I add a custom ttf font to the theme folder salient/css/font – would I be able to use the font or would it brake the theme? What’s the best way to add a custom font? Many Thanks
Hey lilyanpetrov,
You could use any custom font using css font face – if you wanted to store the font file(s) there you could, but you’d still need to add custom css to load them in and apply them. Here’s a tutorial on the subject
Cheers
Hi Themenectar! I want to reduce the size of the featured image with posts, so I tried this, but it hasn’t changed. What to do??
article.post .content-inner .post-featured-img img { width: 50%!important; }
Hey!
Could you please share your URL in regards so I can take a look?
Cheers
There might be an answer to this already, but I’m using fancy box to display photos (using your suggested CSS changes to remove the color overlay and having text display in mouse over). However, I’m using fairly light photos, how would I go about changing the text color in fancy box to something that is not white?
Never mind, I just found it. Sometimes I’m convinced I need glasses. Thanks for a great theme!
Never mind, I just found it. Sometimes I’m convinced I need glasses. Thanks for a great theme!
Hey kolkritan,
Glad to hear you’ve sorted it
Cheers
Hi TN,
Two questions;
1) Can I safely upload the ‘new’ WooCommerce folder to my server, without causing it any changes?
2) I tried to move a Salient based site to my server (from a complete backup, site and database) but it appears to be text-only now.
What could be the reason(s) for any image/style missing?
Cheers!
Hey hookieoalo!
1. There’s no known issues with the current version of WooCommerce – you can also just update via the WP admin dashboard in the plugins section
2. Could you please share the URL where this issue is occurring so I can take a look?
Is there a way to have a user to fill out a form and submit without reloading the page and give form submission confirmation? The contact form 7 page is showing something that I haven’t been able to replicate unfortunately. http://contactform7.com/why-isnt-my-ajax-contact-form-working-correctly/
I’d like it to work throughout the site, but the main form I want to not-reload is on www.classwallet.com/why-classwallet under the “Get the case study” accordion box. Thanks so much!
Hey aprekas,
By default CF7 should send the form using AJAX – could you please open a ticket in regards with your admin credentials so I can take a look? https://themenectar.ticksy.com
Cheers
just a recommendation, in the zip file with the salient guide that you provide you can add a simple page that shows a guide of how to recomendations in theme/host optimization with the plugins you recoomend and how to configure them to work properly with salient theme… That could be very useful to people like us that we don’t know so much about it and we keep in conflicts when try to use minifier plugins.
Regards
Hey alexparera, I will indeed be adding more about optimization into the documentation soon
That will be cool, belive me. It’s very frustration for the people who doesn’t know about it
Cheers
Hi Themenectar! I want to reduce the size of the featured image with posts, so I tried this, but it hasn’t changed. What to do??
article.post .content-inner .post-featured-img img { width: 50%!important; }
Also, is there any way to create a “link” format post that shows a thumbnail image rather than an accent-color background?
oh dear, one more question about the link-format post: and a way to show the date meta instead the actual link in the thumbnail??
Hey anagcan!
1. Please share the URL in regards so I can see why your snippet isn’t taking place
2/3. Unfortunately these would require some custom development as of now – but i’ve noted the requests. For now if you wanted to try and mod it yourself, the file to check would be salient/includes/post-templates/entry-link.php
Cheers
Hey ThemeNectar, thank you. 1. I decided not to use the featured image on single posts, thx though. 2/3. Darn. That would be great to have in a future update. I know this is pushing it, but in addition to showing a featured image on link-posts, it could also be cool to have the option of choosing a different color background that isn’t necessarily the accent color. Colorful masonry blog! =)
One more question… Is there a way to access the visual composer on the default Events Page created by the Events Calendar plugin? I can access it on individual events, but not on the page itself where all the events show up.
As always, thank you!!
Hey!
All the available post types are shown in the Visual Composer > role manager in your admin panel – for further questions on specific plugins such as the events calendar, I would post the question to them as i’m sure they’ve been asked before and could assist more thoroughly than I could
Cheers
Love the theme. L O V E. Only thing missing is blog post filter system just like the portfolio has – so +1 vote for that functionality. (In case someone custom modded the filter, definitely link me to the source please!)
Awesome to hear Invertt, and thanks for the +1!
Unfortunately I don’t have an archived mod to paste, but I’ve noted your request.
Cheers
Hello, i have a question about the nectar slider. I have currently made a page with a nectar slider which has both heading and a caption, my issue is with the responsive settings. When i view this page in mobile device, the caption text becomes way too small. Is there a way to change the font sizes for breakpoints?
Hey Meediamaailm,
Yes – there’s a tab for the responsive text sizing when editing the element in the Salient Visual Composer
Cheers
Thank you
You’re welcome
Amazing work, GLWS
Thanks ThemeUK
There is a bug with the navigation menu. In seemingly random events, the menu alignment gets messed up. Example: http://puu.sh/shL0i.JPG the link to the page is: test.meediamaailm.ee
Is there a way to fix that?
Hey Meediamaailm,
Could you kindly let me know which browser you’re using so i can try to replicate this? Currently I haven’t been able to
Cheers
It occurred in both chrome and firefox. It seems to happen (sometimes) when the window is below 1000px width and i’m dragging it wider.
Hi, guys. How can I add Google Analytics at my site?
Hey rodrigosan,
There’s a box for it in the Salient options panel > general settings > css/script related tab http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/theme-options/general-settings/#css-script-related
Cheers
Could you please help me, I have tried to center all blog content and make it so the image width is not 100%, it has kind of worked but when mobile view the image does not scale correctly
http://thelofft.com.au/blog/Also, is it possible to have the title above the featured image, thanks!
Hey Natious,
1. try adding this into the custom css box located in your Salient Options panel:
article.post .content-inner .post-featured-img img {
width: 100%!important;
}
2. This would require modding to the files themselves – css alone couldn’t accomplish this
Cheers
How do I turn off the sticky menu? (I can see there is an option for mobile but not for desktop?)
Hey workhouseadvertising,
As of now you can only activate the hide header until needed option, available in the animation effects tab within the Salient options panel > header navigation section. This will hide it and keep it at the top unless the user is scrolling up
Cheers
Hi themenectar! I have one glitch that I can’t seem to figure out and was hoping you can help me out!
1.On http://nerdrealtycma.com/valuation/ the contact form 7 does not seem to be working on mobile. It works fine on desktop, but on mobile I can not press the send button. I made another page (http://nerdrealtycma.com/test/) without the fullscreen rows activated and CF7 seems to work on desktop and mobile. I am assuming this is a conflict with the fullscreen rows settings.
Please let me know if you have any solutions to this issue! Thank you!
Hey Nerd13!
Have you tried to use the option to disable the fullscreen rows on mobile only? It was added in v7.6
Cheers
Hi, how do I make buttons full width on blog posts. To do this on regular pages I have been using the following code.
body.page-id-8984 .col.dark .nectar-button.see-through, body.page-id-8984 .col.dark .nectar-button.see-through-2 { width: 100%; text-align: center; }
However, when I add this to a post, it isn’t working.
Hey,
Please share your single post URL in regards where the snippet isn’t working so I can take a look
Cheers
Easy Feature Request:
I love using image backgrounds in page header with transparent navigation. However, it only applies the “transparent light” class to the div.
Several of my background images are pretty light, so this default light styling doesn’t work well. I know I could overwrite all the applicable element’s CSS in the custom CSS for the page, but between borders, nav text, logo, hamburger icon, etc. it would be SOOO much easier if I could just select the “transparent dark-slide” class for the div.
Would be awesome to have a select for dark/light in the header options for the page!
Hey porpie,
Thanks for request – i’ve noted this +1 for the idea
Cheers
Is there a way to add a color overlay for a page header?
Hey,
Not without custom css – but you could make a regular page row (which allows for color overlays) function as the page header area as the corporate demo shows themenectar.com/demo/salient-corporate
yup but then you lose the scroll effect (parallax) and the header text effects
