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Thank you
Hi Saurabh,
I really like this theme, Do you think you could implement a ‘Mega Menu’ feature, it would really enhance the theme as there is limited menu space on the top bar when using the secondary menu.
Many thanks.
Hello roryoneill,
I agree on your suggestion. However, you can remove the secondary menu by deleting one line inside header.php file. Next, inside style.css, you can expand menu1 to 100% width. If you wish to do so, send me your header.php and style.css file in .zip format. I will make these changes and send back.
Regards
Hello,
A simple question, How can i update my theme easily with the lastest version ? (i need to update the “search results page”).
Thanks!
Hello Mat,
You can re-download the theme and replace loop.php file with the latest one. This will update your search results page.
Regards
Hi, Is there a way to get Google Analytics to show in Dashboard in this theme. I have it working, but not showing in Dashboard. Thanks, http://radiancehwb.com/
Hello Teri,
The theme only supports GA code insertion with default script that comes with the Google Analytics. It is possible to pull the GA data in Dashboard, but I am not very proficient in implementing that feature. My apologies for that. 
Regards
Hi Saurabh,
That’s what I needed to know about the captions – thank you.
One more question: how do I set a page to full width?
Thanks so much. Love the theme!
- Macy
Hello Macy,
You can set a full width page by selecting sidebar as “none” from the page options panel. (Just below the content editor).
Regards
Hi, I’ve purchased this theme and having real difficulty changing the grey background colour – I can remove the dots but can’t change the grey colour.
I also can’t seem to reduce the overall height of the header – I’ve changed the padding around logo and widget but it doesn’t move the page up at all.
Any help appreciated.
Hello enlinea,
Which layout type you are using? Boxed or Stretched? I can tell after knowing that. If possible, post a URL of your theme here so that I can be more precise.
For the padding part, you will need to disable a code inside includes/load_styles.php file, line no. 284:
echo( '.brand { padding:'.$crz_logo_mrgtop.'px 0px '.$crz_logo_mrgbtm.'px 30px }');
This line is used to load the margin/padding from theme options. So, no matter what changes you are making in CSS , they are getting overridden by this code. Simply delete this line and save the file. Your custom CSS will load directly.
Regards
Saurabh,
Can you send the html that you used for the captions on the demo?
- Macy
Hello Macy,
Sorry but which captions you are referring to? The ones on Slider or the headings on page?
The Slider captions will generate automatically with your post title or custom caption. The ones with big text “Show off pre processed images” are created in PhotoShop, and are part of the image itself.
Let me know which captions so that I can tell more about them.
Regards
I’m trying to add a custom page template to this theme. I’m taking page.php, renaming it, then uploading it back and it’s still not an option when adding a new page. Is there something special you have to do to add custom page templates with this theme?
Hello mate,
You will just need to include the template name at the top of your custom-page.php file:
<?php /* Template Name: Your Custom Template Name */ ?>
You can find more details here.
Regards
Saurabh, Thanks for such a prompt and helpful reply. Great information. You certainly earned yourself a customer
This looks a great theme. I’d love to know how flexible the home page design is before I buy … Are there different sliders? Are they fed by post featured images only, or can they link to pages, or are they configured in a separate part of the UI? Can I leave out the strapline? Can any combination of widgets be placed under the slider (or must it be in the first row x 3, second row x 4 format). Can video widgets be used on the home page? Suggestion … it might be worth including screenshots of the admin panel along with the many of page layouts. It would help explain some of the above, I think. Sorry to ask so many questions! Thanks
Hello danmason,
There are two type of Sliders (Cycle and Nivo Slider) which you can use only on Home page. You can hide the slider, or set a custom height. The images are populated from the posts. Each post has a image URL field option where you need to provide the image URL .
By default, slider images will link to posts. You can choose to link them to pages, custom link or none. You can also hide captions (as seen on live preview).
The columns seen on home page are not widgets. That is a plain content area populated via different column short codes and images. You can change that to any combination of columns, HTML markup or short codes. Only the Slider is fixed there.
You can insert videos (the HTML embed code) within any column short code, or directly.
Feel free to ask if you have more questions. I’d be glad to answer.
Regards
Love the theme using it on a large project, but I have run into a problem implementing something from the demo… How can I get he blog to paginate with the numbered buttons rather than the “older posts” – “newer posts” text links? Please answer as soon as possible I need to launch on he 11/27 and I just can’t find anywhere (functions.php, template pages, admin, ect…) to change this. Thank you, Brent
Hello Brent,
You could have scrolled the documentation file to the end. But no worries, those buttons are created using the wp-pagenavi plugin. Just install it and make the settings as shown in the documentation file.
Regards
Hello Saurabh How can I put google maps on contact page? thanks
Edit: I got!!!
Hello Agt,
Glad you found it. It’s just the HTML markup that we can grab from maps.google.com. Next, paste this markup inside a Text widget on contact page sidebar.
Regards
Yes, very easy, thanks!
Zuter, I just made my blog page…there is an option on the page for Sidebar Placement. Choose “none.”
Oops, nevermind. Just realized you’re talking about the post, not the page.
Hello,
I wonder if it is possible to remove the sidebar in the articles and categories of a blog as a page? If so, how should I do? As I tried to remove the sidebar from the code but there is always a white column.
thank you very much
Hello Zuter,
You are almost done, but the white space is shown because the content class is still set to show the medium width. You can fix that inside header.php, line no. 280:
if ( $full_width == 'true' || is_page_template('port3.php') || is_page_template('port4.php') || is_search() || is_404() ) {
Add the blog template and single post in this conditional statement so that a wide class is added for blog pages too:
if ( $full_width == 'true' || is_page_template('blog-page.php') || is_page_template('port3.php') || is_page_template('port4.php') || is_search() || is_404() || is_single() ) {
Next, you can remove the sidebar call from single.php file.
Regards
Hello SaurabhSharma,
Great theme!
I have a couple modifications I’m trying to work out, and I was hoping you could lend some help.
1) On the portfolio pages, I don’t want the image titles to link to their post. I still want the title to display, just not link to anything.
2) How do I remove the page bend effect in the portfolio pages?
Thanks for the help!
Best, Neil
Hello Neil,
Kindly send me a mail at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com with the portfolio template name (that you are using). i.e. three col, four col etc. I will make changes on that particular file and send you.
Regards
Every time I try to view your demo, the site refuses to load most of the pages (times out)? Is this an issue with your server? All other themes seem to function properly. I’m using Firefox (latest version).
Hello there,
Yes this is an issue with my hosting server. I have already switched on to a new host for my current themes but this one is still on the old server. I am in a process of shifting this theme on new server.
My apologies if you were not able to view the demo. I will try to fix this at my earliest.
Regards
No problem, just wanted to let you know. Thanks.
Dear Saurabh,
is there any way to create a photo gallery without using any external WP plugin?
I mean, creating a gallery of more that 20 images using the standard process of making portfolio page is rather tedious thing to do (posts -> category -> gallery page).
BTW the whole site uses right side column. http://advice.agiboy.sk/reality/panorama-zvolen/fotogaleria/
At the time I’ve thrown a Phoca Gallery in, but is looks nasty and I’ll spend a hell of time customizing it to make it look good.
The second problem I have with it is that a lightbox effect makes full size image shown UNDER the header, unfortunately: http://advice.agiboy.sk/wp-content/uploads/2011-11-18_141125.jpg
Any recommendations? THX a lot
Hello dolfort,
As you are already aware, the portfolio gallery is populated using the WordPress loop. If you do not wish to use the portfolio template (or any external plugin), the simplest way would be to use the direct HTML markup or column short codes.
If you see the home page of live preview, the four columnar image row is inserted using the column short codes and images. You can use the same approach for creating multiple rows of images.
For example, on a page with sidebar you can create a three columnar gallery using the following markup:
[two_nineth] <img src="url_of_source_image" height="100" width="178" /> <h5>Custom Caption</h5> [/two_nineth] [two_nineth] <img src="url_of_source_image" height="100" width="178" /> <h5>Custom Caption</h5> [/two_nineth] [two_nineth_last] <img src="url_of_source_image" height="100" width="178" /> <h5>Custom Caption</h5> [/two_nineth_last]
This will insert a row of three images. You can duplicate the same code for multiple rows. Further, you can use the [frame] short code if you wish to use auto resized timthumb images.
Regarding the prettyPhoto issue, it might be hiding back due to z-index. Inside style.css, line no 89:
.header { position:relative; z-index:9999; padding:0px }
Change the z-index to some lower value, say 999. It will appear below prettyPhoto.
Regards
Saurabh, Thanks for the prompt reply on the load speed. I changed hosts and disabled all slider jquery (cycle and nivo) and prettyphoto. Load time went from 6 sec to 2 sec. SUPERB PERFORMANCE and your theme still looks fantastic. For anyone shopping for themes BUY THIS THEME ! Customizing is a BREEZE ! Saurabh has done a fantastic job of documenting his code with markers, comments, structure. And if its not there, he is quick to reply
Thanks again, Paco
Hello Paco,
Thanks so much for your kind feedback and appreciation. It means a lot to me.
Regards
In case anyone had performance problems with this template (I had over 300 pages) you can modify the functions.php as follows to reduce the number of SQL queries from 300+ to 1:
functions.php line 130
replace
$mypages = get_pages();
with
global $wpdb, $page_key;
$mypages = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT $wpdb->posts.ID AS ID, $wpdb->posts.post_title AS post_title, $wpdb->postmeta.meta_key, $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value FROM $wpdb->posts, $wpdb->postmeta WHERE $wpdb->postmeta.meta_key = '$page_key' AND ($wpdb->postmeta.meta_value LIKE '%unique_header_bar%' OR $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value LIKE '%unique_feat_bar%' OR $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value LIKE '%unique_sidebar%' OR $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value LIKE '%unique_secondarybar%') AND $wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id");
and on line 132 replace
$page_opts = get_post_meta( $pp->ID, 'page_options', true );
with
$page_opts = unserialize($pp->meta_value);
And you have just reduced the # of SQL Queries dramatically.
Hello mdavis,
That’s a great workaround. I am not so good at SQL , but this solution will be useful to those having large number of pages. We generally use built-in WordPress functions like get_post_meta(), get_pages() etc. instead of direct SQL , so I had no idea about reducing the query by this way. I appreciate your effort.
Regards
Sorry to be a pain, but I figured out that when I changed my permalinks back to Default, they started working again. How can I get them to follow a custom structure so that I can have www.mysite.com/resources or www.mysite.com/contact (etc…)
Does this theme support Permalinks? I’m sorry. I’m very new to themes and I’m probably doing something wrong myself.
Thanks,
Hello again,
Yes the theme supports permalinks. They are more dependent on your server configuration. i.e. you will need to edit your .htaccess file and make sure the Apache mod_rewrite module is present.
In order to edit your .htaccess file, log in to your hosting/file manager and browse the folders using “Show hidden files” enabled. Next, edit your .htaccess file and add the following code to it:
# BEGIN WordPress
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</ifmodule>
# END WordPress
Save the file. Now your permalinks should work. You can find more details on using permalinks here.
Regards
