Discussion on The Ark | WordPress Theme made for Freelancers

Discussion on The Ark | WordPress Theme made for Freelancers

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Hey, we are having the same issues as @brandseven mentioned. All caches etc deleted etc…. still the same. Also, after editing a page, and saving, its no longer “full width”, just changing some text and saving and it looks like this: http://imgur.com/a/lna3I

Ex: Before Default imported construction demo: http://imgur.com/a/DBAVE

After: http://imgur.com/a/EHiOs

This goes for new pages created also…

Hi joransrb!

We just created topic for you at our support center: Your topic

Please send us your WP login there and more detailed description of your issue. We will do our best to assist you asap.

About the fullwidth change, most probably you switched layout from “Default Page.- fullbody” to “Default Page” by mistake

Thanks and cheers! :)
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For the life of me, we cannot figure out why the site is not reflecting the latest changes even though we keep deleting the cache on browsers, on the backend of the theme and even contacted our hosting to delete the cache on the server. We’ve made so many changes to design that we’re not able to see the latest site changes. Please Help!

Hi brandseven!

You send same question to email, so we answered it there. Anyway when we were developing Ark, we did our best to make as easy UX as possible (even spent tens of hours in UX lab). Also everything should work smoothly, so most probably there is some kind of problem with your server environment, or you are doing something little bit incorrectly. Anyway once you send me your WP login through the email, I’ll be able to figure it out and assist you asap.

Thanks and cheers! :)
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Hi guys,

Just purchased and playing with the theme.

You have done a f*ing amazing job, really!! I am working with many themes and it’s hard to surprise me, but you guys did :)

I LOVE the extreme flexibility, which is there with all elements. So many options! And I can actually understand how it works almost right away, which is different with some other themes. Finally no coding right away to make things work.

And thanks for making saving changes this easy and fast with Ajax! I hate having to wait for 20 secs or even minutes for one option to be saved, as is with some other popular themes. Especially if I have to do hundreds and hundreds to build a website.

Love it, thanks! Tom

Hi Tom!

Wow, that’s quite a testimonial, especially coming from someone who has purchase more than 50 products on Envato Market, thank you for your kind words! :)

Please consider re-posting it as a rating/review here so others can easily see it under the Reviews tab.

We have great plans for the future of Ark, we see it as a robust platform that can be expanded with time and hope that a lot of people will use Ark exclusively to build their websites on WordPress. We also listen to any feedback, so if you would have any pet features you would like to see added, please shoot us an e-mail and we will see if we can implement them.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Hi there,

I just bought a single license, but I actually have 2 websites (both websites are identical but they are on different TLD’s in different languages). Does this mean I have to buy a second license from you to setup the second website? Thanks for your help.

Hi there!

Yes, according to Envato rules about the Regular License you will need a second license for a different domain/wordpress installation. More detailed info about Regular License can be found here.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Hi this is a great theme and I am positively surprised by what you can do with it regarding customization

My question is :

I need to create a grid of many individual Albums/Galleries and display each (album/gallery) in the lightbox? I have a client with many projects (over 100) and each project has 10-20 images. We do not want a detailed description of each project, just to be able to display the images of each project in a lightbox.

So when the user clicks on an grid item (album/gallery) I want this to be displayed on the lightbox without leaving the main grid page. I also need pagination of this grid i.e. 20 project albums/galleries per page.

I have looked at the roadmap and noticed something about an “advanced gallery” so could such a feature be in there?

I really need this feature but if not possible I could use a plugin such as Envira Gallery, Media Grid, The Grid or Essential Grid that support this type of functionality.

But for the record, if it cannot be done in the current version or not in the roadmap I would like to suggest it since it is really useful for projects that do not need detailed descriptions or album grids.

Thanks in advance.

Hi JargonGR!

We are very happy that you like the workflow, we’ve spent many months (years if counted in man hours) on the development and it’s great to finally see someone using and enjoying the finished product :) But the work is never done so we continue the development and aim to bring you even more and better things in the future as well.

What you saw on the roadmap is a feature that will allow you to easily drop a lot of images and it will create a gallery automatically. We already have Portfolio for this, but it requires every photo to be inserted into a separate Portfolio Post which can be pretty time consuming to create if you have hundreds or even thousands of images. So we want to implement something much more quick to use for those who would prefer it compared to a regular Portfolio feature.

What you want to create can be done using the Portfolio feature now but you can only have 1 image in the lightbox, not 10-20 as you have requested. This is something we want to address in future updates as well, alongside the gallery feature because they are tied connected in some ways. Alternatively, In current situation, you could link the site visitors from your grid view (portfolio category page) into a single portfolio post page. On that single portfolio post page you can display anything related to that particular project because there is full Fresh Builder canvas. Another alternative would using using one of the plugins you have mentioned of course. Let me know if we can be of any assistance with this, we will do our best to help you.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Thanks for the feedback!. I honestly do not mind using any of the plugins for the moment because I am used to them and the client wants everything displayed from the same page. The reason I am suggesting this though is because I would love to use the Theme as my base platform from now on. The AJAX Quick Save alone is truly a time savior.

Hello.

I just bought “The Ark” as you say it is compatible with WooCommerce. However I cannot find any examples of category, product, checkout or cart pages. How can I build an ecommerce shop with WooCommerce without any help on the styling of these pages?

Your help/advice s needed! Do you recommend I should buy a WooCommerce specific theme?

BR

Hi boopoo!

WooCommerce create the necessary pages (shop, checkout, etc … ) automatically after installation. But you can also import our “Heatlhy food store” ecommerce demo.

Thanks and cheers! :)
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Hy, i’m sorry….but I can not simple upload the theme to WP ; which is the folder that I need to click? Is: ark-upload-this or all file zip? ...sorry but is my first upload in WP. Thanks

Hi Susy!

You should upload the “ark-upload-this.zip” file. if that won’t work then your server has low php upload limit set in it’s settings. You can either ask your hosting provider to up the limits or you can unzip that file and upload the “ark” folder you will find inside to your ”/wp-content/themes” directory.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Yessss…done! Thank you so much. You are a fantastic people. Now I hope to work good. Regards from Italy. Ciao.

Glad to hear it uploaded fine, thank you for your kind words and enjoy the theme! :) If you would want any further help, just ask on our support forums, we will be more than happy to assist you. Cheers to Italy! :)

Hello.

I am new to WordPress/Woocommerce and am wondering about your WooCommerce “Ark” theme. You do not show many final Ark website templates like other sellers on themeforest. Are you offering more of a system to easily create your own website?

Also, does “Ark” support MegaMenu and “Visual Composer”. I did not see any MegaMenu on your examples. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Hi there!

You can add icons with custom HTML into menu item text (or anywhere else really) like this.

< i class="ff-font-awesome4 icon-home"> Home

You can find all available font classes for all kinds of icons (we have thousands built-in) by accessing the Icon Library anywhere in Fresh Builder, click on an icon from the list and then looking at the right sidebar for “Classes” field – that’s where I got the “ff-font-awesome4 icon-home” bit from. We usually have easy one-click font pickers everywhere but “Menu” admin screen is handled directly by WordPress core itself and it’s not easy for us to change it to our liking to add things like icon pickers (like we did with Fresh Builder).

Adjusting the sub-menu opening speed can be done with custom CSS since it’s not something anyone wanted to change yet – but if there is demand, we can add it as an option easily. If you would like our help with this, please contact us on our support forum and our devs will help you with this.

Regarding the padding issue on mobile, this was already fixed yesterday in our dev environment but not yet deployed on our demo because the development branch has yet to receive a new version number that is required for the auto-deploy robot to kick in, so that’s why you still see it there. We are working on some other small things and once ready we will make give it a version number and it will deploy soon after.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Excellent thanks for your reply and information!

Happy to help! :)

URGENT !!!! Hy, I can not download the theme is very very slow …. !!!! Where is the problem??? The time taken is too much and the browser (Chrome and Firefox) stops with the download !!!! How should I do?

Thank you, we have just received it. You will get an e-mail in the next few minutes with the latest package of Ark, it’s uploading now.

Thank you so much ! the download is very fast, in ten minutes . Regards.

Glad to hear the download has worked for you. Enjoy the theme and if you would have any support questions, please ask on our support forum.

Hello,

How to run pgae contact? I have edited it but I do not know how to make it functional? Where do I place my email to receive emails sent from my site?

Thank you very much

Hi gasparaunavis!

Click on the pencil icon on the “Form Wrapper” element. There you can place your e-mail and adjust other form related settings.

Thanks and cheers! :)

perfect thank you so much !

Happy to help! :)

Hi, I use Custom Field Suite plugin. I’ve added element “HTML” and inserted PHP code (<?php echo CFS ->get( ‘first_name’ ); ?>) but it doesn’t work. I got message “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ’<’ in /wp-content/plugins/fresh-framework/framework/themes/builder/blocks/class.ffThemeBuilderBlock_HTML.php(55) : eval()’d code on line 1”. What should I do to use Custom Field Suite plugin?

OK. I’ve changed the code and now I get: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ’->’ (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR), expecting ’,’ or ’;’ in /wp-content/plugins/fresh-framework/framework/themes/builder/blocks/class.ffThemeBuilderBlock_HTML.php(55) : eval()’d code on line 1”.

Hi simply4net!

Your original code is wrong, because statement CSF->get is illegal in PHP. If you send me any example of the CSF code, I’ll be able to provide assistance and help you with finding the right code

Thanks and cheers! :)
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It works!

Hi, is it possible to build a mega menu plugin with “the ark” theme ?

Hi instantisme!

Thank you for your interest in The Ark! :)

The Ark already has a mega menu that you can see on our main demo here. Hover your mouse over the “PAGES” menu item in the top navigation and the mega menu will be revealed. There are also some plugins that do mega menus but I personally don’t use them so I cannot comment on which one of them is good. Please let me know if there is anything else we could help you with.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Hi, why my previous comment is being reviewed. I do not think I wrote anything wrong.

I only need to know if I can use your awesome “The Ark” Theme to build a website with a similar Design like the example that I showed You in my previous comment. Or if not is possible at the moment, could you please add a design like that for the next version of The Ark ?

I suppose that my previous comment was suspended for the simple fact of placing a URL with the website address that shows the reference design that I want to mimic with using The ark theme.

Regards.

Miguel

Hi Miguel!

I asked my colleagues and nobody remembers flagging your comment. Anyone can flag comments by the way, not only us. So it was probably someone else.

Please feel free to post the link again, we can surely look into it and let you know if it’s possible to create something similar in Ark.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Hi Freshface team, sorry for my mistake about the flagging comment, I did not know that anyone could flag comments.

The design that I want to achieve with your awesome “The Ark” Theme is the “Tech” Demo of the following Theme -> https://demo.mythemeshop.com/s/?theme=MyBlog

Including the lines that border all the elements (Post Previews, Sidebar elements, comments, etc).

In case that it is not possible at the moment, could you please add a design like that for the next version of The Ark ?

Thank you for bringing to the public this truly amazing Theme. I already purchased it.

Regards,

Miguel

Hi Miguel!

Thank you for your kind words, it’s great to see that you went ahead and purchased it and are so happy with it.

To your question, yes, it is indeed possible to create something like that, for the most part. Since this would be a lot of communication, it would be better if you could start a thread on our support forum (scroll down there) and ask more specific questions as you work on it so we can assist you when necessary.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Hey :) when will 1.9 be avaiiable for download here ? :)

Hi joransrb!

It’s online :-)

Thanks and cheers! :)
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Hello! There is a little bug. In the Basic Demo, in main menu (in the header) last item rolls down out of the screen. It looks like this:

http://seo584.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ice_screenshot_20170206-092645.png

Hi 584!

Damn, we did really deep check before initial release (tens of hours), but we missed it. Anyway added as a top priority to our task list and will be fixed within next release. Thanks for pointing it out!

Thanks and cheers! :)
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Hi there, getting to know this theme. One thing that would be great to add are sticky elements (like sidebar). Any possibility this will be added later? As an example, like this here: https://undsgn.com/uncode/portfolio/sidebar-stack-full-width/

Thanks for any info.

Hi Raustyle!

Thank you for your suggestion, I think it’s possible to add this functionality in the future updates, probably as an option in the Box Model tab so it’s available for all elements.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Hi,

Presale question :

It’s possible to put our own custom content in any place on the page the same way we can put blog and portfolios with the original Blog and Portfolio shortcodes ?

Or possible to buy plugin to do that ?

Like this plugin for Avada theme : https://codecanyon.net/item/custom-post-types-and-taxonomies-for-fusion-builder/15572585

Anoher question : it’s possible to have several sidebars ? Something like that : https://avada.theme-fusion.com/advanced-admin-panel/unlimited-sidebars/

Thanks, Stane

Hi stane!

1.) Advanced custom post types integration is possible with the original blog and portfolio shortcodes. I’m also currently working on it, to make it really worldclass

2.) Yes, you can have unlimited amounts of sidebars and put them anywhere you want.

Please, send us email through our Profile Page, we have something more to discuss privately.

Thanks and cheers! :)
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Hi there, I am considering this theme, but wanted to know if I can add a standard job board plugin to the site? Apologies if this is an ignorant question.

Hi Wunderace!

I see that you have already made your purchase in the meantime, thank you for faith. Please feel free to go ahead test the plugin now because we don’t have any direct experience with Job Board plugins. If it will not work for whatever reason, we are happy to issue a refund for you, just ask, we want everyone to be 100% happy.

Thanks and cheers! :)

Yes the TwentyTwenty element is great! Please add.

Hi khaledharidi!

Ok, we will add this functionality in next 7 days. In the meantime, since you know these plugins better than us, are there any suitable alternatives? We just want to be sure, that we are adding the best existing plugin.

Thanks and cheers! :)
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Honestly, I’m a total noob! This is my second ever theme purchase but I have used TwentyTwenty in the past to showcae before and after pictures and it works well. I’m super excited building my first site with ARK now. Hopefully the introductory price will last another month so I can purchase more licenses! Thank you guys for your awesome support :)

Hi khaledharidi!

We will be looking into implementing it this week so stay tuned. Thank you again for your suggestion.

Thanks and cheers! :)

I second the request for before & after functionality. This would be a great value add for photographers website and also for web designers to show before and after of a photo or web site design. I also think architecture.

Hi omoge!

Great, we will add this functionality in next 7 days. In the meantime, since you know these plugins better than us, are there any suitable alternatives? We just want to be sure, that we are adding the best existing plugin.

Thanks and cheers! :)
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