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hi guys,
is it possible to display the blog sidebar on the left?
Thanks
Hey 0754ben84, this would require custom css:
.blog #post-area {
padding-right: 0;
float: right;
padding-left: 40px;
}
Cheers
I have installed a fresh copy of the theme on my local machine. I am not not importing any demos, just creating my website from scratch.
The mobile navigation the fresh install is using is the one shown in the corporate theme. Example: http://imgur.com/a/Vfq1P
How can I change it and make it look like the Modern Creative theme. Example: http://imgur.com/a/Vfq1P
I could not find a way to do that in the settings.
Also, when do you think we will get new updates? 
Thanks
Hey seseskiz,
1. This is covered in the documentation under the “Header Sticky On Mobile” option http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/theme-options/header-navigation/
2. This week – the beta has been out and currently being tested
Cheers
I purchased Salient a number of years ago and have used it at least 10 times – best theme ever btw! However, lately I’m having some issues with the numbers and navigation arrows on my minimal testimonial slider and cannot seem to figure out what is causing them to break (go to http://176.efa.myftpupload.com/ and scroll down towards the bottom). I am using the latest version of Salient (7.6) and have the latest WP version installed (4.7.2). Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!
Hey bentraynham!
It seems your style.css file is version 7.5.02, you’re missing the 7.6 styles for the minimal testimonial slider – can you try updating again? http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/updating-salient/
Cheers
Can you make the menu smaller when you scroll down the page?
Hey tumarcaenfacebook, yes – in the Salient options panel > header navigation > animation effects tab
Hi,
Can you see any good reason why the nectar slider has some sort of strange shake upon slider change here: bcomesafe.com? You have to wait a couple of seconds for it to rotate.
By the way, it only happens in FireFox.
Thanks a lot!
Hey rocapress!
What version of the theme are you currently using?
Cheers
Hi,
Version 6.1.65
Sincerely, Mika
Mika,
Have you tried updating to the current version? This was an issue with the latest FF in earlier versions of the theme http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/updating-salient/
Cheers
Hi, I haven’t but we will do that
Sounds good
Hello,
I am looking for the social icons for the secondary header in v7.6. I can find them in the footer, but not the header.
I usually just replace soundcloud with fa-houzz or fa-yelp or whatever the icon the client wants. I am just not finding it in the header.php for v7.6. >.<
Any help is greatly appreciated.
nvm, I found it hanging out in the functions.php
Hey clixgroup,
Glad to hear you’ve taken care of it
Cheers
I have been having issues since I purchased this over a year ago. I noticed since I installed this that my website is so insanely slow. I don’t understand why or how to fix this. Does anyone else have issues relating to this or any suggested fixes. I don’t have anything complex on my site, just large images. My site is www.jokermartini.com I need help please!
Hey JokerMartini,
1. You have images on your page over 1MB in size, one of them is 4MB https://jokermartini.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/curly_paintswatches.jpg – that is in no way suitable to be displayed on the web – you should be aiming for under 400kb, please compress your images properly
2. You have not enabled gzip compression, page caching or minfication on your setup – these are crucial for a high performing website, not just with Salient. For this I recommend using a plugin called W3 Total cache
Cheers
Thanks for the info i appreciate it. Do I need to delete all the images on my website and upload smaller ones. Or can I just upload new ones and change my posts to use them?
How can you tell I haven’t enabled gzip compression, page caching or minfication?
Thanks john
I’m working on uploading smaller images, however i noticed even when i change the images and click ‘Update’ it takes several minutes sometimes for the project to update. So not only is the site slow but so is the admin back-end. If you run my website using googles site analyzer you’ll see scripts from salient are blocked: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Hey, to reduce the penalty from “Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content” in Google page speed, you can enable javascript and css minification in W3 total cache – images shouldn’t take minutes to update after uploading new ones unless they’re cached. Have you verified that this happens even when clearing your cache?
Ok great info, thanks ill do that. I’ve started reducing and compression my images and that has sped up my website and admin page all around.
Just for added info, GoDaddy blocks the W3 plugin from being used on their severs since they handle the caching and stuff on their end automatically. However I’ll lookin into some other plugins for enabling mini css and javascript enabling. thanks
Sounds good and thanks for letting me know
Problem with links not functioning on mobile devices. I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction as I’m having issues with links not working when viewing a site on a mobile device.
I have found that the issue relates to z-index values but I can’t see why it has become an issue and how to get around it on a site-wide basis.
If you go to http://www.defencelabtraining.co.uk/contact/ and view on a mobile you will see that the links to ‘View Class Times’ does not function but when flipping to desktop view it works fine.
Now, if you go to http://www.defencelabtraining.co.uk/about-us/self-defence-surrey/ and repeat the mobile/desktop view you will see that the links function in both formats. I have achieved this by creating a range of media query and targeted css rules. In this instance, the following rule was applied to get the links to work; .vc_col-sm-6.wpb_column.column_container.vc_column_container.col.no-extra-padding.instance-4 { z-index:auto!important; }
Another example of where I have had to make targeted css rules can be see here – http://www.defencelabtraining.co.uk/defencelab-morden/ with the css of;
.vc_col-sm-4.wpb_column.column_container.vc_column_container.col.no-extra-padding.instance-11 { z-index: auto!important; }
The problem really is, apart from being an enormous task of creating unique css rules and the fact that if you have a nested block it then renders the targeted css redundant, I really need a way of getting the links to be active as a site-wide fix. I really hope you can help out as I’ve been through the site backwards and forwards and cannot see how to get around this.
Hey jjsolutions, no extra coding or css should be needed to allow anchors to function on mobile devices – I checked your URL http://www.defencelabtraining.co.uk/contact/ on three different smartphones so far (iPhone 6s/7s and a Google pixel) and none of them had issues opening either of the “View Class Times” links. Please let me know what phone you’re using so I can test on that specific device to see what’s going on
Cheers
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately though not all links are fully active, on this page – http://www.defencelabtraining.co.uk/about-us/what-is-defence-lab/ if you scroll down to the email link you will see it is not functioning on a phone but does on a desktop device
Hey,
That issue is being created by css added by your plugin “widgetize-pages-light”
You can either deactivate it or add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel to cancel the offending snippet out:
@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
body [class*="column"] + [class*="column"]:last-child {
float: left;
}
}
I am trying to do the following:
-create a white or transparent background for the navigation menu to overlay the images in the header -stop the navigation from appearing when I scroll to the footer of the website. -move the sub-navigation menu up
Hey ppsadmin,
1. You can enable the transparent header in the Salient options panel > header navigation tab > transparency tab
2. An option for this is coming in the upcoming release due out this week
3. Add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
body[data-dropdown-style="minimal"] .sf-menu > li > ul {
margin-top: -30px!important;
}
Cheers
Thanks so much…the probably, I am having with the transparency is that I see a yellow background rather than seeing the image that’s in the header.
Hey,
Do you have the option on for “Force Transparency On Navigation” in your page header settings metabox in the edit page screen?
Cheers
Hello Guys, Do you have a date this week when the update is going to be released? Just so we know when to check back in with you
Hey Allanr101, don’t know which day yet but it will be out this week sometime – the beta has been distributed and people have already been testing it out
Cheers
Hey Salient, Got a small issue with your theme. It’s about Woocommerce & Polylang. When somebody buys an item, it says “[PRODUCT] has been added to your cart” then the link on the right. But the link goes to the english cart, even if we are on the french website. Do you know what I could do to fix it? Thanks.
The website : 1642sodas.ca
Hey alexandreminem,
Have you checked out this plugin yet? https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-poly-integration/
Cheers
Hi lovely Team Salient! Quick question- I want one of my header menu links to open in a new tab. Whats the easiest way to do this? The text is linking out to an off-site page, so I’d like to have it open in a different tab
Hey Liyte!
In appearance > menus click on the screen options tab in the top right corner and then check the box for “link target”
Cheers
You ROCK. Thanks so much.
You’re very welcome
Hey guys,
I’ve tested my site (www.luminous.com.uy) with google PageSpeed Insights and the results are extremely low. I’ve activated W3 Total Cache (page/browser) and BWP Minify and still not much of an improvement. I’m not sure but I think minification is not working for some reason. Could you please help me with this? Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards
Hey sressi,
Your page speed results show that:
1. you do not have gzip compression on https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/EnableCompression – W3 total can enable this as long as it can write to your htaccess file
2. You don’t have browser caching on – if you’ve set it on via W3, it’s possible that it can’t write to your htaccess to actually set the rules. Have you looked in your htaccess to see if it’s added things?
3. You can actually just use the minifcation within w3, there’s no need to separate it via bwp minify anymore.
I’m going to write up a guide for optimization covering these topics when the upcoming theme release is out
Cheers
disregard
Hey gethooked, glad to hear you’ve sorted it
Hi, Menu on mobile is not working and You wrote that new version will fix this (that was 3 months ago…). SO for now – menu for mobile is not working if anyone wants to buy this theme.
Hey peter14pl,
there is no known issue that causes the mobile menu to not work all together – can you please elaborate on what you’re referring to as I can’t find any previous comments under this username
Cheers
www.dubrovniktransfer.eu
All of a sudden there is a problem with secondary menu:
http://i.imgur.com/dAyewvz.pngPlease advise
Hey www.dubrovniktransfer.eu, it seems to be from the icon mod you’ve added in – in order to fix that you’d need to following css
#header-secondary-outer [class*="fa-"] {
height: 8px;
line-height: 8px;
}
Unfortuntaely I do not have support anymore, but I do have a question:
On a PC I am showing a backgroundvideo. On a mobile I would like to show a full background image, but this does not seem to work properly in the VC plugin. As I have to set padding for the videobackground this padding also shows on the mobile when setting the background image. I have added a ticket about this before (https://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/992032/), but still on a mobile the background image does not look good in an upright position of the mobile. How can I fix this?
Link: http://hub88.nl
Thank you.
regards,
Richard
Hey Richard,
I’m not currently seeing a video BG on that URL, is it located on a sub page of your URL?
Cheers
Hi, we removed the BG video and added an background image. On mobile the BG image is not there only a button.
Thanks for your reply.
For now it is okay. Regards, Richard
Hello! In your new demo (http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-app/#), is it possible to have larger pages. I love the functionality of what you have here but the individual pages are a little too short. Ideally, it would be great to be able to scroll the page down and then when it reaches the bottom of that coloured section, then move to the next coloured section? Does that make any sense? Is that possible?
Hey tris3d,
You can have a scrollbar in every section when using full page rows – that demo just has the overflow set to hidden
Cheers
Excellent! Thanks for getting back to me. I’ll look to purchase this soon then.
Sorry, one last question… are there any tutorials on setting the above demo up? My website skills are fairly limited. Or, are the demo pages included so you can use as a template? Sorry, last question I promise.
Hey again! The demos are included to import via the Salient options panel & there is documentation as well: http://themenectar.com/docs/salient
Thanks again for your help! Purchased!
Cheers!
Hi,
The last couple of days when I have tried to visit my site at http://www.[...].se/, the site for some reason redirects to http://www.[...].se/sv/ and nothing then shows properly.
Believe this was after an update of some sort, but did not know the theme was going to be affected.
Please have a look and tend to this matter are you so kind. My support has expired, but I do believe this should be covered by your warranty or for quality purposes.
Please get back to me.
Cheers, Mr. Cross
Hey Mr. Cross,
please share your actual URL in regards as you currently have removed the domain name in your above link
Cheers
Thanks, could you let me know what your permalink settings are and if this issue only occurs when Salient is the active theme?
Permalink settings (default, date and name):
http://www.nyskaparna.se/2017/02/14/exempel-inlagg/Product permalink settings (standard):
http://www.nyskaparna.se/produkt/sample-product/Yes, this is for Salient.
Please send an email with your admin credentials using my author page https://themeforest.net/user/themenectar
Hi, I sent an email as you said, with admin credentials, 9 days ago but haven’t gotten any respons or the problem fixed. I just used the email/message form on the page you linked to. Was that correct?
Hey – sorry for the delay! I just logged in and did a quick test of activating twenty seventeen and can still see the sv being added to your URL. Since it’s not theme related, have you tried to reach out to your hosting company in regards?
Cheers
Call to Action won’t go away! When using child salient theme, I can’t get rid of the call to action. I’ve deleted all text, and even changed text, but the call to action (CTA) will not change. I’ve installed caching plugin and purged all cache; un-installed caching plugin; deleted all cache and cookies from my browser, viewed site from a different browser, but old CTA content persists.
Odd thing is if I change the color settings for call to action, the new colors appear on site, but nothing I do to the text will work. When I save settings, the new text, or empty text shows in the settings, but front of site keeps showing old text. Even when I click to reset the section, the CTA still appears. I’ve had to change back to regular Salient theme (not child theme) in order to remove CTA.
Hey porpie,
Please open a ticket in regards with your admin credentials so I can take a look into the setup as there’s no known issue like this https://themenectar.ticksy.com/
Cheers
