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Another thing:
FAVICON : I’m using a favicon plugin, but the favicon is being overwritten by your favicon. What can I do about that? Can you either let me chose a favicon from within your theme options or let me use standard WordPress functionality?
Thanks.
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Hi,
If you already have V1.3 the favicon can be edited under Mercina Options>General tab just below the logo image.
Thanks for the purchase 
I bought and downloaded the theme yesterday. I only have version 1.2. WordPress doesn’t show that an update is available. How can I download version 1.3?
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Hi,
You are right… Wordpress is still not warning about the update, because only now I have update the xml file that’s responsible for the update warning message. Sorry 
Anyway, with or without that message, you should re-download the file package from here and upload the files to your server.
Thanks!
I just downloaded the theme again and attempted to use the WordPress uploader to install it, but I received this message:
Unpacking the package… Installing the theme… Destination folder already exists. /home/accountname/public_html/2012/wp-content/themes/mercina/ Theme install failed.
How do I install the update to the theme without losing any of my settings?
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I worked with Pirenko on this. I unzipped the new theme file locally and FTPed it to my server. The update is working nicely.
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Hi there,
This is a beautiful theme and your responsiveness with support and feature suggestions convinced me to buy the theme yesterday. I’m looking forward to Now, of course, I have lots of questions and ideas. 
QUESTIONS :
1) NAVIGATION MENU ALIGNMENT : Is it possible to either left-justify or center the pages?
2) DEFAULT BODY FONT SIZE : I see that I can change the default body font, but how do I change the font size?
3) FONT COLORS : I would really, really like to be able to chose different colors for the navigation link versus the page titles and other text. Have I overlooked how to do that? Is that possible?
4) NEWSLETTER SIGNUP : I use the services of www.mailchimp.com for my newsletter. How would I integrate that into my website so that the signup is prominent? I see that you have a newsletter letter signup option but that’s not robust like the MailChimp system.
5) BACKGROUND IMAGES : Is there some way to specify background images for specific pages? For example, I’m a photographer. I would love to have different background images that correspond to the content of each page. (e.g. a portrait photo in the background of the portraits page, a newborn photo in the background of the newborn section, etc.)
6) CLICK MENU CATEGORIES : I have menu categories set up such as “portraits” as the category with a few pages underneath it. With this theme, visitor can’t go to the menu category page. If they click “portraits”, then menu opens, which is great, but I also need the visitor to be able to go to that page. How would that work?
COMMENTS :
- Under “Mercina options” there’s a typo: “Backgorund Pattern”. I thought you should know.
Again, thanks for a great theme. By the way, I have family in Portugal. Regards from Canada.
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Hi,
Greetings from Portugal then
About your questions:
1 – Maybe I didn’t quite got it… You already have the option to center or left align everything. Isn’t this what you are talking about?
2 – I decided not to include this option on the Mercina Options. It should be as simple as adding some custom CSS to the respective textarea. For instance try adding:body{font-size:16px;}
3 – It’s possible but in this case it’s more tricky. Send me an email with the specific colors you need. I’ll see what can be done…
4 – The theme newsletter just sends an email so that you can process it in your own way. Anyway there’s a plugin to do what you want: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp-widget/
5 – Please read the FAQ ’s of this file. It’s possible to do what you want. And easy
6 – You can create a separate menu button (with no child buttons) or you can create a custom child button (with “view all” text or something like that) and make it link to the page you want. All of this is achieved on Dashboard>Appearence>Menus
Typo will be fixed on next update. Thanks!
Cheers 
> 1 – Maybe I didn’t quite got it… You already have the option to > center or left align everything. Isn’t this what you are talking about?
I’m talking about being able to change the alignment of navigation menu items. In Mercina Options > General > Styling > Content Alignment I’ve chosen “centered”, but my menu is still right-justified. See http://www.leroyschulz.com/2012. Are we talking about different things?
> 2 – I decided not to include this option on the Mercina Options. > It should be as simple as adding some custom CSS to the respective > textarea. For instance try adding: > body{font-size:16px;}
So you won’t reconsider adding that as an option that can be set through the Mercina Options panel? My CSS knowledge is weak. Where do I add the code you mentioned?
> 3 – It’s possible but in this case it’s more tricky. Send me an email > with the specific colors you need. I’ll see what can be done…
These are color options that I would like to be able to control from Mercina Options:
- Menu navigation item (normal) - Menu navigation item (hovered/selected) - Menu navigation sub-item (normal) - Menu navigation sub-item (hovered/selected) - Page title - Page title background box - Header text
Are those options possible?
> 4 – The theme newsletter just sends an email so that you can process > it in your own way. Anyway there’s a plugin to do what you want: > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp-widget/
I just had a look at that. It installed okay, but it is ugly. 
I’ll see what I can do about that.
> 5 – Please read the FAQ ’s of this file. It’s possible to do > what you want. And easy
Ah, I didn’t see FAQ in the documentation that I downloaded, but I see FAQ on this ThemeForest page now.
> 6 – You can create a separate menu button (with no child > buttons) or you can create a custom child button (with > “view all” text or something like that) and make it link to > the page you want. All of this is achieved on > Dashboard>Appearence>Menus
Sorry, I’m not following that. At http://www.leroyschulz.com/2012/ is there no way for the “Portraits” menu item to link to the portraits page in addition to expanding on the items underneath it?
Thank you for the prompt answers!
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These are all kind of special requests and help with some tweaks so I think it’s better we keep them private. I don’t wont other users to mess up their files by following some tricky instructions I might place here…
Email me through my profile page and we’ll take it from there.
Thanks!
Done. Thank you.
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All resolved. Thank you!
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Thank you for super quick reply!
I am using WP-mail-SMTP.
What line do I change and from what to what?
I guess I should change/replace the X-mail line?
Looking forward to Your answer
Cheers!
Hi,
On line 22 you have all the info obtained from the email form. You “just” have to set correctly the email parameters to make it work with your SMTP service. I just can’t go any further than this, because it really depends on your email configs. Here’s the line of code that sends the email:
$mail_result = mail($admin_mail, $subject, $message,$headers);
Hi there Pirenko.
I bought this theme and build a website hosted by a web hotel. We use google apps for our email. How can I set the mercina theme to use smtp mail on the contact page?
Will it also be possible to add “like on facebook” buttons for posts and pages in Your theme?
Best regards and thank you for an outstanding theme!
Christer Hansson www.clubsally.se (we actually made our logo before we saw ur theme logo… :-))
Hi,
Thanks for your kind comments
1 – To use different email configurations you should edit the pirenko_contact_form.php located on the includes folder.
2 – There are a lot of wordpress plugins that make this process very easy and straightforward. Anyway I might implement one of them on a future update, because you aren’t the first to ask this.
Cheers!
So, I’m not seeing: - block quotes - bulleted lists - numbered lists - proper line spacing (hard return vs. soft return)
Will this be included in the future?
Why not? I’ll work on those for update 1.4 (I’m just finishing 1.3). Can you clarify the hard return/soft return thing?
Thanks
I see the video or featured image at the very bottom of the slider area and it’s cut off. I am unsure how to fit the featured image or video into the slider space.
Hi,
The slider default dimensions are 713×380px. What size are you using? Anyway what you are saying is strange abou the images, because they should scale to fit the slider. If you still have any issues please send me a link so that I can see why is it behaving like that.
Thank you for the purchase!
Great theme! Just downloaded yesterday and Im a very happy person! Just a few things, where can I find the shortcodes for this theme?
cheers,
John
Hi,
Oops… I forgot to include the shortcodes on the help file. Will be available on the next update. What shortcodes do you need right away?
The text layout shortcodes would be ace. Is there any tab style shortcodes or anything or just the basic layouts?
Cheers
Hi,
You can see the shortcode tags here http://www.munto.net/mercina/short-codes/ and here http://www.munto.net/mercina/text-page/
Let me know if you need any additional ones.
Hi, nice theme, i will purchase. Just one question. I really would like Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ to show on each blog post (top preferably), so I can share each individual post on the desired social platform. Is this currently possible? I don’t see it. Thanks!
Hi,
At this moment with the theme itself no, but there are some worpress plugins that can help you achieve it in an easy way.
Thanks!
Maybe a real stupid question. But where can i upload my images for the slider, made the slider pages but can’t seem to find the image uploader/chagner.
Hi,
Slide images are the Featured Image of the slides custom post type. If you want to use a video you should paste the code on the Video HTML code textfield.
Cheers!
hi,
thanks for the prompt response.
just on the news as blog, i noticed that your news articles are actually titled as blog and each news article is actually a blog post. if it needs to be done manually, can you please tell he how.
maybe it would be easier if you have sample data to populate the theme?
thanks!
I can export the content of the preview in XML format. Then you can import it and all you have to do is change the images. Send me an email through my profile page and I’ll send this file to you.
Thanks
hi pirenko,
great theme. after shopping for a week for a blog framework, i knew i had it when i saw this theme. looks great out of the box, but just a few questions:
> will there be a pinterest social media icon? > can the slider effect be changed? > how do i change the favicon? > i bought this as a blog framework. how do i set the news and portfolio to point to blog posts, and how can i set the menu to point to blog topics instead of pages?
thanks!
The other questions are alerady responded and I’ll add the pinterest social media icon on the nesx update (in about 3/days).
Cheers
hi pirenko,
for one week now i have been looking for a blog theme that would be perfect for my company. when i first saw your theme, i knew this is the one. really looks great out of the box! just have a few questions:
> how do i set up the entire site to behave like a blog, all blog posts appear on the news section and portfolio section and the menu pages point to blog categories? > how do i edit the favicon? > can the slider effect be changed? > i have already filled out the contact form but how do how do i create the actual contact page?
www.century-properties.com/blog
thanks, dada
Hi,
Thank you for your comments!
Here are your answers:
1 – Not possible, because I architected it this way and it’s complicated to revert. What you can do is to grab on current blog posts and turn them into Mercina news posts. This has to be done manually, but I can help you if needed.
2 – The favicon must be changed manually at this point (it’s the favicon.ico file inside the images folder). I’ll make the update available on the control panel on the next update.
3 – You can change the speed and easing. Please check https://github.com/ProLoser/AnythingSlider/wiki and edit the mercina_functions.js file if needed.
4 – Create a page and on the right side Page Attributes Panel set the template to Contact Page.
Hi Pirenko,
Thanks for the awesome theme! I’ve been looking for weeks at templates and yours is perfect! A few questions/comments:
1. Is there a way to change the portfolio light box to a difference color (I want a dark color)?
2. My website is a video portfolio and my homepage features a vimeo video in a slide. Is there a way to move the slide down to line it up to the buttons, rather than have it at the very top? I tried adjusting this in the theme settings under “slider”. (Show Slider on Homepage – bottom) but it doesn’t seem to affect placement.
3. This is more of a request than a question. It would be awesome if there was a “play” icon when you hovered over a video in the portfolio rather than the loop for pictures.
Thanks in advance for your help! Nina
Hello and thanks for the purchase,
1 – Please open the mercina_functions.js inside the js folder and search for this text:$jscript("a[rel^='prettyPhoto']").prettyPhoto(); (you should have 3 occurrences). Replace it with the following code:
$jscript("a[rel^='prettyPhoto']").prettyPhoto({
theme: 'dark_rounded', });
For more info on skins please visit http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/documentation/
2 – Throw this code into your Custom CSS textarea on the Mercina Options>General Tab (30px is the amount to move down):
#homepage_slider_holder {
margin-top: 30px;
}
3 – I didn’t understood this question: Are you embeding a video from where? Youtube and Vimeo should display a video play button…
Hi again,
Thank you for the clear and fast instructions- much appreciated!
As for my third question, I’m referring to the portfolio page here:http://janinamaria.com/videos/
When you hover over any of the pictures, a loop and a chain icon comes up. These are all videos, so it would be nice to see a play icon instead. I have embedded vimeo videos and used featured images as the thumbnails (the “use featured image in slideshow” option is off).
Another thing-
As mentioned, my main page features a video in a slider. I saw in another response you gave that the defaut dimension as 713×380px. When I set my video to play in this dimension I get the slider lines on the right and bottom. Alternatively, when I make the dimensions larger my video gets cropped. I’m trying to figure out how to get rid of those lines- viewable here: http://janinamaria.com/
Thanks for your awesomeness
Nina
Hi,
About nr 1: I’ll implement it on the next update (in a few days).
About nr 2: I visited your website and could not see any lines… Can you send me a printscreen and tell me what browser you are using?
Thanks!
Hi Pirenko -
Bought this theme yesterday – great work by the way, it’s an awesome theme!
I want to use images with transparent backgrounds in the home slider. However when I do so there is a default partially transparent white background. Is there a way to switch this off?
Many thanks -
Bryon
Hi,
Thanks for the purchase!
Throw this code into your Custom CSS textarea on the Mercina Options>General Tab (the 0 value is the opacity):
#slides_container
{
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)!important;
}
Cheers!
Thank you for such a quick reply! That worked, thank you.
I also wanted to include on the homepage some text information that isn’t the Portfolio or the News.
I there a way to add text to the homepage? Again I would want to do this on a transparent background.
You can set a title. Is this what you want? You can turn it on the Mercina Options. If you want a smaller block of text send me an email with more info. I’ll add that option on the next update.
Hi Pirenko,
First of all, great theme! Love It!
I am currently having a little issue with the Portfolio page. I have set up the Template on my page (now online) www.flightsch.com. In my case the portfolio is titled “Music” on the left hand menu. If you click it, it should bring up all of the categories and everythings works fine – HOWEVER as soon as you chose a specific categorie the roll over stops working! in my case i would chose the categorie “Original” and it will display only the images posted in “Original” but i can not click on them or get the roll over to work?? if i leave the categorie by clicking on “ALL” again, it goes back to the full collection (as it should) but now the roll over is gone and it is also not clickable.
I had the theme running on my local host yesterday and everything seemed to work fine :s
Let me know if you can help.
Thanks
Hi,
I tried to open the link, but it’s not opening (says “error – Forbidden”). I need to test it to see what’s the problem you are having. Let me know when the page is up again. Thanks…
Hey.
Sorry about that, i took it down to reinstall it. i thought it might have been a wordpress fault. turns out its not.
the site is back up www.flightsch.com and the problem is still there.
Let me know
Thanks
Do you have any plugins installed? They might be interfering with the theme scripting. If you have please deactivate them and test the theme again. If you don’t have any can you please give me access to your server? If so please send me an email with the login details please.
Thanks!
Is there a way to turn off the home link in the new version? I can’t find it.
This menu is similar to any other navigation menu: Dashboard>Appearance>Menus and remove the Home Page entry from the mercina_menu.
Cheers
Pirenko, please disregard my previous comment, I got it working. thanks
Ok… Great
Hi Pirenko,
I have just updated the theme to 1.1 but now the slides on the home menu keep flipping very fast even when I turned the auto slide show off. this is my website www.sebastiangraphicsny.com
Please advise Thanks
Sorry one more thing, need the left sidebar to scroll with the page…
Thanks again…
I have implemented that change to optimize it for the iPad and it will be available on the next update. It will be online in the next hours…
Thanks again for you fantastic service… Its a rare attribute…
