Hey Mrmad,

It finally did Nice to hear from you and for getting Zeen!

Sure thing, open up a ticket at http://codetipi.ticksy.com and I’ll help be able to help you out.

Codetipi

Hey Dartiste,

Thanks for checking out Zeen

Yes, the theme is really cleanly coded so you can use other builders in it if you want. Of course you can’t mix Tipi Builder and Elementor on the same page, but you can use Elementor or other builders on specific pages if you like.

And a travel demo is definitely one of the first wave of new demos that will be coming. Although one Zeen customer showed me her amazing travel site that she is planning to use Zeen on and I will be adding it to a “Zeen Customer showcase” section on the description page when she finishes it, so there will be a real example hopefully soon.

Codetipi

Thanks for the reply, excited on your upcoming demos

To be clear, can I add a button or comparison table element from Elementor to a post?

If not, do you have these elements in the Tipi builder?

Also, are there blocks that I can use to build a “As featured on” section in the homepage showing a few brand logos in one horizontal line? Something like this: https://imgur.com/a/stgybpX

You’re welcome

Well posts aren’t controlled by the Tipi Builder. The idea of Zeen is that Gutenberg will eventually control post creation (but the theme will continue to add its own options on top to truly make them powerful/easy/special), and Tipi Builder will create your layouts for your homepage/category/tags/taxonomies. Because even though Gutenberg will eventually be able to control those things too (their long-term plans), I don’t think it’ll ever be able to product results as beautiful as a laser-focused standalone builder like Tipi Builder.

And if Elementor can do that for your posts now, then yeah you can definitely use it in Zeen.

Regarding that Featured on, funnily enough, the real site I mentioned above actually has that same block already and she simply put all the logos in one jpg (recommended to combine images into one for performance anyway), and then added it on her homepage via the Tipi Builder Image block, super easy, and looks similar to that screenshot you shared

Codetipi

Happy you got it sorted Are you enjoying the theme?

So far, so good. Still i have to figure how to add some things i need. But, if I have a problem, I let you know

Cheers!

Sounds good

Hey Cyrilstyle,

Thanks Just typed a response about VC, check it out and let me know if you want to know anything else.

Yeah the theme should be able to handle any site size, it’s usually WordPress the one that can struggle with such a big site

Codetipi

Thank you for speedy answer: I use VC for Homepage and custom page/post layouts. Im sure with tipi builder you wont need it, but just want to make sure it will work while it’s still an active plugin Just for my old articles so they’re not broken.

1) About the URLs, does it count as pageviews every time you go to the next article ? (since it’s Ajax) Because when I go back with my browser arrows, it changes the URLs but not the content ?

2) Is it possible to choose any of the layouts for the default posts?

3) Can we create our own ‘custom layout’? I need a 100% fullwidth, 0 margins or padding, all open from header to footer. Is it something I can do easily?

4) How does the category page layout works ? Can we set a different layout for each category ?

5) How does the images are treated ? if let’s say all my old images are resized for medium at 800px width, does the theme needs to do any type of resizing ? and if yes, can we have it turn off ? (I have a lot of images)

6) how does the self-hosted fonts works ? custom with @fontface or ?

7) Can we add some sort of subscribe callout or info box or ad banners at the bottom of the posts on infinite scroll ? Will it be the same everywhere or can we chose different ones ?

Does the Trending posts comes from Jetpack stat views ?

9) What sort of customization can we do to your Blocks ? Is it possible to add custom CSS to each article if needed ?

Sorry for all the questions, but I’d love to setup and test the theme but im afraid it will need a lot of customizations and things might break and at the end I wont use it…

You’re welcome

I see that you purchased Zeen now, thanks very much for getting it, I hope you enjoy using it!

You’ve probably played around and have answers for everything too, but just very quickly in case someone else wonders the same questions:

1- Yes it is coded to do that

2- Yup, super easy in the theme options > posts you set your default post set up.

3- Layout for what exactly? If it’s a homepage, yeah you can set it up that way.

4- Yes, the Tipi Builder can be used on category/tags/taxonomies too. You can set a default standard layout in the theme options, but for special categories that you want to add extra things, you would use the Tipi Builder in them.

5- You can turn off specific thumbnails from the theme, but like any theme, it has its own needed sizes, and unless your previous theme used identical sizes, you will need to run the “Force regenerate thumbnails” plugin to update them all.

6- Yeah, the theme makes it easier to target elements though and has some instructions in there too.

7- At the end of posts yes, but not on ones loaded via infinite scroll as most ad services don’t allow sites to inject ads into a site this way! May be able to add subscribe box option to load each time though.

8- Yes.

9- You can customize the look in the theme options, make sure to watch this video for better understanding how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKHONci9PCY

Hope this helps

Codetipi

Hey Outloudgreetings,

It is a next generation theme, so I’m happy you say that

The theme hasn’t been tested with VC and definitely doesn’t need it at all, but it should work fine. Out of curiosity, what exactly do you use VC for though? Is it the homepage/posts?

Codetipi

Hey Iamaudience,

Thanks you!

The share buttons block that appear at the end of each new post does work as expected, the urls are the right nows. But I just noticed myself that the sticky bottom bar with social icons doesn’t update as you scroll, is that what you are referring to? If so, that is indeed something that will be tweaked, as it should update as well!

Will likely be part of the next update

Thanks again,

codetipi

Ok! Yeah, the sticky bottom bar. That’s what I’m referring to. Thanks!

Ah yeah cool no worries, that has been added to the to-do list. Will try to do it for the next update

Hey Osetin,

Thank you so much, appreciate that

Codetipi

Hey Wezomua,

Thanks for getting Zeen, hope you enjoy it

The theme uses super clean and modern code so that part of performance is covered for you already.

Then you can add any cache plugin you want on to it, the theme demo uses WP Rocket, as it’s my personal favorite one, but W3 Total Cache set up properly is just as fast in my experience.

The CDN is a bonus for extra performance, and they are so cheap these days I’d recommend it to everyone! Obviously though I don’t know any details of your clients, but perhaps they might want to use one too as it’s such as easy extra to add. However, even without CDN, if the hosting company is decent, it should still give great performance.

Other than that, just make sure images are optimized before uploading and you should get amazing performance

Codetipi

Hey MAFMaxFabi,

Thanks for the interest in Zeen

But why do you think the theme won’t work for you? Is there something in specific that you’d like to know about the theme before you make your final decision?

Codetipi

We actually have a site online already. My business partner says we don’t need a new site but I think your theme can add some real value to our site.

I have to create a really good site with your theme which has the ability to convince me and my business partner.

This is why I have to make sure we can refund the theme if it doesn’t turn out good enough. Hope this makes sense.

Since refunds with Envato seem to be pretty easy and you only have to accept, I can take the step and try out your theme.

Ah I see! Makes sense, but can I ask if you wrote on the Zeen landing page chat earlier? Because I answered to your questions there, and we can continue chatting further

Hey Jeffrey,

Thanks so much for checking out Zeen

The theme will be getting lots of new demos over time, and there are plans for more business-type demos in the future. As the Tipi Builder evolves further and if it gets new blocks for business niches, it’ll be easy to create.

Codetipi

Hey again,

Oh I see, you mean add actual custom classes to a block, that is actually super easy to do and can definitely be added. However, in the v1.0.2 update, I added a new mini section at the bottom of a block’s options panel, that gives you a unique class to target that specific block.

Is that enough for your needs, or do you want to create a global X style with class Y, and then you want to apply class Y to certain blocks?

Tipi Builder is only v1, so it will be evolving massively over time depending on user needs/suggestions/requests, so keep them coming

Codetipi

I know the builder is brand new and you’ve had a ton of sales and support questions already… so I totally appreciate your effort and openness to feedback!

I’ve just updated the theme so I’ll check it out! In general though, I think it’s nice to be able to assign custom classes exactly for the reason you mentioned—to apply global styles if needed

Do you think it’s possible to add a custom CSS panel to the Tipi Builder? I know that it’s there in the options panel, but it would definitely be helpful to have it in the builder too so you can avoid going back and forth between the builder and the theme options panel. Not essential… but just something I’ve had to do a lot while customizing my elements further

Absolutely, the direction of the evolution of Zeen and Tipi Builder are going to mostly come from you guys, so it will always be open and all feedback welcome

Once the dust has settled a bit more I’ll be able to look into bigger new features properly, and a custom css panel inside the builder is definitely a possibility.

Thanks again, and for now if you can put all your suggestions in a single ticket in the support system, I’ll eventually get around to going it through with you. Just try to be succinct though please, as my brain is overloading at the moment from so much activity everywhere

Hey MacJosetty,

Thanks very much, I hope you enjoy using it

V1.0.2 was just released, and it fixes some early discovered quirks, so recommended to update

Codetipi

Hey Pixerex,

Thank you

Codetipi

Streling!!! Nice to see you So happy you like it and I’ve barely slept over the last 48 hours, so that makes two of us

Just released v1.0.2 to fix some quirks with the demo import in case you plan on using that.

Best of luck with your client!

Chris

Codetipi

Rated 5 stars BIGTIME (of course, all of your work is Chri$!!) and had this built in like an hour https://zeentheme.demo.site/ WOW! (and thanks for including images, that’s always a pet peeve of mine with so many free royalty high quality images sites now never understand why many developers don’t include image) . Curious man, if I import a demo into a partially built current client build -very frustrated w this theme https://l7productions.demo.site/- will it delete the current pages and images and menu etc? LOVE ZEEN 100!!! Hope you can get some rest soon brother Codetipi #welldeserved and Hope this WP bad boy explode$ in sales!!

Amazing Sterling, really happy you’re loving it

The only thing is that the demo images are actually 100% not meant to be included as they are under license, I had a look and it’s a bug in the script that processed the demo files and is updated right now! So I’m afraid to say that can you please delete the images and set some Unsplash ones! You can do it super easy with this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/instant-images/ as you can search for relevant niche ones in there, super easy.

Codetipi

Hey Bactriane17,

Sure thing, here is one example of a caption in an embed:

And an example of a caption on a featured image:

Hope this helps

Codetipi

I’m sorry but I don’t speak Arabic! But thank you for the glws

Hey TmdStudio

Thank you very much

Codetipi

Hey Frbuttpk,

Thanks for checking out Zeen and for the kind words

Ah that is because the $39 was for the first 100 customers, so it has expired now I’m afraid. Sorry that you missed it! The next 100 customers are still getting an amazing deal at $54 though

Regarding the mobile site, that is actually on purpose, in the Tipi Builder you can set modules to appear/not appear on mobile, so to show this feature, the desktop/mobile look different.

However, if you prefer, you can also have the same blocks on both desktop/mobile, it’s complete up to you.

Thanks again!

Chris

Hey again,

That’s so lovely to hear

Regarding CSS to individual elements, do you mean to target individual blocks? If so, That is already possible! Let me know and also tell me what exactly you want to customize and I can advise and explain the Tipi Builder approach.

And yes please, if you can put it all in a ticket in the support system it will be easy to go through it all.

Thanks again

Codetipi

Hey Kiko91,

Did you try here: http://codetipi.ticksy.com ? Because there has already been a ticket for Zeen added earlier, so I think it is working fine.

Let me know so I can look into it!

Codetipi