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Regarding the Portfolio element, is there an option to style the thumbnail element. More specifically, can the grey “card” color be changed to white? If not, no worries.
See link below for an example of what I’m referring to: https://www.dropbox.com/s/our9boook34slc8/Photo%20May%2023%2C%203%2015%2007%20PM.jpg?dl=0
Hey arteest,
Can you please share your actual URL in regards so that I can assist?
Cheers
Sure. You can find it here: https://bit.ly/3gomhEj
Overlook the mess. The site is still a work in progress and about a week from completion.
Thanks arteest 
add this into the custom css box located in the Salient options panel > general settings > css/script related tab:
body .portfolio-items .col {
background-color: transparent;
}
And is their a way to add a soft under-construction page until the site is built?
Hey gorangagrawal5, Salient doesn’t have that built in as there are many free popular plugins that offer that such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/
Cheers
I always get an error while updating salient
Update Failed: <!DOCTYPE html> <!--[if lt IE 7]> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7]> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 8]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <!--<![endif]--> | 524: A timeout occurred <!--[if lt IE 9]><![endif]--> body{margin:0;padding:0} Error 524 Ray ID: 597e7294ef63dc4b • 2020-05-23 11:32:34 UTC A timeout occurred <!-- /.error-overview --> You Browser Working London Cloudflare Working Host Error <!-- /.status-display --> What happened? The origin web server timed out responding to this request. What can I do? If you're a visitor of this website: Please try again in a few minutes. If you're the owner of this website: The connection to the origin web server was made, but the origin web server timed out before responding. The likely cause is an overloaded background task, database or application, stressing the resources on your web server. To resolve, please work with your hosting provider or web development team to free up resources for your database or overloaded application. Additional troubleshooting information here. <!-- /.section --> Cloudflare Ray ID: 597e7294ef63dc4b • Your IP: 122.169.6.226 • Performance & security by Cloudflare <!-- /.error-footer --> <!-- /#cf-error-details --> <!-- /#cf-wrapper -->
And I do have Cloudflare service running. Please suggest what should I do to smoothly update the theme next time
Hey gorangagrawal5,
Are you updating by using the Envato Market plugin or another method? Does the update go through after that message is displayed, or do you have to manually amend it afterwards?
I went to Appearance > Themes > Salient > Update
Hey also I have WordFence installed with Firewall in learning mode but still I am not able to edit pages in Front End Editor mode! Previously on learning mode I was able to do it…
Hey gorangagrawal5,
1. For the next update can you try one of the alternative methods and see if the error still occurs for you? http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/updating-salient/#methods 2. Does the editor load when you disable WordFence? I would need to see the error occur in order to help troubleshoot it. Please reach out via the contact form on my author page in regards with temporary admin access: https://themeforest.net/user/themenectarThanks
1. Method 1 I tried updating from Envato, and it just says updating, after a while, I get an error.
There has been a critical error
Method 2 & 3 Works! As I have to do it manually.
2. Yes, I tried disabling Wordfence, tried editing a page, and it works!
I will contact you
Sounds good gorangagrawal5
Hey! Can I center the logo on the mobile in any way? I want the search icon on the left, the logo centered and the menu on the right.
Hey AlexanderMJ,
You can use the following CSS in regards:
@media only screen and (max-width: 1000px) {
#header-outer[data-has-menu=true] #top .span_3 {
width: auto;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
z-index: 9000;
}
#header-outer .mobile-search {
float: left;
}
#header-outer .row .col.span_9 {
width: 100%!important;
}
}
Cheers
Hi and thanks! I tested, it first seemed to work. But on the mobile, the logo jumps to the left as soon as you press it. And the logo is not linked to the homepage anymore?
Hey AlexanderMJ, can you please share your URL in regards?
Thanks
Thanks,
I’m not seeing the snippet active in your setup – could you please add it back in and regenerate your minified/cached css?
Also, the correct the logo link issue, the z-index would need to be changed to be higher. Here’s an updated version:
@media only screen and (max-width: 1000px) {
#header-outer[data-has-menu=true] #top .span_3 {
width: auto;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
z-index: 90000;
}
#header-outer .mobile-search {
float: left;
}
#header-outer .row .col.span_9 {
width: 100%!important;
}
}
It is now live. Please check this out pretty quickly as I do not want a page that looks broken Thanks again for all the help, it is really extremely appreciated.
Hey, try to explicitly set the width instead of making it “auto” in this segment:
#header-outer[data-has-menu=true] #top .span_3 {
width: 120px;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
z-index: 90000;
}
Hello again! Now we are close! The logo is good now. But now you have to press the menu twice for something to happen. I’m so sorry to have to bother you.
I just saw that I get side scrolling also on posts.
Hey AlexanderMJ, Before you removed the snippet again I was unable to replicate the issue. What device and browser version are you experiencing the double click in?
Hi team Salient.
How do I translate manually the text in portfolio navigation “previous project” and “next project”??? I searched po/mo files in
wp-content > themes > salient > lang
But I did not find anything. Will you tell me please the correct path cause I didn´t like to install a translation plugin for 2 simple terms.
Thx and regards.
Hey born-design,
Those strings are located in the ‘salient-portfolio’ text domain – the .pot file for that is located at wp-content/plugins/salient-portfolio/languages
Cheers
Whaoo, thx a lot for prompt answering. Salient rules!
Sorry 4 bothering you again, sth. is wrong:
I created po-Files in de_DE and en_EN and inserted here:
/wp-content/plugins/salient-portfolio/languages
but it did not work. What i am doing wrong?
Thx again and regards.
Hey born-design, You need to place the plugin text domain before the language code on the .po/.mo like so:
salient-portfolio-de_DE.po
Cheers
Hello Phil,
In Recent Post > Multiple Larged Featured: translation of the button “Read Article” in the PO file is missing. Can you correct that! thanks
Hey RV73
That string is located in the ‘salient-core’ text domain – the .pot file for that is located at wp-content/plugins/salient-core/languages
http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/translations/#text-domainsCheers
Hey, Lol that’s right, i didn’t think about this file Thanks! Cheers 
You’re welcome RV73
Hello,
Highly interested in this theme.
Just wanted to if we can:
1. Add a contact form on the homepage (name, contact number, email, message) to book a call or something like that.
2. Add a call to action with a phone number, so that if a customer clicks on the button, he/she is directly taken to the phone dialer with the number copied?
Thank You
Hey karanbhagat,
1. Salient doesn’t have its own form system, but works and provides styling for popular form plugins such as Contact form 7, Gravity forms etc. You can place instances of those anywhere you desire through the page builder
2. You can use the regular HTML tel: protocol to have that functionality. So when entering your number in a link, you prepend it with tel: like so tel:123-456-7890
Cheers
Error displaying images from gallery: Look the second and third picture in this url: https://imgur.com/a/GUrCfz6 that’s what I see the gallery from firefox (windows), chrome (windows) and chrome (mac / apple), all different users.
url with issue: https://demo.segurihost.com/masai/portfolio/loto/If you can’t reproduce the error, please reload the page 1, 2 or 3 times. sometimes it breaks
Hey segurihost,
It looks like that issue might be occurring due to some third party lazy loading you have active. The image gallery would need to be excluded from that in order to calculate correctly. Can you please try and deactivate that for testing?
Hi there, grerat theme, we have used it many times.
We can’t seem to find a solution to restrict the length of an excerpt is its been put in manually. Do you have a script for this? WE want to still put in manual excerpts but have the option to restrict the words to 15.
Thanks
Hey Lucas-media,
Add this into your child theme functions.php file
add_filter( 'wp_trim_excerpt', 'salient_child_filter_wp_trim_excerpt', 10, 2 );
function salient_child_filter_wp_trim_excerpt( $text, $raw_excerpt ) {
$trimmed_text = wp_trim_words($text, 10, '...');
return $trimmed_text;
}
Hey there, perfect, works a charm. Exactly what were looking for!
Glad I could help, Lucas-media
Hello,
Sorry for my english…
I purchased Salient today. I trying to insert a video background on my home page (like Salient eCommerce Creative demo, in background with the title “The New Summer Look”), but my it doesn’t work…
Thanks
I imported the demo, but no video is displayed. Not even the Youtube links already inserted.
Hey LFB_Productions,
Please share your URL in regards so that I can take a look at the setup.
Thanks in advance
Feature Request: The Ability to Duplicate a Nectar Slide.
If you can’t tell, I’m hard at work cranking out a new design with Salient. You’ll have to check it out when it drops in a few days.
Hey arteest, Sounds good
Cheers
Hi TN,
I’ve got a string of characters in the Nectar slider that I don’t ever want to have split over different lines (which can happen on smaller screen sizes).
At the moment I’m using the following, and HTML has worked in previous versions of Salient, but it seems to be stripping it now and I’m not sure if that’s on the Wordpress side or Salient’s.
Word
Many thanks, hope there’s a easy solution!
Hi again, I just realized my comment doesn’t actually show the HTML Here you go:
<span style="white-space:nowrap;">Word</span>
It seems to be kicking out the white space rule
Hey ND81,
Could you kindly share the URL so that I can take a closer look?
Thanks in advance
Sorry for the late response; I fixed it – simply pushed the whole sentence the Asian characters of note were on into a new line. It seems shortcodes etc. work fine, but seems to be thrown out, so likely a Wordpress core issue.
Thanks for getting back to me though!
You’re welcome ND81, I’m glad you were able to sort it
Hello guys, does anybody knows why the “My account” icon doesn’t show up on mobile? Its somethind that im missing? Maybe a hidden switch somewhere?!
Hey bogdan_stanciu!
It should display in your mobile navigation by default if you’re using a relatively recent release of Salient. Could you kindly share your URL in regards so that I can take a look to assist?
Thanks
sure, https://undress.world
Thanks bogdan_stanciu,
It looks like you’re on a fairly old release. You would need to update in order to get that change without having to do some custom modding. If you do want to update, please check out the following article before doing so: http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/important-salient-update-for-new-envato-requirements/
Cheers
Ok, ill do that! Manny thanks XOXO
You’re welcome bogdan_stanciu
Is it possible to have navigation transparency turned off when activating fullscreen rows?
Hey Liyte
Yes, you can use the normal option “Disable Transparency From Navigation” to remove the transparent effect. If you’re using an older release of Salient,
you’ll need to update to the current version (12.1.0), as there was a bug in the past that prevented that option from taking effect.
Cheers
Hi just tried updating the theme and salient core plugin to latest version, getting this error.
Version 1.6 | By ThemeNectar | Visit plugin site This plugin failed to load properly and is paused during recovery mode.
An error of type E_COMPILE_ERROR was caused in line 136 of the file /plugins/salient-core/plugin.php. Error message: require_once(): Failed opening required ’/plugins/salient-core/includes/post-grid/post-grid.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear’)
Hey sherissar, The post-grid.php file that the error is mentioning doesn’t exist, is a core file of the plugin. It seems like the pluign update failed to extract all of the plugin files. Please try to delete the Salient Core Plugin entirely and reinstall it. If you’re still getting that error, please reach out via the contact form on my author page https://themeforest.net/user/themenectar
Hi,
1. I am wondering, is it possible to remove the single page portfolio navigation altogether? I mean the arrows and back to all thing.
Surely this would be less work for you if you add the feature to the theme? I have been through the comments and found various types of .css that don’t work anymore.
Please tell me which one works now?
#portfolio-nav li#all-items {
display: none!important;
}
#body portfolio-nav, .single-portfolio .bottom_controls { display: none; }
.portfolio-items .col .work-item.style-4 img { transform: none!important; }
.portfolio-items .col .work-item.style-4 .work-info .bottom-meta {
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5)!important;
}
.bottom_controls {
display: none!important;
}
2. Is it possible to have recent projects sortable by random? So under a single project main, having links to other projects, but at random, so as not the same for each portfolio page?
jeepers one more thing, how can i hide the header in the portfolio single page?
I suppose i just want to create the look of the demo above in previous comment. I used a 5/6+1/6 layout with widgetized sidebar. Then in the widget placed a page menu. Made the layout fullwidth content but the darn header navigation is still there.
Sorry to be a pain…:)
Hey Wobblefin
#body portfolio-nav, .single-portfolio .bottom_controls { display: none; }
is still valid for removing it.
Please share your URL in regards so that I can see why it’s not taking effect on your end
2. You can use the more powerful “post grid” element for this – It will allow you to define “random” for the query.
3. The portfolio page allows you to use the page builder and create a custom layout like any other page. To make use of that, just ensure you have the “Full Width Portfolio Item Layout” option enabled https://ibb.co/nL1kc6r
4. You can disable the default portfolio header in the Salient options panel > portfolio tab. If you’re using the v12 of Salient, it’ll be in the Salient options panel > portfolio > single project tab.
Cheers
Thankyou! The snippet works
1. The portfolio grid, how can i make it have more than 4 columns?
2. I was just wondering how to have the menu left like the link i sent….
3. I think you misunderstood, if you see the link …http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-business/portfolio/nectar-advertisement/ i am wondering how to have this layout. Removing the header *(MENU) completely from the top and have it on the side?
- The link you gave me was for the portfolio single page *(https://ibb.co/nL1kc6r) not a page that hosts the portfolio in it.
however it is on, but it does not remove the menu…. - This is my company and we would like to get the same layout like our portfolio page….
https://www.soph-oria.com/..
4. Sorry lastly, the post grid font colour options are really limited….*(light/dark) the row colour font doesn’t change this. How can we customize this? Perhaps yellow pencil or something?
Andrew, the portfolio page is a shambles….offer more customization. Like in the salient>portfolio settings, there is sort “horizontally” with no option to center it, but in the post option (applying portfolio shortcode to a page) you have the ability to “center” the sortable menu. This makes the portfolio template page render unusable.. Simple things like that…..
I have been at this all day and bought countless plugins to try make the portfolio page somewhat presentable. Hard to say this as i have loved your theme for so many years, that it’s time to go with another one 
Hey Wobblefin,
1. The size would need to be set with CSS. The CSS would vary depending on what “Grid Item Spacing” you have set – could you let me know what you’ve chosen?
2/3. Sorry about the confusion, since you referenced a portfolio page I thought you were asking about the portfolio layout rather than the header navigation layout. The header navigation changed be changed to the “left header” layout in the Salient options panel > header navigation > layout related tab
4. In regards to the post grid font coloring, you could also use a CSS snippet in the page builder (top right gear icon)
.nectar-post-grid-item .content * {
color: #ff0000!important;
}
.nectar-post-grid .meta-category a:before {
background-color: #ff0000!important;
}
5. Is there a reason you’re trying to use the portfolio page template rather than the portfolio or post grid page builder elements to create your portfolio? The page template doesn’t offer as many options and is the older, less flexible way of displaying projects.
Hi,
Thanks for your help.
1. So i think another misunderstanding 
For the portfolio page we would like to have the portfolio on the page yes…..then on the left hand side have the navigation bar, but only for that page. The rest of the site will remain the same.
- I don’t want to change the overall header navigation position for all pages.
2. Please remember that not all of us are web designers…so “you could use a CSS snippet” is like trying to explain that a banana is not a fruit to a gecko The option to change the colour should be available in the options for the post grid.
3. See now regarding the portfolio section again. Having a page template that “doesn’t offer as many options and is the older, less flexible way of displaying projects” should either be removed or have more options on it to avoid confusion. If the new post grid is the choice of the modern day, then why leave the old page there at all? I know it would break previous websites and all that so perhaps this is why. Just explain it in the backend rather.
4. We are trying to achieve the look as i mentioned before with the sidebar left JUST for the portfolio so we can sort them with anchor points in a side menu. We wanted to use the portfolio template because the POST GRID only allows 4 columns and we want more and for it to be full width. The portfolio page template lets us do this, but the post grid does not….
https://ibb.co/f9JJfGJThanks for all your help over the years by the way, you really do a great job!
Hey Wobblefin,
There is no option in Salient to have the portfolio navigation on the left. Going back to your initial question ( how did you get this layout on the portfolio page? http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-business/portfolio/nectar-advertisement/ ) – that demo is simply using the left header layout. It’s making use of portfolio related option to keep the filters on the left. Moving the filters to that location would require custom CSS.
The portfolio page template is indeed around for legacy users. I’ve noted your suggestion in regards.
We wanted to use the portfolio template because the POST GRID only allows 4 columns and we want more and for it to be full width. The portfolio page template lets us do this, but the post grid does not….
The post grid can indeed display full width, as we demonstrate on the demos: e.g. http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-freelance-portfolio/freelance-portfolio-work/ http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-promo/dynamic-post-grid/ To achieve that, you just need to edit the parent row to be “full width content’. The portfolio page builder element, also can display full width: https://ibb.co/LNshmJFForm Dropdowns don’t seem to work very well on fire fox – https://ibb.co/cxbx91X
Hey MarcGarner,
I can’t replicate that locally. Can you please share the page URL in regards?
Cheers
Apologies for the wait – https://www.stringer-flavour.com/sample-request/ You will need to add a product to the request before you can see the form thanks
Hey MarcGarner,
Try to add in the following:
.woocommerce form .form-row .select2-container {
width: 100% !important;
}
Hi ThemeNectar,
Hoping you could help me out or at least steer me in the right direction.
If you could visit: https://evermaven.agency on a tablet or browser size 690px/1024px.
You will notice that the images and text boxes are stacked but sometimes the images or side by side and other times the text boxes are side by side.
I built this page using columns and alternating the image on the left than the right. My question to you is, when viewing on a table or mobile is there any way to keep the text above each appropriate image? In other words, is it possible to make the layout out appear with image, text box, image, text box, etc.
I hope that makes sense.
Best, Alan
Hey Alan,
The ability to do this just arrived in Salient v12
You can use the new “column direction” option for the row http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/page-builder-row/#column-direction
It can be specified differently for each viewport, so you would reverse the direction of each row where on mobile the image would normally display after the text.
Cheers
Absolutely amazing! This is perfect! Brilliant support as always.
Glad I could help, Alan
How can I add a Add to cart or shop now on archive page by default without having to hover over the product?
Hey sbcarlos,
In the Salient options panel > WooCommerce tab, the “Price/Star Ratings on Hover” Product Style will show that by default. If you want to keep using a different style and alter it, custom CSS would be required.
Cheers
Hello, lately I’ve been testing my site’s speed on Pingdom. There are two Salient theme resources that take longer than anything else to load – both are fontawesome. It takes 1-2,5s to load these two:
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0which makes my site rank lower than it could.
Is there a way I could feed these two from my server, as a part of the theme? Or maybe some other ideas why it takes forever for them to download?
Thank you!
Hey SebastianHas, Salient loads fontawesome directly from the theme by default – do you have a plugin which is loading them externally? If you can share your URL in regards, I’d be glad to take a look.
Thanks in advance
Sorry for wasting your time – my mistake. I dug deeper and found that an Instagram Feed plugin is causing this. When deactivated everything goes back to normal.
Thank you!
No worries, SebastianHas
