Hey JayCarver,

There are 339 requests occurring in the report you’ve shared. You’ll need to get that number down significantly. You can do so by potentially removing some ads/embeds you have. You can also set your images to “lazy load” for the image loading option when editing them in the page builder to further cut down on the requests.

Even with the theme assets unminified and not combined as in this example: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/themenectar.com/TMtNrqJw , Salient doesn’t load anywhere near that number of requests

Hey man thanks for the reply and feedback. I tried removing the ads like you mentioned and that seems to have done the trick. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/thefictionstoryroom.com/EMiVz8Bs

However, I still have the message telling me to leverage browser caching. Are you aware of how this is done?

I tried w3 cache plugin but it seemed to break my site in various places even with minimal things enabled.

Hey mancdim,

Unfortunately there’s no functionality built in to Salient which would allow that

But I found the same idea with your theme in the news area .. You can see the following image link:

The problem is only that it is news ( blogs) .. We do not want text details we want only (image + title + like + comment) and when the visitor clicking on the image or title is moved inside and finds the image in the content not as a background for the article also other pictures of the same product can be displayed in motion like products and he can drop comment or like ..

Hey mancdim, In the Salient options panel > blog > post meta tab, you can remove the author/date from displaying. To remove the excerpt from showing, you would need to add in the following CSS:

.masonry.classic_enhanced .post .excerpt {
  display: none;
}

In regard to the single post template – There’s also a theme option to toggle the featured image displaying inside the blog single post header. It’s in the Salient options panel > blog tab and its called “Single Post He

Hi,

Thank you, but can I move the news headline over the image with the Like and Comment button, or in the worst case, move them directly to the bottom of the image and remove the blank space around the header as it is in the attached picture ??
https://ibb.co/TgsSnfz

- There is another problem that I noticed related to RTL .. We notice in the direction of the news when it is displayed as a category , as well as with Portfolio it starts to appear from left to right in the Arabic section of the website as you notice in the following pictures:

https://ibb.co/9gK96f7
https://ibb.co/0jBYph2

Best Regards

Hey mancdim,

2. That will require a change to the javascript – i’ve noted it for the upcoming release.

Cheers

thanxxx alot

When is the next update? And Can I get a beta version at the earliest opportunity?

Regards

Hey mancdim, it’ll most likely be next month. If you’d like early access, shoot me an email via the contact form on my author page https://themeforest.net/user/themenectar

Thanks,

Thank you. I sent you an email for that ..

Regarding the blogs, what code can I add to remove the space in the attached image and increase the height of the blog pictures or display them in square shape?

Best Regards

Can you please share your actual URL in regards so that I can take a look why that featured image is not extending to the bottom?

Thanks in advance

The masonry sizing does not appear to be set to “regular alt” as I highlighted here: https://ibb.co/L0j4LYp can you confirm when editing the post, that you’ve set that option?

I understood that before as you explained earlier, but we want to diversify the views, so we also have pictures that are shown as only regular : )

Hey mancdim, I understand -

.masonry.classic_enhanced .masonry-blog-item .article-content-wrap {
    padding: 5% 7%;
}

In order to alter the image sizing, you’ll need to edit the file salient/includes/partials/blog/styles/masonry-classic-enhanced/post-image.php (this can be copied into a child theme as well).

thanx alot ,

// dimensions.
  $width  = '600';
  $height = '403';

thanks alot : )

Fro demo verstion update : I don’t know if the request arrived to you or not because I have not received any response regarding it ?!
Also I have a problem with the leaflet map that you can view through the following link:
https://ibb.co/rpmm62g
You will notice that there are longitudinal and cross gray intersections that block the view from the map. Also, I was unable to display the moving locater as in the following link:

https://liquorontherun.co.za/contact/

Best Regads

Hey mancdim,

1. I just sent over a copy to your email

2. I can’t see that error occurring on your URL: https://ibb.co/9V4NrNg

What browser and browser version are you using?

Thanx alot ^_

the problem was solved after the update ..

Now I have a problem with portfolio I will be grateful if you help me to solve it
I created the website as a One page and I used the portfolio on this page. The first problem is that I cannot access to portfolio categories until I view all the projects as ( domain.com /portfolio ) and added this link to to ” Read More” button ! ..

The second problem when I acess to the project page I cannot return to the main page via main menu because the main menu is related to the content of the one page .. How can I create another main menu that contains only a back button to return to the main page and be linked with all individual projects?

Greetings

Hey mancdim,

1. I’m not quite sure I understand what you’re asking in regards to accessing the portfolio categories. Can you share the portfolio URL and explain in further detail what you’re trying to do?

2. You would need to either use CSS to hide/show the “back” link conditionally, or you could simply use a plugin like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/conditional-menus/

Cheers

Thanks alot bro

Regarding the number 1 I have found its solution as I was looking for how to add portfolio categories to the main list ..

Hey selassie75,

add this into the custom css box located in the Salient options panel > general settings > css/script related tab:

body[data-footer-reveal][data-footer-reveal-shadow] #footer-outer .row {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
}
body[data-footer-reveal][data-footer-reveal-shadow] #footer-outer .row > div:last-child {
  width: auto;
  height: auto;
}
#footer-outer .widget {
 margin-bottom: 0;
}

Hi themeNectar, thank you for your answer, unfortunately this css also center the copyright and social media icons any way to avoid this ?

Hey SeanAUS120,

The coloring of that column would need to be added onto the parent element in order to work in combination with the sticky functionality as you have it setup. Add this into the custom css box located in the Salient options panel > general settings > css/script related tab:

.capaform {
   background-color: #e0ede8;
   padding: 0!important;
}

.capaform .vc_column-inner {
  padding: 0 5%!important;
}

Awesome! That works, thank you.

Is there any reason why the sticky sidebar doesn’t go all the way down to the bottom of the column next to it? They are setup as 2 columns … it stops (and jumps back to the top) about halfway down. Shouldn’t it go to the end of the row?

Hey redkmarketing,

add this into the custom css box located in the Salient options panel > general settings > css/script related tab:

.vc_custom_heading {
 font-weight: 800!important;
}

Hope you’re doing well also

Hi there, I am thanks. That didnt seem to work, anything else I can do, please?

Hey redkmarketing,

Is it possible that the font-weight of 800 doesn’t exist for the font you’re using? Please share the relevant URL where that custom heading is located so that I can take a closer look.

Thanks in advance

I defo have it, as I was already using it prior to using the custom headers. I made a ticket for it the ticket number is: #2451190. Thank you.

Hey Okidokitoki,

That style is setting the image as a background image, so the only way to adjust the aspect ratio would be through using CSS like so:

.blog-recent[data-style="list_featured_first_row"] .featured .img-thumbnail {
    padding-bottom: 70%;
    background-position: center;
}

If you instead need to alter the markup to use a regular img tag to preserve varying aspect ratio’s, you would need to modify the file salient-core/includes/vc_templates/recent_posts.php If you’d like to keep that mod in a child theme, check out the following: http://themenectar.com/docs/salient/overriding-salient-wpbakery-element-template-files-through-a-child-theme/

Cheers

Thank you, but “That style is setting the image as a background image, so the only way to adjust the aspect ratio would be through using CSS like so” is not suitable for my project.

“If you instead need to alter the markup to use a regular img tag to preserve varying aspect ratio’s” – what should I rewrite?

$style === 'list_featured_first_row'

Hey.

I just need some code. Please, try your best and drop these lines to me.

BTW, I got the mistake: when I choose “Image Loading: Default”, I see no problem with the image display, but when I choose “Image Loading: Lazy Load”, the image starts cropping. I need Lazy Load, so, I suppose, that you should correct that mistake by yourself, do not shift it to the buyer.

Thank you. Waiting.

Hey Okidokitoki, after your recent clarification of the sizing being affected by the use of the lazy loading option, I was able to replicate it locally. However, the fact that the non lazy loading sizing is not using the square format is actually the issue. Historically, that particular recent post styling has always delivered a square version of the featured image, and this issue most likely recently came about with the addition of the optional lazy load logic in v11 – this will be corrected in the next release.

I understand in your case you would prefer the non cropped image, and that would require a modification to work with the lazy loading functionality. In the recent-posts file, this line: https://pastebin.com/cFctcwBy would need to be changed to the following: https://pastebin.com/F2gMghKE

Thank you.

I’ve used the code that you’ve written (311 line in file “recent_posts.php” at …/salient-child/vc_templates/ folder), but nothing happened.

Are you using v12+ of Salient? Previous versions won’t have the ability to override vc_templates from a child theme.

If you are, please open a ticket on the support forum with a temporary admin login so that we can take a closer look into the setup: https://themenectar.ticksy.com/

Thanks in advance