Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

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Hey Nectar! I think the Irish Viking in your home slider told me to buy it!

Is there a way to add an Image header to the portfolio pages? like http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/about/about-me-example/

Also, my site needs a few parallax headers and 3 images in the home page. Like (Graphics header, 3 images); (Video header 3 images) etc.. Is there a way to do this?

I LOVE THE UI in the settings! So Many options! Like going into a candy shop!

Much love from Canada.

haha, the picture is awseome isn’t it? http://pedroconti.com/ is the man!

- The ability to add image headers to the pages that currently don’t offer support for them (portfolio, blog, contact) is being added in the next release :)

- Could you elaborate more on this question, I’m not sure if I completely understand what you mean. Are you asking if you can have multiple images in one slide?

- Thanks a lot! I tried to spend extra time making sure the UI was as user friendly as possible :D

Hi, if I wan’t to install the new update u fix on the new version, how can I do that? Did I just need to copy & paste the ZIP file into theme folder & extract >> overwrite whatever things currently in Salient folder (previous version)?

I’m glad you like it!

Don’t use the built in WordPress centering option for text, that will wrap everything in extra paragraph tags and create the space you’re talking about. Instead, when creating a column you want centered, simply check the “Centered Text” check box. That will automatically center everything in the column the right way.

Let me know if you need any more help!

Thanks again! Seriously.. this is one in 100 years to find such great support from a theme developer. Keep it up!

Thanks! That means a lot :)

Hi love the responsive theme! I have a problem with the fonts, I’m using it with special characters such as ÅÄÖåäö and they are not supported in the fonts. They convert to some other font. Is there an easy solution for this?

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Generated a headline with a 2nd line underneath it. When I was in the post visual editor i added a link to the 2nd line. Then when saved and i was watching the whole 2nd row of text has dissapeard. Showed again when removed the link. Might just have to upgrade and see if it works then..:)

No, it turns out you were correct. I thought you were adding a link to the title, not the subtitle. The subtitle not accepting a link is a bug and I have now noted to fix this in the next release. Sorry for the inconvenience!

great:)

Hi, i have a problem with child theme, style.css not overriding parent. The content of style.css in child theme is: /* Theme Name: Salient Child Description: Child theme for Salient Author: Name Template: salient */

@import url(”../salient/style.css”);

blockquote { font-size: 16px; }

Please help me, I dont’t know what is wrong

estebanjuela, thanks for buying the theme! I really appreciate it :)

There was a bug found yesterday that causes the child themes stylesheet to not override the parent correctly. The fix for it is going to be included in the next release. For now, to fix it on your end, open up functions.php. On line 103 change the segment:

get_template_directory_uri()

to

get_stylesheet_directory_uri()

Hey Nectar,

Yeah! Thank you for looking into this:

1) Option 1: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/portfolio/scouter/ – same format as this but more images to the left. Only one description is needed (on initial image).

2) Option 2: A bit more complex, but like someone said earlier perhaps include the ability to have hearts, date, description with each accompanying image. (Perhaps able to toggle on/off these elements).

On both of the above, mix media, yes! video, jpg’s + pngs, etc.

I don’t know how many times i refresh hoping the coding gods help! Haha.

kamdiba, thanks a lot. I’ve been working with the init.js file trying different combinations and nothing has worked. Thanks for you help!

Jlondon - you can do this by changing the below in init.js - as you can see I updated mine to 18px as opposed to 28px that was there originally.

$('#header-outer').css({
    'padding-top' : 18
});
$('header#top nav > ul > li > a').css({
    'padding-bottom' : ((logoHeight/2) - ($('header#top nav > ul > li > a').height()/2)) + 18,

Kamdiba, thanks for jlondon in the right direction :)

Hi, AWESOME theme. Before I purchase it, wanna know something about Home page. Can I add some module like ones in the example? Just some Images and Text under the slider, Like this : http://progressionstudios.com/themes-wp/?theme=White-Rock I really love you’re theme, but if I can’t do that things, doesn’t work for me! For example, instead of recent work/posts can put some images linkable? (Sorry for bad English, swear you understand!)

Yes, you can add whatever you like under the home slider. Using our in house shortcode generator, accomplishing nifty layouts with columns and icons is a breeze! However, if you do not want the recent work section to appear you will have to enter in a custom CSS snippet to hide it. Let me know if you have any more questions!

I’ve been looking for a theme for a couple of weeks and finally found yours: looks fantastic! My worry is galleries: has anyone had any problems running nextgen plugin? If nextgen works I’ll probably take the plunge!

Thanks a lot Mark, I truly appreciate that :)

If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to leave another comment or PM me!

Also, would you mind if I use your comment as a testimonial?

Absolutely!

Excellent!

Hey, Few questions to help make a decision on purchase; -Can multiple portfolio pages be put into the menu? Like my site currently – http://www.ryanhamilton.ca -Can the roll over on portfolio items be changed to loose the “View Larger” text and centre the “More Details”? See example – http://www.ryanhamilton.ca/Downloads/Theme_Question.jpg - Can the portfolio grid be altered like the above link. Smaller thumbnails to make 4 or 5 items across? - On a video page within a portfolio can still images be added below stacked above one an other. As if to show style frames designed for the animation posted at the top? -Can all the comment stuff be removed from under portfolio & blog posts? Thanks for your time.

Ryan, sorry for the delay.

- Right now you could only really have one portfolio page that filters all of the categories.

- The roll over on the portfolio can easily have just the “More Details” centered and the “View Larger” removed with one line of CSS.

- Only a 3 column portfolio is available now.

- Please see my post to jaraujo below for a detailed response.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

Thanks for the info. Could hiring some custom coding get the multiple portfolio pages? Although you say pieces can be filtered I would want filtering done only within each different type of service I offer.

Love the theme and thanks for allowing us to set our logo height. However, it would be great to be able to increase the logo height without increasing the header bg height. By default, your logo is 30px high. This makes the entire header bg 86px high with all the padding. I would like to be able to add a logo that is 80px while still keeping the header bg 86. I’ve tried to play around with absolute positioning but can’t get it to work right. Let me know if this is possible. Thanks.

jlondon,

this change would require editing the javascript that is calculating all the padding for the header :(

UPDATE: I found a temporary solution. I couldn’t get the logo to align horizontally in the NAV BG when it re-sizes on scroll but I was able to make the Logo the same height as the NAV BG and have turned off the re-size option for now. Here’s what I did for those interested in doing this:

*My goal was to allow my logo (since it’s taller than it is wider) to take advantage of the entire Nav-bg height (86px) without increasing the bg height itself.

In header options, set your logo height to “30”. With all the padding this makes the entire nav-bg 86px high, which is how tall my logo is. Then, in General Settings enter the following in the Custom CSS box:

header#top #logo img {
height: 86px !important;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1000;
top: -27px;
}

You’ll notice that since your logo is now absolute, it throws your nav menu to the left. To fix this, open “rgs.css” located in the “css” folder of the template and find this:

/* COLUMN WIDTH ON DISPLAYS +690px */
@media (min-width: 690px) {
    .span_1 { width: 6.5%; }
    .span_2 { width: 15.0%; }
    .span_3 { width: 23.5%; }
    .span_4 { width: 32.0%; }
    .span_5 { width: 40.5%; }
    .span_6 { width: 49.0%; }
    .span_7 { width: 57.5%; }
    .span_8 { width: 66.0%; }
    .span_9 { width: 74.5%; }
    .span_10 { width: 83.0%; }
    .span_11 { width: 91.5%; }
    .span_12 { width: 100%; }
}

Then, change it to this:

/* COLUMN WIDTH ON DISPLAYS +690px */
@media (min-width: 690px) {
    .span_1 { width: 6.5%; }
    .span_2 { width: 15.0%; }
    .span_3 { width: 23.5%; }
    .span_4 { width: 32.0%; }
    .span_5 { width: 40.5%; }
    .span_6 { width: 49.0%; }
    .span_7 { width: 57.5%; }
    .span_8 { width: 66.0%; }
    .span_9 { }
    .span_10 { width: 83.0%; }
    .span_11 { width: 91.5%; }
    .span_12 { width: 100%; }
}

That will put your nav menu back to the right.

If anybody has a better/cleaner solution for this, let me know.

  • Correction:

To put the NAV MENU back to the right, leave rgs.css alone and just add the following to “Custom CSS” or to your stylesheet:

header#top nav > ul {
margin-right: -34.5%;
}

Sorry about that!

Possible bug – on mobile, the smooth scroll seems to freeze up the content and does not allow you to scroll in any direction. Not sure if this happens across all mobile devices but i’m using the latest windows 8 nokia lumia (ie9)

no worries dude, this theme is great.

Great to hear you like it! :)

I just pushed an update to the live preview that should take care of the windows mobile issue. Test it out and see if the bug has been squashed :)

What is the easiest way to put the OpenSans version with cyrillic support? Everything in my webside will be in Bulgarian so I need cyrilic support. I know Open Sans has a cyrilic version @ Google fonts but I’m not sure what is the best way to fix this in your template. Maybe I need to replace the font files?

Hey absinthe, thanks for purchasing!

Here’s the best workaround,

Right now the only extra option for fonts is the Latin chars. There is an extra parameter passed to Google to include those characters if the check box “Include Latin Characters” is checked.

In your case, we want to include the cyrillic characters instead of the Latin ones.

Activate “Use custom fonts” in the admin panel, select the fonts you want for each section, in your case just choose open sans for all. Choose your weights for each section, and then open up fonts.php located in nectar > options. Scroll towards the bottom and edit the segment in line 186 that says:

&subset=latin,latin-ext
to
&subset=latin,cyrillic-ext,cyrillic

Now , go back to your options panel and re-save your fonts to make the new call to Google.

*Note, if you attempt to make calls to Google for fonts that don’t support the cyrillic characters, it will fail and the font simply won’t load in, so make sure the fonts you choose all have cyrillic characters. Also note that the check box will still say “Include Latin Characters” since we never edited that, but it will work for what you need.

Let me know if you get everything up and running!

Thank you for the insanely quick reply. Everything worked fine, I didn’t know that the fonts are included directly from Google because I saw some url directives in the CSS. Thank you very much :)

Awesome to hear! :D

Hi ThemeNectar,

I am new in wordpress. I have got this theme,set lots of stuff up on it and I want it to update. So my question is: How can I update the theme without loosing my completely customized website?

I do not know anything about coding and not familiar in wordpress, so please be clear. :)

anyway, Really nice theme.

Thanks, Istvan

No problem!

You don’t have to change anything on the file name, just head over to Appearance > Themes and activate another theme, such as Twenty Twelve. Now you will see Salient sitting below in the “Available Themes” Section. Click the delete button to delete the old version of Salient from your server. Now, go to the tab on the top of the page titled “Install Themes” and click upload to begin browsing for the new .zip of salient. After that just activate it :)

Many thanks. Perfect. Thanks again.

No problem!

Does the theme have wpml support?

Hey,

the theme is translation ready with all the localization functions in place and the .po file included. It hasn’t been tested with wpml, but according to their own site, it should work fine :)

Will you try?

I don’t believe there is a free version for me to download.

hi, @4054: me too! this is an awesome theme, but the single portfolio view definitely needs images stacked one over the other! and the homepage header as an option to include in other sides (especially single portolio view) would be perfect :-)

@ ryanhamilton. I too am hungry to have this theme! I am also waiting for the portfolio section to be able to stack images & videos in a single portfolio page – he said he might have it in a future release. Fingers crossed. :D

Hey, Few questions to help make a decision on purchase;

-Can multiple portfolio pages be put into the menu? Like my site currently – www.ryanhamilton.ca

-Can the roll over on portfolio items be changed to loose the “View Larger” text and centre the “More Details”? See example – http://www.ryanhamilton.ca/Downloads/Theme_Question.jpg

- Can the portfolio grid be altered like the above link. Smaller thumbnails to make 4 or 5 items across?

- On a video page within a portfolio can still images be added below stacked above one an other. As if to show style frames designed for the animation posted at the top?

-Can all the comment stuff be removed from under portfolio & blog posts?

Thanks for your time.

Thanks for the update. It looks great!

My top navigation bar and logo just disappeared. Cant seem to get them back… And how long should it take before the favicon is updated? I lost them after uploading one, and it hasn’t showed up yet.

Hmm… No i cant see anything except a white bar. But i guess the problem is on my side. (runs to new computer)

Seems to be working fine on other computer. thanks!

:D No problem

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