Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

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i see that there is a way to adjust header height via px. curious is there a convenient way to set the header height to a % so that initially it takes up the entire browser window?

much thanks

Hey kaarbo!

To accomplish this you need would to spend some time in the css and js to make everything work good – it’s not really set up to scale at the moment.

coo thanks

No problem :)

Hello! Great theme!

I created this mockup which was based off your theme:

http://ivlivs.com/samplesites/mockup_03.jpg

Two questions:

1. Is it possible to have the full blog have a slider on it?

2. Can the call-to-action section be moved up under the slider?

Please let me know if there’s an easy way to do this. Thanks in advance…

Hey ivlivs!

1. That would require some custom coding.

2. You can create your own call to action sections anywhere you want using the full width section shortcode :)

Hello the team,

I have purchased the theme but now I want to disable parallax effect when my screen size less than 1300px (cuz the effect looks bad when I tested on mini iPad) but now the theme disables the effect when the screen less than 1000px. I read the JS and I saw that it disables by checking “mobile” class but I don’t know where to change from 1000px to 1300px. Thx!!

Hey!

I forgot to stop the new parallax sections from parallaxing on the iPad landscape view. All you need to do is add this

.full-width-section.parallax_section  {
    background-attachment: scroll!important;
    background-position: center!important;
}

Into the the iPad landscape media query inside of the responsive.css file (which is in the css folder). The media query to look for starts like this:

/* iPad landscape fixes */
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 481px) and (max-device-width: 1025px) and (orientation:landscape) {

Cheers!

Hello!

This theme looks really nice :)

Two questions before purchase: - Portfolio have pagination? - Can I remove AJAX effects? I mean, when you choose the category on the drop down, the page reloads with that category posts? I just want to know this because I want to upload many items.

Thank you brunomouranet!

1. Yes there’s the option to activate two different types of pagination actually. One that just shows next and previous arrows and one that has all the page numbers as well.

2. You can assign portfolio categories on each of your portfolio layouts. Therefore in your case you could just create separate pages for each of your categories and keep all of them separate :)

Cheers

Problem with tabs

When i click a tab it scrolls the page… These have shortcodes in the tabs but it did the same with just text…

http://reachable.com/newsroom/ title=”In The News” id=”t1”]category_posts cat_id=”33” posts_num=”20”tab title=”Press Releases” id=”t2”/tab/two_thirds

I also tried putting the anchors above the tabs but didn’t fix it

The tabbed shortcode has to use a link with with the id of the tab it’s going to change to. e.g.

<a href="#t2"></a>

You can see that the plugin is simply looking for every link on your pages that use hash and scrolling to them. To fix it you most likely would need to open the javascript of the plugin and add an exception that would exclude my tabbed sections for getting targeted.

2 quick questions – great theme – by far the best i’ve seen on themeforest.

Are you planning on adding a contact form to the shortcodes in a later update? It would be nice to have a form from a shortcode that automatically works without custom CSS.

Also, the coloured full width sections are totally awesome. Are there any plugins that you know of that have the same effect, as I’d love to use something similar on some sites that are far too custom coded to change theme?

Thanks harveypearce!

1. The contact form the demo uses (contact form 7) and the theme technically supports should not require any custom css to make work. Have you been using that plugin?

2. Thanks! I actually don’t know of any plugins that would give that functionality :/ sorry!

Hi ThemeNectar. I have a quick question. I want to use the buttons that you have on the slider, in the page. How could I apply those buttons using inline css. I’ve applied the uppercase css class to the link but it doesn’t seem to want to work for me.

Hey freshlesh3!

Here’s a rule you can add to your Custom CSS Box:

a.hollow-box-link {
    border: 2px solid #333;
    color: #333;
    font-family: 'OpenSansbold';
    display: inline-block;
    letter-spacing: 1.5px;
    padding: 14px 18px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}
and then you can use it in the text tab of your editor like this:
<a href="" class="hollow-box-link">My Link</a>

Hi ThemeNectar,

thanks for including the “add specific classes to full width section” suggestions into the latest update. This really helps a lot to make CTA’s or any other full width section look more consistent without having to copy and paste the same CSS rules over and over again.

1. Can you add a theme option to have the footer in 1 column, 2 columns, 3 columns and 4 columns? So if I click 1 column then only the first widget should be used in full width in the footer. Hope that makes sense. I personally just don’t like the standard 4 column footer and would prefer a 1 column footer instead.

2. Please make the slider more flexible so that we can use it throughout the site in different places whereever we want. Maybe it makes sense to include the layered slider from code canyon. This way we could create different slider sets and just copy and paste the shortcode where we want to show the slider.

3. Maybe you missed my last question about adding my own google font. You said I can add my own fonts in the header and I know how to do that. What I don’t know is how to de-link your standard google fonts code lines within the wp head that are included automatically. I just don’t want to load fonts that I do not use.

Thanks in advance for helping and considering the suggestions. Take care.

No problem Nehalem2009!

1 & 2. I will consider these items, thank your for taking the time to write these requests up :)

3. The default fonts loaded with Salient are actually not from Google, but rather directly included files inside of the css. You can find them right near the top of the style.css file (they’re @font-face rules). If you delete those, you will eliminate the extra files being loaded :)

Hi, how can i get an url from my portfolio ’s categories? I want to link each categories of my portfolio with my sliders on the homepage.

Hey!

When you’re creating your portfolio pages you have the option to assign categories if you’re using v1.6+. Using that method you’ll know all of the URLs because they will all be pages.

Juste a simple question

It’s possible to reduce the number of post in the blog section ? I don’t see any file “blog.php” or something else, in the main folder for example..

Thanks !

Great job ;)

Thanks denislamalice!

If you want to limit the number of posts on your blog page simply set the “Blog pages show at most” setting in Settings > Reading :)

Thank you for the quick response again. It’s ok, I saw these options. Thanks a lot ! ;)

You’re welcome!

Hi, does this theme come with layered PSD file? cheers, andrew

Hey Andrew,

there’s no psd available but the few images that are used are easily editable .png files :)

Cheers

Another update today, but I can’t see the changes in your update log? Plus on the front page is still says the last update v1.6 was over a month a go!

What does this new update bring?

Hello bravo81,

1.6.2 was released yesterday and the changelog was also updated at the same time: http://themenectar.com/changelogs/salient.html

Thank you for the reply, I have now updated.

I do have one request though. You can see my bbPress forum here: http://thecontractgame.co.uk/forums/

There is no sidebar/widget area and I’m unable to add a login area to the BBPress. Is this something you can incorporate? As it makes it unfriendly to users. Or is there another way to do this?

Thanks, Dean.

Dean,

You could manually call a login form inside of the bbpress files if you need it. I’m not that well versed with the plugin to be able to direct you exactly which file you’d need to edit off the top of my head but if you can’t find any relevant ones I’ll try to download it myself and take a peek :)

Cheers

Can this theme be set up as a one page site? Does it have a css section in the theme options?

Hey wesleysoccer!

You can use the shortcode system to create a large variety of layouts, but if you want to have a navigation on top that scrolls to the pages sections within one page accordingly you would have to use a plugin to accomplish that.

Cheers

css section in theme options?

Yes there’s a custom css box for you to input css in the options panel :)

Hey again, I don’t know if the new update was supposed to ’’fully’ fix the Adsense bug, but when I put in an advertisement on a blog sidebar (Only tested that) the whole menu, logo and search disappears (just a blank white menu area).

I don’t know if you knew this but would just like to point it out :)

Thanks, Joe.

Hey Joe!

Could you please supply me with a URL so I can check on that for you?

Thanks :)

It seems to have suddenly fixed itself even though just after I updated it didn’t work, anyways thank you for fixing this! :D

Great!

It was most likely a cache issue :)

Hi there,

I have changed the Portofolio to Products. In search results pages, results from portfolio comes tag such as “portfolio item”. Is there anyway this can be manipulated to say products?

Thank you very much.

Hey vitizo!

If you would like to change that, simply open your search.php file (located in the root of your theme folder) and search for this section:

<?php if( get_post_type($post->ID) == 'portfolio' ){ ?>
    <h2 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> <span><?php echo __('Portfolio Item', NECTAR_THEME_NAME); ?></span></h2>    
<?php }?>

Inside of that, all you have to do is change this line:

<?php echo __('Portfolio Item', NECTAR_THEME_NAME); ?>

To be whatever you desire :)

Cheers

im about to buy this one and i wonder if i 1. can easily change fonts, if so do u have built in or use google fonts or anything else? 2. can i as homepage use one fullwith static image? best. adela

Hey adela!

1. There’s a typography options tab inside of the theme options pane; which allows you to easily switch between the top Google fonts with one click.

2. You don’t have to use the slider on the homepage and you can easily use a full width section with a background image through the shortcode system, so yes :)

WARNING TO ANYONE THINKING ABOUT BUYING THIS: THIS THEME IS LICENSED UNDER GPL!!!!!

The licensing information link that you can see prior to buying this does not mention GPL in any way, nor indeed do any of the marketing materials. This is highly disingenuous because there is no way to know that the product is GPL without buying it. Any site or web app that uses Salient is potentially creating a derivative work under GPL terms and therefore would also be forced to adopt the GPL.

I want a refund!!!!

You’re now confusing the license you’re buying with me when you purchase the theme and the license of the code itself. As I said, all themes on here have their code licensed under GPL, and you are free to use the theme with commercial work with a standard license. The only thing you can’t do is resell my theme to others.

Actually, because your GPL license covers the HTML and CSS, and because any website that uses your theme will be incorporating that HTML and CSS into it on every page, every page will be a derivative work. So while you may not have intended it, you are effectively forcing all of your customers to use the GPL license for their commercial property. It is not a good situation.

If you look at virtually every developer tools company that caters to commercial developers, e.g. Telerik, you will see that none of them use GPL, and with good reason.

I apologize again appm_envaaccnt, but I can’t change the regular standards of this marketplace as I am simply an author on it. It would more appropriate to voice your concerns in the ThemeForest forums or directly to the staff because there’s not much I can do.

Love the theme! Is it possible to remove the search bar from the header? I couldn’t find it in the theme options.

Thanks, Tim DigitalChurch.TV

Hey Tim!

Please refer to this ticket in regards to your question: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/52594/

Cheers

Hi,

We use DNN as our content management system and was wondering if you had a plain HTML version of the template “Salient” we could manually transform instead of using the WordPress template? Or is the WordPress template easier to start with to transform into another CMS template? Thanks, Phill

I have used this responsive boilerplate as a foundation for the grid system. You can find all of the responsive rules inside of the rgs.css and responsive.css files respectively :)

Thanks so much for your help, really appreciate it : )

You’re welcome!

It would be AWESOME if you included Font Awesome More with the theme. This gives us additional icons above Font Awesome (i.e WordPress icons etc.) Here is a link to a demo displaying the additional icons: http://www.themeflood.com/preview/flood/styled-7/code-3/

Hey Syrehn,

The theme uses the latest font awesome (3.2) and it looks like there’s a great deal of overflow between the two icon sets. It would require me to actively sift through which ones are unique to the “font awesome more” set and combine them together so there are no duplicates. If you’re interested in using some of the icons in this custom set, you could always reference it yourself and use the icons as needed. They just wouldn’t be inside of the shortcode generator.

Not sure if this helps but this plugin has merged (no duplicates) the fonts (I think):

http://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome-more-icons/

I tried just using the plugin to get the code and add it into the shortcode that gets generated by the theme but the styles went all haywire and stuff didn’t show up. Might give another kick at the can at it.

Thanks for the reference Syrehn, I’ll take a peek into it if I end up implementing it :)

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