Discussion on Skylab - Responsive Creative Portfolio WordPress Theme

Discussion on Skylab - Responsive Creative Portfolio WordPress Theme

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Hi

We are trying to replicate the masonry-video-mixed gallery view. I cannot seem to make gallery of videos that display the video as a pop up/ lightbox.

Thanks, Cat

Hi, sorry, I don’t see your buyer’s badge.

I am working with another person who purchased the theme under their own profile. Do have to have them repost under their profile?

Yes, please repost under their profile.

Hi, Just a quick pre-purchase question: Is it possible to get the documentation for your theme before purchasing it? I think this would be a great theme for one of our projects, I would just like to read to documentation first to be sure.

Hi, thanks for taking an interest in the theme!

Please email us via our profile page.

Hi! I´m new on wordpress so I´m having some trouble installing your theme as well. Or it all works but I wonder how to get the “masonary/popup” gallery option that was in the demo, I can´t seem to find it as an option anywhere? The closest I get is “fancybox gallery” but that one is with a black background, how can I change it to white (or get the mansonary popup from the demo)?

Thanks a lot, Amanda

Hi, thank you for the purchasing!

Select “Gallery” page template.

hi, I’m new to setting up themes and as much as I try I just can’t figgure out how to delete the map on the contact form!

I’ve read the documentation and there’s nothing in there other than how to set it up, I’ve tried deleting the info in the contact part of the theme options but it just resets to default.

Please could someone tell me how to get rid of the map??!

Thanks

Hi, thank you for the purchasing!

Use “Full width” page template instead.

Thanks for the quick response, one more question. The site doesn’t seem to work on mobiles. It just shows the logo and the first image, no navigation menu. I’ve set the mobile naviagtion in Appearance> Menu but nothing happens. It works fine on an iPad though :-s

Please email us your URL, username and password for your site via our profile page and we will take a look.

Hi again,

I figured out some of the issues from my previous post, but raised some new questions/concerns. I realize now that your theme has two new types of content: “Galleries” and “Portfolios” which are not just items to add to a page, but rather specific content items that are equivalent to a Page or Post, but behave very differently. The issue that is most confusing is that you also have page templates called “galleries” and “portfolios”, but they are NOT the same thing as “Galleries” and “Portfolios”! Very confusing! And then there’s posts with “categories” and “formats” which I understand can be used for filtering, but otherwise they further confuse things. I also realized that not all the “Portfolios” included in the demo have images attached to them, but they DO have a featured image, although nothing shows up on those pages/portfolios when clicked, so I just deleted them since I can’t learn anything from them. I realize that you did explain some of this in the documentation, but there is no overall explanation of the different items and menu types and how they work together as well as independently – that would be helpful, along with a video tutorial showing how the demo is set up! So, here are some new questions/concerns:

1 – I have tried to disable commenting on posts, but it doesn’t work. I disabled it from the Settings page for all posts, and on an individual post, but it won’t go away, so where is it in the code so I can delete all comments forever and not show “comments are closed” or whatever.

2 – I found the page/portfolio with the iosSlider, but when I use it the images are huge and I don’t get more than one on a page – I really want it to look like this: http://test.davehebb.com/portfolio/new-look-new-hart/ but instead it looks like this: http://test.davehebb.com/portfolio/forever-wild/ – Do I have to manually resize the images to all have the same height? Do they also have to be small enough to have more than one on a page? If so, that’s no good – I bought this theme specifically to have a responsive horizontal scrolling capability, but the IosSlider is not really working that way – the idea is to allow a viewer to see more than one image at a time, with the second or third image showing only partial, but with the ability to scroll through them horizontally, as in your demo page “New Look. New Hart.” – I realize that those images are portrait format, but still it should work for my landscape images, so how do I make it work?

3 – Posts are behaving very erratically – I’ve tried turning off the widgets, but then there is all this blank space on the right and a blank gap at the top and a “to the top” link – it looks very awkward: http://test.davehebb.com/beyonces-seamless-fluid-image-masonry/ As I previously requested, it would be helpful to know which css stylesheets to change to be able to effect the spacing, colors, etc., or if it’s built in to the PHP, some advice as to where those different items are located would be helpful – perhaps some kind of “tree” or sitemap for the way things work would be helpful – I know that’s a lot to ask, but it’s really hard to work with all these new options without some guidance – I know it’s a lot to ask, and this is a very flexible theme with a lot of options, but without a clearer overall picture it’s hard to figure out how to use it! It should be easy to tweak the code for various elements to change padding, spacing, fonts, remove elements, etc. But it’s not…

4 – I noticed when I added more than about 20 items on the menu, you can’t see them all in the sidebar and the bottom ones aren’t clickable. I have my home page set to a fullscreen portfolio (Gallery? Page? it’s so confusing!) so it’s not possible to scroll, but it also overlaps the navigation at the bottom. Yuck! I wish I could at least eliminate that navigation as I previously requested….

5 – I would like to change the order in which the social icons appear – I know that’s not an option, but if I new which theme file it was in, I could probably tweak it – any suggestions?

6 – back to the “new look. New Hart” demo page – any way to add some margin at the top so it’s not right at the top of the screen?

I think you have a great looking powerful theme, and I think I can make it work, but I wish the documentation was more comprehensive and there were more user-friendly theme options that would allow simple css type changes to be made without hacking the code. Please keep working on this theme – it deserves more energy – I think it could become a new standard for media rich sites! Thanks for all your time, and please respond to my previous post as well. :)

  1. Please email us your URL and we will take a look.
  2. Yes you need to manually re-size the images.
  3. We would suggest to hire a developer to help you with this modification.
  4. You’ll need to set up the page as your home page.
  5. It would be possible to do, but would require some modification by a developer.
  6. Again we would suggest to hire a developer to help you with this modification.

Thanks – I responded above to my previous post and emailed you some urls with comment problems – I follow you on all of the above, but because I am not able to get the styles to work, I can’t seem to be able to change colors of social icons (or anything else) in the custom css block. I guess I will have to manually add/change the code. Again, it would help if I knew which stylesheet affects the social icons globally – I notice they are different colors on different pages – I guess I’ll just have to try everything.

Hi,

I cann’t get the captions to appear in the slider gallery. I have added captions to the images but the caption does not appear.

Thanks

Hi, sorry, I don’t see your buyer’s badge.

How do i add a blog page template? Also there are few page templates missing from download file.

Hi, please read the documentation that comes with the theme, any common questions can be answered within the documentation.

Hi, Lots of good things here, but some things don’t work as expected – Here’s a few off the top of my head:

1 – How do I create a page using the template with the Single Project Ios Slider as seen here: http://themeforest.net/item/skylab-portfolio-photography-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/4740718

2 – Styles don’t work on the demo page, and I tried to load them on my site, but they don’t seem to work – I opened up the css style sheet for each style in text editor and then pasted it in the CSS box for Theme Options > Styles as it says in the Documentation, but nothing changes. I don’t care about the background images, but I want to change colors for social icons and fonts and set all the background colors.

3 – There are so many additional custom fields available, but there doesn’t seem to be a full documentation of what values to use and what they do.

4 – I added the demo xml file, but many of the pages just link to the demo page on themeforest, so I have no way of figuring out how things work (see 1 above).

5 – there are several minor changes that I want to make to specific elements, like individual colors and elements, such as the advance arrows with page numbers on the full page slider (i’d like to eliminate that) but I’m not that familiar with PHP – are there separate style sheets for each template that I can more easily hack to hide elements? I’m using a child theme, but I’m not sure if that will work to eliminate an element, or if it’s even possible with css, or if I need to mess with the PHP code…

Thanks in advance for any insight – I’m sure I will have more questions as I dig deeper…. I think this is a powerful theme with a lot of possibilities, but it’s a bit confusing since it works differently than most of the themes I have used before.

Have tried and the styles work just perfect for me on our demo site. If you use child theme then of course you don’t need to use custom CSS from theme options. The child theme’s stylesheet will overwrite the parent theme’s stylesheet.

There are descriptions for the custom fields for posts/pages.

Okay, I’ve spent some more time, and guess what? Your styles don’t show up on Firefox! Try looking at your demo site on firefox – they don’t work! They work on Safari just fine. And still, no matter what I do, when I paste the css from any of the styles in the custom css box, nothing changes. I’ve tried it as a child theme, and as the parent theme, and it just doesn’t do anything. And where exactly do you see descriptions for the custom fields? The name itself is fairly obvious, but there is no explanation of the values and no actual description. You really can’t include that in the documentation? Really? It’s too much effort? There are free themes with better documentation than this one. Your support is very disappointing so far. I’m willing to believe that I’m overlooking something, but I don’t think so. At this point, if you are unable to help me or unwilling to acknowledge that there is a problem, I would like a refund.

Hi, the styles work just perfect for us.

If you need a refund please contact Envato support here http://support.envato.com/index.php

Okay I figured out how to get it. Must have deleted something I shouldn’t of) But new question, How do you set the post page to Journal? It doesn’t show up in the drop down menu.

Hi, please read the documentation that comes with the theme, any common questions can be answered within the documentation.

Thanks. I got it. It seems I’m missing the Portfolios List choice for my Portfolio page.

I may be missing something, but is there a way to make the Gallery the Static front page?

awesome theme, 5 stars… please help me with a little issue, maybe next update I wish could share a photo gallery… possible?

Hi, thanks, there aren’t any plans to add this.

Hello!

Im the same user “muficles” that wrote this..

muficles 3 days ago Flag Hello!

Is it possible to add the regular serch bar to look for tags? if so.. how is the result display?

Thanks!

MegaTheme AUTHOR 2 days ago Flag Hello, yes you can add Search widget in the blog page http://demo.megathe.me/skylab/journal/

Is it possible to put the search bar on the left side by the menu??

Thanks!

Hello, it would be possible to do, but would require some modification by a developer.

Hello, I have a simple question: How do I change the next/previous arrows on full-width galleries? Thank you very much in advance.

We would suggest to hire a developer to help you with this modification.

I think I can do this myself but PLEASE I just need to know where in the code the style of these arrows is defined?

In header.php on lines 214 and 220.

Hi

I’m interested in Skylab Portfolio / Photography WordPress Theme, but how can I see admin panel? I want to see how user friendly is crating photo catalogs and ulpoading photo. Is there any live demo?

Hi, there is no admin live demo but perhaps this screencast would be helpful for you http://www.screenr.com/TEHH Images in the gallery can be re-ordered easily via drag and drop. Simply re-order your images by moving them around. To remove an image from the gallery, hover over the image and click on the red “x”.

what about 1) multiple image upload possibility? 2) creating multiple photo collections with sub-catalogs?

  1. Yes you can upload multiple images at once.
  2. Not quite sure what you mean. You can create pages with your images and add them to your menu. Read more about menus http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

Hi, I have a questions regarding galleries. I have multiple categories throughout my website and I need the following:

1. Can you please tell me how I can have a Galleries List Page showing with only certain Categories to show and choose from.

ie: A website that has 10 categories and a Galleries List page which has only the following showing: Category 1 Category 2 Category 4 Category 6 Category 8

Hi, sorry, what you have described isn’t available with the theme.

Simple question: how change the typography size in pages or post? (BTW, great theme)

Hi, I’m not quite sure what you mean. Looks fine for us.

I realize that that kind of gallery looks the same as in the gallery example (my mistake), maybe you might consider providing with the navigation control that have the other galleries? because (for my) breaks the overall design of theme. Maybe you can do for incoming updates. anyway, I appreciate everything you do to help us. THX!

Not at this moment in time but if the demand is there it’s possible.

Hi There

How do make the menu bar appear on the iphone?

I want in to appear on the top instead of the side if possible.

Thank you the theme is working great so far.

Hi, thank you for the purchasing!

There are two menu locations – primary and mobile. Primary menu is your main menu and mobile menu is for for mobile devices.

Menus can be configured under Appearance > Menus.

Hi there, I am trying to use a Google font for the Main Navigation but it doesn’t seem to work. I entered this link in the theme options. Is that wrong? http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans Thks

Hi, please read the documentation that comes with the theme, any common questions can be answered within the documentation.

Ok thanks that helped!

Man… I’m sorry if I’m being annoying but… Whenever I save changes in Theme Options, my contact page shows that Melbourne map that’s bundled as a placeholder. I don’t want any map… I’m always erasing this contact info and after a while, whenever I save changes in Theme Options, boom, there’s a Melbourne map again… So any fix?

Hi, use “Full Width” page template instead.

Also, is there a way to make a single gallery image a link?

Many thanks!

Sorry it’s not something which is included as an option.

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