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Hi there,
Beautiful theme mate 
Just a quick question before I buy; with the transitions (images that fade in when the page is scrolled down), how much functionality is there here? eg. can we control the timing of the fades and have multiple images fade in at different times?
Like on this theme for example -http://portfoliotheme.org/appdev/
When you scroll down the the iPhone, there are multiple arrows that fade in to show functionality.
I am sold if I can do something like this with Salient, or you can suggest how?
Cheers
Hey twonil, thanks a lot!
As of right now the image with animation shortcode doesn’t allow configuration of timing – you can only select what fade in animation you want. (Standard, Fade In from Left & Fade In from Right). However I will be extending this to allow custom timing in the next update. Keep your eyes peeled for it!
Love, Love, Love, your theme bro!!!! Quick question, is there any way to have this theme a one page layout or is that something you guys are working on?
Thanks a lot herardo!
This would require a little custom development at this point. Just to get all relevant sections on one page such as a full portfolio and or blog etc. Also the use of scroll to plugin would be needed for a single page navigation with scroll animation like I’m sure you would want
So basically if your goal is a one page site, you might need to put a little effort into it but it’s doable if you’re comfortable with the mods needed!
Cheers
On the bar graph short code, is it possible to base the numerical values of off something other than an overall percentage…i.e. any arbitrary value? For instance if I wanted a graph showing years experience in different categories….X years design, X years web, X years photography…etc. Many thanks.
Hey OhdeeDohdee!
You could just base create the length of you bars using the standard percent value and then use css to hide the tooltip which displays percent. Enter this into your custom css box:
.bar_graph li span strong {
display: none!important;
}
This did work to remove the ”%” sign but it also removed the entire box. My intent is to have whatever number I type into the bar graph to show up in the “black box” on the front end. Is this possible? I have tried but it is above my skill set. 
That would require a good deal of development. It would be easiest for you to just mention your arbitrary number in the title for each bar.
Gotcha. Thank you.
You’re welcome!
Just updated to the new v1.8. However I don’t get the option for the Home Ultra extended. I wonder why? Thanks in advance!
Hey horvath!
The home – ultra extended is a sample layout which you can import through the included dummy-data.xml file. Here’s my tutorial on importing the dummy data file in case you’re not familiar with the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wKJFYCZN1U
Hey Phil!
I have 2 questions for you today.
1. My site (http://www.garethbolton.com) the home page, and below “Visit Gareth’s YouTube Channel!”, you can see a light grey bar. How can I remove this?
2. At the bottom of my home page, I have icons with social links, is it possible to have different hover colours for each icons, eg, Facebook Hover = Blue etc etc..
Thanks!
Hey Gareth!
1. It looks like you just have an empty space in your editor, please check for one in that location and delete it
2. As of now you can only assign your chosen accent and extra colors for the icons. You will see an option to select the color when generating the shortcode. There are four slots in total so in theory you could do it that way.
The Sort Portfolio drop down keeps disappearing down behind the white space in which the portfolio items are on, so I can only see 4 of the 8 categories. It all appears fine in Firefox and IE, but not in Chrome.
Hey arapps,
if you’re using a parallax background header for your portfolio that would cause the issue in chrome. It’s a browser level bug which screws up the z-index of things. If you’re categories are extending out of your header parallax section, the only things you can do to fix it are increase your header height to fit the entire dropdown or disable the parallax effect for your section.
hi ThemeNectar, Thanks. Yeh I was using the parallax background header. The header would’ve been far to big so just turned that off and it now works. Shame that, but all looks good still.
Thanks. Great theme btw! So many options and variations
You’re very welcome!
I know it’s a shame about that bug, I’ve spent time trying workarounds too with no success 
Hello Theme Nectar
Please update changelog with file changes, other way I cant upgrade to Salient v1.8..
Thank you
I’ll be updating it very soon!
Thanks for your patience
Hi there!
I’m getting “500 Internal Server Error” after updating to the latest version of the theme today 12 August – Just the home page works but the rest is unreachable..
What is happening? And how to fix this problem?
Hey wellgraphic!
A 500 internal server error points to an issue with your server in some way or another. Without knowing what the error is it’s hard to say..However, can you please attempt to go to settings > permalinks in your admin panel and click “save changes” to see if that solves your issue?
HUGE thanks for amazing fast reply!
Crazy, this actually solved it.. How could this error occur?
- I have another questions by the way, How to add more and own social media icons? Could not find every that I wanted
Big thanks and awesome job!! /Pontus
You’re welcome!
1. Usually I would only expect to see internal server errors like you’ve described when importing a new database or moving a database etc. but, it’s possible to happen through updating a theme I guess…basically whenever you see 404 or 500 server errors always try to refresh the permalinks first – it will usually fix the issue!
2. You would have to open up the footer.php file and manually add new list items in with your icon
Successfully upgraded to WordPress 3.6 and updated the theme files! I put a full wide parallax area right under the home page slideshow, which looks great. But when you get to a slide with a video and you click play, the image in the parallax section below gets shifted down about 140px. I’m trying to find were I could fix that. Maybe somewhere in the init.js?
Hey AmieSexyFeetandToes!
What you’re experiencing is actually a browser level bug with chrome and safari. Firefox and IE should render the background position correctly. What causes the bug is the fixed positioning of the video in the slider, because of this you really shouldn’t use parallax sections directly below the slider. If you put a section or two in between your home slider and the parallax section it will work.
Oh alright. Also is there a way to make the media element big play button show up?
What exactly do you mean big play button?
Nevermind, I got it
Great!
I tried with another fullwidth between the slideshow and the parallax area. This new fullwidth area was solid color and 400px tall. But still the video effected the parallax area. Only until the video was hidden by scrolling down, the parallax started working again. I feel like this can be fixed, just have to know where to look. Is it the orbit slider or media element video that cause this? 
Yeah, the bug will occur if the video is on the page at all while being in the fixed position. I have a javascript event to set it to display none once it’s out of sight which fixes the parallax sections. This is why I recommend users to use the parallax section down the page a little so by the time the user scrolls to them the video has already been hidden thus fixing the bug.
Hello,
There is only 1 Featured image now . Before the update of today there are severals images.
Could we conserve this option ? If yes, how ?
thanks a lot.
Séverine
Hey Wiztivi,
For WordPress 3.6, Salient uses a new system for adding galleries to posts and projects. Please see this in regards: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/59452/Cheers
Hey guys, big news!
Salient v1.8 is here!
This update has some cool new features you guys have been requesting for some time now. The most notable ones are a boxed layout option and the ability to use a sidebar layout with WooCommerce! Also, some other design updates have been made all of which can be seen now on the live demo! The update has been submitted to ThemeForest and will be ready to download shortly 
I want to thank all of you for being patient while I completed the update, regular support will continue tomorrow!
Cheers
Awesome theme! On the main Portfolio page, I am trying to change the word “Portfolio” to “Projects” in the heading and also wanting to change the filter to read as “Sort Projects”...not “Sort Portfolio”. I have tried looking in the PHP page and on the page itself but no dice. Please help.
By the way I HAVE changes the page and the permalink to read projects….so the inconsistency in the title looks weird. Thx
Hey OhdeeDohdee!
1. Are you talking about the “Portfolio” in the top navigation or on your page heading?
2. You can alter that text right inside of your theme options panel in the “Portfolio Options” tab.
I found the “Sorting Filter” input option but not the page heading. I sent a screenshot to your gmail account that I referenced from a previous post so that I can make sure we are talking about the same thing.
OhdeeDohdee, I haven’t revived any emails yet but have you tried editing the heading inside of the “Page Header Settings” box near the bottom of the page when editing the page you’ve set as the portfolio layout?
Bingo! Header settings! Many thanks.
Cheers!
Is there a way to change the call-to-action button color that is in the footer without impacting the global colors that are defined in the color options admin panel? Or can one of the extra colors 1-3 be used for the footer call-to-action button?
Hey pphelan,
By default you would have to target it with css to change that color, or alternatively you could just make the call to action section yourself now using the fullwidth section shortcode. If you would prefer to change it with css to keep the global CTA section, here’s the snippet to use in your custom css box in the theme options panel:
body #call-to-action .container a {
background-color: #333!important;
}
When creating a button such as [button size=”medium” url=”http://google.com” text=”Learn More” color=”Extra-color-1”]... what is the best way to enable a URL to open in a new window. The html target=”_blank” doesn’t seem to work.
Hey pphelan,
as long as you’re on a recent version of the theme you have the option to select whether your button will open in a new window right in the shortcode generator. The parameter to use on the button is new_tab=”true”
Cheers
thank you!
You’re welcome!
Hi, I’ve just updated to wordpress 3.6. and I’m having some issues with my portfolio posts; can’t set more then one featured image, or images not displaying… Is this an issue with the update? Might downgrading back to 3.5 work (if so, how do I do that?)
Sorry for any bad grammar 
Hey pimmyten!
For WordPress 3.6, Salient uses a new system for adding galleries to posts and projects. Please see this in regards: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/59452/hey,
how can i remove the love-function? i dont want to see hearts in portfolio page and blog
Hey levelonedesign!
Here’s the ticket that contains the snippets you need to accomplish that: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/47165/search/
thx for help
You’re welcome!
Hi,
This is a pre-sales question. I’d like to know is prepared and/or has been tested to be multilanguage and with which plugin.
Thanks!
Hey ostraperlera!
The theme is currently being used in combination with WPML with in many buyer setups. I have ensured that all the basic aspects of it work but still haven’t declared official 100% support because I need to do more testing. However, I’ve heard very few complaints of bugs regarding the use of that plugin so far
Hi again ThemeNectar, that’s great.
I would also need a bit of customization to add a circular logo while keeping the responsive capabilities. Would you be willing to do that? Could I get an estimate by email?
Cheers!
You can add a logo at whatever dimensions and size you want already
Yes, but if my logo is circular and, say, 2 inches in diameter, then I end up with a huge header that’s even bigger than that size and it doesn’t look good at all. I’m looking for a customization to make the logo overflow the header and get into the slide area that works in a responsive way.
Oh i see, I didn’t know you were looking for an overflow solution. In that case, yes custom development would need to be involved..however I am unfortunately not available for freelance gigs at the moment. I am completely swamped and have been unable to accept any in a while
Hi. Thanks for the theme its great. I’m using the theme with wordpress 3.6. I am unable to enter shortcodes or upload images using the themes interface options. The buttons are unresponsive and preventing me from uploading and inputting data.
Any help?
Hey treelight!
There must be a conflict with one of your plugins or something else strange then. Please send me an email at themenectar@gmail.com with your login credentials so I can check it out for you
Thanks for the help. I have emailed you the details.
Thanks! I’ll get back to you asap
- How do you make the masonry blog show up on the front page with the home-slider?
- Also where do you change the home-slider width size?
Hey neuic-inc,
1. You would have to assign your posts page as the in settings reading and then edit the index.php file to include the slider code found in all of the home templates
2. The home slider is always going to be fullwidth unless you modify other things such as the slider navigation positioning to work with a smaller width. You can find the rules that set it to 100% width inside of the orbit.css stylehseet located in the css folder
Hi I have one question before I buy this theme:
I will need to be able to change the links in the top nav menu… Is this possible? For example, I would change “Portfolio” to Gallery and “About” to Services. Can this be done via WordPress and if not, how hard would you say it would be to change the code to do so and not break the backend system to still be able to add images to the renamed gallery page? I’m a web developer so I know my way around code but I don’t want to jump into anything that will break the backend if I rename any of the links in the top menu.
Hey millertime65!
Of course you can change all of the names of the demo pages using the WordPress admin if you please
Cheers
Awesome! That’s what I figured. Thanks for the quick reply and great theme!
You’re welcome!
Cheers
