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I noticed a couple of months ago someone asked about adding the ability to call only specific blog categories using the blog shortcode. You mentioned this functionality might be added in a future update. I just wanted to check to see if that had happened yet. Thanks for you time!
Hey SpringMediaUSA!
Yes, that was indeed added 
Great! Is it also possible to have the homepage slider be taller or stretch to full-screen? Thanks so much for your quick response.
The home slider height is configurable by you, but there’s no option to automatically resize to the screen height at this time.
Cheers
Sounds good. The theme looks amazing, by the way
Just to double-check, can you use the blog shortcode multiple times on the same page?
Correct and thanks a lot!
Hi again,
Random question but would this theme work well with bbpress? I don’t know if you’d be the person to ask but I absolutely love this template! So easy to work with and so many options available!
Hey eugenelee223!
Currently the theme has not been tested with bbpress so I can not say if it will work 100%, but if there are problems I assume they would just be some css issues.
just an update, it works very well with bbpress!
That’s great to hear!
Hey Nectar,
I’m really enjoying the theme. Thank you. One thing that would be great for a future update would be a selection dropdown in the call to action button settings to choose how to open the link.
At the moment a slight cheat is working just fine: I’ve entered: [link]” target=”_blank” in the box provided.
Thanks! Tucker
Hey Tucker! That’s a fair request – I’ll see if I can add it in as a standard option in the next release
Also, I’m glad you implemented a workaround.
Cheers!
Hi Nectar,
for portfolio item thumbnails, id like to remove the remove the “view larger” button, is there a simple way to do this?
I’d also like to make 2 completely separate portfolios with their own categories.
Thanks!
Hey dnkrtz!
1. Add this to your custom css box in the theme options panel:
.portfolio-items .pp {
display: none!important;
}
2. You can assign specific categories to your portfolio pages thus making each portfolio page unique if you want. You’ll see the box to assign categories under the Page Attributes box when editing a page that has the portfolio layout assigned. Here’s a screenshot: http://i41.tinypic.com/iqvvvp.jpg
Awesome!! I have a few more questions I hope you don’t mind.
1. I used your method for creating separate portfolios, but when I view more info about an item, the arrows to navigate from one item to the next will mix items from the 2 separate portfolios, any work around?
2. This might be a bit out of the scope of your support, but I’m trying to make the portfolios so they have 2 separate “category” drop-down menus, and the displayed items would be a combination of both selections. On my site, one portfolio would combine “material type” choice and “manufacturer” choice and output the corresponding portfolio items. I know how to write the php to do this, but do I need to write any new javascript or css to implement the dropdown menu.
Thanks for the amazing support!
Hey dnkrtz!
1. The next and previous navigation on the portfolio will only stay within a category if there is a page named that category. For example, if you have a portfolio page named: nectar in which you displayed all items within category nectar, the navigation would work. Things get more complicated when you have a portfolio page that houses multiple categories used in other portfolio pages too. If they share categories it’s very hard to separate them. If you can find a way to name your categories something different in each portfolio page then it would also work.
2. You’ll need to alter the javascript dropdown event because currently it is only going to work on a div with the id of portfolio-filters and you will have to change that to be a class. You can find the code to change in the init.js file in the js folder. Search for ”//portfolio sort” to end up at the right location.
Awesome! In init.js at //portfolio sort, there is a reference to ‘data-sortable-label’, where can I find this attribute and set it within the code rather than through wordpress gui?
I can’t thank you enough for your support!
Hey dnkrtz!
You can find it inside of the functions.php just search for ”// portfolio filters” to end up at the right place
excellent! I’m using a child theme and importing the functions.php seems to cause a set of errors. I thought maybe it was because of my edits, so I tried importing the original functions.php to my child theme folder, and get the same errors, all involving the include() and require_once() functions. They all look more less like this:
Failed opening ‘css/colors.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear’) ... and involve the colors.php, custom.php and tgm-plugin
Thanks!!
I got it :/ sorry, i’m new to wordpress and child themes
It’s no problem dnkrtz! I’m glad you’ve sorted it
Cheers
Hi there,
Loving the theme. I cant find two things I need to change in the css. If you look at my page;http://replayhouse.com/replayhouse/ Youl see the social network buttons on the very bottom right are in a black box, and the search button at the top, have the wrong background color. I must have changed them at some stage, but I cant find them in the css now!
Thanks for the help.
J
Hey Jack!
Those are simply image files located inside of the img/icons & img/icons/social folders that you need to change the color of using Photoshop or a similar program
Awesome thanks! Thats easily done…just eh, where are those folders?
You’re welcome!
- you can find them right inside of the root of the salient theme directory. The full path on your server might look like: wp-content/themes/salient/img/icons/social etc.
Great shtuff altogether. Thanks again!
Cheers!
A quick pre-sales question.
Is this theme WPML ready?
I have not declared official support yet, but many users are using it and I have heard little complaints
Hi, i have just purchased this theme and i am in the process of setting it up… when i log into the admin panel there is a tab called ‘Salient’ – is it possible to change this to ‘Admin’ or ‘My Site Name’ so that my staff are not confused with it…
Hey oo7ml,
you can open the options-init.php file located inside of nectar/options and do a find and replace for the word “salient”.
Chjeers
excellent… the best theme i’ve every come across… so flexible, well done…
Thanks so much!
Hi ThemeNectar,
What is the best if I want to change the color of the menu links, and the a:hover of them. Because there all controlled by the color pallet with !important in them.
I prefer a css code that works in a child css file, so it can be updated easily. Thanks!
Hey LeffDesign!
Here’s a ticket where I supplied a bunch of different snippets for users – I’m sure you can make use of some of them and alter the colors to your liking:
http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/59564/search/Thanks!
You’re welcome!
Hi ThemeNectar, awesome theme
Pre-sale question: Is it possible to create 2 separate portfolios, each with it’s own catagories? Thinking along the lines of 2 product catagories on 2 different portfolio pages. Thanks
Hey ruandeyzel!
Yes, you can assign specific categories to your portfolio layouts therefore it’s possible to have two unique portfolio pages on your site
Hello again,
Is there any way for me to add more than 10 pins to the ‘contact’ map?
Hey Rooster
This would only be possible with custom development unfortunately.
Is it possible to change to the menu bar opacity to make it semi transparent ?
You can, but it won’t look perfect without custom development since other things like page headers and the home slider would preferably need to be moved up. However, here’s a basic snippet for your custom css box:
#header-outer {
background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.9)!important;
}
Hey Phill
Any news about the nested columns bug? Can you also update the changelog? without it I cant update
Thank you
Hey!
I will be updating the changelog with line differences tomorrow.. Still need to investigate your error with multiple nested columns of the same size it’s a strange error.
hi, i´m interesting in this theme, i have one doubt, this theme is alredy for ecommerce? congratulations
Hey rene_lo,
Yes, the theme has full WooCommerce support
http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/shop/?sidebar=true
Great theme!!!
I would like to give every linkable image (ahref) in the main content a opacity hover effect similar to to portfolio image.
How can i do this?
thanx, roderick
Thanks roderick!
This could be achievable by setting a background color on the a tags and creating a hover rule to lower the opacity of the img thus revealing the background color of the a tag. This is how I do it in the portfolio items. However, you would need to give the a tags a class to target because if you target all anchors it will apply this background color to regular links as well (ones that are not linking images). If you want it to be dynamic you would have to use javascript to add the class to all anchors that are wrapping imgs and then css could take care of the rest
Hey Phil!
My website, http://garethbolton.com the services page has a white bar under neath it. How can I remove this white bar? Is there any CSS you could give me to remove it from the site?
Thanks!
Hey Gareth!
It appears to be from one of your plugins or custom markup. There’s an extra div being inserted at the bottom of your page breaking my script to target the last fullwidth section in the page to make it sit flush against the footer.
Hey TN,
I tried to “Enable site-wide store notice text” from the woocommerce setting and it appeared to be layered on top of the secondary navigation. Also, I cannot customize the styles for it. Any ideas?
Thanks
Hey neibohood!
This is a bug that I will try to address for the next update
Hey!
I’d really like to password protect a a single portfolio page on my site. Using the native WP page password I get a broken password field on-top of the page which still allows users to continue to content.
Thoughts?
Please share your URL or send it to me in a PM so I can check it out for you
thanks!
Oh, I thought you were trying to password protect certain projects not the entire portfolio section. That’s a bug that I will address in the next update! Thanks for pointing it out
Cool! Any idea when the next release will be? 
Most likely in a week or so
Any news on that update?
I decided to go ahead and develop a lot more features rather than just make the update a small bug fix release so it’s taken longer but it will be the biggest update Salient has gotten yet 
I see that this theme uses prettyPhoto, but I don’t know how to make thumbnails load large images in the lightbox.
If you want to call a lightbox manually, just add the class “pp” to your link. e.g.
<a href="YOUR_LARGER_IMG" class="pp"><img src="YOUR_IMG" /></a>
Perfection! Is there a way to do this using a wordpress gallery?
Check out this ticket: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/81874/search/
Hi Nectar
it’s possible to add Ken Burns effect on the home slider ?
Thanks for your time!
Hey onelogo!
That would take a good deal of custom development. If you need an effect like that, I would recommend opting for a premium slider WordPress plugin instead
thanks
You’re welcome!
Hello,
I am very interested in this Theme. Some questions: Does it support multiple full width image sections (shortcode) Can I use visual composer with this (codecanyon) without breaking your shortcodes?
Best regards
Hey flashrocket!
1. Yes, you can place as many fullwdith sections as you want
2. It would work to an extent, but I would not recommend it since it won’t contain any of the nectar shortcodes to work with so I can’t see it being that useful.
