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Hi ThemeNectar,
1. Is it possible to reduce the speed of the clients carousel ? If so how ?
2. Is it possible to make only one client image to appear in client carousel when on mobile ? How can I do it ?
Thanks in advance.
Hey deepakkumarv,
1. Open up your init.js file and search for ”$(’.carousel.clients’).each(function(){” to end up at the right location. Simply modify the
timeoutDuration : 2700to change the duration between rotations.
2. This would take custom development unfortunately.
Cheers
I have two questions.
1. How do I set up woocommerce integration? for example, cart in the main navigation? and account pages? 2. How to change the bg color of the header and main body of blog and shop pages?
Thanks
Hey cmplxr,
1. You just need to install the WooCommerce plugin. You can also import their included dummy data file inside their plugin folder if you want the mimic the live demo’s setup.
2.Enter this into your custom css box:
#header-outer {
background-color: #333!important;
}
body, body .cotainer-wrap, body .home-wrap {
background-color: #fff!important;
}
Sorry this question may sound silly but how can I add cart functionality and icon in top navigation menu? Thanks
cmplxr, there’s an option to enable that in your theme options panel > WooCommerce options tab. Pleas keep in mind it will only display when the user has something in their cart 
Cheers
hello…. It’s not my day today.
I have the home slider/recent work option activated and my recent work shows up fine at the bottom of the homepage, but when i click on View all Work, it takes me to the portfolios of ONE of my categories, precisely the one i don’t want to show up. I think the problem comes from having two pages of portfolio work (work & behind the scenes), one of which falls pulls up the portfolios of one category (behind the scenes), the other pulls up from the remaining categories. I just don’t get why the link on the homepage links to the one category and not the others—how can I make sure it links to the right set of portfolios without changing all that category business??
thank you always
i am so sorry. i found it in the Portfolio Options…please excuse me!!
No worries mate! Glad you found it
I’ve just updated for the latest version and imported the dummy text to learn how to use the new features. However, for some reason I delete the new pages from the wordpress but they are still featured on the site. ( my navigation bar is crowded with links and I can delete them) How I resolve this?
Hey pabretas, are you sure they’re not still sitting in your custom menu in Appearance > Menus?
Yep, you are right! thanks alot…I was almost killing myself
You’re welcome!
hi again, I’m having all sorts of trouble today…
I also can’t figure out how to create a slider within a portfolio item that contains both images and a video. Either that or stack the video underneath the images slider. Is this possible? I saw this ticket http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/48974 but no matter what I do it doesn’t work: as soon as I activate the slider option, the video disappears. Please help me…I’m useless today =( thank you.
anagcan, that ticket is from many months ago and you have a lot more options now with 2.0. Have you checked out using the nectar slider? There’s a long tutorial on it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLU9Pxo_RD8
Also, if you would prefer to just stack videos in the main content area, just switch to the text tab on your editor and paste in the embed codes.
wait…i can’t use the nectar slider on a portfolio item, right? (i tried it and it occupies the sidebar!)?
You need to place it in the extra content editor, not the sidebar editor mate
Also, I would recommend watching this tutorial even if you don’t need a full width portfolio item – it will still go over the two editors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qVplZzPnRAoh geez
iloveuthankyou!
You’re welcome!
Is there any way to apply captions to the portfolio sliders? I include them when adding the wordpress gallery but they don’t show up on the generated slider. (Within one portfolio i would like to group certain photos that have their own information, like date, location, photographer…but with the permanent sidebar i can’t differentiate the sets of photos.)
thank you for your patience =)
Hey anagcan! You would need to use a nectar slider for that – when using that you have the option to add whatever captions, titles or links you need to each slide!
hi there again,
I’m looking for the Portfolio “alternative” style shown on the Salient demo, but can’t find how to configure it.
Please show me the way? thank you =)
duh…salient options…found it. thx =)
Glad you found it!
Cheers
Hi
Your theme looks awesome!! One of the best themes integrated with Woocommerce and magazine style I’ve seen so far. However, I am currently using this theme on my project, http://themeforest.net/item/sistina-flat-multipurpose-shop-theme/5220602 . My question is how easy is it to migrate from theme I am using to your theme? I would like all of the data remaining intact.
Thanks
And here is my website project I am working on, http://www.digital-san.com . And I have a little knowledge about programming .
Hey cmplxr! Since your data is in WooCommerce, it should transfer over no problem. The only things that might have issue are any custom post types that your previous theme might have such as portfolio, clients etc. Those theme specific things will not smoothly transfer over.
Hello,
First of all, what a theme! I’m absolutely in love with the design and the functionalities.
I just want to know: does SALIENT integrate with WPML? I really need to have my website translated into three different languages.
Thank you in advance.
Thanks jppmarujo!
Many buyers use it, but I have not tested thoroughly enough to claim 100% compatibility yet.
Cheers
Not sure if you are aware already but i noticed a bug with the recent work shortcode module on mobile. The image becomes selected on tap but doesn’t go anywhere. I just tested your demo page and it does the same thing.
What device are you using? I can’t replicate that on android
Sorry delayed reply. Did a bit more testing.. looks like it’s a Google Chrome thing. I’m using Chrome on a Samsung S3. The Samsung browser works ok.
Very weird, there should be discrepancy between the two – I will test more tomorrow on the matter
Cheers!
Hi want ask how i can remove the search on the header?
Here’s the answer: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/52594/search/
Cheers!
Some more questions and observations, mostly regarding mobile performance
- Why is the video on the first homepage not running on iPad? in fact, none of the header videos run. I tested with Safari, Chrome and another 3rd party browser.
- Video “Flippin Bird” doesn’t play on iPad (iOS 6). Progress indicator but no video.
- When mousing over a portfolio item, an overlay with two options appears. View Larger, More Details. On the iPad, if I happen to tap where one of those options are, the overlay appears but one of the options is selected immediately as well and it proceeds to that option. Kinda confusing. There are other mouse over events that obviously don’t work on mobile devices (but look beautiful in a desktop browser). What can a user do to improve that situation? Is there a way to detect mobile devices and adjust the behaviour for those?
- On the about page, if you scroll down to the bottom, the header video reappears underneath some other element until the scrolling stops, then it desappears (iPad). I’m not sure but I think this only happens in landscape.
- Certain elements (about page, icons with short text description) flicker when they first appear. This doesn’t happen on a laptop or desktop browser. I’s nitpicking, I now. But still.
This sounds like a lot of criticism, it’s not. Just things I noticed on the mobile side of things. On the desktop, the user experience is very nice and solid. Still, with so many people visiting ones site on mobile first these days, it’s important for me that their experience is as solid as on the desktop.
Other than that, it is a very beautiful and solid theme. I probably buy it anyway but I’d be thrilled if those quirks could be worked out
1. Skip to 6:37 in my tutorial video on the slider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLU9Pxo_RD8
2. I probably just supplied the wrong codec for this piece of demo content, i’ll check it out and patch it up but there has never been issues playing standard WordPress videos on mobile devices as long as the correct formats are supplied.
3. I have already adjusted the behavior for this on phones – I’ll look into iPad as well for 2.1.
4. I’ll test on iPad landscape and see if I missed something
5. That’s odd, the icons should be visible to begin with as there should be no animation on mobile. However, the animated numbers still animate on mobile and that I could see a flicker happening for.
Thanks for the feedback, hope I cleared some things up
Cheers
You certainly did. Thank you
Cheers and I need to give you a special thanks for your feedback – I was able to knockdown many of your points in 2.05!
Glad I could help!
So I’m in the process of building my new site with your theme and its working great so far. Two things though.
You changed the behaviour of the portfolio items on iOS. before, the options “View Larger” and “More Details” were appearing on first tap but it also proceeded to the page of that item right away. Now those options just don’t appear anymore. That makes the site on iOS kinda less useful. There’s no way to view an item larger. Why not mirror the behaviour of the “Sort Portfolio” Menu? On desktop systems, the mouse over makes the menu appear, then you have a chance to click a menu item. on iOS, first tap is like hover. On the portfolio items, I’d like to see the options appear on first tap, first tap being what hover is on the desktop. That gives the user a chance to chose both options. Isn’t that possible? The sort menu suggests it is. Most other sites I’ve visited behave the same on iOS. First tap is what hover is on the desktop. If it’s not possible for you to implement this yourself, could you give me some pointers about what files and what code needs to be changed to make it work that way?
Also, the “Back To Top” button doesn’t appear on iOS, whether it’s enabled or not.
One additional question. “View Larger” uses some lightbox to show the item bigger. If I have a gallery on the post page and don’t want a slider, it displays the gallery normally. But apon click on a gallery thumbnail it doesn’t use the lightbox. Why not? Can I enable this somewhere and missed it?
Hey again scratsmacker!
1. The fact those buttons appeared on landscape mode was a glitch – since the beginning of Salient those buttons were supposed to be hidden on mobile to allow a better UX. Also, the lightbox that opens on mobile will not be any larger than the image already in sight since the phone is showing near 100% width so it’s essentially useless.
2. Any element that uses the position “fixed” such as the back to top button will be hidden or made static since phones can not handle position fixed very well. I will however note to add a button on mobile that is stuck in the footer perhaps.
3. You can call the theme’s lightbox manually anywhere you want by adding the class “pp” to a link. For example,
<a class="pp" href="my_large_img"><img src="my_img" /></a>
If you the lightbox to automatically get applied to galleries you would need to write a JS snippet to add that class on to all gallery links so you don’t have to.
Cheers
Thanks again for your answers. Helped a lot.
So I added a self hosted video (1280×720px) to the portfolio. Clicked the “watch video” link and the lightbox displays it much smaller. Tried to enter the video height (which shouldn’t be necessary since it’s 16:9) but no luck. Is there a way to display the video in its original size in the lightbox? Since there’s no full screen option in the lightbox, a new visitor might miss a much higher quality video. This is on desktop, not mobile.
You’re welcome,
could you post your URL so I can make sure there’s no problem with the video?
Thanks!
Thank you – I thought you were saying it was much small than that. If you want to default max width open up your page-portfolio.php and alter this line:
echo '<a href="'.get_template_directory_uri(). '/includes/portfolio-functions/video.php?post-id=' .$post->ID.'&iframe=true&width=854" class="pp">'.__("Watch Video", NECTAR_THEME_NAME).'</a> ';
Specifically the part that says
&iframe=true&width=854
And then also edit the video.php file inside of the includes/portfolio-functions directory to match.
Cheers
Well, it is significantly smaller. The original movie is 1280×720, but it gets displayed as 854×450. Thank your for the detailed description about how to change the displayed size. But this seems like an awful lot of stuff to change and more importantly remember to change everytime an update of salient is released. I’m really starting to feel bad about bothering you with my questions. Your support so far is really top notch and unmatched by any other Theme developer I had worked with in the past. A 5-star-rating is a certainty
So I hope this will be the last question. I’d rather use one of the many 3rd party lightbox plugins instead of changing code in multiple locations. Can you give me advice on how to switch off the built-in lightbox entirely?
Having an issue in IE10 where the video/sliders don’t play: http://ccroanoke.web4savior.com
Then in safari the parallax background is all messed up.
Am I doing something wrong?
Hey jereckley,
1. It appears your mp4 was made with the wrong codec. Ensure you use H264 when rendering it. If you replace your mp4 with the demo videohttp://themenectar.com/demo/salient/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/onemore_1.mp4
You’ll see it load in IE and anywhere else where the mp4 would get used.
2. You can’t use a parallax full width section that close to the parallax slider – there’s a browser level bug which prevents the two elements from being on the same page together. I have a work around in place to hide the slider when it’s out of view thus fixing the bug, so essentially if you want to keep the parallax section you need it to be lower in the page where it wouldn’t be visible until the slider is completely out of view.
Love the theme.. thanks for the good response time/ feedback
Very glad to hear jereckley!
Cheers
Hello! 2 Nectar Slider questions please
1. By default the slider has element style of background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); – how can I change that to #f5f5f5? I’m using an instance of the slider not at full width and with swipe true and it shows kinda like a box when you reach the last slide and pull/slide. (I found and edited ”.nectar-slider-loading” BG colour already)
2. When you create a slide there is “Extra Class Name” at the bottom – you touch on this briefly in the video but you can explain that a little further please! Is there any further documentation on that you could point me too? Could I use that to control something like the below but change an instance of the slider to have a different margin setting, say -70px?.nectar-slider-wrap[data-full-width="false"] .swiper-slide .content { margin-top: 0px;
}
Really enjoying working with this theme (and learning)!
Hey sb77!
1. Add this to your custom css box
body .swiper-container {
background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
2. The extra class name is for advanced users really who want do customizations on a per slide basis. Things possible are only limited to your imagination/capabilities. I.e. you could do specific coloring to the text for one slide out of the bunch etc.. When you add a custom class it gets added to the “swiper-slide” div. so when making a rule up it would look like:
.swiper-slide.my-custom-class p {
color: red!important;
}
Thanks very much! If anyone searches and finds this answer it did need the declaration as> background-color: #f5f5f5!important;
For #2: Hmmm, I’m getting more advanced by the day and generally pick things up ok
I am ok with having a custom div class and wrapping content in the html editor – I tried to troubleshoot this application also – but, what specifically do I add to that “Extra Class Name”?
Are you saying add that code above into the custom css box and then just add something like ”.swiper-slide.my-custom-class” to the input field on the slide? I’ve tried a number of things but when I expect the slide the custom class isn’t showing…
Whatever class you need to add to your slide just needs to be inputted as text for example my class that I already provide functionality for (static) just needs to be inputted as “static” in the extra class name box. What I was saying is that it will get added onto the swiper-slide div so in css you can target by
.swiper-slide.static
Hope that clears this up more for you
You finaly make a new sider! How I can say anytime I plan to buy a new them but I will find you update something extremely good…
Just want to ask can the nectar sider loop like forever?
toiji, my apologies for that ;D
Currently the slider can not rotate “infinitely”, it has to reach an endpoint, but can restart to the beginning slide with auto rotate on. The reason for the lack of infinite scrolling is because of the video backgrounds, it just wouldn’t work so well copying the slides and inserting them over and over which is how the infinite effect works.
“copying the slides and inserting them over and over” it’s an idea…
That’s how that effect is coded – but as I mentioned with the video background support on the Nectar Slider it’s not really possible.
ahahahahhaha ~ I thought you said I can “copying the slides and inserting them over and over” Sorry with my English
Haha, no worries!
Hi Theme Nectar!
I realized that there was an update so I deleted the theme from wordpress, redownloaded it then tried to upload it but I get this message: “Unpacking the package…
Installing the theme…
The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
Theme install failed.”
Is there anything I’m doing wrong? Thanks for your help!
Regards, Haynes
Hey haynesjunior! Yes, you need to upload the salient.zip which is located inside of the main download zip from ThemeForest. You don’t want to upload the long named zip such as
themeforest-4363266-salient-responsive-portfolio-blog-theme.zipExtract out the theme zip & upload that for it to work
Hey Theme Nectar,
Is there a way to make the nectar slider automatic? I’ve been going through the forum and haven’t been able to find a solution.
And by automatic I mean autoscroll, sorry.
Hey! Yes, there’s an auto rotate option available and you can see it here for an example: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/portfolio/994/
When you’re adding a nectar slider to a page you’ll see an input field for auto rotate in the shortcode generator
Cheers
Ah, thank you. I feel stupid, don’t know how I missed that. I was also wondering, is there a way that you can change the “Read more” text? So if someone wanted it to say “Continue reading” instead of “Read more” how would they go about doing that? I looked in blog options and I couldn’t find a way to change it.
You’re welcome – currently there’s no option in the panel to change it, however I guess it would be a good idea to add it
For now you want to change it you’ll need to open the files in includes/post-templates and do a find and replace for “Read More”
Cheers
Hi, you are using one of my Instagram images here without my permission!
http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/Please remove
Hey Dean!
I’m really sorry – I did give you credits in the theme description, I was not trying to do wrong by you. I have personally contacted all sources of photography / video used in my theme except for the ones that fell in your category which were “some rights reserved”. It states currently on your flickr page for the photos I used that:
You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work to make commercial use of the work Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)
After reading the license stated above, I didn’t think I had to gain further permission mate. If you wish for me to not use them then that’s fine, but I hope you can see how it seems you’re willing to allow others to use them in the way I did.
Sorry! You do great work and it’s a shame we had to be introduced to each other on bad terms.
Cheers
Oh I forgot that was on my Flickr! OK no worries. Where is the credit page, I think it needs to be public.
Currently I have listed all sources of external media used at the bottom of the main theme page http://themeforest.net/item/salient-responsive-multipurpose-theme/4363266
OK sweet!
Yeah, really sorry about the confusion again!
Cheers
Hello again
The Facebook counter doesn’t seem to be working on the site. Nectar-love is great – twitter and Pinterest are counting but Facebook counter doens’t register. What should I do?
Hey!
That’s odd – as you can see in various places on the live demo, the facebook counter is counting correctly.
Please open a ticket on the support forum with your URL to where it is not and I’ll check further
Cheers
Hi, I was wondering how to get the marker for the map to work. I uploaded a png and there are still no markers.
Thanks!
Have you enabled location #1 and set the coordinates up for it? If you just set a lat and lng for the map center point a marker will not be placed.
