Discussion on Samba - Colorful WordPress Theme

Discussion on Samba - Colorful WordPress Theme

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Hi Pirenko,

Lovely theme!! I am currently using Pixia theme for my site… but by looks of things, this one actually offer the exact type of templating pages I was after! Now, before purchasing this theme, I would like to ask couple of things…

1. would it be easy and simple to just substitute my current content of the website with this theme?

2. with the colour option, can you change the colours? or is it as it comes as per the preview site? although i prefer the less coloured option but wondered if that would have some flexibility of customisable options like the Pixia one?

3. Is this iphone friendly?

4. lastly, does this come with like widgets that you can have quick contact page at the bottom or twitter feed as such like in Pixia?

It would be greatly appreciated if you could kindly just let me know so that i can feel confident in getting this… although having experienced your support with Pixia, I am sure it will be a smooth experience!

cheers

Hello again,
That’s an independent sidebar and it uses jQuery. It’s a little less smooth because of that, but I’ll see if something can be done. Cheers!

Morning Pirenko, So would it get a bit faster or scroll more smoothly with future updates? I will definitely be getting it over the weekend when I have the time to update my site but just wanted to know that this can be done…. cheers

Hi,
I’ll be working on an update today and will try to change some parameters to see if it gets a bit smoother.
Thanks ;)

good theme GLWS

Thanks themeslust!

Bookmarking this one, looks awesome!

Thank you very much ;)

Hi the menu system doesnt work on iPad? Would you have a fix for this? Thanks

Hi,
It seems to be working here. Is this on the preview or on your install? Also what iPad version are you using?
Thanks!

Ipad2 os5.1 its also your live example, the menu 3d animation works but the buttons in the menu goa bit haywire

Well I’m on os5.1 and it works perfectly. Can you please test on your website with the 3D option off?
Send me a private message maybe so that we can sort this out (maybe I’ll force no 3D on that model if the problem lives on that option).
Thank you for your feedback!

Hi Pirenko. Excited to get going on this theme, but it will not install. I download the ‘Wordpress Only’ folder, zipped it and tried to install on several different URL to no avail. Just to be sure, I tested uploading other themes and those went up just fine.

The error says: Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.

Then that sends me to the upload screen again.

Any suggestions?

Thanks. Ryan

Hi,
Please try uploading the theme using FTP. Because the theme folder is relatively big you should upload by FTP.
If you need help please click on the videos link under the theme preview image here on Themeforest.
Thanks ;)

Nice, thanks for quick reply! Will give that a shot.

Hiya

Pre-Sales Questions:

- Can blog categories be displayed in Masonry style also? (Cause on demo they appear classic style)

- Can different blog categories be displayed in different styles? (for example: Category 1: Masonry style – Category 2: Classic Style)

- Can it be used on WP Multisites and won’t have much issues with plugins?

Thank you. Sarah

Do you have any active plugins? If so please turn them off for a moment. If you still have trouble please send me a private message and I’ll look into this matter.
Thanks!

I have turned all plugins off and the problem persists. I will send you private message.

Ok, thanks!

hi can you please fix this bug Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_woocommerce() in .../samba/inc/helper.php on line 482

should add if isset()

Hi,
Thank you for reporting this. That line of code should be like this:
if ((is_single() && get_post_type()=="post") || (is_archive() && (PRK_WOO=="false" || (PRK_WOO=="true" && !is_woocommerce()) )))
This small fix will be included on the next update.
Thanks once again :nerdy:

Hi there! Loving the theme… could you please point me in the direction of where the code info is to use the shortcodes?

Many thanks!

Hi,
You don’t need any shortcodes, because they are all created with the help of the Visual Composer. Please take a quick look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hBecwTKOrs&list=PLWiviR4wWrsEwB95voMUNiVIqJma9xNmV
Let me know if you still need help with something.
Thanks ;)

WOW! I didn’t realise it worked like that! Amazing.. will prob take some time getting used to, but looks much easier (once I get the hang of it) Great! Thanks again :)

Hi again, I’ve been testing on Safari on iPad and the 3D menu doesn’t work : once opened, it shrinks every time a new picture gets loaded in the home page slider, and Safari eventually crashes. With menu opened by default now, I open a portfolio item and the menu appears both collapsed and expanded, overlapping the portfolio item content. Hope you can fix this :-)

OK, I’ll try in a few hours when back home :-)

It’s not solved but … I figured out that it happens only within the Pirenko frameset ; If I close the top bar in the demo everything’s fine. So that’s not an issue actually :-)

Oh… I forgot to ask that… Thank you for your feedback!

Hi, Will the time.ly plugin work with this theme? Thanks.

Hi,
I haven’t tested with this theme, but I know that it works with my latest 2 themes. Let me know if you want me to set up a test page.
Cheers!

Great theme > thinking of buying it. ?: I like this portfolio layout: http://www.pirenko.com/samba/grid-portfolio/ – but I need the project title and just a little unique content below each one? Is that possible – the sorted categories at the top of this page looks really nice. Also, on the individual portfolio posts, is there an option not to include the image? I’d like to customize each one with some content and shortcodes. Instead of woo commerce, I like cart66 – and I’ll incorporate this in these posts. Finally, though, I heard mention of the IE8 compatibility issue earlier in comments, is this being worked out or is it not possible. I also tried viewing the site (not in a themeforest frame) on my smartphone (Nexus 4) – but it couldn’t bring it up. Not sure why. I really do like your theme though.

Well the image is supposed to fill the width and still be proportional so you can try and make your images relatively wider (your width/height ratio must be higher).
I hope this was clear. Cheers!

OK – after viewing the portfolio page with the skills choices at the top of the page – the selected choice with become a white box completely when selected, though it does go to the page. Also, in the ipad, it seems that when the menu is expanded, the body content is pushed to the side and grayed out somewhat. Is there a fix for this, or is it part of the theme. I’d like the content not to respond in this way if possible. Thanks.

Hi,
Both things are behaving like expected. If you want to change any of these behaviors send me a private message please.
Thanks!

Hi, can the video show reel be set to start playing automatically on page load?

Thanks.

Hi,
Sure… I just made that change to the theme preview: http://www.pirenko.com/samba/video-showreel/
Thanks :)

Wow cool. Thank you.

The collapsed menu doesn’t work on the latest version of safari. Cheers.

Hi,
It seems to be working here… Safari 6.0.5 on MACOSX 10.8.5. If you have time please explain me exactly what happens or send me a private message.
Thanks!

i would love to buy this theme if only was based on roots theme framework http://roots.io/, one the features i would like in this theme is to able to hide the fact i am using wordpress, roots theme has a clever theme template wrapper which allows to reuse parts of the same code. also have ajax search of posts .

That live search bar probably can be implemented with a plugin, but I don’t really now. The search form can be moved up (but still inside the left bar) if needed with some custom CSS.
Cheers!

is there a way to disable the 3d effect on side bar just want it to slide in.

Yes, this is an option.

First of all THANKS! for an amazing theme. I cannot believe how similar this is to what I have spent the last month putting together wireframes for my personal site.

Since I won’t have any ‘team members’ or a need for that section at all. I was curious, how can I go about getting a ‘full-width’ image on a particular page? Exactly as you do in the video tutorial for the team member. When I apply an image, and specify it’s dimensions, it’s still constrained by the parent container.

Thanks again, for a great theme.

Hi,
You can achieve this in two ways:
a)create a slider with only one image and make it show like here: http://www.pirenko.com/samba/corporate-style/
b) create a page with sections and make the section background the image you want to use
I have set up some help videos here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlSJUrW0-n0&list=PLWiviR4wWrsEwB95voMUNiVIqJma9xNmV
Send me a private message if you need help with this.
Thank you for purchasing :nerdy:

Perfect. Took some figuring out, but got it. Thanks again.

Cool! I’ll be around if you need me ;)

It looks great, I will definitely recommend this to my customers, cheers, good luck with sales!

Thank you greenline ;)

O M L!! (Oh My Lordy) AMAZING #Pirenko Does it AGAIN! Absolutely Gorgeous, Fluid, Unique, Clean AND So much so on mobile even?!! YES! AND page builder and woo too?? Ahhhhh I Don’t know if I can wait for the right web client of mine here before I buy this INCREDIBLE Theme!!

Thank you for your kind comments Sterling :grin:

WOW! Awesome template, bookmarking now :)

Thanks ;)

Hi, Is it possible to build several portfolio pages, each with its own filterable subcategories ?
For example:
Portfolio 1 : Street Photography > New York / Paris / London
Portfolio 2: Nature Photography > Birds / Landscapes / Macro
Thanks !
(Great work !!!)

Hi,
Yes and you can use different layouts for each page. Thanks!

Great theme Pirenko, Just wondering if it was possible to have the front page video be full browser like the slider images – at the moment it is just halfway across.

Thanks.

Hi,
Well you can try that with some custom CSS, but the video will be cropped on the sides as well as the controls… Is this what you want?
Thank you for your kind comments!

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