Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

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Hey guys, me again. I actually wanted to tell you first of all that I really love your slider! The only problem is, my client can be kind of crazy at times so he thinks differently. The main thing is that for some reason, great part of the images on the slider gets cut off. I believe this is mainly because of the dimensions of the images, so I was wondering if you guys could provide me what you would consider the proper dimensions for the images on the slider.

Also, I was wondering if you could please provide me the custom .CSS code to get rid of the parallax effect on the slider when scrolling down.

This is kind of urgent, so I would seriously appreciate if I could here from you guys soon! Thank you very much for your time and help :)

Hey again Gallardooo!

1. You have simply set the slider’s height too short. The image you’re using is actually 800 pixels tall so all you need to do is change the height you’ve set to be taller and more of your image will show :)

2. You don’t need custom css to disable the parallax, there’s an option right in the shortcode generator to not enable it. Alternately if you don’t want to regenerate the shortcode, just make sure the attribute

parallax="false"
is on your nectar slider shortcode :)

Cheers

Hey, thanks again for the help! However, I was able to notice that for some reason, the caption in my slider isn’t working in a “responsive” way whenever the website is re-sized or opened in a mobile screen, like the one on the demo. Could you please tell me what could be causing this?

Yes, there was an issue with the custom typography and the Nectar Slider in 2.05 – it’s gonna be cleared in the next release which is due very soon!

Hi, I was wondering how I can change the content on the footer. The gray part where it says Widget Area 1 2 3 and 4. I would like to add my mission statement there. I need this changes to be done as soon as possible so I would really appreciate if I could hear from you guys soon! Thanks for your time and help :) URL: umacommunications.com

Hey Gallardooo! Have you already figured this one out? I see you have placed content in :) If you’re still not sure, all you need to do is drop widgets into the widget areas that are available in Appearance > Widgets.

Hey, I have! However, I’m now trying to get rid of the spaces between he titles and the paragraphs and the spaces above and below the widget. I have attached an image of this on the support forum so you can hopefully understand better what I mean! Also, another thing I din’t specify was that I am also trying to “justify” the text on the widgets (the paragraphs). Thanks for your time!

Alright, great! We can continue this on there then..I’ll be with you as soon as I can :)

I need help! My blog archive page looks horrible, how can I text wrap my featured image on my archive pages? http://globalflare.com/search-engine-optimization-blog/

Hello nmc187! I see you have made a custom structure within the theme. By default, the featured image is supposed to occupy the full width of the post and be above the title with the date / love count on the left. See the demo for reference http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/blog/

Since you changed the entire structure of the blog with your custom one and didn’t add much styling, it’s no surprise it doesn’t look quite as good. However, just to lend my hand to you here’s a rule you can place in the custom css box to make the text wrap around the image like you’re trying to do:
.mtphr-dnt-posts-thumb img {
  float: left!important;
}
Cheers

Hi. Love the theme. You guys are rockstars in my book. Everything is working beautifully for me.

Question about the Nectar Slider in regards to video backgrounds. It seems that I can upload a max video of 10 mbs. I’ve uploaded 9mb and 6mb MPEG4 vids that won’t work for me in any browser. I get the loading animation.

However, if I uploaded a 3 mb vid and got that to work. Any thoughts to what could be going on?

Also, any recommendations on what I can use to convert MOV files to webM?

Thanks for your help and keep up the great work!

Hey grkosta!

1. The only limit on upload size are the ones your server has in place by default – you contact your hosting company as ask them to increase the limit and they should be able to no problem :)

2. If a video background is not playing, it must either be corrupt, not have all the formats supplied or encoded incorrectly. If you share your URL I will be more than happy to tell you which one!

3. This is what I used for the demo: http://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-webm

Cheers!

Within the WP admin under “Products” I am not getting any results when I submit a search, even if I have entered a specific word I know is in one of my product names. “No Products found.” This functionality works when I switch to the default 2013 wp theme. I have submitted a ticket with screenshot. Awesome theme though! Really well built! Thanks.

Hey kevinmckerracher! Thanks so much for pointing this out – indeed it was a small bug and I’ve taken care of it :) The fix will be included in 2.1 which is due out within a couple days.

Cheers!

Oh that’s great! A lot of products/data entry for a staff member and would help to keep track of/search what’s all been entered etc… Will check for next release. Again, great work on this theme!

Thanks a lot! :)

Hey,

Is it possible to put in woo commerce product on the home page?

Kind regards,

Vlad

Hey Vlad, WooCommerce has shortcodes that you can access on your editor to place groups of products where ever you desire :)

Just want to say that this is a really awesome theme, really happy that I choose this theme :)

Thanks so much m-esso!

Cheers :)

Hey TN,

I’ve noticed Nectar Slider buttons are not in its right proportion when viewing under mobiles (height seems to be distorted). Also, the slider link option does not work and when it’s activated the slider does not work at all(the slider appears to be in the black loading mode).

Another thing that I’ve noticed is that the “divider with full width line shortcode” does not work properly when the “client shortcode” is selected.

Let me know if there are any changes that I need to make.

Thanks

Hey neibohood,

1. I’ll take a look at reducing the top/bottom padding slightly for mobile to amend this for 2.1.

2. There has not been a known issue with full slide links since 2.05, can you please open a ticket regarding this with your URL so I can see what’s causing your problem?

3. I’ll investigate this combo and see what would be stopped it from functioning right :)

Cheers

Hey, I’m getting a dozen 404’s while loading salient admin page. Like this: GET http://beta.a.com/wp-contentthemessalientnectaroptionscss/options.css?ver=1381431903 404 (Not Found) admin.php?page=redux_options:30

Any idea why there are no slashes between wp-content through to css? Path is correct with slashes though.

Hey mkosmowski, I’ve encountered one other buyer who had that same odd issue and it turned out to be server related. I would contact your hosting company and ask them why them if they have any clue why your setup is stripping slashes in the urls.

Cheers

Yeah that was it. FYI I had a subdomain redirected to a directory with separation. Turning off separation did the trick!

Thanks! Theme looks sharp!

Excellent! Thanks for sharing the info as well :)

Cheers!

Hey,

Are the image icons (the cog, the thumbs up, power switches etc., etc. not the font icons) used in the About page and homepage from any icon set in particular? Or did you guys design them yourselves?

Thanks!

Hey rashadsays! Those images were downloaded from here: http://icomoon.io/app/#browse and used with the image with animation shortcode :)

Cheers!

Hello, I need a little help with your theme. I need to use my website on 2 languages, portuguese and english. I saw in the live preview, on the page showing the headers style, one example with a language select. How can I use this? What plugin work properly with this theme?

thanks!

Hey laertejofre! That language dropdown can be inserted by the plugin WPML – it’s a built in feature :)

Cheers!

Hey Nectar

how to centre the button ( icon -salient-plus ) on the portfolio ?

Thanks in advance!

Hey onelogo! It’s already positioned absolutely so you can control its value with “left” and “bottom” properties. Here’s a sample snippet:
body .main-content .carousel-wrap[data-full-width="true"] .portfolio-items .col i, body .portfolio-items .col .work-item.style-2 i {
 bottom: 0 !important;
 left: 140px !important;
}

Amazing support !!! thanks you Nectar

You’re welcome!

Just thought I would point this out …

I love the latest updates to this theme but did notice something when looking at the differences between the original Home Slider vs. the Nectar Slider.

The Nectar slider is of course far more powerful and flexible than the home slider but one area that it falls short in my opinion is how these sliders appear when viewing them on smaller screens.

To see what I mean you can try viewing examples of the home slider and nectar slider on an iPhone or by simply resizing your browser window.

Home Slider – http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/home/home-basic/

Nectar Slider – http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/

The text on the home slider remains large and very readable while the text on the nectar slider is small and unreadable on my iPhone 4S or on smaller screen sizes. It would be nice to have the text appear similarly to that of the home slider.

Also one other minor (very minor) gripe is that it would be nice to have the slider continue back to slide 1 when clicking the next arrow on the last slider … instead of just getting stuck.

Thanks!

Hello Olimess,

1. The scaling of the text proportionally down with the Nectar Slider was not an accident, I intentionally designed it that way because it’s the only way to actually have the image scale down correctly so that it’s not clipped on the sides on mobile. The home slider has to lose a good deal of the right and left side of its images on mobile in order to keep the height tall enough to show the text / buttons. The new slider uses an accurate scaling script which might seem too small, but when viewed on retina devices like it will be, it’s legible. You can also zoom in still on your phone if you need. This is the same method of scaling that other premium sliders use such as RevSlider and LayerSlider etc and I adopted this method based on the number of complaints I revived from incorrect scaling on the Home Slider.

2. It’s not possible to have the slider infinitely loop due to its video background support. That effect you’re seeking actually works by duplicating the DOM elements over and over and inserting them constantly at the end to make it seem like it’s looping. If this was done with video backgrounds it would cause browser crashes from constantly reloading video elements and also it would restart the videos every transition.

Cheers

Thanks for your response. I realized the purpose for handling the slider loop as you did after sending off my question.

As for point 1, I see what you mean. Still love the handling of the home slider with regards to the text. Guess I’ll play around with CSS to change up text size based on screen size for the nectar slider etc.

Awesome job either way!

Thanks a lot Olimess! – and I’m glad I cleared things up for you :)

Cheers

In your demo site you have a “recent work we’ve completed for clients section” How did you accomplish the full page display of the separate projects?

I don’t see the rule getting applied on the front.. there’s not pre tags wrapping what you pasted in right?

Would it be easier if I just copied the code you used in the demo

It would be easiest if you allowed me to log in to your setup to add the rule really quick – would only take one minute! If you want to do that, just send me credentials at themenectar@gmail.com

Cheers

One more question and we are done hehe!

I want all post in the website (blog) looks like the 3 column masonry display that uses the search form, is there a way to accomplish these?

Thanks!

Yes, the actual masonry with sidebar has 2 columns as opposed to 3 because I felt it was too crammed having full blog posts in such a small space – especially on the small desktop view. You can just opt for the masonry full width layout to get 3 columns easily or if you’re set on having 3 with the sidebar, you’ll have to modify the file a bit.

Cheers

What i have to modify? What file? THanks!

You would need to modify the blog-masonry.js file located in the js folder and possibly some styles inside of the main stylesheet if it’s not perfect.

Cheers

Hi, may I know how do I move the page name behind the blog name in the page title, and use a dash instead of a ”|”? As in changing it to “page – blog name” instead of the current “blog name | page”. Thanks in advance!

Hey caelestis515! Just open your header.php file and locate this line:

<title> <?php wp_title("|",true, 'right'); ?> <?php if (!defined('WPSEO_VERSION')) { bloginfo('name'); } ?></title>

change the ”|” in

wp_title("|",true, 'right')

to be whatever you want the separator to be :)

Cheers

That line looks a little different from what I have (ver 1.9), but I changed it to what you wrote and it works fine. Time for me to upgrade perhaps? Thanks for your help!

Yes, that would explain the slight line difference :)

Cheers!

Hello—presale question here. Is the video on the home page mandatory? If not what options do I have?

Hey omarperez999, no it’s just an optional feature of the Nectar Slider. You can build your home page however you want using all the elements and features provided – check out all the home layouts for examples :)

Cheers

Hi! Really nice theme! I have a few questions before purchasing: 1.- Can I have a big full screen video in another section that is not the homepage (first one)? 2.- Can I place buttons with anchors in all the sections? 3.- Can I have a page with a contact form and a map all together? (Custom html or php is not a problem) 4.- Is it responsive & cross platform (including IE8)?

Thanks!

Hey rousalia!

1. Yup, as you should see on the demo I use video backgrounds throughout http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/about/about-us-extended/

2. You can use the nectar button shortcode where ever you need for the most part.

3. Do you mean the contact form would be on top of the map? If so, custom development would indeed be needed.

4. It is very responsive and cross browser compatible but of course in IE8 you lose a lot of the cool effects. I encourage you to test out in as many browsers/devices as you feel the need to ensure it’s what you need :)

Cheers

Thanks for your answers! I didn’t explain myself with the contact section. What I am trying to achieve is having the same thing you have on your demo (fullwidth map and contact form), but at the bottom of the one page system. Is that possible?

I realized the video loop background is not working in IE8, I just see an image… Is there a way of having the video iframe 100% width without being a background?

Thanks again!

I’ve found 1 problem with this version of theme… If I create page with portfolio (f.e. name “2013 projects”)and want to choose parent for this page which is called “Portfolio”, then it doesn’t work :( I see only 404 not found… Is it possible to fix it?

Thanks a lot! But which slug I have to write if I want to have 4 different portfolios? I mean: Menu> Main Porfolio Button and 4 possibilities (Film, Animation, Logo, Music)? How to write slug to have different url address in every 4 possibilities?

and please, could you help me with functions.php? How to change alphabetical order in this theme?

You’re welcome!

1. You only need to change the slug of the parent page that’s title is “portfolio”. Or as I mentioned, you could just enter a custom slug for the actual post type in the portfolio options panel.

2. Please open a ticket in regards as it would be more appropriate for longer explanations when dealing with more code.

Cheers!

Is there a backend option for using a normal header instead of the animated header?

Hey andreask0, indeed there is. You can disable the resize effect with one click :)

Cheers

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