Hola,

pues actualizar el theme es un proceso sencillo que puedes realizar de dos formas.

La primera sería simplemente seguir el proceso habitual de instalación de cualquier theme usando la opción que ofrece Wordpress dentro del propio dashboard, esto sería Dashboard > Appearance > Themes.

Pero personalmente recomendaría la opción de usar FTP tanto para instalar como para actualizar tus themes.

Si decides usar esta opción simplemente tienes que reemplazar los archivos del theme dentro de la carpeta wp-contents > themes > flamingo. O bien, crear una carpeta nueva dentro de themes, “flamingo-v1-x”, por ejemplo, y ahí copiar todos los archivos de la nueva update. A continuación solo tendrías que activar desde el panel de WP el theme ubicado en la nueva carpeta. Lo podrás identificar gracias al número de la versión correspondiente a la actualización.

Recuerda hacer una copia de respaldo antes de realizar ninguna instalación y asegúrate de que si has realizado modificaciones sobre algún archivo del core del theme los tienes controlados, sobre todo si sobreescribes los archivos del theme.

En cuanto al tema del menú, no termina de quedarme claro. Tampoco sé que configuración de layouts de menu y layout de contenido tienes, así que no puedo ayudarte con esto. Simplemente te diría que con la última versión hemos incluido un modo de menú nuevo en el cual si activas menú layout 4 (opened) con la opción “Sticky menu”, tu menú estará visto siempre. En este sentido no vamos a añadir nuevas funciones al área de menú, sería hacer esta parte demasiado compleja cuando el theme ya ofrece una gran cantidad de opciones de personalización.

Espero que te sirva de ayuda esta información. Muchas gracias por usar Flamingo!

Un saludo.

Hi Starling!

Thank you very much for your constant support and nice words always. Overall for your proposals and feedback, it is really appreciate it, bud!

Hi again,

I have a two question for you, hope you can help me.

1- How can add color text on Footer Credits Text? for example you did it with (MADE WITH LOVE & RIGHTS IN BCN) love is red

2- When I open my contact page on mobile, google map cover all my iPhone 4S screen then I kind of can stack there because map is moving rather then page when I try to go up for menu. Is that possible to edit the size of map?

Hi!

about the color within the credits area. This is a little tweak managed via javascript because this element don´t allow to add custom html. This feature only reacts to “love” wording because the function you will find in custom.js around the line 1248:

copyColors : function(){
              var copyText = $(".copy-right");
              copyText.html(copyText.html().replace(/love/gi, '<small class="footer-highlight hight-red">love</small>'));
}

As you can see, there is the “love” word control. So in case you would like to highlight some other word or text, just replace it there. And if you would like to change the color, you can create your own class or adding to your custom css a new value for “hight-red” class.

About the map issue. It is possible that for mobiles with particular sizes it can be a little weird scrolling while watching the map. So in this sense and within the next update. We are going to disable the drag and drop for maps on iPhone/iPod. Hope it will help in this sense.

Cheers!

Thank you so much, great idea for map issue. Looking forward for updates. Cheers

Hola scesini,

el stream de cada uno de los proyectos realmente soporta cualquiera de estos formatos. Para ello simplemente tienes que usar el widget “media player” e insertar con él cualquiera de ellos. Además, incluimos a parte otro widget que permite introducir otro tipo de componentes, como podría ser un slideshow o un carrousel, pero en el caso de estos dos últimos objetos en particular, están preparados para mostrar featured images o posts en relación a cada uno de los proyectos que ya tienes en tu cartera.

A parte, cada uno de los proyectos cuenta con una completa galería donde puedes seleccionar 4 tipos diferentes de skin/theme y con diferentes funcionalidades. Puedes ver un ejemplo aquí (rollover the rhombus). No se trata de una función lightbox, es una galería completa que te permitirá, a parte de seleccionar los diferentes tipos de skin, opciones como fullscreen, prevent upscale o una opción donde el usuario elige si visualiza el slide en fullscreen o no. Áreas de descripción brief de proyecto…

Por no hablar de que cada stream puede ser completamente maquetado con la ayuda del page builder, de esta manera podrás crear prácticamente cualquier tipo de layout dentro de este, poner un bloque de texto junto a una imangen, imágenes solo en cascada, usar backgrounds para bloques de contenido… Creo que en este sentido el theme ofrece un buen número de opciones y posibilidades suficientes para cubrir cualquier tipo de necesidad.

En cualquier caso, muchas gracias por tu interés en Flamingo!

Un saludo, Van.

Hi matvej,

yes, you can view an example created with the shortcode generator in this page. The quote you can see in the second content block within the project stream is created in this way. The entire block content in that part is created using the theme´s tools.

Maybe we will add more quote styles in order to fit better more look and feels. In any case, if you would like to restyle it, just add to your custom css a <quote> rule and create your own styles as you could need.

I hope it will useful for you!

Thank you – your answer helps a lot!

In fact, I would like to use quote on the homepage, which looks a bit like the tiwter feeds at the bottom of it. Do you think it would be possible it to look a bit the same? (same font, same size…) ?

Hi matvej,

yes, you could achieve a closer look and feel, for this, you will use the same properties for your quotes like used in twitter feed, so this would be something like this:

 .tweet_text,
.tweet_text a {
 color: #232323;
 font-size: 1.5em;
 line-height: 1.3em;
}

These are the properties for the twitter feed. So if you add this rule to your custom css, the quotes would need to work in this way:

.blockquote {
color: #232323;
font-size: 1.5em;
line-height: 1.3em;
text-alignt: center //if you want to center it.
padding: 0;
margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px; //being top/right/bottom/left margins, adjust them as you would need.
}
.blockquote:before { display: none; } //this will remove the quote 'icon'

This should work as expected, so I hope it will be useful!

Hi Brent,

glad to hear you are happy with the theme. I must to say the the blog is not the stronger part of Flamingo. It was designed as a portfolio in the focus, so it is in this part where the theme can offer more interesting and powerful tools.

I hope the 4 different layouts & sidebars for the blog will be useful for you and easy to use. We tried to do working with the theme a child play.

The theme is now in the review queue with a new update to v1.3. This new update includes 2 new different navigations. These new nav bars will be ‘sticky/fixed’ and I think you will love to use any of them. They look great. You will be notified by mail once the update will be available to download, so I´m suggest you to update in order to enjoy with the new features.

Thank you very much for using Flamingo!

Hi Guri,

the theme supports WPML (Wordpress Multi-Language). You can enable the different languages within the menu bar as you point in your comment.

Thank you very much about your interest in Flamingo

Best, Van.

Please, if you are not going to use the official support system I would be grateful if you could make all your queries in a single thread using the replay button. This don´t help others to find interesting information about the theme.

We don´t provide advanced support here, only we provide it via our support forum. So feel free to open a support ticket and we will be with you as soon as possible.

Here a quick approach:

@media handheld, only screen and (max-width: 770px)
.inner-header h1 {width: 140px;}

@media handheld, only screen and (max-width: 770px)
.logo img {
width: 100% !important;
height: 140px !important;
}

Hi Mac,

about the icon, please, read the answer above.

We are updating the theme within the next coming hours, it will be ready to download tomorrow for sure. In this sense we are prioritzing each feature coming from you. And the archive & sitemap templates are planning for the next one.

The coming update is focused on new navigation specially.

Visual Composer is a premium plugin. You can’t update it yourself, but we’ll keep updating it in the next theme versions coming. Don’t worry about this.

Regards

Hi Franz,

Flamingo uses font-awesome library in order to display retina/HDPi icons ready for this kind of screens. So in this sense we are limited to the icons the library offers actually.

It is not easy to implement HDPi graphics and cover all your needs. So in this case, I´m sorry to say that this is not possible by now. Once the guys from font-awesome will update the library with this brand we will add it for sure.

Best, Van.

Okay, no problem. I’ll add it on my own

Hi Jonny,

please, make sure you have installed all the recommended plugins, the repeater is needed to create correctly the sliders. If you have not install it you won´t be able to use this feature.

Let me know about it, ok?

You are correct! that is the only plugin I didn’t install as it seems to be a premium one that I have to buy for $25 from http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/add-ons/repeater-field/ is this correct?.. if not where can I get it from? when I try to install via wordpress (from the yellow warning box) I get “Download failed. A valid URL was not provided.”

Thanks

Hi Jonny,

you don´t need to download or purchase any add-on to get any of the in-built features. The sliders are a basic theme´s feature, so to get them work, you must to install all the recommended plugins the theme ask you when you install it.

This is in the documentation and screencasts. With a single click you will install all the plugins required to work correctly with the theme.

You can activate/disable plugins from Dashboard > Plugins.

In case you could have any doubt, do not hesitate to open a support ticket providing a URL, admin/pass and we will manage this for you in case you could need it.

Before this, please, take a look to the documentation in order to have a closer view about this issue.

Hope it will help.

Cheers!

Hi praytell,

I have realized right now reviewing your thread that we have controlled the password protected projects but not pages. We will fix this with the next update.

While, if you want fix it by yourself, just add this simple rule to your custom css:

.page .post-password-form { padding-bottom: 50px; }

The new update with the new features and this fixe will be ready to download tomorrow. You will receive an email communicating about it.

Thanks for letting us know about this detail!

very cool. thank you for the quick reply and that took care of the issue.

one other thing, is it possible to use an image as the menu background? is that an option you all will be implementing at some point?

thanks.

Hi,

one of our first and more important focus is to create as theme as easy to use as possible, when you open the option panel every option would be easy to understand and not being confusing. This is one of the reason because we would not implement a feature like this one. More because adding this image via CSS is quite easy and integrate this option would turn the option panel overload and confusing.

I would recommend you to opening a support ticket and I will guide you to achieve this you are searching for.

Hope it will be interesting for you!

Hi,

currently this is not possible because this template does not work in the same way that the other. Anyway, open a support ticket and let us know closer what you need and we will study it in case we could do a little mod.

Cheers!

Happy hearing that!

Hi SS3,

among the next coming hours and tomorrow we will update Flamingo with a new sticky menu option that it is ready now. The menu does not work in that way, but we could add something similar based on menu layout 1, it could be interesting.

This would be the last modification we would do to the navigation options. Adding more and more options only make more complex the theme from all the points of view. And we think all these options cover the most common scenarios and other more conceptual and creatives. So in this sense and after this new update there will not more new features about menu options.

Hope it will interesting for you.

Hi SS3,

in case you are interested still in Flamingo, here you can see a little screencast about how the new navigation options work since v1.3 updated today. We have added something very similar in the way you proposed. It is something was in the previous design phase and finally I went with the main navigation you could view in the live preview until now. Since v1.3 a navigation with this look and feel is available too.

Hope it will be interesting for you!

sorry – clear cache

all ok

Hi, the theme was send it 8 hours ago to the review queue. Sometimes, depending on the volume of new items updates take more time.

But anyway, you can do any modification you could need, just when you install the new update the fade issue will be fixed. I can´t see a problem with it. Write me using the contact form in my profile ASAP.

i need make big chancges in php files – and don’t want to repeat all steps again

check the messages

Hi curiouschels,

as I pointed before, it there will be a new ‘sticky’ menu layout with the next update planned for this week (Friday, more or less). So we hope it will be useful for you.

It is almost imposible to make/create different concepts and to cover all the needs and scenarios, I hope you understand. But in this sense, we are trying to make and to adapt as many features as possible when we think that they could be useful.

Each time the theme is updated, you will receive a mail letting you know about it. So don´t worry, you will be notified when the theme will receive this update.

Thanks for using Flamingo!

Hi,

the optimum resolution is the best resolution that will asure your fullscreen images will be displayed on any screen size with the best quality and smaller weight. Here an aprox. definition.

Well, as you know, any image will display different on each screen size. A 400×400 image won´t display correctly never in a 27” iMac as fullscreen, this is evident. But you can´t use a 2550 width image to cover these high resolutions. So the best size for the most common & actual screen sizes would be something like 1280×720 to 72dpi (resolution). This would be a standard.

About the multiple instances. Yes, this is normal, because the theme creates different sizes and use each one for different tasks. For example, the thumbs within your portfolio grid. If you display 3 columns, each thumb will have a different size than if you would be displaying 5 columns or two. It is for this reason the theme creates different instances. This is the standard way that any Wordpress theme work.

Hope it will help!

Thanks for the help thats perfect, one other thing.. I see the code to change the Rhombus separator to a circle in a previous post, but when I add the css mine turns into a rectangle..?

Any way we could change this to a graphic?

Hi Jonny,

modifying this element to add a graphic instead would need some different lines of code. If you open a support ticket I can guide you to achieve this.

We are working in a new support area where you will find in advance articles and FAQs very detailed where we will share snippets of this kind, so stay tuned to it. We are almost ready to go out with it!