Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

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Is there any ways to change the color of the sidebar (blog) only?

Hey avatter!

Enter this into your custom css box:
.blog .sidebar {
   padding: 20px!important;
   background-color: #fff;
}

Cheers :)

I just can’t figure out how to animate the columns like in the theme. I loved that, but I just can’t get it to work! It wasn’t in the dummy data (that I saw) Please help!

Hello maialae,

The current dummy data does indeed include all of the animated columns shown in the demo including the columns page which contains a series of animated columns all in row. If you’re on the latest release (2.6) the parameters for the column animation will be found in every column shortcode: http://i.imgur.com/qEQoFPM.jpg

Cheers

Just a quick question. I am trying to debug a mobile redirection that is happening when navigating to our website via Google on a mobile device. It is redirecting from http://www.truescan3d.com/ to http://m.truescan3d.com/

I am on the hunt for the cause of this and just wanted to insure that there is no setting in Salient that would setup a mobile redirection.

Thanks so much!

Hey jkdavis! No, what you’re experience is most likely a “feature” of your hosting setup or plugin you have active :)

Cheers

Ended up being Google auto redirecting to the mobile subdomain because it was set up to as such on the old website. I resolved it through some domain redirects. Thanks so much for your response. Just wanted to make sure there was not a user-agent redirection setting I didn’t know about.

PS:

I have purchased well over 40 themes here on Themeforest and this is by far the easiest to work with and the most browser compatible theme out there. Everything just works, and if I need to adjust anything through CSS, I can do so easily because you have written the CSS in the correct manner. You would be surprised how many people write their themes with body > .home > div > .column:first-of-type > #leftcolumn > p….

My only complaint is that some elements seem to have dynamic ID’s such as “ns-id-529f8bc864169”. I have noticed this in a few other themes. Is there a reason why this is? It makes overwriting a specific element much harder. Am I wrong in thinking that an element’s ID should be an unique static identifier?

Thanks a lot jkdavis, that means a lot! :)

The reason for the unique ids given to the full width sections is to allow the javascript events bound to them to remain all separate from one another. Which is how the parallax bg positions all are at a different position when scrolling down the page. You can however just add a class attribute onto the full width section shortcode if you wish to target it with css :)

[full_width_section class="my-class" ...] [/full_width_section]

Cheers!

Hi,

I am really like your template, I think its great but I think its missing something that it would be quite important for me. The possibility to show one project with varies images on a “portfolio basic item”, with a small simple slider.

This could be done in Portfolio Full screen slide but I would like to show smaller images and see the text like on the simple “portfolio basic item”

This is useful for architecture projects when you get the grid and then click to go to one project and see various images

Or it is possible to do it?

Thanks

Hey CarlosCampo,

You can convert regular WP galleries into a simple slider like this: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/dining/porttitor-porttitor-mollis-vitae-placerat/

or you can use the Nectar Slider, which is shown mostly in full width on the demo, but can also be used smaller and fit into a basic portfolio item :)

Cheers

I’m unsure if NectarSlider is incompatible with IE8.

However, I’m running IE10 under the IE8 developer tools mode and NectarSlider is blank on my development site.

Can you confirm NectarSlider (not home slider) works in IE8?

Hey darrenkitlor!

Yes, the Nectar Slider should work in IE8 and has been thoroughly tested – if something else is causing a script error on your end it could interfere though. First please confirm you’re on a recent release (at least 2.5.1+) and also confirm you can replicate this behavior on the live demo.

Cheers

Does this theme support feature that clicking menu button leads to different section of the parallax pages?

Example, contact us at the button of parallax, so the top menu’s contact us, if the user clicks contact us, it will auto scroll to contact us(bottom) not load to another page?

Hey lslhm1, you would just need a plugin like this to accomplish animated scrolling of page anchors: http://wordpress.org/plugins/page-scroll-to-id/

Cheers!

Hello! Posted this with a ticket, but haven’t heard back, so I thought I’d comment here.

First of all, I love the Salient theme. It’s been a blast to work on with my designer. We are very happy with the website. However, I have heard from multiple people that the scrolling on the website is not as smooth as it should be. Many times, it is very clunky and jumpy/choppy. This is especially apparent on the front home page. Is there any way to reconcile this to create for a better UX? If you visit the site, and scroll through the home page, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Hoping it’s something my designer can fix.

www.wehaveembarked.com

Thanks! Zach Goldberg www.wehaveembarked.com zach@wehaveembarked.com

Hey Zach! I apologize for the delay on the forum – due to the holidays last week and wrapping up 2.6 there’s a longer than normal queue time at the moment, but I’ve been working hard to answer all your questions! :)

In regards to the scrolling question, in general forcing smooth scrolling is resource intensive and can get jagged on some machines. You have the option to disable this in the general settings tab of your theme options panel though. If you deactivate the smooth scrolling option, the browser will behave how it normally would and performance should go up a noticeable amount :)

Cheers

Hi,

I am just wondering if it’s possible to turn off ‘more details’ on the portfolio so that it works like an image light box?

Thanks in advance

Adam

Hey Adam, yes – there’s an option for this in the latest release (2.6). An example of this can be seen here: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/gallery-only-example/

When generating the shortcode you’ll see an option for “lightbox only” :)

Cheers

Thanks for this I have just tried doing this and it works but displays the image on a new page and doesn’t load a lightbox. Any ideas?

Cheers Adam

Have you cleared your browsers cache since the update?

Cheers

Would you be able to help me fix an important problem. Whenever I show a password-protected portfolio in full-width, there is no opportunity for the guest to enter a password: http://www.jkupperstock.com/portfolio/ultra-2013/

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

JKupperstock

Hey JKupperstock!

This only occurs when using full width portfolio items and will be fixed for the next release. However, if you want to fix it early just open a ticket on the support forum in regards and I’ll tell you what to do :)

http://themenectar.ticksy.com/

Cheers

Thank you, i’ll be with you as soon as I can! :)

plz help me .. how can i change the background for the “slider” on the top.. into a “transparent color”. i tried the codes you sent but no luck. home slider background color / change black into black transparent

Hey again mahiette,

this snippet is valid and tested:

body #featured {
  background: none!important;
}
body #featured, body #featured article {
  background-color: transparent!important;
}

There’s nothing else setting BG colors on the slider to remove other than that.

Cheers

it works!!!!!!! xoxo you YOU ARE JUST THE BEST!!!

haha, thanks!

Cheers :)

Hi, just want to know if this is just happening to me or everyone is experiencing this. It appears that Footer Copyright Font Color also controls the social media icon color on top 2nd nav bar if enabled.

Team nectar, can you please look into it, thanks.

Hey kaifanun!

You’re right – that’s a small bug that will be taken care. If you want to fix it now just open your colors.php file, find this section:

if(!empty($options['footer-copyright-font-color'])) {
    echo '#footer-outer #copyright li a i, #header-secondary-outer #social li a i, #footer-outer #copyright p { color:'.$options['footer-copyright-font-color'].'!important; }';
}
and remove the
#header-secondary-outer #social li a i,

from it :)

Cheers

Hello!

How do I make an image clickable as a link? (used the “image with animation” shortcode)

Thanks!

Hey blairalyse!

Just switch to the text tab on your editor and wrap the shortcode in a standard html anchor like so:

<a href="http://themenectar.com"> [shortcode] </a>

Cheers!

Thank you for the awesome update! I really don’t know what you could possibly add in the future. Seems pretty much perfect to me :) maybe some options for the header part…

I’m really curious though to see your next project! Any estimation time on that? :)

I’m glad to hear you dig it TheChuckOne!

Unfortunately I can’t give a timeline on that now – but I do intend on releasing more in the future :)

Cheers!

Is it possible, with a customization, to have the various slides in the nectar slider have different timing? Meaning slide one be 13 seconds, slide 2 be 8 seconds, etc?

That is the only thing holding me back from buying what looks like a very reliable theme to customize on.

Hey ineedsolutions!

Yes, but you’d need to extend the autorotate function by a good deal – if you’re comfortable doing a little javascript development, then the sky is the limit :)

Cheers

Hi again. I see with this update that you can open a ‘navigation lightbox’ to see all the featured images within a ‘portfolio page’.

Can we now do the same thing to see just normal pictures (not featured portfolio images) that we have inserted with, for example, the WP gallery function or something similar? Some kind of ‘gallery lightbox’ with this navigation arrows?

For example, we have a paragraph, and after this one we have a set of 6 pictures. When we click the first one, this lightbox opens, and we can see the other five pictures by clicking the navigation arrows.

Hope you know what I mean. Thanks.

I will note to add an option for this in the next release :)

Cheers!

Great news. Thank you.

You’re welcome!

Amazing work! I love how easy it is to style the content. You didn’t just make a great looking theme, but you made one that is a pleasure to customize and not the least bit difficult to keep looking classy. Thank you!!!!

Thanks so much mdriess, that means a lot! I’m very glad you dig it :)

Cheers!

When I change the header to absolute and place a nectar slider / home slider underneath, as I scrool, there is a black space between header and the slider. Why is this occuring

Hello mkurk,

the answer is that the slider is moving slower than the rest of the page scroll since it’s parallaxing. The Nectar Slider will be easier to work with when doing this mod so stick with that. Your options are either to remove the header-space div on pages with the Nectar Slider set to parallax or to turn off the parallax effect.

Cheers

Thank You for your response.

I am just referring to having an absolute header while still having a parallax slider underneath.Pretty specific I know, but I just feel not every client wants that scroll type of header. I don’t expect things to be perfect or a theme to be suited for all scenarios.

When I remove the header space, then it effects all other page’s as well. Any workaround you have in mind without hacking my CSS?

Thanks

Hey mkurk!

Yes, the way to handle it would be to remove the header-space only on the pages with the parallax Nectar Slider. If you can let know how many pages you have it on or just supply me with a URL it would be easier to create a snippet for you :)

Cheers

re: custom post types I want to work with “TYPES” which can create custom post types. To make the posts visible on the website (along with the default posts), I would have to register the new post types somewhere on the theme, this is what I know. Questions: Where would I have to do this and will it work if I use the child theme?

Thanks

Hey markimark,

You can register custom post types in the functions.php file and should be fine using a child theme for it too. I know plugins exist to create them with an interface as well – but you’ll still have to create layouts to display your new post type though.

Cheers

no, it is not about the layout. I just want to have an extra section for a certain post category on the dashboard to keep things organized for the client. They have to appear, where the default posts appear. The only question is, did you register the post types, used for this theme anywhere else than on the functions file? Many other themes, like Nevada, do such things.

Hey again,

sorry I misunderstood you – all of the taxonomies/post types are indeed registered in the functions.php file and you can add your own directly in there or in a child theme functions.php file.

Cheers

Hi..I ‘have two questions..

1 Which is the shortcode I have to use to set the icon before the title and not allineed to the text as you did in this page?

http://themeforest.net/item/salient-responsive-multipurpose-theme/full_screen_preview/4363266

2 In the same page..which is the short code combination (or font selection) that you used to make the title area..

“Our Passion For What We Do Transfers Into Our Services Phasellus enim libero, blandit vel sapien vitae, condimentum ultricies magna et. Quisque euismod lobortis aliquam. Aliquam in tortor enim. orci ut et lobortis aliquam. Aliquam in tortor enim.”

Thanks a lot..

Fabio

Hey Fabio,

1. It’s a nested column setup – you can paste this directly into the text tab on your editor to use or modify:

[one_third animation="Fade In" delay="0"] [one_sixth] [icon color="Accent-Color" size="regular" image="steadysets-icon-atom"] [/one_sixth]

[five_sixths_last]
<h3>Web Development</h3>
Phasellus enim libero, blandit vel sapien vitae, condimentum ultricies magna et. Quisque euismod orci ut et lobortis aliquam. Aliquam in tortor enim.

[/five_sixths_last]

[/one_third]

[one_third animation="Fade In" delay="150"] [one_sixth] [icon color="Accent-Color" size="regular" image="steadysets-icon-email2"] [/one_sixth]

[five_sixths_last]
<h3>Social Marketing</h3>
Phasellus enim libero, blandit vel sapien vitae, condimentum ultricies magna et. Quisque euismod orci ut et lobortis aliquam. Aliquam in tortor enim.

[/five_sixths_last]

[/one_third]

[one_third_last animation="Fade In" delay="300"] [one_sixth] [icon color="Accent-Color" size="regular" image="steadysets-icon-diamond"] [/one_sixth]

[five_sixths_last]
<h3>Modern Graphic Design</h3>
Phasellus enim libero, blandit vel sapien vitae, condimentum ultricies magna et. Quisque euismod orci ut et lobortis aliquam. Aliquam in tortor enim.

[/five_sixths_last]

[/one_third_last]

2. You can also paste this into the text tab on your editor:

<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #27ccc0;">Our Passion For What We Do Transfers Into Our Services
</span></h2>
<h4 class="light" style="text-align: center;">Phasellus enim libero, blandit vel sapien vitae, condimentum ultricies magna et. Quisque euismod
lobortis aliquam. Aliquam in tortor enim. orci ut et lobortis aliquam. Aliquam in tortor enim.</h4>

Note that all of these layouts come with the included dummy data file :)

Cheers

Thanks a lot! You are always very kind :-)

You’re very welcome :)

Hi, ThemeNectar, Just purchased Salient a few days ago, love the feel of this theme – thank you!

I was wondering how to accomplish something you have on the live preview page.

It’s under the menu items: Features/Nectar Sliders/Parallax Slider. Half way down this page, there are two full-width sections where there is text on one side, and an image that slides in from the other side as you scroll down.

I have tried various usages of sliders and columns but haven’t stumbled upon it yet. Can you tell me how to do this?

Thanks so much, tsf

Hey tsf!

It’s just a 2 one_half column setup inside of fullwidth section with an image with animation shortcode in one of the columns. Here’s a snippet you can paste into your editor to use/learn from:

[full_width_section bg_pos="Center Center" bg_repeat="No-Repeat" text_color="dark" top_padding="90" bottom_padding="90" background_color=""]

[one_half] [image_with_animation animation="Fade In From Left" image_url="http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/geowofl-device-1.png"] [/image_with_animation][/one_half]

[one_half_last]
[divider line_type="No Line"]
Built With iOS In Mind
Salient was built from the ground up with responsive design in mind rather than it being an after thought. Your users will appreciate the difference of it's carefully planned layouts and browse your site with ease no matter the device! In addition, Retina support will guarantee your site displays as crisp as possible on the latest devices.

[button size="medium" url="" text="Continue The Tour" color="Extra-color-2"]
[/one_half_last]

[/full_width_section]

Cheers!

Thank you! I got it! I had the right idea by “nesting” the shortcodes, but I couldn’t get it to show up side by side.

Thanks again! tsf

No problem :)

Cheers!

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