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Hello ThemeNectar,
I have recently purchased the Salient theme and I have a question concerning the portfolios:
I have made two portfolio pages with different items on each one however, when viewing items from one portfolio and using the right arrow browsing tool I am sometimes redirected to an item from the other portfolio.
How can I create two entirely separate portfolios? Portfolios which are two separate entities and can be browsed separately.
Kind regards
Timur
Hey Timur,
it’s not really possible to keep the next/prev arrows within the same “set” they will only try to stay within the same category the current project is in, but the real way to do what you’re looking for would be with AJAX – which might be coming in a future release. If you don’t want to use the arrows now because of this behavior you can hide them by entering this in your custom css box in the Salient options panel:
#portfolio-nav ul.controls { display: none!important; }
Cheers!
I also can’t get the widgets in the footer to work. I’m using Wordpress 3.8. When I go to appearance -> widgets and try to drag a widget into the sidebar, none of the widgets will move at all. They just stay there. Maybe this is an issue with WP 3.8?
Hey charleswu7, the other user regarding this had made a simple mistake of turning off the main footer area in his options panel – what you’re describing sounds like a script error which could be caused by a plugin. There’s no known issues with 3.8 and Salient so I would start by deactivating your plugins and if that doesn’t work – please allow me to login so I can check on it for you 
Cheers!
Thank you! That doesn’t seem to work…I’ve sent you a message with the login information 
I’ve turned off the widgets in the footer for now FYI, feel free to turn it back on when you’re seeing what’s going on.
Hey again! Thanks for sending the credentials over for me – I just need your URL now 
Cheers
Oh haha ok! It’s…
www.covlifecities.com/website
Hey!
Somehow you had accessibility mode on which disables javascript thus turning off the widget drag and drop – I turned that off you and all is good 
Cheers!
Great, thank you so much!
You’re welcome 
Hey there, Can you please tell me how to lower the location of the buttons on the Nectar slider for the heart image I have on my homepage? I selected Center and Bottom but it is still too high. I need it below the bottom text “The Heart of Man.”
Website: http://www.heartsofmenmovie.com/
Also, the button for Watch Our Teaser used to open in a lightbox but now redirects you to the Vimeo page. I am not sure how it changed, but I want the lightbox back. Can you please tell me how to get the lightbox feature back so it doesn’t send you away from the website?
Thanks!!
Hey!
1. You can use some css like this in your custom css box play with the positioning:
.swiper-slide .content .buttons {
margin-top: 100px!important;
}
2. If it used to show the lightbox correctly but has since stopped, have you confirmed it’s not a plugin or script conflict you added?
Cheers!
That worked great! I had to add a margin-right to get the button to line up properly, but thank you so much for your direction on what to do! I love the theme. Probably one of the easiest I’ve ever worked with. Great job!!
Happy New Year!!
You’re very welcome & Happy New Year to you too! 
Hi ThemeNectar. Thanks for this really good theme. I have two questions pertaining to it’s use as a porfolio.
1. How can I remove the Sort bar between the header and the portfolio tiles? I don’t think I need it.
2. How can I edit the color, fonts, order, icons of the porfolio item navigation bar? I want to change the style, but then I want to change the order to TITLE < tile menu >.
Thanks so much, Josh
Perhaps, I would also like to edit the sort rather simply remove it. Finding the areas where I can edit it would be nice.
Hey Josh!
You can find all the styles pertaining to that in the main stylesheet (style.css) by searching for the rule ”#portfolio-filters-inline” 
If you need to edit any structure of that section the location of what to edit will vary based on whether you’re using the portfolio shortcode vs. page layout to create your portfolio. If you’re using the portfolio shortcode, check out the file shortcode-processing.php located in the nectar/tinymce directory. If you’re using the page layout see the template-portfolio.php file located in the root of the theme folder.
Cheers!
Thanks for the response. It’s been fun working with this theme.
1. I figured out how to remove the filter bar. I wanted to make it flush with the header, but there is a gap now. I was able to adjust this, but it affects the blog. I’m not sure how to only edit the portfolio screen. Maybe I should just use the Portfolio version of the home screen? Will that show all work?
2. I was able to edit the Project page navigation items to be where I want them. But, I’m not totally able to left-align the Project Title. It has a margin still. Except for when I drag the screen out to it’s fullest state. you can see here: http://www.joshua-butler.com/portfolio/?portfolio=atlanta-beltline
By the way, I made tickets for these, if that is the preferred method..
Thanks for the quick response!
I was able to sort these issues out.
1. If I don’t hide the filter bar, I can move it up under the header with this code – #portfolio-filters-inline { margin-top: -135px!important; } It’s odd, because that code doesn’t work if I turn off the filter bar with – #portfolio-filters-inline {display: none!important;} This solution is probably is a hack.
2. I just changed the text to not be h1 in the single-portfolio.php document. It doesn’t shrink for mobile, but it looks ok.
Thanks!
Hey again Josh, sorry for the delay – hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays!
I’m glad to hear you sorted these queries and I appreciate you posting back the solutions you came to 
Cheers!
Yeah, I hope the hack will work for other people.
I have a couple questions related to the portfolio screen. The first one is a ticket on Ticksy.
1. This, I would really like to know: how can I make the Portfolio Alternative screen have borders around the tiles. I’d like a perfect 20px border around the tiles without project titles being under the tile. Is this possible? ork.
2. This isn’t as important, but when rollover the project tile in the portfolio, rather than the overlay with the plus, can we have an image swap. Such as, a color image replaces a black & white image?
3. Lastly, how can you get rid of the plus on the lower left of the rollover of the portfolio tile?
Hey!
Add this into your custom css box to get a good start on the mod:
1.
body .portfolio-items .col.elastic-portfolio-item {
padding: 10px!important;
}
.portfolio-wrap {
padding: 10px;
}
body .portfolio-items .col.elastic-portfolio-item {
width: 19.7%!important;
}
2. This would require a fair deal of development actually – but if your goal is just to do a black and white to color on hover effect you could try implementing a css method of accomplishing it: http://www.cheesetoast.co.uk/add-grayscale-images-hover-css-black-white/
3.
body .portfolio-items .col .work-info i {
display: none!important;
}
Cheers
awesome… thanks so much!
for the ticket…
You’re welcome! 
Hi, i’ve a bug on portfolio section… this is the error “Fatal error: Call to undefined function ct_first_image_tn() in /web/htdocs/www.XXXXXXXXXXX.com/home/wp-content/plugins/ct-custom-posts/ct-custom-posts.php on line 70” http://oi41.tinypic.com/20uy0cz.jpg
Can you help me to fix the bug, please?!
Thanx, Giambattista
Hey Giambattista, that error is coming from a plugin you’re using – you deactivate the “ct custom posts” plugin and the issue should resolve itself 
Hey ThemNectar, I cannot get the footer widgets to work. I’ve disabled the caching plugins. Help.
Hey bkellaway,
I would ideally need to log in to check why that might be – since there’s no known issue with the widget areas it’s impossible for me to say why it might be happening off the top of my head. Just shoot me an email at themenectar@gmail.com with your info if you would like to investigate further 
Cheers!
Okay I’ll shoot you a login ..
Hey again!
You just had the option for “Main Footer Area” turned off in your footer options tab in the Salient options panel – open activating it, the areas displayed as expected 
Cheers & Happy New Years!
easy .. thanks for you quick response !
You’re welcome!
Cheers 
Hi,
I have some presage questions: - is there a way to add some social link on top of page? I can see there are some in footer but on top of page would be nice.
- Is it possible to make a child theme of salient and is it difficult to do so?
-Is the nectar slider (which I fell in love with) easy to use? For example when you want to have a video background.
Kind regards
Chrys
Hey Chrys,
1. As this page shows: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/headers/ there’s a second menu you could activate in the header to hold social icons.
2. Yes child themes are supported and there’s no extra steps in using them with Salient than there would be with any other theme.
3. Yes, you can actually view the interface here and see for yourself it’s a simple process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLU9Pxo_RD8
Cheers 
Can i use this template like shop but without sold, only product catalog like http://www.e-tobak.pl or http://www.test.epapspot.pl/product/atomizer-gsh2/
Hey epapspot,
I’m a little confused by what you’re looking for since it appears both of the links you’ve provided allow you to order the products – if you just want a catalog of products for showcasing but don’t want people to be able to order them, it wouldn’t be hard though 
Cheers!
Hey, are we okay to upgrade to WP 3.8 with Salient 2.65?
Hey frominfinity, yes you’re safe to upgrade 
Cheers 
great! Yea, the UI on 3.8 is awesome, a pleasure to use 
I have been digging it myself 
Cheers!
Hi, for some reason this theme is rendering all of my PNG files into an indexed colour mode, they work better as JPEGs, and the original PNG files (even when uploaded onto my server) look fine, but when I look at the website using the Salient theme they look terrible. Any ideas? Every image on my site is a high quality PNG, I don’t want to have to reformat all imagery into compressed JPEGs if I can help it.
Hey BC03, I would need to see a URL that shows this problem in order to help you figure out what the issue is – I haven’t heard any reports of anything like this so I can’t say why this might be off the top of my head. Have you confirmed this is a Salient specific issue? I.e. does this not happen when deactivating the theme for another?
Cheers 
Hey ThemNectar,
I’m using the Home Slider feature and I would like to know how to raise up the caption? It’s current value is top:225px. I need it to be like 113px.
Hey ace2296,
add this into your custom css box in the Salient options panel:
body #featured .orbit-slide article .container {
margin: -100px auto 0!important;
}
Cheers!
Hi Nectar. I checked the Gallery Slider option on all portfolio posts. It is any way to make the single portfolio gallery arrows, bigger? And one on each side? http://i44.tinypic.com/anlpfm.png The images can also be resized?
Regards. And Happy Holidays.
Hey kassyan_123,
you can actually use the Nectar Slider to get that look and also have control over the image sizing so that would be a better choice for what you’re after – I’m also going to make the Nectar Slider able to populate from a WP gallery as the gallery slider does in upcoming updates 
Cheers
It isn’t what I’m searching for. Because it doesn’t show the entire image when is a portrait image. I have horizontal and vertical images on the same slider, and the Nectar Slider forces me to choose between horizontal or vertical, and I want both look good and entire.
How can I do it?
Pd. sorry for my english.
Add this into your custom css box in the Salient options panel for the mod then 
body .flex-gallery ul.flex-direction-nav {
position: static!important;
}
.flex-direction-nav a.flex-next {
position: absolute!important;
right: 2px!important;
top: 50%!important;
margin-top: -20px;
}
.flex-direction-nav a.flex-prev {
position: absolute!important;
left: 0!important;
top: 50%!important;
margin-top: -20px;
}
.flex-direction-nav a {
height: 40px!important;
width: 40px!important;
}
.flex-direction-nav a i {
line-height: 40px!important;
}
Cheers 
Hmm now the arrows does not appear. Well, when the image is changing, I can see the arrows 0.5 sec but they immediately disappear.
I can’t skip the images manually.
Weird, I have the mod working normally over here – can I please see your URL to see what the issue is?
Cheers )
The website is closed.. so I can’t. I have the 2.6 version and Wp 3.8. And I do not touched the code. What can be the problem? :/
Change the snippets to this:
body .flex-gallery ul {
z-index: 0;
}
body .flex-gallery ul.flex-direction-nav {
position: static!important;
z-index: 100000!important;
}
.flex-direction-nav a.flex-next {
position: absolute!important;
right: 2px!important;
top: 50%!important;
margin-top: -20px;
}
.flex-direction-nav a.flex-prev {
position: absolute!important;
left: 0!important;
top: 50%!important;
margin-top: -20px;
}
.flex-direction-nav a {
height: 40px!important;
width: 40px!important;
}
.flex-direction-nav a i {
line-height: 40px!important;
}
Cheers 
Do you guys ever respond to the tickets in the support forum? I’ve been waiting for days with no response.
Hello crystal_urban,
Even though I’m technically on a holiday break I still have indeed served 200+ tickets since the beginning of it. Please understand the queue time is longer during the this time.
Happy Holidays 
Thanks for resolving my ticket. I appreciate your help, and this amazing theme!
No problem Crystal 
Cheers!
hi
i had one more question but instead of crowding this comment thread, i posted it in the support forum
should i post it here as well?
you the man once again 
Haha, thanks! 
Cheers
Hello! Is it possible to have all the featured images on the masonry blog to be the same exact size?
Thanks
Hey vectology,
aside from uploading your images at the same proportions, you could make a custom image size in the functions.php file and then assign it to your featured images in each of the files inside of the includes/post-templates directory 
Cheers!
This is going to be a user generated blog so I wont have control of the image sizes. Could you point me in the right direction?
I’ve posted a guide for you here: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/139880 
Cheers!
Hi. Great theme. Really love it!
I do have one question regarding the blog page (http://pterneas.com/blog/): I would like to replace the “love it” button on the left with a link to the number of comments. Is this feasible?
Thank you in advance. Keep up the great work!
Hey Vangos!
It is feasible, but would require some modding – open up the files inside of the includes/post-templates folder and change this section:
<div class="nectar-love-wrap">
<?php if( function_exists('nectar_love') ) nectar_love(); ?>
</div><!--/nectar-love-wrap-->
to
<a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>">
<?php comments_number( __('No Comments', NECTAR_THEME_NAME), __('One Comment ', NECTAR_THEME_NAME), __('% Comments', NECTAR_THEME_NAME) ); ?></a>
After that it would just be a matter of css to make it look how you need it 
Cheers!
Thank you very much for the immediate support!
You’re very welcome!
Hi again, is there a way to increase the text size of the body text /overall text? Thank you and Merry Christmas and great 2014! 
Hey theroyalvideographer!
Yes, just select your desired font size for the body field in the typography options tab in the Salient options panel 
Happy Holidays!
Thanks, Well it looks like I have to enable “Use Custom Fonts?” and set a ton of fields/boxes/options to do so… that looks too much to ask. Am I wrong?
You’re welcome 
If your goal is just to adjust the overall body text, than all you have to do is select a font size in the body row http://i.imgur.com/NpoKPcD.png
I guess you were intimidated by the available control you have, but it’s pretty simply – Each row in the typography options will control a different group of elements that I used unique font styling on. This way you can control everything in the same groups I have, but you only ever need to select options for the row you wish to modify (in your case, only the body)
Happy New Years!
I’m loving the theme, however I have a quick question:
I’m certain I set all of the video things inside nectar slider up correctly, however my slider video is displaying BELOW the actual slider container (as seen here: http://217.199.187.58/purpletesting.co.uk/test/)
Any reason why?
Hey Purpefruit! Yes, this is because you have a home template assigned in your “Page Attributes” box which is placing the Home Slider at the top of the page. Please change that to be the “default” template instead 
Cheers!
Howdy, thanks for a great theme. On my masonry styled blog, I like to link to different things. It would be great to have a clickable image representing the link. Is this possible or in the works? Thanks
Hey decca1o,
you could link an image form the post content to accomplish that – but the title of the post itself would still link to the single post page. You’d have to open up entry.php file located in the includes/post-templates directory and remove the link manually to stop it.
Cheers 
Any way to make the responsive top nav on the mobile version stick the top when u scroll down?
Hey FromInfinity,
add this into your custom css box located in the Salient options panel:
@media only screen and (min-width : 1px) and (max-width : 1000px) {
body #header-space {
height: 56px!important;
display: block!important;
}
body #header-outer {
position: fixed !important;
}
#mobile-menu {
position: fixed!important;
top: 52px!important;
width: 100%!important;
}
}
Cheers 
Thanks man, totally works great
. LOVE IT!
You’re very welcome 