Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

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IE9 > portfolio > alternate style & wide layout > plus sign doesn’t work as a link, but the container works

Works in other browsers.

Hey matijaerceg,

Older IE’s have z-index issues with things like this, but i’ll note to try and fix it for the next release :)

Cheers

Hi. What’s the easiest way to update my theme? I’m using 1.7 and want the latest, but I’m worried about losing some of my existing site. I downloaded the new one and simply tried to add a new theme and received this error:

Installing the theme…

The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

Theme install failed.

Thanks!

Hey dcmike77!

The correct way to update is to delete the current version you have of your theme and upload the new – make sure you’re uploading the salient.zip that’s located inside of the download folder you get from ThemeForest :)

Cheers!

Thanks. Just so it’s clear for others trying this, switch to a different theme and then the old salient them will offer a “delete” option. Delete and then install the new version as usual.

Thanks for adding that info for any others who read it :)

Cheers!

Want to buy this but I think I ran into a bug in chrome in windows 7.

If I middle click to scroll the page, the cursor gets stuck and I can’t click on any links.

I’ve been able to replicate on two different PCs.

Hey rsam87,

if you disable the smooth scrolling feature in the options panel – this will go away :)

Cheers!

I’m having an issue displaying pictures in the overall blog page:

http://www.covlifecities.com/website/blog/

There’s a picture of legos in the post (http://www.covlifecities.com/website/broken-legos-broken-lives/), but it’s not displaying in the preview of the post on the overall blog page. Do you know how to make it so that the picture displays in the preview post?

Hey charleswu7,

You would have to set the image as the featured image or turn off the auto excerpt functionality and place a more tag after the image and desired content :)

Cheers

Thank you! How do you set the image as the ‘featured image’?

You’re welcome!

It’s an option in the right hand sidebar of every edit/create post screen – see this screenshot :)

Any way to get background images on full-width sections to display correctly on mobile? The image displays fine on computer, but mobile it only shows partial image.

Also, larger text within sections seem to run off of mobile screens. Any way to get large text to fit within mobile screen?

Do you have an e-mail?

I used the Nectar Slider which shows the full image (instead of partial), then put the text in the caption field. Seems to be a decent workaround.

Yes, the Nectar Slider scales down proportionally even with text inside (since that is controlled in a way by the heading/caption field).

Cheers :)

I cant see my embedded vimeo video on the home page, and found in support that it is a bug. I can’t seem to find the init.js folder that you said to change. Where is it exactly?

Hey cptnyr,

the init.js is a file which is located in the js folder – you can’t see folders in the WP editor by default and would need to make the change on your computer and then FTP the file back to the server, overwriting the old one.

Cheers :)

Hi ThemeNectar, a couple of questions:

1. How can I align the Accordion title with the true center of box? It’s slightly offset to the right (perhaps because of the + sign)

2. How do I insert an icon into the Accordion title? I tried to use the shortcode but this obviously doesn’t work here :’(

3. How can you create a more complex text layout like this? I noticed you cannot nest columns of the same type within each other using the shortcodes.

4. (How) can I best edit the map style? I noticed it’s not a shortcode, so I suppose I have to create a child theme and edit some php files.

5. How do you deal with absolute filenames. For example: pictures in sliders and portfolios, but also logo) that break when you transfer your content to the server (i’m editing local). Now I manually replaced them all through the theme-config but this is probably not the easiest solution ;-)

(BTW: I did notice that this issue doesn’t occur when using a gallery because it uses a reference code. But of course I can’t insert galleries in places like the slider.)

Hey pyramus99,

1. You can enter this into your custom css box to adjust the spacing:
body .toggle h3 a {
  line-height: 15px!important;
}

2. Toggles/Accordions can only have the default icon +/- at this time and adding another one would require some modding to the shortcode-processing.php file located in the nectar/tinymce directory.

3. See this in regards: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/141951/search/

4. and this: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ticket/136845/search/

5. The best way to handle switching locations with a WordPress install is to use sql queries to update all occurrences of the old URL to the new one in the database – see this in regards: http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/updating-wordpress-mysql-database-after-moving-to-a-new-url/

Cheers!

THANKS SO MUCH! Although I now realise a lot of my requests can’t be easily solved, I do feel your support is really amazing. And what a wonderful swift replies :) Thumbs up!

Thanks a lot pyramus99! I’m glad I could be of help :)

Cheers

Hi, When I have 2 columns in a full section and one of my columns is a image and in the other I want to put some text how can I align the text vertically in the middle? thank you

Hey pixelreply2011, you could use the divider shortcode in your column with the text set to your desired custom height to push the text down :)

Cheers

Right now I have a problem with a Qtranslate plugin. For example I can’t see the language tab and I can edit the text tab. There is an other language plugin that work good?

thanks!

Please open a private support ticket in regards http://themenectar.ticksy.com/

Thanks!

Ok! thanks!

You’re welcome! :)

Safari (Version 5.1.10 (6534.59.10)) on mac 10.6.8 issue:

When using the nectar slider in safari, If i only upload the MP4 for the Nectar slider, Safari works great! When i upload the webM and Mp4, Safari will crash “Safari cant display this webpage, Safari has repeatedly encountered an error while tring to display”

Its almost like Safari attempts to read the .webm first and errors out before it loads the .mp4

http://www.fluxxmedia.com/nectar-slider/

Also:

Is there a way to fix this black line that comes up when the page is loaded?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1FeGDyPJk6HQjV0MDJTQ1RmQkU/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks!

Hey dgood48080,

Checking on Safari on my end I can’t replicate the crash, can you try running it through this converter and see if it solves the mystery on your one problem computer?

http://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-webm

Cheers :)

Problem sovled! I checked my safari crash log and it said ” PlugIn Path: /Library/QuickTime/WebM.component/Contents/MacOS/WebM was the issue, so i went in to that folder and moved the folder at /Library/QuickTime/WebM.component/Contents/MacOS/WebM in a “Inactive” folder and Bam it worked!!!

I been dealing with compatibility issues with the revolution slider for ever and now switched to the Nectar slider and im so glad i did! Hope this might help someone else. Thank god for the comment search feature. Thanks!

Hey again dgood48080 – thanks so much for posting the details of the issue for anyone else who may encounter it :)

Cheers!

Fatal error: Class ‘DOMDocument’ not found in /data/web/php/offidea.net/ROOT/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers.php on line 61

Hey offidea,

you’re linking an error from your plugin – without more context of how you got that, I can’t give any advice.

Cheers :)

Hi Nectar,

How can we include decimal point on the animated bar graph and counters? as an example – if i input 99.2 it displays as 99.

Thanks! Adam

Hey Adam,

As of now you can’t do that without some custom development but extending the functionality of those items is already on the wishlist :)

Cheers!

EDITED: Dear Nectar,

I have such stupid problem. Just now I added a cache plugin because my site was getting pretty slow. I read in your feedback here that it would be a good idea so I took a cache plugin that was rated high. However, after activating my justified_image_grid plugin didn’t work anymore, and some other things were not looking good either. I deactivated it and removed it, but now all my custom css that I worked on this week (and hadn’t backed up, sigh) is gone, and I can’t access the custom css file anymore. It’s not even visible in the dashboard anymore either. Do you know where I can find it and how I can see it back in the dashboard again? I feel so stupid for not having it all backed up yet. But I really didn’t know this could happen from simply adding and removing a cache plugin. I didn’t think it would mess with the site so much.

I really hope you can help me since this is really a big problem. I was so happy to have finished the work. :( If you want to contact me, please let me know. I also have a ticket in the forum for another question but this is urgent and I have the feeling you get to me faster if I reply here.

Hope you can help! No idea who else to ask. Thanks so much in advance!!

EDITED: False alarm! Eep, this is weird. I had refreshed the pages several times and even tried to change the permissions of the CSS file in the ftp before asking for help.. Now I am refreshing AGAIN, and it’s back to work again. Even the css file is showing again in the admin including the custom codes. How does that work??haha. Sorry for having bothered you. It seems to be fine again. Haha This is awkward. I am not sure what happened, but I am happy it works again.

(I used the ‘Generate Cache’ plugin)

Btw, if I was to use a plugin tool for caching. Which one would you recommend for this particular theme? Does that matter? I am not sure why the ‘generate cache’ plugin caused this much trouble.

Hey irrimiri,

That certainly was a strange issue, but am glad to hear you resolved it!

If you’re looking for a caching plugin I would recommend W3 Total Cache – I’m using on the demo as well and in general is a very well trusted and compatible plugin :)

Cheers!

Hi ThemeNectar,

My “Fade In” animation doesn’t seem to work. Here’s the snippet: Since we began in August 2012: number=”264” subject=”Earned Media Placements”][/one_fourth] Produced”] [/one_fourth]

number="3" subject="TV Documentaries

[one_fourth animation=”Fade In From Bottom” delay=”400”] milestone number=”150000” subject=”Client Stakeholders Engaged on Social Media”

[one_fourth_last animation=”Fade In From Bottom” delay=”600”] milestone number=”2509” subject=”Cups of Coffee (we’re caffeine fiends)”

Here’s the link: http://dev.jaicg.com/?page_id=596

Hey jaiconsultinggroup!

You have a plugin for column shortcodes that’s overwriting the Salient ones – please deactivate it and it should work as expected :)

Cheers

ALL HAIL THE ALMIGHTY THEMENECTAR!!! (that’ll probably make a great Halloween action hero costume). Thanks.

Haha! I have to agree :D

About the codec of the main home page video… I know your theme is constantly evolving (thank you making it better over time! much appreciated!)

1) have the “rules” changed? Do I still have to have multiple versions of the main video?

2) Im reading conflicting posts… Im seeing areas that say H264 is ok… but in the theme it forcefully states OGG and WEBMD, and M4V. (all codecs that are tricky to output from my Premiere Pro. so it forces me to use strange 3rd party apps are not confusing to use) Has the theme (or browsers) been updated so we can use everyday “normal” codecs instead?

3) what MB size of a video do you recommend for smooth playback and not slowing website.

4) what resolution (not ratio) should video be? what is the best 1:1 size for screen? 1920×1080?

Hey alcakes,

You still must provide webm & mp4 for the main video backgrounds in the Nectar Slider as stated in the description next to the webm upload, “You must include this format & the mp4 format to render your video with cross browser compatibility. OGV is optional. ” I gave you resources for free online converters for these formats in your last comment that are straightforward and can convert your videos quickly – these formats are the “normal” codecs when you’re talking about HTML5 web video.

I made sure the videos on the demo were around 30mb or under – so that should suffice, but it all depends on how long your videos are. When used as a background element, there’s no need to make them long than 30 seconds.

The videos always need to be in a standard 16:9 aspect ratio for Nectar Slider, it’s up to you whether you want to supply 1280×720 or 1920×1080

Cheers :)

I have a odd but hopefully easy question. Can I use this theme for a webcomic site?

Unfortunately I’m too swamped to accept side gigs, but I know someone over at envato studio would be able to assist with this :)

Sure! Any help would be awesome!

Sorry for the miscommunication! I didn’t mean I literally have a specific person to recommend – I just meant that someone at envato studio would definitely be able to help :)http://studio.envato.com/explore/wordpress

Hi there, thanks for creating such a great theme.

I am having a major issue with the portfolio… All of the portfolio items are displaying twice for some reason; both when all items are displayed and when you filter through to one e.g. Video Production.

There is also a spinning wheel constantly displaying over the second set of items.

I have spent many hours going through the comments and messing about with the theme settings and I just can’t seem to make the portfolio items appear only once.

Here is the url: http://rootmarketing.co.uk/portfolio/

Please can you help?? Thanks in advance!

Hey Saveetozzz!

Is there anyway you could allow me to log in so I could check it out for you? If so please shoot me an email at themenectar@gmail.com with your credentials :)

Cheers!

The theme author emailed me back really promptly and was very helpful… If anyone has the same issue, here is the solution:

“you just need to rename your template in the theme folder from page-portfolio.php to anything else (it’s auto assigning because your page slug is portfolio) try changing it to template-portfolio.php or changing your page slug to something else like “work” and the problem will go away. Also it’s worth noting this was taken care of in the latest release (2.6+)”

Thanks for posting that here as well Saveetozzz!

Cheers :)

Hi there,

Are you able to create custom sidebars?

Thanks.

Hey dxeptive,

you can use a plugin like this to control what widgets display on certain pages: http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

Cheers

Hi ThemeNectar!

Can you kindly advise how to implement

/shop/?sidebar=true

to the shop page please?

You would need to add a file to theme – please email me at themenectar@gmail.com so I can give you it and tell you where to it :)

Cheers

Send! Thanks!

Sent :)

Cheers

Hi, we really like this theme. We were testing it on an Android mobile phone and noticed that in the mobile version of your demo, the video in the slide show at the top of the home page doesn’t load. Is there a control to make video load on the mobile site or does the video slideshow feature not work at all in mobile?

Hey clearpix! Videos can not autoplay on mobile devices and since the Nectar Slider video bg’s are meant to be used as a design element rather than house informational videos, adding a play button didn’t make sense so the video gets swapped with an image for mobile.

Cheers :)

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