38438 comments found.
Hey ThemeNectar,
I am trying to use Facebook Commenting exclusively on my site. I realize I could use JetPack, but I’m not a fan of that system at all (personal preference).
My questions is this: is there a way to implement FB Comments exclusively without editing header.php and comments.php?
I am trying to still get updates to this theme as they are made available, and editing those two files requires editing them every time an update is available, creating possible conflicts/other issues.
I fully expect the answer to be “no, not without editing those two files”, but I thought I’d take a shot and hope you had an idea that I haven’t thought of.
Thanks! Love the theme!
Hey taketheleap,
you could actually just use a child theme to mod those two files so your edits could remain outside of the main theme and persist through updates 
You’re a damned genius. Child theme. Never even crossed my mind. Hell, I forget you can even do that most of the time.
THANKS!
You’re very welcome
Cheers!
Hey Nectar,
I was wondering how you add color overlays to videos in the nectar slider?
Thanks!
Hey althaua!
The Nectar Slider only has the option to overlay a pattern texture – however rows inside the page builder can have color overlays on video backgrounds
I demonstrate that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4mt0lOJ888
For your interest… here is my Salient mod which has been nominated for an Awwwards design award 
Such a good theme! thank-you.
Amazing job Sean!
Congratulations & thanks for sharing with me!
Hey Nectar,
So am I correct in saying that once you’ve established and built content using Visual Composer say in this instance a text block, that the only way I can alter or add text to that field is to use the Classic Editor?
Oh man mind blown Phectar. . .
Just a suggestion, you may want to make the edit text button always visible in one of the minor updates. Seeing the windows at first glance it looks like the pencil at the top of the block is where you edit the text but you have to hover over the block to see all 3 edit buttons.
Sneaky sneaky. . . . . 
Resolved. .. .
Hey CS!
Glad you found the answer
Cheers
Hi,
Love your theme, I’ve been working with The7, but can’t get it to do precisely what I want, so perhaps you can tell me if buying and working in ‘Salient’ might resolve my issues. The site I’m building has a Global Home Parent with multiple city ‘child’ sites. The following is an example of the type of basic hierarchy I have set up:
site.com/fashion/ site.com/city1/fashion site.com/city2/fashion
And so on.
Each of these pages/directories have their own navigable logo:
Logo 1 always keeps you within site.com/directory Logo 2 always keeps you within site.com/city1/directory Logo 3 always keeps you within site.com/city2/directory
When I’m working entirely with pages / microsites with their own city1 / city2 Primary Menus, everything is working fine. When I create a portfolio, say for a particular Fashion Designer, I have no problem making it appear on the site.com/city1/fashion Page with the site.com/city1, Logo 2 navigation in the header. However, when you VIEW this Portfolio, you end up with the site.com/fashion Header with Logo 1, navigable only within the full site.com/directory structure.
1) Is there any way around this? That when a portfolio is meant to be viewed in site.com/city1, that a user will remain within the city1 hierarchy?
2) Is it about changing a setting in the permalinks?
3) Is more specific customization required?
4) If so, is this a simple issue or a complicated one?
5) Is there some other workaround you might recommend?
7) Some kind of sub-domain structure? (not crazy about this though)
6) Am I just out of luck?
The same goes for Posts.
Thanks so much in advance for your help.
Jan
Hey Jan,
the best way I can see to do this would be to simply have a separate WordPress install in each directory (so three in total). This way all of the portfolios can be kept completely separate easily with the correct logos and URL structure. If you wanted to continue trying to use the microsite technique, additional development would need to be done to keep the logo & URL structure how you need it.
Cheers
Love your theme. Just a few questions:
1. Is it possible to set the header so that it is completely fixed? In other words, it remains the same when you scroll down, then back up to the top—without resizing.
2. Is it possible to set the slider so that it is fixed? Like, an old fashioned slider… so, when you scroll up and down there it appears not to be moving (very sorry, I’m not sure what the correct word is… is that parralax?)
Thanks!
Hey joantics!
1. Yes, there’s an option in the options panel to disable the resize effect on scroll.
2. Yes, the parallax effect is optional as well
Cheers!
I’d like to be able to have the portfolio featured image show up in a light box. I’m not sure this is possible since it’s not a link (on the individual projects page)?
Any feed back would be highly appreciated. Also, if possible, I think this would be a very helpful option in your next version. Thanks.
Hey trickstur!
You could do this with a little mod – open the single-portfolio.php file and search for this section:
//Regular Featured Img
else if($hidden_featured_media != 'on') {
if (has_post_thumbnail()) { echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'full', array('title' => '')); } else {
echo '<img src="'.get_template_directory_uri().'/img/no-portfolio-item.jpg" alt="no image added yet." />';
}
}
and change it to this:
//Regular Featured Img
else if($hidden_featured_media != 'on') {
$url = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID) );
if (has_post_thumbnail()) { echo '<a class="pp" href="'.$url.'">' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'full', array('title' => '')) . '</a>'; } else {
echo '<img src="'.get_template_directory_uri().'/img/no-portfolio-item.jpg" alt="no image added yet." />';
}
}
Cheers!
Greetings,
I’m creating an image with 2 buttons flattened into it. Is there a way to create Hot Spot Links to redirect the 2 buttons to different pages?
I’ve tried using the Nectar slider & adding buttons, but the buttons never seem to lay exactly where I want with my design.
Thank you in advance. DLK
Hey!
Please see my response to your other post
Greetings,
I’m creating an image with 2 buttons flattened into it. Is there a way to create Hot Spot Links to redirect the 2 buttons to different pages?
I’ve tried using the Nectar slider & adding buttons, but the buttons never seem to lay exactly where I want with my design.
Thank you in advance. DLK
Hey DLK,
that would be heard to do since the image is going to scale sizes in every viewport – you would need to create many series of rules that were different for the link in each view. It would easier to just use css and move the nectar slider buttons to the location you want
Nectar I know you’re busy man but my theme isn’t working at all.
At all at all at all.
Please help,
Ticket #151039
Hey CSMurphy,
just wrote back to you
Thank you sir I appreciate your expertise as per usual.
No problem
Thanks, Faisal
Hey Faisal!
I’ll add that to the wishlist
Cheers
I’m using http://wordpress.org/plugins/floating-nextprev/ to create that effect, but how awesome would it be to have this built into salient. I’d love to see those floating nav bars contain a thumbnail and post title.
Cheers!
Thanks for that suggestion too
Cheers!
I have been trying to sign in using Twitter and Facebook for support but for some reason it is not working. It seems my email is in the system despite not having entered a password. I would like to get some help with two issues.
1. Since using the visual composer columns will not fit fully across the page, the last column ends up below the others. I have tried replacing all the CSS files and I cannot figure this out.
2. Is it possible to apply the full screen layout for mobile devices while using boxed for larger screens? I prefer the boxed style however on mobile devices the page has huge margins squeezing the content together. This seems to be the case on all of my devices.
The website in question > owenprescott.com
Thanks in advance for any help, my homepage is looking rather ugly this column issue at the moment lol.
It seems a plugin was conflicting with the CSS, I have fixed [no.1]. There is still a large margin to the left and right on my Nexus 7 tablet though.
Hey Owen!
Add this to your Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel to increase the width on tablet:
@media only screen and (min-width : 690px) and (max-width : 1000px) {
body #boxed {
width: 750px!important;
}
body .container {
max-width: 670px!important;
}
}
What code do I put where to change the number of recent posts of 4 to 2 recent posts. I want to have 2 recent posts in a half column on the left and then insert something else in a half column on the right side by side.
I saw that you need to go to shortcode-processing.php and change the query from 4 to 2 and change the col span_6 to 4, but I am lost. I thought the showposts below should get changed to 2, but have no idea what code and where I should put it to make this work correctly. Could you help me out?
<?php $recentBlogPosts = array( ‘showposts’ => 4, ‘category_name’ => $category, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘post_format’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => array(‘post-format-link’,’post-format-quote’), ‘operator’ => ‘NOT IN’ ) ) ); query_posts($recentBlogPosts); if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Hey photolord,
all of this code is located in that file you listed above and you can find it in the file by searching for “recent posts”. Once you’re at that spot, you’ll see this:
<?php
$recentBlogPosts = array(
'showposts' => 4,
'category_name' => $category,
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
'tax_query' => array(
array( 'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array('post-format-link','post-format-quote'),
'operator' => 'NOT IN'
)
)
);
query_posts($recentBlogPosts);
if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="col span_3">
when scrolling down a little. Which is where you can make both of the mods
Cheers
I was able to find it. I just was not sure what to change what to.
Do I change the 4 at showposts to 2? Then do I change the col span_3 to col span_4? It seems to not work when I put that code in it?
Those are the only things responsible for making the markup of the recent posts – can your provide me a URL to where you’re using it so I can check if the changes went through?
Hi Nectar! I’d like to +1 the option for additional header layouts/options in a future update please
Every area of the template is fully customisable so you can design & brand a site as your own… except for that header section! The fixed nature screams ‘Salient’ & I feel it doesn’t allow you to step outside the box to craft an original design/layout.
One of the key areas I’d like to see improved is the ability to at least align a logo (right centre or left) in that header space. Different positioning options would be great too, for example: Scrolling down past the Nectar slider to reveal the menu before it ‘sticks’ to the top of screen.
Aside from that… I think the theme is truly amazing! Kudos to the work you’ve put in so far and your amazing support/community too
Cheers, Darrell
Hey Darrell!
Thanks for your kind words and header suggestions – I will most likely be adding more options in regards in the next featured focused release
Hello,
I’m wondering how I can customize my text. For example, if I want to insert a “separator with text” but I want the text to be h1 and I want it to be my accent color 1. Do you know how I would make changes like this?
Thanks!
I was also wondering if it’s possible to get rid of the description for the ‘team member’ element’? Thanks!
Hey Althaua,
enter this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel: :
html body .vc_text_separator div {
font-size: 34px!Important;
color: #ff5e54!important;
}
Cheers!
Hi,
Is there any way I can expand the portfolio shortcode so that I can select another custom post type, please? Or is there a way to duplicate the existing portfolio post type?
I have different portfolio post types and need to be able to present them all with the theme’s portfolio grid. I just can’t put everything into the one existing post type as the information is very different.
Thanks in advance
Hey DavyE,
You would have to take on some custom development in the portfolio shortcode to allow you an option to change post types and thus alter the query completely. You can find the code to edit in the nectar/tinymce/shortcode-processing.php file
Cheers
Thanks for your answer. Is this something you would be willing to do for a price? Perhaps as a separate plugin?
My custom post types and taxonomies were created with WP Types.
Hey again!
Unfortunately I am totally swamped with work to the point where I can’t accept any freelance gigs, so if you need modifications done you would need head on over to microlancer which is a new service from Envato that offers paid WordPress customizations. I’m sure a developer on there would be able to wrap this up for you
Hi, I was viewing your theme just now on Safari 6.1.1 on Mac. I am unable to scroll using the mouse. I have to click and hold the vertical bar on the side of the page in order to scroll down the page.
Hey sherissar, that’s strange but I’m gonna check the smooth scrolling script to see if there’s any known bugs with that version despite not being able to replicate the behavior. I know that disabling the smooth scroll option in the theme options panel would sort it though
Cheers
I noticed that the scrolling works on this demo with Safari http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/ but not on the themeforest live preview.
The Live Preview and that URL are the same thing – the Live Preview simply takes that URL and wraps it in an iframe so that the ThemeForest banner can sit on top.
Thanks for clearing that up it makes up sense. The ThemeForest iframe has been known to mess things up
Cheers
Awesome theme!
Quick question, I am trying to get a fullwidth portfolio page ( http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/portfolio-fullwidth-alt/ ) but I can’t seem to find where I can select it. I am only able to choose 3 columns or 4.
Also, when sorting my portfolio, I have a drop down menu but I want all categories on a straight line.
Where can I adjust these parameters??
Thanks!
Hey ZombieBatman! The options for a fullwidth layout and horizontal filters were added in later versions than you’re probably on. You just need to update your theme to the current release to gain access to all the new features
Awesome, got it working now.
But…Now with the updated theme, my homepage seems to be doubling the content on the page ??
Any help? https://annagainey.ca/
Hey again!
Anyway you could lend me a log in to check on it for you? If so, please shoot me an email at themenectar@gmail.com
Cheers
Sent you an email
Hey!
So I have narrowed the problem down to the Nectar Slider – when removing that element there’s no duplicate content. However, there’s no known issue that causes this when using a Nectar Slider in 3.0, when you updated did you completely delete your version before uploading the new one? Sometimes just overwriting the folder can cause weird issues.
No i did not delete. So just go into my FTP delete the SALIENT folder in themes and upload the new one?
Also, the carasel images are not loading even though the urls are fine.
Please HELP!
Hey again,
1. Correct
2. There’s a known issue with https sources in 3.0 because by default visual composer uses ID’s instead of URL’s and the function I wrote to convert the URL into an ID didn’t take into account https – a fix for this is going to be released tonight
When I add blog items with the new visual composer then there is a gap / white space between the image and blog tekst. For example check this link: http://bit.ly/1jq1grB and look at the blog item that says Test. This one is created with the visual composer. As you can see it has a gap. The other blog messages on that page are created with the classical composer and don’t have this gap.
Hey juistevorm,
are you explicitly adding a more tag in the vc row? That’s the only way I’ve been able to replicate the gap.
Yes exactly, it only happens when adding a more tag.
I don’t think there’s anyway around that due to the way WordPress processes that tag – however, there’s been an option in Salient for a few releases to automatically add the read more button at the end of your posts which would eliminate this issue and save you time – just head to the blog options tab in your Salient options panel and enable the “Automatic Post Excerpts” option
Dear ThemeNectar,
Some time ago you told me the following about my question of how to deal with switching between a local and online install:
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.
Although this worked smoothly for the content part, I was stuck with a major issue: I kept ending up with a default setup of the Salient settings. This was such a pain that I decided to continue work online through FTP. Your recent 3.0 update pushed me to look further into this issue, and after more research I’m happy to say I pinpointed the origin of this issue.
THE ISSUE There is one occurrence of the URL in the “salient” variable with all the theme settings (in the wp_options table) – the reference to the logo file. But it appears this variable cannot be updated or replaced, perhaps because of the great amount of data stored in it. Whatever the reason may be, once I edit it’s value (either through SQL or PhpMyAdmin functionality directly) it just results in the complete settings being dismissed by Salient – resetting to the default blank preferences.
Example of code: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://my-domain-name.com','http://localhost:8888/my-local-site-folder') WHERE option_name = 'salient';
THE WORK-AROUND I currently just avoid replacing stuff in the “salient” variable by having separate SQL queries instead of a global replacement of URLs. When sticking to the online URL for the logo, this sortof works both locally and online – considering you do have a working internet connection.
But of course this is not a solid solution for the long-term, so I hope you can help me by looking into this (and help others fixing this in the process).
Thanks in advance,
prms
Hey pyramus99,
the reason it can’t update the value for the logo in the options panel is because that data is stored in a serialized manner with a bunch of other information. An easy way to go about this would be to simply reupload your logo when switching databases and let the SQL queries handle all the images in the page content. You shouldn’t be switching databases often, even if you’re making theme mods locally that wouldn’t require uploading a new database. The only thing you need to swap a database from is when you need to bring actual page content over to a different setup. You could also just not delete the wp_options table and not export that locally either, keeping the theme options intact if you’re moving databases frequently for whatever reason.
Cheers
Thanks for the elaborate response. I will think I will just keep working from one database online then.
You’re very welcome
Thanks for your new update. Import/export of the settings effectively fixes this issue
No problem!
Cheers
I just noticed that import does not actually work when I try to update the logo URLs – it just shows the messages: “Settings have changed, you should save them!” > “Settings saved” Or is this data still impossible to change because of serialization?
It actually should work for the logo URLs as well – are other things changing for you but just not the inputs that use image urls?
Hey there, maybe I wasn’t clear enough:
1. Exported the settings from my local install of Salient.
2. Replaced local url’s for the online url with Textmate.
3. Import settings in my online install of Salient.
Step (3) fails, nothing gets imported. However, if I leave out step (2), it works fine (but of course leaving the incorrect localhost url’s for the logos).
Thanks for clearing that up – I don’t see why there would be any issue with changing the URLs since the import does not depend on the values being exactly the same as when exported. Are you certain there was no accidental syntax error?
Yes, I’m absolutely positive. Even if I just change 1 letter in one of the urls, the import fails.
Interesting, there must be something that’s interfering then – will note to investigate
Hey there, just so you know: the issue with logo url is still present in v4.0.3
Unfortunately I was unable to find the source of the issue for that minor update – still under investigation
A tip for anyone else who might run into trouble with the logo url – I came across the plugin WP Migrate DB which will fix all local url’s for you while exporting the database. Very handy! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-migrate-db/
Thanks a lot for the info pyramus99!
