Discussion on Samba - Colorful WordPress Theme

Discussion on Samba - Colorful WordPress Theme

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Hello again Pirenko As a homepage i’ve set a grid-blog page that displays 3 categories of posts. When you press “load more posts” it loads some more posts but most of them are the same as above. And thats not the only problem. It doesnt display the older posts. I press “load more posts” once again and then it dissapears but there are still more posts to display. Cheers!

Hi,
Please turn off all your plugins and try again. If you still have trouble please send me a private message with a link to your page. Thanks!

Hi, great theme. I have an issue with the homepage full screen slider: Currently I have 4 slides; 3 images and 1 video. I have the slideshow on autoplay and not to stop on hover. My problem is that if I press play on the video the slideshow continues to run while the video keeps playing in the background (I can hear it). Please advise how I can get the slideshow to stop/pause if it is clicked or when the video is playing?

Many thanks!

Hi,
Unfortunatelly Flexslider does not auto-stop when videos are playing. If you prefer you can deactivate the autoplay option under that page content.
Cheers!

Hi Pirenko, My current problem,

To be added to our website all the pictures is just a page of photos to create.

Automatically creating separate pages for each image, google image pages that are simply Indexing.

Examples of google index urls: https://www.google.com.tr/?gws_rd=cr&ei=9ufwUq7vBqLw4QS8xIDwDA#q=site:clou.com.tr

example of my site url : https://www.clou.com.tr/?attachment_id=235 and : http://www.clou.com.tr/clou-logo

No I do not want to be this way.

Thanks.!

Hi,
The theme does not create those pages automatically. For each entry that you add to the media library, Wordpress creates that entry attachment page. This happens in all themes… You can try and google for a solution or try the Yoast SEO plugin (I don’t know if it has that feature).
Cheers!

Hello, I was quite excited when I purchased Samba. It is beautiful. Now however, I am frustrated and somewhat disappointed. Only being a wordpress novie, I was expecting a comprensive admin panel and visual composer to build my site. Are there video tutorials? I have to almost continually refresh each page even with Ajax turned off. The slider include seems not to have the capacity to have the captions on each slide as the demo, only text; can that be changed? I downloaded Wow slider, however, I cannot get the full screen effect as in the demo, and it is unstable on mobile platforms. Are there other sliders to use without this problem? How can the background color around the unused menu items be made transparent? How can the menu bar colors be set like a rainbow on the Demo? I would greatly appreciate your solutions. Thanks Website: http://www.wewereneverslaves.com

Hi,
I’m sorry that you are feeling like that. Here are my comments:
1 – You ask if there are any video tutorials? Sure there are… There’s a link just under the theme preview image and the help file provided with the theme has these videos. I already bought other themes and when I don’t know how to do something I look on the help file and you haven’t even opened it. You don’t need to read it totally, but at least go through it generically
2 – If you are using a lot of plugins that rely on jQuery you’ll probably should turn off the Ajax load feature. If you still have errors on certain pages please turn off all your plugins and send me links to the pages where you still have trouble;
3 – If Wow slider is unstable on mobile you need to contact their author. All I can add is that the theme slider included with the theme allows you to do exactly what is shown on the demo and it works perfectly. Side-note: I have tested the theme with Revolution Slider without any trouble
3 – Transparent color: you need to add some custom CSS for this. Probably you’ll need also to edit the main.js file located inside the js folder;
4 – “Rainbow effect” – you need to use the featured color option located under the posts content. The help file covers how colors are managed with the theme if you need any clarification
Cheers!

Thanks.

You are wlecome!

To adna above: try to use the English version of Wordpress. I’ve had issues with the theme on a French WP, even though I don’t remember if they were related to what you describe.

Thank you for your feedback!

Hi Pirenko,
The site is taking shape but I have still a problem with the widget “images seule” and “galerie d’images”. Indeed they are not performing the way they are supposed to do when the portfolio are loaded on the same page. I mean that Magnific Pop Up doesn’t work.
I precise it is working when the portfolio is loaded outside a template-portfolio-titled.
You can have a look on the page “Présentation” : http://www.marieclaireraoul.fr/mcr-portfolio/?page_id=117. When you are on this page if you click on thumbnail “Documents sources”, the portfolio “documents sources” is loaded in the same page. There, if you click on the thumbnails of the gallery “photographies” or on the thumbnail “le drap” you see that the magnific pop up doesn’t appear.
I would be very gratefull if you help me to resolve this problem.
Cheers.
Adna
P.S : Please notice that I work with the folder “samba-child” to not interfere with your original theme. The files : ajax-handler.php, single-pirenko_portfolio.php, template_portfolio_titled.php and header.php that I slightly modified are in this folder.

Hi,
If you have modified theme files on your child theme please activate the parent theme and try again. If you still have trouble please send me a private message with your WP login details.
Thanks!

Hi,
I activate the parent theme and I try again and I still have the trouble. You already have my wp login, but I send you now a private message with them again. Cheers.
Adna

Ok, thanks!

Hello Pirenko,

I am trying to make an image clickable with lightbox pop-up of a vimeo video.  What I want is to have a big image at the top of the page, and when you click it will open a lightbox style pop-up with the vimeo video playing.  Is this possible?  I have tried many things and it just links directly to the vimeo page, leaving my site. Even a simple text link will not activate the pop-up.
Example: <a class="popup-vimeo" href="https://vimeo.com/45830194">Open Vimeo video</a>

Thanks, -Lucas

Thanks. I just wanted to know if the functionality was already available or if I needed to create custom js/css to get a lightbox video to pop up. Does the complete magnific js file load with this theme, or is it a modified version with limited capability?

Hi,
The complete .js file is included. Cheers!

Ok, good to know. Thanks!

Hi. I’m having issues with some plugins… i tried at least 4 carousel plugins, and neither works fine, and for all of them, the issue is the same. When i refresh the page “costumers” the carousel works just fine, but if i reach the page from the side menu “costumers”, it shows buggy (in this case, the slide stops working and the logos shows vertically). I repeat, this happens in some way with at least 4 carousel plugins… very annoying. Please tell me what’s going wrong. The site is http://www.vitlogistica.cl thanks!

it seems there is some kind of bug with the ajax load of pages… or strange behavior handling shortcodes in visual composer…

Hi,
It does not sound strange actually… Why? Those plugins rely on the document load event and if you are using ajax calls this is event is called only when the website loads for the first time. To fix that you can turn off the Ajax loading entirely (Samba Options>General tab) or force certain pages to do a full reload: to see how this is done please open the help file and go to Theme Options>General tab>a)>ii)
Besides this the theme has a Carousel element if you want to use it. Cheers!

The color of the buttons in my slider are white with white text. How do I change them? The “buttons > buttons background color” in dashboard samba options doesn’t seem to have any effect. If I remove the “background > background color” then the button text takes on the color of the theme, but the button color remains white (data-color=”#FFFFFF”)

Hi,
The text color can be configured for each slide and the background behaves like this: the button default state gets the slide title text color and the hover color is the color you set under “buttons > buttons background color”. This is because the slider buttons have inverted colors.
Cheers!

thanks for the extra info on how to style the slider buttons. I should be able to get them configured now.

Great ;)

Hello, Is it possible to randomize the order of the slides in a slider so it’s not the same every time you visit the page?

Hi,
You’ll need to edit the wp-content/plugins/samba_framework/shortcodes.php file. You need to change the WP_Query that shows the slides and you can find more info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
Cheers!

Cool, thanks. I’ll give ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ a shot.

Are you sell html template of this site. I want to buy html template. I hope you can sell it for me. Thanks

Hi,
I can’t sell it, because I don’t have it. I built things straight into Wordpress. Cheers!

Hi, Whilst the theme looks really great there does appears to be some things that just don’t really work from a user perspective (browsing wise).

1) On a portfolio page, if you filter by category, sure enough the page is filtered but when you click one of those items (portfolio detail view) the navigation arrows navigates through all the portfolio items not just the filtered ones, which is really not very useful.

Yes, its my own fault for not checking this particular behaviour on your test site first but to be honest I was so blown away by how your theme looked my analytical mind switched-off and my emotional one took charge.

Do you have any intention changing this behaviour?

2) When using AJAX calls I get blank pages every now and then, once you refresh the page if loads fine but not all potential site viewers know about refreshing (people from an older generation); the site works fine when not using AJAX but lets face it, without AJAX the theme’s just not as slick. I’ll email you about this problem as its probably an issue my end.

It is a great theme, there’s just the odd little issue hear and there.

Kind regards, Mark.

Ok, I appreciate your comments. Perhaps then if your theme had this as a option you might sell even more ;) Yeah, I’ve had years working in conceptual design, (not the coding side) and I’m an artist these days so I have an eye for detail and I’m really pretty pedantic when it comes to user experience, the slightest irritation for a site visitor (potential client) can alter a persons perception of your business, I’d like nice happy visitors ;)

Anyways, I’m gonna shut up about all this now, if you ever do implement a solution then i’d be a very happy chappy, if you don’t well its just tough for me really, as you’ve said im the first to have mentioned this so clearly the masses either don’t have a problem with it, haven’t noticed or simply aren’t really bothered by it.

Thanks again for all your responses, honest and to the point.

Kind regards, Mark.

I had a vision… :D
In the meantime I just thought of a way to implement this. Send me a private message Tuesday and hopefully I’ll have some good news for you. Cheers!

OMG that sounds amazing, I certainly will do….fingers crossed.

Many thanks.

Hello,

I really love this theme! I just have a couple questions. On this slider page: http://almlive.com/live-events/ we want to have the ‘Childhelp “Great Gatsby”’ title to be in white and have the ‘WATCH LIVE’ button in red with the background changing to dark red when you hover over it. Is this possible? Can I customize these? -It appears that all these colors are linked so I cannot just edit one, it changes the colors for items I don’t want to change.

Thank you!

Hi,
Thank you for your kind comments! Please go to Samba Options>General tab>Buttons background color and change it to the dark red color. If you still have trouble please send me a private message with your WP login details so that I can see your settings.
Cheers!

Hello, Great theme! Very easy to work with! One question… is it possible to change the transition speed of the fullscreen slider? I’d like to slow it down so it fades one image into the next… it seems kind of abrupt.

Hi,
You have some options under that page content. You will find there the “Slideshow delay”. Cheers!

hi,

i want wocommerce product page on top sliders or images addinationls.

how m i make ? Ex url : http://www.clou.com.tr/urunler/ahsap-renklendiriciler Thanks.

Hi,
You need to create custom pages with custom content for this or, if you want to apply this to all woocommerce pages, you have to change the woocommerce template files http://docs.woothemes.com/document/template-structure/
Cheers!

Hello!

I would like like to have all the sub-menu be unseen (collapsed) unless the user’s arrow in over the selected menu category. My menu is position to the right. Is this look possible with this theme? If so, how do I achieve it? As of now, all menu title are shown with the sub menu categories being displayed indented.

I appreciate your support!

Hi,
You need to edit the main.js file for that. Eventually remove the functions related with the submenus there and try with CSS only. Cheers!

Hi Pirenko, I’m almost finished with my customization of the theme but I may have been found a bug or a limitation. I’m using the Visual Composer to set up an accordion, and inside it I want to have a “latest portfolio” or an “Image Gallery / Image Grid” widget. However when opening the accordion the images don’t show because their size remains 0×0 px, probably because the isotope relayout is not fired then.
I’ve also noticed that the “Image Gallery / Image Grid” displays only the 1st image (others are 0×0 px) even if not in an accordion or tab.
It might be becaused of the changes I’ve done to the theme on my install but I don’t think I could have broken something there …
I’m working on v2.1 now if this can help.
Ah, and I also have a request: would it be possible to know the list of files that have been modified with each version, in order to upgrade a customized theme more easily ? – Thanks

Hi,
I have tried to reproduce this locally, but could not replicate it. Please place it somewhere over the internet and send me a link. Cheers!

Done, I’ve just set up an install online and sent you the link by e-mail (subject: “Issue with image galleries in Visual Composer accordions”). Thanks to you for your help, regards !

Hi,
Thank you very much for setting that up. I’ll test it and reply to your email in the next 18h. Cheers!

Hey Pirenko, Today we installed WPML to have a bilingual site and the language switcher doesn’t get the good translated URL. I think it’s because of the javascript navigation, the translated-page URL value isn’t refreshed when we navigate and it keeps the translated URL of the first page we really load. Did you already experienced this with your language switcher? Do you have a bilingual demo version ? Thanks! J.

Hello again,
I have visited your website and the page does fully reload when you click on the language selector that is located on the left sidebar. But what you said on your first message makes sense and if this is a problem for you, you’ll need to turn off the Ajax load feature under Samba Options>General tab.
Allow me to say that most of the people change language only when they are on the homepage, so maybe you should keep that option on.
Cheers!

Ok thank you for looking, so it’s not really fully compatible with WPML in case of Ajax navigation ;)

Also I’ve found 2 fields that doen’st translate with WPML string translation, it’s the contact form Name and Email. So, I had to change the template page-contact.php to echo a different var to fix that issue : echo($prk_translations[‘comments_email_text’]); for the email. If you need more details about that I will be happy to help!

Hi,
Ok, thank you for your feedback. I’ll double-check those 2 fields. Cheers!

Hello Pirenko, I have 2 issues: 1. I use a category as a page. Where can I customize that page? I want to change the thumbnails padding, a thing you can change in a normal grid blog page. 2. When you navigate through the bar too fast (not really fast) the ajax tool doesnt seem to work and the left bar reloads again. Is there a way to solve this? 3. For my news section I have one ALL page which shows 3 categories of news. When I’m browsing the ALL page and i open a post and than i close it, it brings me back to the ALL page. That’s fine. But when i’m browsing the news in one of the 3 subcategories and i open a post it takes me back to the ALL page. I would like to take me back to the subcategory page i was browsing. Is that possible?

Great work, thanks!!

Hi,
Here are my comments:
1 – You need to edit the value on line 393 of the archive.php file;
2 – Please record a screencast showing this. Send me a private message with a link after that;
3 – Maybe by changing the date that those pages were published… The thing is that the theme searches for pages that have at least one category of the post and you have multiple pages like this. If you want to try and make this fit your request you can try and change the single.php file;
Cheers!

Hi again

I’d like to add some headings into the portfolio section – how would I do that? I want to include:

Director Agency

Also I’d like to remove the date from view.

Lastly, I want the homepage slider to only be 400px high max – I assume this is achieved by image size – what’s the optimum size for images?

Thanks so much! :)

Hi,
I tried opening the videos on iPad and could not find any issue. The theme does not interfere in any way with the Vimeo API so if you had some trouble it should have to do with the video streaming feature itself.
About the extra fields: I already told you what files to change so it is just a matter of doing a search through the code. If you can’t do it you need to hire someone to do that (send me a private message for a quote if you are eventually interested).
Cheers!

Thanks anyway.

You are welcome!

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