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Hi There, I bought your theme and its is really choppy and lags when scrolling with or without the option checked in the General settings. I checked your demo again and its is choppy as well.
Is there anything I can do to stop this? Maybe keeping the Top menu fixed has something to do with it? not sure. Please help.
I think it could be the parallaxing on the main slider. I am using Home-Slider Only as my template. Is there a way to remove the parallaxing?
Hey Slyguy,
The Home Slider can not have that effect disabled without custom development, but the Nectar Slider can – I would recommend you switch to that slider instead as it’s the higher performing slider as well 
Here’s my tutorial on using it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLU9Pxo_RD8
Cheers
Hi Nectar, mahiette below asked my question already and you replied with the code below. Where does that code go? Thanks
mahiette
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
ThemeNectar 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
Hey brendanmburke!
It goes in the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel > General Settings tab 
Cheers
Hi Phil!
I just have a quick question regarding CHMOD (Changing File Permissions). I noticed that you did it for your website themenectar.com and I was hoping to do it for my own personal website you see. Could I ask what 3 numbers did you use for wp-includes and wp-content please? I basically want to use them for my own file permissions on my own site and I thought you would be perfect to ask!
Thank you!
Hey Gareth! By default, servers will most likely set those folders to 755 and the files inside to 644 – which is a good setup 
Cheers
Please could you tell how to do the following.
I have made my accent one color in the back end, but this looks like its the roll over color as the initial state is a ‘washed out’ version then the roll over becomes my accent color – how do i revers this action?
Hey Caroline!
Add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel:
body .nectar-button {
opacity: 1!important;
}
body .nectar-button:hover {
opacity: 0.7!important;
}
Cheers
Thanks again for your response – amazing customer service
You’re very welcome 
Hiya Does your theme use standard WordPress Gallery function post? if yes can you show me and example? Thanks Farrah
lovely theme
Hey Farrah!
You can use the element (which allows you to upload images in the same way) to create gallery sliders which look like the Nectar Slider and like this: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/dining/porttitor-porttitor-mollis-vitae-placerat/
Cheers
Ticket #165001 – Site won’t load in IE8. Hangs up on each page- seems to be font awesome or something. I tried a fix from the public tickets- adjusting font-awesome.min.css, but no luck or difference on page.
Ryan
Hey Ryan, I’ll be back with on the forum soon 
Hi, I have really enjoyed working with your theme thus far, however for the past few days, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how to create the photography section of my website and the best way to use the theme functionality to do this.
There are about 4 galleries (different photo themes) that I would like to create. I would like the Photography portfolio page to show the galleries, and then once you click on a gallery for it to go to that gallery page and have either a full screen slider or a fullwidth masonry layout with lightbox when an image is clicked on.
here is an example of what i mean. http://www.sizakelemarutlulle.com/my-portfolio/photography/Is this possible with Salient?
Thank you
my temporary work around until i have a better solution is: installed plugins- tiled gallery without jetpack. and gallery carousel without jetpack. this gives me the masonry tiled layout without having my images cropped. however i am unable to get it to stretch across a fullwidth section. and i have no control over which images are displayed in a larger size. but it was quick in terms of – I don’t have to create a slide for each image, or create a portfolio item for each image. When a gallery has over 10 images it becomes very cumbersome and tedious to have to put an image and not be able to add multiple images at a time to a gallery.
am still keen to hear if there is a working solution to use the salient features.
Hey sherissar,
there’s a gallery element in the page builder (added in v3.0) which allows you to create a gallery slide with the same look as the nectar slider by using the WordPress gallery interface so you can add all your images at once instead of creating slides. This can also be fullwidth or non fullwidth.
There’s still no way to create a grid of images without using the portfolio post type in Salient though this style might also get added into the gallery element as an option in a future update as well.
Cheers 
I prefer the fullwidth slider, but the images get cropped.
If you don’t want any clipping you can use the basic slider style the gallery element offers and change the row its sitting to be full width content for the type 
Hi, is this in a portfolio post type? I havent managed to get the effect of a fullscreen slider. I tested it several times. I added a row in the VC, set that to Full Width Content, inserted Gallery with basic slider, set image size to full. Enabled Fullwidth Portfolio Item Layout.
The image has a zoomed in clipped effect. Am I doing something incorrectly?
Hey again – yes, there shouldn’t be any issue with this. Anyway I could grab a URL to check a page where the images are clipping when following the steps you’ve mentioned above?
Cheers
Hey Nectar – Just wanted to thank you again for your awesome work and all your support. I have finished our site, only took seven days from start to fin thanks to your amazing theme!
Anyway thought you might like to see – take a look when you get a chance. http://humannature.kiwi.nz
Thanks again! 
Thanks so much for taking the time to say that SamAsh – your site looks amazing!
Congratulations! 
Thanks so much Nectar – could not have done it without your theme!
You’re very welcome!
Cheers 
Hello, Firstly I would like to say well done! This theme is incredible and the amount of customisation is unbelievable.
I do have a question regarding the map on the contact page. I would like to use this map on the homepage with the same setting I have setup. Is there a shortcode or would I need to alter some files?
Thank you
My apologies, I have found the answer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4mt0lOJ888
Hey glfoster – glad you found the answer 
Cheers!
Hi ! Thank you for this awesome theme (: ! I’d like to shrink my portfolio item’s padding by at least half, could I get a little help with that? I tried :
body .portfolio-items .col { padding: 0px!important; }
But it didn’t budge. Thank you for your help (: !
Hey armpitjuice!
Add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel:
body .portfolio-items .col {
margin: 0.5%!important;
}
Thank you for the prompt response (: ! That bit of code helps but now there are only 2 portfolio rows in stead of 3, how do I expand the container to fit all 3 in a row? So sorry for the hassle!
You’re welcome!
That should have actually reduced the space and not made them too big to fit – is there anyway you can share a URL with me so I can take a look at this?
Cheers 
Here’s the URL, thanks so much (: ! http://fattyfreelance.com/portfolio/
Is it also possible to make the blog page have the same layout as the single post page (: ? Sorry once again for the hassle ~!
@media only screen and (min-width: 1000px) {
body .portfolio-items .col.span_4 {
width: 32% !important;
}
}
2. What were trying to bring over from the single page into the main page specifically?
Cheers 
Thank you, you’re awesome!! The portfolio is perfect now!
For the single page, I’m looking to bring the layout of the headings, titles etc.
Basically replacing this part : http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3690/12627028563_0763c1f4f0_c.jpg with this: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2869/12627353104_f0bd82d009_c.jpg (:You’re welcome 
Unfortunately the social buttons are not capable of being placed more than once per page so this would require some significant development.
How about without the social buttons (: ? That would be fine as well! Really really sorry once again for the hassle!
If you can live without the social icons the rest of the mod would still require a bit more custom development than I can reasonably give, but a developer on microlancer should be able to wrap this up for you relatively quick and cost effectively if you need it 
Cheers
Noted with thanks! Thanks once again for all your help (:
You’re very welcome 
How to turn off the sticky menu ?
Add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel:
#header-outer { position: absolute!important; }
Cheers 
Hi, how can I change active tab color? Thanks
Hey Poloplayer!
Add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel:
html body .tabbed ul li a.active-tab {
border-color: #000!important;
background-color: #000!important;
}
Thanx a lot, works like a charm!
There is a “Extra class name” Would it be possible to control individual group of tabs with different colors? Possibly using the “Accent Color Options” ?
You’re welcome!
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The extra class name is going to get applied to the entire tabs element so you can add something like “cool-colors” and then use this css:
html body .cool-colors .wpb_tabs_nav li:nth-child(1) a.active-tab {
border-color: #000!important;
background-color: #000!important;
}
html body .cool-colors .wpb_tabs_nav li:nth-child(2) a.active-tab {
border-color: #333!important;
background-color: #333!important;
}
html body .cool-colors .wpb_tabs_nav li:nth-child(3) a.active-tab {
border-color: #666!important;
background-color: #666!important;
}
Cheers 
Hi Theme Nectar 
I have a question related to the portfolio images on home page. The sizes are rectangular, and there are three images.
1. How to have three images, but in square proportions? 2. also, to have squares on portfolio pages? 3. how to have four square images on a page? * full page view)and as many rows as I want? like here : http://functionals.eu/designersThank you for your time and help Best wishes
Hey New_Castle!
1/2. You’ll need to open the functions.php file and then edit this line:add_image_size( 'portfolio-thumb', 600, 403, true );to be the size you desire. After that you’ll need to regenerate all your featured images by using this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
3. The closest you can get without custom development would be to use the fullwidth portfolio layout like this: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/portfolio/
Cheers 
Hi 
As always very helpful.
Thank you for the first solution, it works like a charm.
Th second, I am working on it. I will let you know. Best wishes.
ciao ciao!
Sounds good & you’re welcome 
Cheers!
Nectar slider is not letting me add new slides:
1) I add the slide 2) I upload the picture, do the settings, everything seems fine. I save.
then
when i’m browsing the slides, all the thumbnails are ok but for new slides, it says “image not added yet”. But the image has been added, when I edit the slide, the image is there, but it’s not showing on the slides list.
Also, when I use the nectar slider shortcode it’s not showing the image (related of course with the “image not added yet”).
I thought that there’s maybe a limit on the number of slides, but I deleted a slide, add a new one, and I have the issue.
I’m using 3.0.0, and I have the feeling it may have been used after updating that. (unless I have any other troubles with Wordpress)
Cheers Ramiro
Tried in 3.0.5 and same problem. Sorry, to clarify my message, I can effectively create the slide, but the sliders list says ‘image not added yet’, though it’s appearing when you are editing the slide.
Hey ramirocastro!
There is no known issue like that so I would need to log in to your setup to investigate further – can you open a private ticket on http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ in regards with your credentials and let me know your ticket number here?
Cheers 
Thank you for that. I guess i have a conflict with I don’t know what, because I tried 3.0.5 with no customization, and I had the same problem. It may be some plugin or something. I will try to find the issue.
The funny thing is that all the previous sliders have the image properly visible as a thumbnail in the sliders list, but i can’t see the new ones created
Thanks anyway
Hello guys again. It was a plugin the issue. Not sure which one, but some conflicts with the creation of new slider. If I identify which one it is, i’ll post it here (even though it does not prove 100% that’s the plugin, it could be a combination of my plugins + customisations)
Guys, the plugin breaking the Slider is the Shortcode Exec PHP 1.50 . Cheers, Ramiro
Hey again Ramiro! Thanks for posting that information for any others who might encounter this conflict 
Cheers
Hi! I’ve purchased the theme and i have a question about the home slider.
I’ve to put a vimeo video on it, is this code allright?
<iframe src=”//player.vimeo.com/video/84124222?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=1” width=”900” height=”506” frameborder=”0” webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
When i load the homepage it starts playing the audio but the image never starts
This is where i’m testing it http://desarrollo.ecorace.com.ar/
Thanks!
Hey elale82!
An autoplay attribute wouldn’t be a good idea since the slider will still autorotate anyway. However it seems you’ve turned that off so I can’t see the bug, but I in general I would suggest you didn’t try and do that – if you want an autoplaying video consider the nectar slider for its video background option 
Cheers
Can anyone suggest a microlancer or a professional who can customise this theme for me. I have already started work on it and need it complete.
Hey lyndachat! Unfortunately I personally don’t have any to recommend but hopefully someone else on here with some experience can lend a name 
Cheers
Translation issue: I have translated most of the items succesfully. Just in the blog form some items are not translated, although I have translated them in PO file: “Your email address will not be published” is not translated, also “name” labels in the form.
Translation is OK now, problem was cache.
Glad to hear AlainL!
Cheers 
Hey Guys,
Some one just copied your work blatantly and its been approved in Theme Forest. Just can’t believe whats happening here.
http://themeforest.net/item/samaya-responsive-multipurpose-theme/6672475Been an admirer of Salient and couldn’t let it pass without notifying you guys about it.
- Swami
Thanks for the heads up Swami!
Reading through the comments I’m glad to see that most people picked up on this – it’s a shame stuff like this ever makes it through the review queue, but I’m sure they’ll remove it soon enough 
Cheers!
Hi guys,
I’m having a few difficulties getting the theme to perform properly in all browsers. The video quality is down to 480p at the moment with most videos at about 600-800kb in size (average 10s length). The problem I have is that the theme seams to try to load in a boxed mode when you first access the website, after which everything disappears and it then starts to load properly in full width. Your demo site doesn’t do that, it simply loads in the final full width way from the beginning which decreases load times. Also I noticed that your videos are better quality and longer yet they still take significantly less time to load. What am I doing wrong here?
Another note is that whilst my site is loading, the slider already is scrolling through the videos and by the time the page had loaded, I am looking at the 4th slide so the story doesn’t flow. Also the surrounding elements take a long time to load too, maybe because of the slider?
All tests have been performed in Safari, Firefox and Chrome, clearing the cache fully every time to notice exact load times.
Please let me know how I can improve this, I love the theme but need it to work properly.
Thanks
Hey alienintelligence,
Can I please grab a URL to check out what the issue may be?
Cheers 
Sorry yes it’s alienintelligence.com.au
The fact you can see the nectar slider in a boxed layout is happening because your server is showing the page before it parses any javascript. If you remove this rule from the style.css it will fix that:
html:not(.js) .nectar-slider-wrap {
display: block;
}
but still, in reality this is not something you should have to do. Besides this, the overall performance of your server seems pretty off – you’re correct to say your videos should not be taking that long to load and the amount of data you have is far less than what I’m loading. What hosting company are you with?
Thanks for the swift reply… By the sound of it not a very good hosting company is who I’m with… TPP in Sydney
Hi, I took the lines of code out from Style.css and it still does the same thing… any other suggestions?
No problem 
Checking your URL again I can actually see that it sorted the issue – maybe you need to clear your cache?
Hi Themenectar!
I am trying to create a few headings that will have a specific size and font, and was modifying one of your previous suggestions. Can you help me figure out why this is not working? These modifications almost work, but not quite:
.jumbo-text {
font-family: "raleway";
font-weight: 100;
font-size: 100px;
line-height: 60px;
}
.subjumbo-text {
font-family: "Playfair Display SC"!important;
font-weight: 900!important;
font-style: italic!important;
font-size: 50px!important;
line-height: 60px!important;
}
Thanks!
Hi Themenectar,
So I think that I figured out the issue, and was able to make raleway and lobster work. For my reference, what is the font family name that i should be entering if I was to use Playfair SC? And is this the best way to achieve specific size and fonts?
Thanks!
It is a completely valid way assuming you need to add fonts in a way more precisely than possible with the typography options.
If the font is indeed being loaded correctly there should be no issues – can you provide me a URL so I can see if that’s the case?
Cheers 
Hi ThemeNectar, I just submitted a ticket with the login information.
Ticket #165470
Thanks!
Thanks a lot! -I’ll be with you soon 