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Hi there, Beautiful theme! Just one question: In a video gallery/portfolio, is it possible to have the whole thumbnail be the button that takes you to lightbox? Instead of having to press either the “View Larger” or “More details” buttons? Just be able to press anywhere on the thumbnail and have it open it on lightbox? Thanks!
Hey fedefracchia,
Yes! Just activate the “lightbox only” option which is available through the portfolio shortcode/page builder element (if you’re using the portfolio page layout just deactivate it). Here’s an example of that option being used in combination with the alternative project style: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/gallery-only-example/
Cheers 
Thanks! After a while, I found that “gallery only” page. I’ve just purchased the theme a minute ago, so I’m eager to see how it works! I’ll let you know if I have any doubts! Thanks!
Sounds good & welcome aboard!
How to install WPML and include in the header bar of the flags? thank you for your help, I would like to install this plugin hoping it is free.
Hey sirpyle,
The language selector is an option directly in the plugin but unfortunately WPML is a premium plugin that can be bought here: http://wpml.org/purchase/
Hey!
I’m having a bit of an issue with Video in Nectar Slider. Check this page.
The actual size of the video is 1256×482.
Nectar slide settings: Slider Height: 482
Row setting: Type: Full Width Content
I am looking at the site with a 13” screen and there is a black area on the bottom of the video. When I look at the site on a 27” monitor it spreads/zooms everything out and the black area goes away.
Thanks!
Hey again tabishiqbal!
Video backgrounds used in the rows/Nectar Slider must be provided in a 16:9 aspect ratio regardless of the height of the row/slider. Once you supply that size the black bars will go away in all resolutions
Cheers
Hi Guys,
We’re getting a height issue on our recent projects on the home page. I wonder if this is because they’re videos and not images?
Can you advise a fix? Many thanks.
http://hdtesting.co.uk/giggle/Ash
Hey again Ash!
Some of the images you’re using as the featured image are too small such as: http://hdtesting.co.uk/giggle/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/461948205_295.jpg Please provide images that are at least 600×403 to have them fill out the space
Hi Guys,
How do I remove the ’+’ icon from the toggle sections? I can’t find the css selector to apply a ‘none’ aspect to it.
Thanks!
Hey MidasCreative_!
Add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel:
body .toggle h3 a i {
display: none!important;
}
body .toggle h3 a {
padding: 14px!important;
}
Cheers
How to add SALE symbol on few products ? Can I rename SALE to NEW ?
Hey ronakvthakkar,
the sale badge automatically appears when you’ve supplied a sale price to your product – as far as renaming it to “new” you’d have to write on the WooCommerce forums in regards since this is a standard feature of their plugin and not a something specific to Salient.
Cheers
Hi, this is a great theme, just need to know to things before i buy it. I tested your theme from your preview page so in portfolio page i have two problems: 1. Self hosted video wont play, but youtube is playing. So is it possible to play mp4 video on portfolio page on android and iPhone? 2. From a portfolio video page when i click on thumb it not open in pop up like in browser, instead of that it took me to more detail page so i can watch video from that page not from portfolio. Thank you, milena
Hey logmov!
1. Are you viewing the theme directly on your iPhone at http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/ instead of the ThemeForest iframe?
2. Mobile devices don’t use the lightbox since the popup would only be as big as the images themselves – which would be okay for videos but completely pointless for images. Changing this functionality would require some script modifications.
Cheers
Hi ThemNectar, thank you for a quick replay. 1. I was viewing on android samsung from this link http://themeforest.net/item/salient-responsive-multipurpose-theme/full_screen_preview/4363266, and now i tried from http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/portfolio/, but on both link self hosted video wont play…youtube is fine. I tried on iPhone its working, but not on android. 2. Ok it would be nice to have that option, because this will be video portfolio site…not necessary, but if its not a lot of work can i ask you to put that peace of code when i buy this theme? Thanks again, milena
You’re welcome!
1. I just checked this: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/dining/auctor-consectetur-ligula/ on my GS4 and it played normally as it should – what browser on your android device were you using?
2. I’ll assist you with it if you go with Salient just open a ticket in regards at http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ and let me know your ticket number here
Cheers
Hi,
1. Im using opera mini on samsung and tried also on one more browser that goes with a phone. Is anybody else expression the same problem, or this is happening only on majority android phones?
2. Thanks
I just tested on more phones and it seams that its not working on samsung, i tested on samsung galaxy s, and samsung galaxy ace and its not working, but it works on htc, huwai and iPhone.
There’s been no other reports of this – but also keep in mind that the video player we’re talking about is not a specific feature of Salient, it’s the standard WordPress video shortcode: https://codex.wordpress.org/Video_Shortcode so the issue is probably just a matter of supplying more sources
OK thanks… i will go with this theme than… I guess its something that can be adjust. Best, milena
You’re welcome
Cheers
Hi, I’m trying to create a video that is parallaxing, can it be activated when the user scrolled to it? Is there a way for a video to be activated when it enters the viewing area instead of say, when the page first loads? Is this possible?
Thanks.
Hey sramirez6208,
As of now there’s nothing in place for that since video BG’s were intended to be used as design elements rather than informational videos. I’ve noted this idea for the wishlist though
Cheers
Hi, What is coming in the next update?
A lot – it’ll be out later in the week so please sit tight
We’ve looked through some of the dummy content templates that you include and have been trying to replicate some things on our own pages. The one thing that we’re really having a hard time figuring out is, how do you separate a column into 2 or 3 columns? For example, on the Home – Alternative page, where you have the icons split into 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 and then you split each of the 1/3 columns into 1/6 and 5/6. We can do the first part by altering the row, but how do you take a single column and change it into a 1/6 and 5/6?
We’ve been trying to look into this for a while and can’t seem to replicate how you were able to do this. If you can provide some instructions, it would be greatly appreciated.
Hey samueloh!
You can actually do nested rows inside of visual composer – here’s a sample row you can paste into the classic editor for a starting point
(Just make sure you’re 3.0+ of course)
Cheers!
How easy is it to implement mailchimp into the footer or sidebar widget?
Firefox keeps crashing for some reason whenever I refresh my site. Is this an issue that’s being worked on? Has anyone else complained about this?
Hey luxerman,
1. You should be fine simply using one of the mailchimp widgets out there to place the form: http://connect.mailchimp.com/how-to/how-to-article-mailchimp-widget-for-wordpress If you encounter any issues just let me know
2. This actually is not a known issue and no other reports have come in about it yet – if you can share your URL I’d be glad to take a look and see if I can replicate the behavior.
Cheers
Hi, richpearsonwd and ThemeNectar
Please, how can I achieve that down arrow on my Home Slider? That’s something I’ve been looking for.
Thank you very much. Best regards.
Hey dummy123! This will be coming in a future update as a standard option but for now it’s a custom addition.
Essentially It’s a link styled to look like an arrow via css that leads to the section below via a standard anchor link. The scoll animation was achieved with this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/page-scroll-to-id/
Cheers
Fine. looking forward to it. Is the e way to achieve it curretly using the “to-top” arrow and added lines?
You can accomplish it right now via the method I described but unfortunately there’s no simpler way currently.
I have also written a specific template to address browser detection – works lovely however the base code needs to be in the header.php (which I have now added to a child theme) this is fine except I would like to not have to edit the code every time I need to change it, is there a way or a plugin perhaps that would let me append or add code directly in the header.php from the Wp backend?
Rich
Hey again!
Something like this might be what you’re looking for http://wordpress.org/plugins/header-footer/
Hey Bud, if you go to: http://richpearson.co.uk and click on the down arrow on the cover image initially the text and button jumps a little, it doesn’t do it when you scroll up and click it again – any ideas as to why maybe?
Hey Rich!
I can only see this happening on Chrome some of the time – can you do a quick test for me and remove the down arrow so I can see if it still happens without. (even with the arrow the content jumps if you scroll down slowly at first and that’s what I want to check for without it)
Cheers
Hiya Bud, sorry for delay time difference and all that!, are you around now to test?
Hey! Sorry I was asleep when you responded – I’ll be around from now to check (the arrow is still there as of this instant though)
Cheers
no worries at all bud, removed the arrow, but it still jumps? any ideas?
In safari and chrome
Super weird as I can only get it to happen half the time and so far have been unable to replicate it on my own setup to try and troubleshoot – you can’t see it occur on the demo either right?
I wonder if its the layer underneath that I added that has the in it then ???
I think I might’ve found the issue! Would you be interested in having me log in and applying the fix to see if it sorts it for you?
Morning yes please be my guest you should still gave the login details
Sorry for the delay! I’ve logged in and applied the fix – how’s it looking on your end
Thats quite alright bud Thanks yeah works a treat – what did you do? (maybe you can email me what you did)
Great to hear!
The fix is actually going to be included in all future versions – it involved changing quite a few lines in the nectar-slider.js file
Cheers
Hi, is there any update with the update of the font-awesome to allow the latest icons?
Hey charlie_langridge, they’ll be included in the upcoming release due out this week
Cheers
Hi,
Nice theme great work!!!
I am struggling to align the slider images /home-extended/ slider on the iPhone.
I have images that require text and buttons to be placed next to them which works great on my Mac but as soon as I load the site on iPhone it crops the images too small and the graphics and text overlap.
Can I set a min scale of the slider itself like we do with the viewport? If so what and where would I place the CSS for this.
Sorry if this has been answered already but searched the comments for a good 30 mins trying to find it 
I am just updating to the latest version now in hope this has already been fixed.
Thanks again for the great theme.
Richard.
Hey Richard!
Can you please share a URL so I can see what you mean to help out better? (Mainly need to see if you’re using the actual Home Slider or the Nectar Slider for the page)
Cheers
Thanks for the reply, it is hosted just in a subdirectory of my site: http://noonah.co.uk/dreambooth/ I have managed to get the slider images displaying correctly now on iPhone 4S but now the text and button layouts are messed up.
I removed the full screen slider width setting from the shortcode and it seems to fit better on mobile.
Link here: http://noonah.co.uk/dreambooth/ just need to sort the text / button layout
Thanks,
Richard.
Hey again Richard!
Add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel to get the space back:
body .nectar-slider-wrap[data-full-width="false"] .swiper-slide[data-x-pos="right"] .content {
padding: 0!important;
}
Boooyah! What a champ! Thanks
You’re very welcome
Hi!
Great theme so far. Only issue is I can´t turn on German language on the front end part. German dashboard is working fine but all the theme text bits like “Read More” or “Search” are not translated at all. See these examples: http://postimg.org/image/sp5l3ez3r/ http://postimg.org/image/fmejxvy9j/ http://postimg.org/image/fh67ah1kn/ (I switched to English, so you can read the errors.) Also I can´t log in to your support site: http://themenectar.ticksy.com/ Not with FB and not manually (email confirmation has not been sent)Greets!
Hey wortlack!
It appears from your screenshot that you’ve been translating the strings inside of the Visual Composer plugin .po only – please make sure you you’re doing the ones inside of Salient as well (it’s located at salient/lang/default.po)
Also have you checked your spam folder / tried a different email address for ticksy?
Cheers
Hi, ThemeNectar Please,
1- I would like to have the Social Share Buttons on the top menu, on the space above the Pages names and search symbol (aligned to the right), so I would have them on available equally on all pages, no matter the format or content. Is that possible?
2 – Is it possible to add any (small) content to the secondary menu right side (ie. phone number, email, standard share links, etc.)?
Thank you very much. Best regards.
1- I mean, placed on the header. above the primary menu, not on the secondary one (ie placed below the secondary menu, in case it exists).
Hey dummy123,
1. If you don’t want to use the secondary navigation for this it would indeed require some custom development – namely opening the header.php file, manually adding the desired icons and then using css to position them into the right place.
2. You could add them as menu items as assign them into the seconday nav menu location – or if you don’t want links you could easily open the header.php file and add them in as list items.
Cheers
Hi,
I Mean the Share buttons, not the profiles ones. I ouls like to have a solution to have them always on the same place, no matter homepage, portfolio, services, etc.
For the other pages, but home and folio, I have found a temporary solution, but need your help, please.
1 – On the common pages I have put the tiltle of the page centered in a 5/6 column and the share buttons on the last 1/6. It’s ok, but I would like the title and subtitle to stay centered relative to the whole container (960, is it?) as before. Please, is that possible?
2 – I would like to suggest taht option to be include din a future update, share buttons on header “on/off”, so we can share the homepage and such without having to change the design/ include sections/areas for that and, maily, have them always on the same spot of the pages, no matter the content.
Thank you very much. Best regards.
Hey again!
Thanks for the suggestion – for now the easiest way to do this would still be to add it into the header file and position it with css – if you want me to assist you in getting started with this please open a ticket in regards (with your admin credentials) and let me know your ticket id
Cheers
Hey,
Fine! You are welcome! (I have a lot of them )
I have created the ticket: #186112
Thank you very much. Best regards.
Just got back to you in regards
Cheers
Hi,
Great theme!
I am not sure if my question has been asked before but I am thinking about purchasing this theme but I would like to know if it is possible to have vertical images instead of horizontal ones in the portfolio grid full screen layout. If so, does it require a lot of customization? Will full screen mode still work?
Thank you!
Thanks chels34!
You would just need to change the defined thumbnail size in the functions.php to match your desired proportions. I could assist with this if you go with Salient & need help
Cheers
Hi, I have now purchased the Salient theme. Could you please tell me exactly what/where in the functions.php I need to change to make the portfolio grid work with Portrait oriented photos?
Thank you for your assistance!
Hey!
Search for this:
add_image_size( 'portfolio-thumb', 600, 403, true );and change it to your desired width / height. After that, simply run this plugin to regenerate your thumbnails
http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
Cheers
I have done what you said to do but it seems to be stretching the portfolio gird image to fit the default width. Also the hover area size did not change to match my dimensions. Do I need to change any other settings?
Ideally, I would like all the images in my portfolio grid to be about 200 px W x 300 px H. I would like the hover area to be the same size and I would like to stack the “View Larger” and “More Details” buttons.
Thank you again for your assistance!
Hey again!
Can you please share a URL to your portfolio page so I can see what layout you’re using to help better?
Cheers
Hi! I am working locally right now so I do not have a URL to provide you but I am using the Portfolio Fullwidth Default for my portfolio page grid. Does that help? Thank you!
Ok thanks for that info
If you’re using a fullwidth display you’re images are still going to be forced to be as wide as the columns in each display but the aspect ratio is up to you so you should really be cutting the images at a larger version such as 400×600 but you might want to consider not using the full width layout to avoid this if you want to keep your images smaller.
Hi! Is it possible to do a 6 column grid layout using a fullwidth portfolio? What exactly would I need to change in the code?
I saw that you responded to someone else that asked:
“Six (or more) Columns in Portfolio Masonry Fullwidth?”
Scott Smeester Hi, I’ve managed to replicate Portfolio into a company team application. I’d like to scale down the images and have more images on each row and have more columns. I anticipate your reply to be that it would require a lot of programming but perhaps not – maybe I’m just missing something… In the case that it requires programming, perhaps you can tell me what I would need to do generally. Can you provide file names I need to edit, classes, etc.? Cheers, Scott 4:12 on February 19, 2014
I Am Nectar Hey Scott!
This would be a bit tricky – You’d have to open the style.css and responsive.css stylesheets and change all occurrences of rules targeting: elastic-portfolio-item into your new desired widths (they’re all specified to exact percents right now ot ensure perfect fitting)
Would I need to change the same areas of the code? Would I use the same width as the 1/6 column short code (187px width)?
Thank you again!
Hey again!
Yes, the mod would entail changing the same files as I mentioned above, but you’re going to enter the portfolio 1/6 based on a percent as all the rest are since it must scale to fill the size screen a user is viewing your site on (unless you have the responsive design turned off).
Cheers
Hi again, Sorry I do not think that I understand fully. So I only need to change all occurrences of rules targeting: elastic-portfolio-item in the responsive.css and style.css files, correct? Do I need to change anything else?
What do you mean by “enter the portfolio 1/6 based on a percent as all the rest”? Would each column not be 1/6 of 100% or 16.66%? Can you give me an example?
Thank you so much for your continued support.
Hey again!
You actually need to go slightly under that – I would start with 16% without the decimals and see if they fit if not, lower/raise it slightly as needed.
Cheers
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way to give the portfolio thumbnail images a border (i.e. padding) for the home page masonry option? Currently all the images are flush right up against each other, and I’d like to add about 40px of padding all around each of them.
I can’t see an easy way to do this via the styling. So was wondering if I’m missing something obvious.
Thanks.
Hey Pip134,
there’s no option for this with the full masonry view when using the alt project style. Some css would be needed to accomplish it. Here’s a snippet you can paste into the custom css box in the theme options panel to get started:
body .portfolio-items .col.elastic-portfolio-item {
padding: 10px!important;
}
Cheers
Thanks very much, I appreciate that. I’ll need to change dimensions of the thumbnails to get them to line up straight now, so a bit of tinkering around with the CSS is ahead of me!
You’re very welcome & good luck!
