Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

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Hey! Can someone please put me in the right direction to get the cool video backgrounds like the one in the demo here;

http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-frostwave/home-portfolio-eye-candy/

Thanks,

Andy.

Thanks :)

So are you simply wondering how to make a video background? (the tutorial I linked earlier covers that) Or are you just looking for the exact video I used in that background so you can buy it yourself?

Yep, Don’t worry! I figured this out :)

Glad to hear! :)

Hi Theme Nectar,

Is it possible to have the whole header be under my nectar slider with a functional sticky header, but only for the home page? see snickers website as an example here… http://www.snickers.com

thank you

Hey again PairDesigners!

Unfortunately this is not a standard feature and having the header stick after scrolling by it under the slider would require custom javascript development.

Hello,

One last question, My menu links & search icon somehow got moved over a bit to the left. It almost looks like the header table size was changed. Can you give me a css to reset the header links so that they are aligned to the far right please?

Hey jcbklyny! I would need to see your URL in order to find out what’s causing that for you and help sort it :)

Hey again :)

This is happening because of the css you have on your logo – enter this into the custom css box in your theme options panel to sort it out:

header#top .span_9 {
  width: 100%!important;
}

Cheers

Hi. Me again! :) I have three questions now…

First: How can i completely align my text at Nectar Slider fully right? The Align options seems to be just to simulate 3 columns but just with text alignment to the left. Is there a way to do that?

Second: Can i customize the distance between text lines? Where?

Third: How can i convert a Row into Full Width SECTION at visual composer? Or, how can i add a Full Width SECTION on visual composer mode?

Thanks by the way! :)

Hey again Fred!

1. Yes, add this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel:

.swiper-slide[data-x-pos="right"] .content {
  text-align: right!important;
}

2. And this:

@media only screen and (min-width : 1000px) { 
   .swiper-slide .content p {
     line-height: 44px!important;
   }
}

3. The row type in VC will allow you to change between full width content / background ( full width background is the same as the full width section shortcode)

Cheers :)

Thanks! :)

You’re welcome! :)

pre-purchase Q:

in the homepage http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-frostwave/, I see 6 elements below the slider, can we add more on that section? we want to make it 9 or so..

Thanks very nice theme and planning to buy

Hey cre8tiveph! Yes, you’re free to add as many as you need :)

All of the demo pages are merely examples and can be customized to suit your needs.

Cheers!

Hi there,

how do you create the three column multicolored section as seen on your demo ‘landing page’ (toward the bottom before the services and after the logo slider)? You seem to have provided a different demo in the download package compared to what’s online.

Cheers Andy

Hey Andy,

There’s two sets of dummy data included as of 4.0 – one for each demo. If you imported the all purpose set instead of the modern creative then that would explain why it’s missing (also could be a matter of you importing the dummy data before 4.0 was released and this feature was added)

Assuming you’re on 4.0 you can create the columns by simply changing the row to Full Width Content and then editing each column to have the background color you want with the padding you need (the demo uses 5% for padding).

Cheers :)

thanks for getting back to me so quickly. It would appear that I did install the all purpose version although I confess I didnt see the creative one. sigh! still ill give it a shot.

Im really impressed with the theme by the way. I only have one minor irritation in that it takes a long time for support to get back. Sometimes its over two days. I know the challenges you must have and keeping good support service going whilst not spending a fortune on wages but if theres anyway it can be reduced I would be really grateful. Theres nothing more frustrating than asking a question then getting only half an answer and then waiting another two days to get the other half.

Im really NOT complaining but in your plans for world theme domination you could look at this issue I would be most grateful.

Other than that minor gripe….. I LOVE THIS THEME!!!!

All the best Andy

Hey again Andy!

Glad you found the reason for the issue :)

Thanks for the feedback as well – we are doing are best to answer tickets as quickly as possible but in some cases (like in the event of major releases) the queue can be longer than average with the increased number of tickets coming in.

Cheers!

Hi, what happen if we use a secondary menu, it will be also transparent?, do you have a demo of this with both menu?

Hey mzuker!

No, it will remain its chosen color however if you also wanted it to be transparent it could easily be accomplished through css so let me know if that’s the case and if you need help :)

Cheers

Hallo Theme Nectar :)

I have problems with the site after updating the theme to the newest version. Nothing really works.

the front, pages, woocommrce, and there is also this error:

Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘woocommerce_reset_loop’ not found or invalid function name in /home/lukaszjankjn/ftp/mmevelo/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 507

I would love to be able to update the theme. :( I need to bring the old file from backup

Please help, what is happening? We use child theme.

I removed all the salient theme files from the server and uploaded the new ones.

Best wishes M

You’re welcome!

I was just saying that if you have a header.php file in your child theme folder, than it will need to be updated to match the 4.0 version – if you don’t have a header.php in the child theme then don’t worry. :)

ah, now I understand :)

Thank you Martyna

You’re welcome :)

How do I change the client slider from opening a new tab when clicked or in HTML terms target=”_blank” to target=”_self” through a quick CSS fix

Cheers

Hey sean7787!

You’d need to open the shortcode-processing.php file located in the nectar/tinymce directory and search for:
function nectar_client
to end up at the right place to make the change :)

Cheers

Thanks

You’re welcome :)

Trying to use this theme on a modern wordpress development stack that uses composer to install wordpress and where the directory layout is totally different from base install. Check https://github.com/roots/bedrock to see how the directory structure is layed out.

My problem is that since the directory structure is different the the salient theme options fail to load the proper css and js resources. It works if I install wordpress the regular way.

Is there way to fix this so resources load however wordpress is installed?

Thanks in advance. I submitted a ticket also.

Hey tomorrowpicturesinc,

the issue most likely resides in these lines inside of the defaults.php file located in the nectar/options/defaults.php file:

$fslashed_dir = trailingslashit(str_replace('\\','/', dirname(__FILE__)));
$fslashed_abs = trailingslashit(str_replace('\\','/', ABSPATH));

For now i’d recommend simply changing them to work for where your directory is located but thanks for pointing this out for me to look into :)

Hey, transparent header was an excelente job. However, can we choose leave off the line under the header for the next upgrade?! Something like a completely transparent header ? Thanks, and salient is already awesome!

Thanks Fred!

Enter this into the Custom CSS box located in your Salient Options panel:

html body #header-outer.transparent[data-transparent-header="true"] {
  border: none!important;
}

Cheers :)

OH. GREAT!!!!!!

:) Glad to help

Is there a Lightbox for Blogposts planned?

Hey lorderdbeer, you can call a lightbox where ever you need by adding the class “pp” to a link, for example:

<a href="your-image.jpg" class="pp"><img src="your-image.jpg" /></a>

Also if you need a lightbox gallery you can use the image gallery element in the page builder :)

Hello. Seems your Demo Page is not coming back to life – already for quite a while… Hope you didn’t gave up.

Such a good piece of work the Sailent Theme.

Best, Peter

Hey Peter!

The demo was up when I went to sleep and when I woke up today – I was unaware of any downtime and it seems there’s been no other reports of the matter. Can you still not access it?

I definitely didn’t give up! :)

Hello. Yes, it’s a bit weird. Whenever I try to access the demo from the themeforest “Live Preview” button I end up seeing a blank page. When I click on a button from your demo content I am redirected to your new frost demo and everything works out fine. However, now I saw the two extra links below. Never paid attention to any other links… Uff. Sorry for that.

And I think Sailent is the most sophisticated theme I came across so far. Really. It’s amazing. Thank you.

Best, Peter

Thanks a lot Peter :)

Don’t know why the live preview link was acting up for you but i’m glad you can see it now!

Cheers :)

I’d like to buy the theme, but I’ve got a question – why the demo page doesn’t scroll down/up while previewing it? I’m using imac+wireless apple mouse witch seems to not work, I have to use the scroll bar instead…. O_o thx

Hey nataszka, you’d probably just need to disable the smooth scrolling option within the theme settings :)

Cheers

You’re welcome :)

Found a bug ….

Wrong: header#top #logo .retina-logo { display: none; }

Should be: header#top #logo #retina-logo { display: none; }

Hey kabdulgh,

Actually it was changed to be a class instead of an ID in 4.0 – if you still have an ID than your header.php is either outdated or being overwritten by an outdated header.php in a child theme :)

Cheers

Hey Nectar, really loving the theme! just one stupid question – How do I update it to 4.0? I bought the theme some time ago.

Hey jonasgraversen!

You can update by downloading a fresh copy from ThemeForest, deleting the current version you have on your server and uploading the new. I recommend using FTP, but you can use the WP dashboard if you prefer. You won’t lose any of your content or theme settings so don’t worry about that if you were :)

Blog area version 4 Page set up as Masonry (both versions)

The links stick out past the box meaning they don’t break like the rest of the text does so they don’t stay within the size of the box and overlap with the links from the box to the right. Any easy fix for this aside from going into each blog and testing if adding a break will work? I got couple blogs with many links. Thank you so much

Hey mayka06851, if you can provide a URL to your blog I’ll help you out with that :)

can you please email directly to pixelfanatix@gmail.com? thank you

Please take this guys comments into careful consideration and tell his “web developer ” to give up on life ( or tell him he must be 5 years old! WAHHAHHAHA cant stop laughing at this joke, I think he missed the date of April fools. ( PS. this was posted for you because I know you cant say it yourself without getting in shit ) :D:D:D:D:D

Sorry but this is NOT a simple easily customisable design. I feel I have been totally mis-sold what it was. I have wasted time and money trying to get it to work as I hoped it would.

The design is not set up as it is in the demo, you have to add that as an extra plug in. However, this is NOT made clear when buying the licence.

The back office Wordpress control panel is the most unintuitive and ham-fisted control panel I have ever had to use.

I asked a web designer to have a look at it and help me customise it as I thought I would be able to do, and he gave up!

Sorry but you need to be clearer that this is not a template for people who are not completely conversant with both Wordpress AND CSS.

How do I get my money back please?

I want my money back!

v4.0 is a gem Nectar! The transparent header alone made my day :D Can’t wait to keep exploring the new features!

Hey Max!

Glad you’ve finally started diving in! :)

Cheers

Sorry but this is NOT a simple easily customisable design. I feel I have been totally mis-sold what it was. I have wasted time and money trying to get it to work as I hoped it would.

The design is not set up as it is in the demo, you have to add that as an extra plug in. However, this is NOT made clear when buying the licence.

The back office Wordpress control panel is the most unintuitive and ham-fisted control panel I have ever had to use.

I asked a web designer to have a look at it and help me customise it as I thought I would be able to do, and he gave up!

Sorry but you need to be clearer that this is not a template for people who are not completely conversant with both Wordpress AND CSS.

How do I get my money back please?

I want my money back!

Hey Photosbytomtom,

1. The dummy data file imports exactly what you see on the demo minus the demo images I’m not allowed to include.

2. I have no idea what you’re referring to with “The design is not set up as it is in the demo, you have to add that as an extra plug in.” There are no required plugins for the theme, only two recommended free plugins (contact form 7 & woocommerce) which you don’t need to install if you don’t need either of those two items.

3. You are the first person to describe the options panel in a negative light as the theme uses the most popular options panel framework used by the majority of themes & a lot of care went into making it as user friendly as I could.

4. I would say most users have little css knowledge – you only need css skills if you’re trying to customize the theme beyond what is possible with options. It’s ludicrous to state a web designer “gave up” trying to work with the theme on the grounds it was too hard.

5. I personally don’t have control over refunds so you’ll need to contact Envato support http://support.envato.com/

Good luck with your future WordPress endeavors :)

Thanks for the quick response.

1.The point I was trying to make is that the problems started when it wasn’t made clear that I would need to import the dummy data file. Why, when people are buying that template isn’t the template ready to use, without the need to use the dummy data file. And if you can’t do that, you really should make it VERY clear! (By plug in I meant the dummy data file by the way).

2. I have managed to set up a website, exactly as I wanted with a different template I found last night, in less than 2 hours. It was intuitive, easily understood, and the control panel was plain and easy to navigate. The Wordpress CP, on the other hand is good for simple blogs but not for websites that will be designed as a photography portfolio.

3. I was being a bit flippant about him giving up, his point was that, like me, he found the whole process counter-intuitive, not easy to understand, and would cause me headaches for ever!

Sorry, but I’ve gone over to the dark side and won’t be using Wordpress for my website!

No problem,

Just as a quick point to what you mentioned – no WordPress themes will install with the dummy content already loaded because a good portion of users prefer to start clean and build their site without it. It’s standard practice on here to include it with the download so the user can import it if desired and not force it upon them. (Also probably wouldn’t work to well for users coming from another theme with content already created).

Sorry you found WordPress/Salient to be too much – but I seriously do wish you the best & encourage you to contact Envato to see if they can help :)

Cheers

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