Hey again pyramus99,

the image gallery element offers the same styles as the portfolio itself – it also should display your images in any proportions so as long as you’re supplying a size that can fill the columns you’re using. If you just want to lightbox a regular WP gallery it would require some javascript to target all the images and add the gallery attribute onto them. (prettyPhoto[my-gallery])

Hey ThemeNectar, so I just noticed I actually cannot create new Portfolio items with the old WP gallery slider any longer. So I’m giving up… you sold that new Image gallery element to me Besides, this will also allow me to use the Lightbox feature without further custom development so it’s worth the effort recreating all Portfolio items.

BUT… 1) Where do I change the code so this Image Gallery will use the original size of images by default, instead of the thumbnail size when not providing a custom size? (This was actually the reason for my previous issue with the aspect ratio) Since I have a LOT of portfolio items and prefer to avoid filling this size field for every single one of them.

2) In the past I restyled the look and feel of the overview pages (includes/post-template/entry.php). How do I re-enable the functionality of showing thumbnails of all the images in a portfolio item, like the old WP gallery provided?

See the difference between the old WP gallery and new Image Gallery entry here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/irjxhsrlk8gqxt1/Screenshot%202014-04-29%2013.52.13.png

Hope to hear from you

Hey!

1. Open up the vc_gallery.php file located in the nectar/nectar-vc-addons/vc_templates directory and change:

'img_size' => 'thumbnail',

to

'img_size' => 'full',

2. The Image Gallery doesn’t replace the WP gallery itself – it simply replaces the Gallery Slider checkbox which would turn a default WP gallery into a flexslider. If you prefer to use a default WP gallery anywhere which would place a grid of thumbnails as you’ve shown, you’re still free to do so

Cheers

THANKS A BUNCH!!!

So how can I use the thumbnails on these overview pages with the portfolio items that use the new Image Gallery element?

2. Sorry, I ask this once again, because it seems you didn’t fully capture my question. Let me elaborate:

- A: This thumbnail grid worked automatically for the ‘old-style’ portfolio (< 4.0, so with WP galleries + Gallery Slider checkbox checked).

- B: On the normal project pages you then got the ‘flexslider’ as you mention.

- C: On other pages, like includes/post-template/entry.php, you then automagically got this nice post format with images and thumbnails as you see in my screenshot on the right.

- D: This feature in C (showing the thumbnails at the bottom of a post) does currently NOT work for the ‘4.0+ style’ portfolio items.

- E: Obviously, I want to be able to keep adding portfolio items in the future (and have them all in the same format)

- F: I also like the lightbox feature of the ‘4.0+ style’ portfolio very much.

- G: So I edited all my ‘old-style’ WP gallery portfolio items and recreated them with the new ‘4.0+ style’ Image Gallery.

However, now I’m stuck with a somewhat less powerful output than before, because I don’t know how to get this thumbnail grid active again for the other pages, like the page I mention in C.

Hope this is more clear now

Hey again,

Anyway you can supply me a URL so I can check out your implementation of the old gallery element? If used how it was intended, there never should have been a standard WP gallery visible when the gallery slider option was checked. Those images should have been converted into a flex slider in every view whether it was on the overview page or single page.

As seen on here: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient/blog-masonry-fullwidth/ at the “Porttitor porttitor mollis vitae” post, there is only a flexslider on the both the single post page and the main blog page and no default grid from the WP gallery since the gallery post format is selected. From what you’re describing it sounds like you had the default WP gallery showing in some areas and the flexslider in others which is odd. It should have been one or the other in the past versions (determined solely on whether or not you had the gallery slider checkbox selected) .

Hey there, I just pushed it to a staging server. URL is in your mail!

note: you can see the difference between old and new on any tag pages, for example /lookbook/project-tags/bella/

Now it finally makes more sense – I thought the whole time you were showing me screenshots of blog pages – it appears going to the direct tag page within the portfolio is actually taking the wrong layout – due to no reports of this it has gone unnoticed, but will be fixed in the next update. The tag page should inherit the same look as the main portfolio page and /project-type, not default back to your blog layout selection

Okay, so what can I do to actually keep this behaviour? I liked those thumbnails and optimized my design for it!

There’s going to be an additional template file added to handle the layout how it should have been – if you simply remove that from the theme folder it will remain functionality how it currently is

Hey, I lost the “original” (unintentional) functionality when the WP Gallery Slider support was removed for new portfolio items. So now we’re back to square one: How can I enable the thumbnails on these overview pages with the portfolio items that use the new Image Gallery element?

At this point since you want to continue using the old gallery slider option in a way it wasn’t intended to, I would just re-enable the feature so you can continue using it to avoid custom development with the image gallery element – you can do so by opening the portfolio-meta.php file located inside of nectar/meta

and changing this segment:

$using_gallery_slider = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_nectar_gallery_slider', true);

to this:

$using_gallery_slider = 'on';

Cheers

Hey, I’m afraid this is not the solution for my initial question, let me repeat some of the points:

- E: Obviously, I want to be able to keep adding portfolio items in the future (and have them all in the same format)

- F: I also like the lightbox feature of the ‘4.0+ style’ portfolio very much.

- G: So I edited all my ‘old-style’ WP gallery portfolio items and recreated them with the new ‘4.0+ style’ Image Gallery. (> 50 items… you only saw some temporary content on staging)

I don’t mind some more custom development on the includes/post-template/entry.php or other files, so could you please point me in the right direction?

thanks!

In that case, the mod will need to take place in the vc_gallery.php file (located in the nectar/nectar-vc-addons/vc_templates directory) since the projects are no longer using actual wp galleries – editing the files in post-templates won’t help much. Open up that file and at the bottom above the echo $output; you’ll need to do a loop to get the images as above in the file and place it into a conditional to not display on the single project page:

 if(!is_single() && is_archive()){
  /* loop to get images here which will display under the slider */
}

Cheers

Hey ThemeNectar,

1. Are you sure this is the right location to edit it? Even if I concatenate just some plain text to the $output variable here it doesn’t get written to the pages created by includes/post-template/entry.php

So, I think this is not the right location, because it DOES output my additions on the single project page (once I remove the !is_single() conditional check).

2. And is there a way to include the vc_gallery.php into my child theme (instead of editing your original one)? I’ve tried different ways, but it seems to work differently than with regular files… Would hate to lose my mods again with future updates

YES, I HAVE FOUND IT! Have been looking, trying and failing for several hours, but in the end it proved to be very simple as I expected. You only have to replace 1 line in the file: includes/post-template/entry.php:

the_content('<span class="continue-reading">'. __("Read More", NECTAR_THEME_NAME) . '</span>');

with

includes/post-template/entry.php

So now there only 1 open question left: How do I include the vc_gallery.php in my child theme (instead of editing your original one)? I’ve tried different ways, but it doesn’t seem to work as with regular theme-files… Would hate to lose my mods again with future updates.

can’t edit my comment anymore but that last line should be

echo do_shortcode('[gallery link="none"]');

let know about the vc_gallery please!

I thought the only way around this was to setup a ‘Dark’ version in a child theme. I was hoping to avoid a child theme this but theres too many lines of css to see clearly in the theme text box.

Hi there. Taken me ages but im now building a dark version. Thought this would be easy but alas its not. Sooooo many things defy logic to anyone but a developer.

Anyway thx Andy

Hey Kaizeen, if you’re trying to do a video background you need to use the Nectar Slider. The slider you’re using will only display the supplied video in a small player within the slide but still needs a BG image set to load correctly.

Here’s the tutorial on using the Nectar Slider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLU9Pxo_RD8

Cheers

No, I don’t need a video background; the Home Slider is perfect for me. But it doesn’t work… I’ve set up the BG image, and the video links, but nothing works…

Please share your URL then so I can take a look

www.milanogolfexperience.it

Hey – the author information is displayed at the bottom of each post single page is activated in the blog options tab. The author archive does not display the description by default and some custom coding would be needed to output it there as well.

Ok thanks. However – there is no place to update my personal image?

Hey Peter!

If you wanted to change the line height on all h1’s you could add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:

body h1 {
  line-height: 70px!important;
} 

Cheers