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Hi,
I am currently updating my site in maintenance mode but am having a problem. Suddenly i am unable to upload images into the home slider. The upload button is totally unresponsive.
“javascript:void(0);” is shown at the bottom of the browser when hovering on button
Dashboard says the theme is up to date.
Bear in mind i know next to nothing on the CSS front.
Thanks,
Scott.
Hey Scott!
Could you open a ticket in regards with your admin credentials so I can take a look? http://themenectar.ticksy.com/
Cheers
Hello, I had the lastest version with the fix of map. But it is not work yet Please check it: http://meyzamim.activated.co.il/%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A7%D7%A9%D7%A8/ Thanks, Anatal
I mean to http://clickon.activated.co.il/contact/ I can’t set the new version because I made changes in the theme. Which files to transfer and how to fix? Thanks.
Hey Anatal, just replace the map.js file located in the js folder of your current theme with the newly available version on TehemForest
I did it and the map disappeared…
You must’ve been upgrading from a version prior to 4.5 in which case multiple files would need to be changed
functions.php
nectar/nectar-vc-addons/vc_templates/nectar_gmap.php
template-contact.php
js/map.js
Great! Thanks!
You’re welcome 
Is there a way to place a button in the top menu using shortcode? Or is the only way to do that through editing the header code?
Hey vikerious,
As of now that would require editing the header.php file
Cheers
Now that the logo issue is fixed, the Portfolio Thumbnails are not showing at all anymore. Looking at Inspect Element, I can still see the thumbnails in the source code, but for whatever reason, the image does not show up. Here is a link: You can hover over the white space.
http://bit.ly/1ANpxxZHey samueloh, did this occur right after the update or all of a sudden today? Try adding this into the custom css box:
.portfolio-items .col img {
opacity: 1!important;
}
Hi guys, awesome theme and enjoying putting together a parallax theme with the nice visual composer, which as is making life easier than coding everything in maunually!
I’m having real trouble getting images to display to the sizes I’m setting when putting a page togehter. I add a row, add a text block and use that to insert an image through the WP editor and media uploader – however on the page nothing I do seems to change the image size, it’s picking up a defualt size from somewhere and it’s driving me nuts, all I want is control over the sizes of images displayed on page! Can you tell me what’s happening here and how to turn off the automatic image reszing within this theme?
Ben
Hey Ben!
If you want to control the image size but also keep it responsive you could simply use visual composer columns to assist. If you’d rather have a hardcoded px value for images open your style.css file and delete this rule
.row .col img {
height: auto;
margin-bottom: 15px;
max-width: 100%;
width: auto;
}
Cheers
I’m just in the middle of creating a site. Having a little problem with the map markers (which are not appearing). I’m using 5.4.1 I think as i have not installed the update. I was just wondering if I update now will my current content be lost? How is the update done? Is this likely to fix my map markers issue?
Hey FoxH,
The latest release is 4.5.21 and that update does indeed fix the map marker issue – 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
Cheers
Thank you ThemeNectar,
The update fixed the map marker issue, but since the update videos on a roll-background are now not playing on individual pages. However the video content on the Nectar-slider does work. We have tried removing the content and putting it back into the theme but this was unsuccessful. Do you have any recommendations for fixing this?
Thank you.
Weird, the row function hasn’t changed in a long time – could you please share a relevant URL where I could take a look at this issue?
We deleted and uploaded again the videos and they seem to be working. They are in formats: mp4 and webm, and we are using a roll-background. However now on internet explorer the videos are appearing as black boxes. The videos in question are on the home page and are under the buttons “Services” and “Contact us” Here is the URL: http://s535395636.websitehome.co.uk/ Please let me know your advise.
Hey – have you added the mime types into the htaccess file as listed in the user guide?
I tried this, by adding mime types after the #BEGIN wordpress line of the code in the htaccess file. But this brought up an internal server error. Could you advise where to place the mime types in the code?
Here’s a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/qoSIF2u.jpg
Thank you for this. Adding the code displayed in the screen shot resolved the internal server error. However the videos are still not playing on internet explorer.
Hey!
I’m still seeing “AUDIO/VIDEO: Unknown MIME type.” in the console when using IE – I would contact your hosting company company with that in regards and ask them to ensure your server can parse video mimes and that you’ve already added support via htaccess
I’m using page to scroll ID plugin for my one pager Salient.
I have a problem with smooth animated scrolling from the shortcode buttons. Can’t get it to work. It just jumps to the section, not scrolling.
Thanks
Hey divitsystems, anyway you can share your URL to the relevant so I can take a look?
Hi. I have tried all possible Facebook Like Buttons. But what happens is, when using then in the side/ side widget, is that it cuts off the “popup box”. Meaning, when you share or like something, you can write a comment.
But what I get, when pressing that like button is a 100 px box, cut off.
Any suggestions? I mean, a like button is like quite essential on many sites.
Hey Peter,
Can you please share the page URL so I can see what’s causing this?
Cheers
Hi there,
Love the theme, just have a couple of quick things that I would love your help with:
1. My client is experiencing very slow performance with the portfolio / image galleries across the site, both on the homepage here: http://www.jofrancesphotographyauckland.co.nz/ and the Work page here: http://www.jofrancesphotographyauckland.co.nz/work/ is there a reason why these would load so slowly? Portfolio items all (or at least most) have custom thumbnails at the smaller size, so don’t know why this would load for so long.2. On the homepage both the top and the bottom rows of the portfolio preview tiles have been cropped, so that they appear vertically smaller. Can you please help?!
Thanks again., Camden
Hey Camden,
1. From the home portfolio with no cache I’m getting a very quick load on the items – on the actual work page it’s a bit slower, probably around 3-4 seconds but that’s because there’s near 100 images so it’s a fair amount of requests. How long is it taking on your end?
2. Add padding to the top/bottom of that row – try something around 40 for the values
Cheers
Hi again, this is taking 30 seconds to 1 minute at my end, far too long. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this?
Where are you located? It’s possible I’m just closer to your server (east coast US) but it seems unlikely that it would cause that large of a difference unless you were out of the US
Am located in New Zealand. It appears that all thumbs from all categories load on page load, so nothing displays until everything is loaded. Is there any way to fix this? At this stage I am considering breaking each portfolio category into separate pages in order for them to load quicker, but am not sure if even this will help? Is there a better solution?
Pagination would definitely help – the portfolio needs to wait for the images to finish loading in order to properly initiate the isotope plugin on them or else the layout would look messed up. Also if the business will be expecting most of the traffic closer to your area it might be worth it to move your server location closer to get higher performance naturally
Thanks. I have now moved each portfolio category onto a new page, certainly not an ideal solution but I’m hoping it helps. Now I am encountering new issues…
For some reason now I cannot remove the 35px gap under the bottom of each set of portfolio thumbs, any suggestions?
Also, is there a way to make the drop menu under ‘Work’ white with black text rather than vice versa? URL is here again FYR: http://www.jofrancesphotographyauckland.co.nz/
Hey again!
1. Change the row type that each portfolio is in to “full width background” to eliminate the bottom margin
2. Yes, you can configure the colors for that by selecting “custom” for the header color scheme in your header options tab in the Salient options panel
Hi again Themenectar! Loving the theme still, but really battling with loading issues still. I have paginated different portfolio categories which has helped a bit, but after clicking thumbnails the large images in lightboxes still take a long time to load. I believe this is because every image in the category loads once you click on a thumbnail—is this the case? If so, is there any way to disable this and only load the full image that has been clicked? See examples here http://www.jofrancesphotographyauckland.co.nz/work/baby-toddler/
Hey again! I’m actually seeing the images load in the lightbox once clicked within 1-2 seconds max – the lightbox is only loading for the image clicked on to load as well, your images also seem to be web appropriate compressed. How long are you seeing the images load for when clicking on the lightbox trigger?
It is taking 5-6 seconds to load the first photo, but then the next photos in the lightbox load almost instantly, which makes me think that all category images are loading once you click on a thumbnail—so is this not the case? Is there any way to speed up the performance, any plugins you could recommend or any other fix to help with speed? This is an ongoing frustration for my client!
Hey! W3 Total Cache for page/browser caching and BWP minify for minification – however even on the first image load I’m still seeing only around 3 seconds
Hello,
Very cool theme. I am interested in how you might add different images or icons (font-awesome, for example) in front of each of the menu items in the header.
You would have to edit the header.php and create a custom menu? Could you provide some basic code to show what to type in header.php and where it in file the code should be placed?
Many, many thanks.
Hey worldwidewhirlwind,
The easiest way would be through adding list items into the header.php menu:
http://pastebin.com/3rJueEwfCheers
Thank you, that works nicely, the only thing is though that I am using Page Scroll to ID in my Menu. So, when I add the list items directly to header.php I need to find a way to include the Link Relationships (XFN). I have been searching the web for the code to do this without any luck. Any help with how to do this would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance with this.
Here’s an updated snippet with the rel on http://pastebin.com/zHdDX425
Thank you so much! It works as you mentioned! Lifesaver. One final question- now, when I go to the iPad vertical view and press the three lines to show the menu it shows “No Menu Assigned.”
How would I make it so the menu items I inserted in the header.php shows in menu in the vertical iPad view?
Thank you so much for all of your help.
Hey!
You’d need to also add them into the mobile-menu div unordered list
Cheers
Got it. Fixed. Thank you!
You’re welcome
Great theme! Thanks. What I really miss is a zoom gesture (with fingers – like in the “old” sites) The portfolio images are very small on mobile and I want the users to be able to get closer to the art details. How do I get it? Probably a code line I need to add or remove?
Hey tzachik,
In the header.php file – change this:<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0" />
to this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=1" />
Cheers
Thanks. Worked great. the only problem is that my fixed header is growing too, interdependent and thus cover the zoomed image (check tzachik.com on mobile and you see). Any way to avoid it?
That’s the nature of fixed headers when zooming which is one of the reasons the fixed styling is removed in the responsive mobile view – you could change it to be unfixed as well if you’re not using responsive design by adding this into the custom css box located in your Salient Options panel:
@media only screen and (max-width : 1000px) {
#header-outer {
position: relative!important;
height: 52px!important;
padding-top: 10px!important;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
#header-outer #logo { top: 6px!important; left: 6px!important; }
#header-space, #search-outer { display: none!important; }
body header#top #logo img {
height: 24px!important;
margin-top: -3px!important;
top: 3px;
position: relative;
}
}
Hi guys,
I discovered something odd. When I use the “standard Blog NoSidebar” my single blog posts appear normal. However, when I change this to one of the other presets (for example: “Standard Blog W/ Sidebar” the footer cover the entire page. In my case, the entire page is black. The only time this doesn’t happen is with “Standard Blog No Sidebar”.
Any thoughts on what going on?
Thanks in advance, Marlon
Hey Marlon,
If you can share your URL i’d be glad to check out your setup
Cheers
Thnx,
I now set it to “Standard Blog W/ Sidebar” http://proxplain.com/blog-animation-tutorials/Hey again! It looks like there’s some unclosed HTML tags in that page somehow – it could be from a post or on the page itself. If you can open a ticket in regards I’d be glad to take a further look for you
Hi again. I think I have tried all I think but cant find it. The font-type used on the call to action bar…? Which one is that?
Hey Peter, which demo are you referring to?
I have searched and searched but cannot find anything on what exactly the ascent-theme means? Only change I found was a full screen search bar?
Hey peter, it’s general styling changes that include various mods to the search, blog single post styling, inputs and some other theme elements
Another quick question!
When using the header on a mobile device, how do I make it so I don’t have to click on the arrow to use the dropdown menu? What I’d like to do is just click on, say, “Photography” and have it dropdown as opposed to clicking on the dropdown arrow.
How could this be achieved?
Thanks again!
Hey again,
You’d need to open the init.js file located in the js folder and change this line:
$('#mobile-menu .container ul li:has(">ul") > a .sf-sub-indicator').click(function(){
to this
$('#mobile-menu .container ul li:has(">ul") > a').click(function(){
Cheers
Hey ThemeNectar! I’ve tried the above code, but now when I click on the mobile header, nothing drops down 
am I missing anything?
Sorry here’s the whole modded function to paste in over your current one: http://pastebin.com/25bZ3w8c
My Google map icon is not working either too.
Hey allanportilho, you just need to update to the latest Salient – this issue was sorted in 4.5.21
Updates not appear in the Wordpress theme panel
Emails are sent out for each update if you have that option checked in your downloads tab in ThemeForest – you can also follow them here: http://themenectar.com/changelogs/salient.html
Hi, is it possible to hide/show the page header and footer with this theme, to create landing pages etc. Thanks
Hey simvegas!
Yes – you could use this css on the page you desire to hide the header/footer:
#header-outer, #header-space, #footer-outer {
display: none!important;
}
Hey ThemeNectar!
I was just checking the contact page on my website (https://cantedpictures.com/contact/) and I noticed that my Map Marker Icon is no longer loading.
Can you please help me resolve this issue? Not sure what could be blocking it 
Thanks again!
I realize that the above link isn’t working correctly, so I thought I’d correct it: https://cantedpictures.com/contact/
FIXED! Read older posts, and anyone having issues with the Map marker, please update to 4.5.21 (just re-download the file through ThemeForest) Hope that helps anyone else!
Hey cantedpictures, I’m glad to hear you found the answer
Cheers!
Sorry one other thing. On the mobile version when you are looking at individual portfolio projects it lists the name of the project twice . Exactly the same both times, one on top of the other over the arrow buttons. When you browse some of the projects in a normal browser you can kind of see a partial of this show up (not in all of them though). Almost like it’s a jpeg that partially loads on top of one that fully loaded. How can I fix this?
Hey again – if you have share your URL i’d be glad to take a look at this too
Here is the temp url http://74.220.215.247/~ericawil/
Hey again,
Checking on my phone and browser when in a narrow window I can only see the black line issue but have been unable to replicate the duplication of the title – what phone are you using & can you see the same on the demo? http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-frostwave/
Add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel to fix in the black line:
body.single-portfolio #post-area {
margin-top: 0!important;
}
Thanks for the code. I don’t see either problem on the demo, just my site. Here is a screen cap of what shows up on my phone: http://74.220.215.247/~ericawil/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_7891.png And I’m using an iPhone 5.
You’re welcome
I can see it occurring now – it seems to only be on certain projects. Anyway you could allow me to log in so I can see how that’s happening? I can’t recreate it locally with any combination of header settings in a project
Yes. You can log in. You already have my email but if you need it again its: ericawilliamsillustration@gmail.com
Thanks – sorry it’s hard to remember who every user is when dealing with so many different people everyday. I logged in and applied a fix – is everything looking ok on your end?
Yep! Totally fixed now. I just noticed one more thing that I have no idea how to fix though. If you are viewing an item in the portfolio there is the button at the top left (looks like four squares) and when you click it then you are taken to a 404 error page. Any way to fix that?
Awesome! In regards to the new issue – Have you set the main portfolio URL in your portfolio settings tab via the Salient options panel?
Having trouble with the Nectar slider loading on my site. It takes forever and I can’t figure out why. Tried downloading plugins to optimize the site in general and significantly decreased the size of the images in the slider and nothing has worked to improve this. Please help. Thanks. (:
Hey HookieDuke, can you please share your URL so I can take a look?
Here is the temp url http://74.220.215.247/~ericawil/
Hey again!
It’s occurring because the images you’re uploading are very large – it looks like some are over 9MB which is way too high for the web. Try and compress them to under 1MB and you’ll see a large increase in the loading speed
