Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Discussion on Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

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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?

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 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!

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 :S

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?

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?

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 :)

Hi, is there anyway to change the size of the hamburger/mobile menu icon. Want to double its size.

Thanks

Hey emlynscott! Add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:

header#top #toggle-nav i, header#top #mobile-cart-link i {
   font-size: 30px;
}

Awesome, thanks for your help.

You’re welcome :)

Hi, How can I in the portfolio “back to all” icon on the right side – next to the arrows and set the title left-justified?

http://www.dc-motion.com/portfolio/motion-graphics-example/

Thanks

Add this in as well:

.single .row .section-title {
 padding: 0!important;
}

#portfolio-nav ul.controls {
   right: 0!important;
}

Many thanks! Another question I want exactly the same font as used on the demo page. Could you send me a screenshot of the font settings.

Thanks

Hello,

The past two times I’ve updated the theme I lose formatting. The text becomes different, and images that once fit neatly in their cells become mis-sized. I’ve tried both deleting the theme from the Themes folder and letting the dashboard install Salient, and doing it manually. Each time the theme does install successfully, but I lose formatting. Any ideas?

Thank you

Hey cophoto,

since this isn’t a known issue I would need to get some more details to better help – are you using the “Move Dynamic/Custom CSS Into External Stylesheet?” option in the general settings tab? Is there any URL you can provide to demonstrate the images not fitting in their cell issue?

Sorry I can’t find “Move Dynamic/Custom CSS Into External Stylesheet” in general settings of the Salient control panel, or WP general settings.

I’d like to show you an exemplary link, but I’ve already reverted my site back to an old version of Salient. What I need to do is install the update again and leave the site with errors intact so that you can view it. The lack of formatting isn’t noticeable to visitors who don’t know what the site is supposed to look like.

If you don’t see the option in your general settings tab you’re probably on a version before that was added so it’s inapplicable. When you were mentioning the images not fitting in their cells, what were you referring to? A table element or a column setup?

Hey ThemeNectar,

In the Row text color options, there are: 1. Light 2. Dark 3. Custom

Light and Dark seem to work, but when we set to Custom and define a custom color, the font color does not change. It seems to default to Dark.

Any ideas why that might be?

Hi, Just posted a response and one final question about that CSS you provided.

I’ll be back with you as soon as I can :)

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