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Hello! I recently bought your theme and it is great! I am facing 2 problems: 1) The menu does not do the effect (slide down) when i click a menu item. Instead, when i click a menu item, the page opens and then i can see the submenu. 2) I have added 3 slides and i have checked the option them to be seen in homepage, but i cannot see none of them. What might be wrong?
Thank you in advance!
Hi,
Thank you for purchasing! Here are my comments:
1) Please check this video tutorial http://www.pirenko.com/blog/2014/07/24/mastering-wordpress-menus/
2) Please turn OFF all the plugins that are not included with the theme and try again. If you still have trouble send me a private message with the WP login details so that I can analyze this situation
Cheers 
Hello, is it possible to add kirilica (russian letters) support for theme font?
Hi,
Thank you for purchasing! Some of the fonts included with the theme already support those characters. If you want to add your own font please check this tutorial: http://www.pirenko.com/blog/2013/08/27/extra-fonts-plugin-by-pirenko/
Cheers!
Hello, can i ask you if your theme supports woocommerce; Thank you in adnvance
Hi,
Thank you for your interest! You can install WooCommerce and it will work (I know this, because other users have done that). Still you will probably want to make some css adjustments so that the shop looks like it belongs to the theme.
Cheers!
Thank you very much for your quick reply! Great theme!!
HI Pirenko, happy new year! I need your help again please. I have two queries and I believe the solution will be custom CSS.
1. the bullet points in a list do not line up with the rest of the text (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/events/arty-parties/). I read through your support comments and you told another purchaser to change the css via custom css. I did some research and tried this code:
ul, ol { margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0 0 0 15px; }
but that made the gallery section of the home page go out of alignment. Can you please give me the code to fix this issue with bullet point list not indenting properly?
2. The client does not want the categories to show up on the gallery page (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/gallery/ – note: only one category atm called Art because of this issue) , or the date/category/like options to show up on the individual gallery pages (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/pysche/).
3. I’ve found how to list a post(gallery) category under another heading but how do I exclude it from the post(gallery) posts? For example, my client wants her work to show up in the posts (gallery) section (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/gallery/), but wants her collective’s galleries to show up separate under their own section eg. Maitri Gallery. I can do this with displaying a category via the menu (see , my issue is how do I stop the Maitri Gallery category from showing up on the home page and the gallery page? I’ve tried using the category ‘art’ only in the menu, but that doesn’t solve the issue of the category Maitri Gallery from showing up on the home page, and the home page still points to the posts (gallery) page.
I did explain to my client that the theme was the one she chose ie. the gallery pages work the same way as the news(blog) pages, the home page is designed to automatically go to the gallery adn the gallery shows everything with categories etc and that’s just the way it is but they asked me to ask you anyway. So I asking on behalf of my client.
Except for the incorrectly indented bullet point list, that’s me – I can’t work out how to fix it and being a designer, things that don’t line up looks messy and it drives me crazy! 
Thank you for the support.
Charlie
Hi Pirenko, I forgot one thing I needed to ask you re: contact form 7 and the way the contact forms show. The email and your message fields are rendered differently to the other fields (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/classes/kids-classes/) and don’t match the contact form page either. I’ve gone through the support comments in here for Mercina and the support forums for contact form 7 and couldn’t find an answer. Any suggestions as to how to resolve the issue? Please? Charlie
Hi,
Here are my comments:
1 – Please try to use the theme shortcodes for this. You can see them on the bottom of this page http://www.munto.net/mercina/shortcodes/
2 – Use your browser inspector to determine what element must be hidden with CSS and apply display:none;
3 – I don’t understand what you want to do here. All I can add is that if you want to have portfolio pages that show only one category do this: Posts>Categories and click on the desired category to go to that page
4 – Please turn OFF the plugin that prevent us to inspect the page and send me a private message. I will send you a tweaked style.css file to improve this
Cheers!
Hi, have sent you PM with login as requested, have turned off security plugin as requested. Will tackle the rest of this later today, I have a client meeting now. Thanks for your help
Addendum: I think I’ve turned off the security feature you asked me to. If not, you’ve got login now, hope this helps. Thank you!
Thanks for the super quick reply as always Pirenko.
1. used your suggestion of the shortcodes for bullet point lists.
Didn’t work, the bullet points don’t show up. I used the shortcode as follows:
[ list_with_icons icon=”rounded” ] Skilled art instructors
All materials and aprons provided
Party can be held at your place or our venue
Projects for all kinds of kids![ /list_with_icons ]
(note: spaces added between [ ] so code can be seen)
and it should have looked like this:
• Skilled art instructors
• All materials and aprons provided
• Party can be held at your place or our venue
• Projects for all kinds of kids!
but what I got was:
Skilled art instructors
All materials and aprons provided
Party can be held at your place or our venue
Projects for all kinds of kids!
Am I using the shortcode incorrectly?
The link you pasted has an illegal distribution of the theme documentation. I flagged your comment because of this. Thanks!
ok, no problem, didn’t realise, sorry about that. Shame it was very helpful. Thanks for the email with the other stuff, appreciated! will let you know how it goes.
Thanks for fixing the issue with the contact forms Pirenko! (for other viewers, Pirenko changed the css file and made up a new php file to sort out the issue, and put it up on the site for me. now that’s service!)
Thank you for your feedback
Anytime Pirenko, I always give credit where it’s due. Cheers!
HI Pirenko, happy new year! I need your help again please. I have two queries and I believe the solution will be custom CSS.
1. the bullet points in a list do not line up with the rest of the text (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/events/arty-parties/). I read through your support comments and you told another purchaser to change the css via custom css. I did some research and tried this code:
ul, ol { margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0 0 0 15px; }
but that made the gallery section of the home page go out of alignment. Can you please give me the code to fix this issue with bullet point list not indenting properly?
2. The client does not want the categories to show up on the gallery page (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/gallery/ – note: only one category atm called Art because of this issue) , or the date/category/like options to show up on the individual gallery pages (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/pysche/).
3. I’ve found how to list a post(gallery) category under another heading but how do I exclude it from the post(gallery) posts? For example, my client wants her work to show up in the posts (gallery) section (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/gallery/), but wants her collective’s galleries to show up separate under their own section eg. Maitri Gallery. I can do this with displaying a category via the menu (see , my issue is how do I stop the Maitri Gallery category from showing up on the home page and the gallery page? I’ve tried using the category ‘art’ only in the menu, but that doesn’t solve the issue of the category Maitri Gallery from showing up on the home page, and the home page still points to the posts (gallery) page.
I did explain to my client that the theme was the one she chose ie. the gallery pages work the same way as the news(blog) pages, the home page is designed to automatically go to the gallery adn the gallery shows everything with categories etc and that’s just the way it is but they asked me to ask you anyway. So I asking on behalf of my client.
Except for the incorrectly indented bullet point list, that’s me – I can’t work out how to fix it and being a designer, things that don’t line up looks messy and it drives me crazy! Thank you for the support.
Charlie
Double post
Ooops sorry… not sure how that happened. 
Hello- I cannot seem to get my blog’s previous posts to display? Here is a linkhttp://thinkinganimation.com/news/ Can you tell me what is wrong? I have over 2000 posts from blogger that I importred and converted to news items to work and now the blog will not show past the first page? Thanks Angie
Hi, thank you for purchasing! Can you send me a private message with the WP login so that I can analyze the content? Cheers!
No idea what that is, but I am googling it
I sent a message through your website, only way I could figure out how to contact you.
Hi,
I have just replied to the message you sent. The problem is that your page has the same slug as the News Items. I have changed the page slug and it seems to be fine now.
Cheers
Is there any way to set it so that “Use featured image on slideshow and Prettyphoto Lightbox?” is not pre-checked? Or at the least make it so that the featured image does not show a sample image if I have not uploaded one?
Hi, thank you for purchasing! Please send me a private message and I’ll send you a tweaked file with that option off by default. Thanks!
hey Pirenko, i was trying to change the color of my menu to red, but it changed all text to red by default. How do I simply change the body text to black? I tried adding this in the Style PHP to the /BODY FONT/ part: font-color: #1C1C1C !important;
Thank you
PS, adding font-color: #1C1C1C !important; to Custom CSS doesn’t seem to change anything
Hi,
Thank you for purchasing! That color is set under Mercina Options>General Tab>Inactive color.
If you want to use a custom color the CSS element to target is ul#menu-mercina_menu li a
You can add this CSS code under Mercina Options>General tab>Custom CSS.
Cheers!
That worked ty! One last question – how do I change the font type of the menu, without changing it for the other headings? If I want to use Arial for the menu, but Times New Roman for the other headings, what kind of custom css do i need to type for the menu?
Oh, and the empty space underneath the menu, is it possible to reduce that?
Hi,
To change the font the CSS class is the same and as for adjusting the menu you can also do it with CSS. Use you browser inspector to determine what element needs to be modified.
Cheers
My CSS knowledge is bad! What kind of CSS do I type to just change the Menu font class, and keep the other fonts as they are? Thanks so much
Here you go:ul#menu-mercina_menu li a {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
Cheers 
You are amazing – really
Hi Pirenko,
When I submit the form, the contact form says that:
WARN?NG: MA?L() HAS BEEN D?SABLED FOR SECUR?TY REASONS ?N /HOME/MODAGEZ?/PUBL?C_HTML/WP-CONTENT/THEMES/MERC?NA/?NCLUDES/P?RENKO_CONTACT_FORM.PHP ON L?NE 22 FA?LED
You can check it via: http://www.modagezi.com/iletisim/
What is missing?
Hi, thank you for purchasing! Your hosting company is blocking sending emails via PHP. Please ask them to remove this restriction. Cheers!
hi Pirenko, I’m having a lot of problems getting the theme to work. I’ve done a clean install on my own server and uploaded the theme and imported your dummy.xml. I got a lot of failed messages on the import:
Import WordPress Failed to import Failed to import Failed to import Failed to import Failed to import Failed to import Media “portrait_inv” Failed to import Media “ Beautiful young girl sitting with her knees pulled up ” Failed to import Media “beautifulgirl_t” Failed to import Media “luxury_final” Failed to import Media “target-businessman” Failed to import Media “hand-pressing-button” Failed to import Media “target-businessman” Failed to import Media “Blond boxing woman in black punching bag” Failed to import Media “Blond boxing woman in black punching bag” Failed to import Media “feminine_home” Failed to import Media “madness_arch2” Failed to import Media “night_home_c” Failed to import Media “portrait_inv_t” Failed to import Media “logo_clear_version_238” Failed to import Media “budapest_oil” Failed to import Media “budapest_oil” Failed to import Media “beautifulgirl_gr” Failed to import Media “Portrait of woman.” Failed to import Media “Portrait of woman.” Failed to import Media “fashion woman in black and white” Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: main-menu Failed to import Media “hand-pressing-button_f” Failed to import Media “beautifulgirl_grf” Failed to import Media “beautifulgirl_grinv” Failed to import Media “business_html” Failed to import Media “beautifulgirl_grinv” Failed to import Media “Perfect pose” Failed to import Media “fashion woman in black and white” All done. Have fun!
and the theme/site looks nothing like the demo, or the setup in your documentation. The test site is here: http://lexiphi.com/mercina/ Why isn’t it working? Gina
Hi,
Thank you for purchasing! Some servers don’t allow importing images so that is why you got those messages. As for the “different” homepage: if you read the messages that are shown there you will see that you haven’t set up any posts and news. Create some of them and the homepage will build up.
Please take a look at the theme documentation and video tutorials if you need help getting started. Cheers!
Hi Pirenko,
thanks for the fast response. I’ve started setting up the posts and news, but now the content on the home page is range left (see meetdita.com.au/hidden/) instead of being centred as it was on my test site (http://lexiphi.com/mercina/)
Please tell me how to fix this issue? I can’t find any reference to it in the support comments. Thank you
Hi,
Please go to Mercina Options>General tab>Content Alignment and select the appropriate option.
Cheers
Thanks! I thought it was something stupidly simple but couldn’t find it.
And another question, this time from my client. Is it possible to enable the lightbox to work on all the images on a gallery page, not just the featured images?
Hi,
It depends on how you have created that gallery, but you can use a plugin for that (ex. Jetpack by WordPress.com).
Cheers
Sorry Pirenko, my fault, I used the wrong word. I’ve used your post pages and uploaded multiple pics via your featured image, image 1, image 2 etc. The client wants a lightbox to pop up when the viewer clicks on the first/featured image on the post page, and then have the viewer be able to scroll through the lightbox, as well as use the dots on the right under the images as navigation. I hope this is clearer!
Hi,
You need to make some manual changes to the theme files to achieve that. You need to edit at least the mercina_functions.js file.
Cheers
that’s good to know. how do I do that Pirenko? I’m not a programmer. what code do I insert where?
Hi,
It is not just one or two lines of code… You need to make multiple changes to this file. If you don’t know how to do it, you will need to hire someone to take care of that.
You can try on Envato Studio or if you want a quote from me send me a private message. Cheers!
I see. Thanks. I’ll let my client know, it’s her decision not mine.
Hi Pirenko, my client would like a quote on the coding as per conversation above. I’ve emailed you direct via your website
Ok, thanks!
Hallo again Pirenko, another day, another problem I need help solving. In the menus I am able to use the categories as menu items (see http://meetdita.com.au/hidden/maitri/) where the menu item is the category maitri.
I need to do the same thing with the news subjects ie. show only one category (news subject ‘maitri-musings’) in the menu. I also need to be able to stop ‘maitri-musings’ showing in the blog section (called Reflections on this site). Please advise best way to do this?
Thanks for all your help
Hi,
“another day, another problem”... I don’t really like this type of comments. It seems that the theme is not working and it is as far as I know. If you see something on the preview that you can’t replicate on your side please let me know. If you spot a bug please let me know too. Otherwise, please stop with these type of comments.
If you are not happy with the theme that is ok and you have already given a poor rating so I know that too. But please stop making these observations that seem to be pointing defects to the theme.
Now, about your issue: you can add subjects to the menu under Appearance>Menus. If you don’t know how to do it please take a look at this tutorial: http://www.pirenko.com/blog/2014/07/24/mastering-wordpress-menus/
Cheers!
And again, you didn’t actually answer my question, which up until now I had been putting down to the language barrier – for example my dry australian humour has been completely misinterpreted. That’s ok, in the meantime I’ve done some research on other forums and worked out why the news/subjects weren’t showing up in the menu selection like the posts/categories. For the record – I did not give your theme a poor rating, poor would have been one or no stars, not three stars. I also gave you constructive feedback on your theme based on my experience with other top selling themes on themeforest, themes I have used to build real client websites. I understand Mercina was your first theme and I believe it shows, hence the feedback. When I buy a theme I expect it to work, when it works well and makes my job easier, it gets a high rating and “good work, thank you” and I purchase that developers products again. I don’t expect to be spoken down to, have to deal with hurt feelings, and constantly be given links to video tutorials that don’t actually answer the question I have asked. But I understand it can be hurtful to receive constructive criticism, but it’s not about you as a person, it’s about your work and making the experience of using it better. I am sorry your feelings are hurt.
Hi,
Don’t worry about me: I’m mature enough to deal with not so pleasant comments. I also had a lot of rejections before my themes get approved so don’t worry that I can handle your comments perfectly. I just dislike when they seem to be saying that the theme is not working and it seems to be.
About your rating: yes it was constructive, but I work hard and everything less than a 5 star rating is bad for me. Now it is you who should not misinterpret what I am saying (at least I hope).
Anyway, enough of this subject… Let’s take care of support support: as far as I know I have replied to your question with the link that I sent. Let me know if I miss something.
Thanks!
Hey Pirenko! How do I get the original background used in the theme preview to work? When I set it as my background, it scales the image rather than tiling it.
I found it here, I’d just like to use it as a background as it’s awesome!
http://www.munto.net/mercina/wp-content/themes/mercina/images/patterns/squairy_light.pngThank you
Hi,
Thank you for purchasing! Under Mercina Options>General tab>Background Pattern select the option “Squairy Light”. Cheers!
Hi. I have two level of subcategories in my portfolio, like:
A > a > b B > c > d
I have added these to the mercina_menu. But every time I would go on any portfolio page, the full menu would display.
Here is a fix. In mercina_functions.js, at line 116, instead of jQuery(".current_page_parent .sub-menu,.current-menu-item .sub-menu,.current-menu-ancestor .sub-menu").show();
I put
jQuery(".current_page_parent > .sub-menu,.current-menu-item > .sub-menu,.current-menu-ancestor > .sub-menu").show();
Maybe you can include this in your next release?
Hi,
Thank you for your feedback! Can you send me a link to your website so that I can understand the difference? Send me a private message if you prefer. Thanks!
Hey Pirenko – last question, I promise! How do I make the height of my widget bar at the bottom of my page smaller?
Hi,
Please send me a private message with a link so that I can analyze your website content. Cheers
Hey Pirenko, still my fav theme ever! I was wondering though -I need the meta tag for my site to be something custom. However when I locate my site in google, the description lists my most recent blog post. Is there a way to have a custom Meta description just for the main site/homepage, where i describe my services?
Hi,
Thank you for your kind comment! I suggest that you try the Yoast SEO plugin for that. Cheers
Thank you!
You are welcome
Hi, how do I add a skype link through the Pirenko Social plugin? It does not seem to accept skype:username?userinfo , is there a format through which I add a skype link?
Hi,
Please send me a private message with a link. Thanks!
Hello! I bought this theme a long time ago. I have installed version 2.6 !!!! Now it happens that the old theme does not save changes to the news and comments. By installing the new version I guess the problem is resolved! Updating the theme of the articles and pages remain?
Hi,
Thank you for purchasing! Updating the theme will not lead to any loss of information.
Cheers
Hi there! Great theme! I was just wondering how to remove the preview image when i click on a specific page on the portfolio?
Each of the photos on my Portfolio are just meant to be thumbnails for videos. I would like each video page to just have the video itself, with no picture above it. Is that possible?
Hi,
Thank you for purchasing! Yes, that is possible… All you have to do is turn off the option “Use featured image on slideshow and Prettyphoto Lightbox”. This option is located on the panel located under the post content.
Cheers
Thanks for the reply! I think i’m doing something wrong – I unchecked that option, but the picture still appears above my video: http://www.dawnstarmedia.com/the-irish-rambler/
Thanks again
Also, is there a way to get rid of the ‘like’ and ‘comment’ icons that appear above every post?
Hi,
Please send me a private message with the WP login details so that I can analyze the video issue. About hiding like: it can be done with some custom CSS. As for the comments you can turn them off and this article will help you: http://www.pirenko.com/blog/2012/10/08/disabling-wordpress-comments/
Cheers!
Email sent, thank you!
Final question, is there a way to display the categories that are on the Portfolio page (in my case it’s ‘All’ and ‘Film/Video’) on the actual Homepage itself? I’d like to have categories on the homepage too
Hi,
I have just replied to your email. Cheers!
One more question, and ty! How do I get a Blog roll with pictures to show at the bottom of my page, like the Mercina theme preview? Ty
Hi,
This option is set up under Mercina Options>Homepage tab
Cheers
Hi Pirenko,
Sorry, I didn’t realize I had 2 logins. Can you help me with my issue now? Thanks!!!
Hi,
What is the problem exactly? You don’t receive any email? If yes please ask your hosting company if they are blocking the email sending feature.
Since I have released this theme I discovered a great free product to manage mailing lists and send newsletters: Mailchimp. I strongly recommend you to switch the theme newsletter feature for this.
Cheers
Hi Pirenko,
My subscription is not sending a message confirmation after I press reset after entering my email. Any help is welcome. Other than that I have enjoyed using this theme for years – www.Electrochestral.com
Hi, where did you buy the theme?
On Envato. My purchase receipt email came from themeforest.net
Hi, not with the account that you are using now. Please place the questions with the correct account. Thanks!
Hi Pirenko, I have a few pre-sale questions:
1. Can the thumbnails for the portfolio be rectangles instead of a squares
2. When clicking on a portfolio thumbnail, is it possible to take user directly to a post, instead of presenting options?
3. Can the bottom sidebar be visible on all pages?
Thanks!
Hi,
Here are my comments:
1 – No;
2 – Yes (I can help with some custom CSS if needed);
3 – On all pages yes, but not on posts, portfolio items and other custom post types;
From your comments on both theme and if you are choosing between Mercina and Pixia, I think that you should choose Pixia.
Cheers!
