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Good day i have a problem on visual composer update, can you please tell me how to fix it? Here is the link of my website http://www.diversifydesigns.com/ongoing also the row and element were cloned automatically without me doing anything and it broke my website.
i figure it out already thanks.
cheers.
Hey DiversifyDesigns,
Glad to hear 
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Hey guys, Just a wee question about the menu. I’d like to bring down the main menu so it sits on the bottom line of the header area, not in the middle where it is by default. can you fire me through some css to change that?
cheers!
dave
also when the logo is in layout; ‘centered menu alt’. so stacked on top of the menu. there is too much padding around the menu, how do i control that height, surrounding the menu area? so make it say 100px high for the menu area only?
thanks guys!
Hey,
The centered menu alt would be the way to go with this – if you can share your URL i’d be glad to help you adjust the spacing
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australasianequities.com , you can see the menu area is just way to high. needs to be shorter.
i found this, you answered for someone else; which i think is the answer; But i still need to know which elements of the code exactly below to change??? is it the “2” or the “1.8”? thanks!!
seems to me something that should be pretty necessary to change, especially if you have the logo up top, the menu padding is wayyy to big.
” so if you want to adjust that alignment, you’ll have to open up the init.js file, located in the js folder, and search for the nav section. Inside of that area, find the parts in the headerInit, smallNav and bigNav functions that relate to the padding given to links. It looks like this:
$(‘header#top nav > ul > li > a’).stop(true,true).animate({ ‘padding-bottom’ : (((logoHeight-shrinkNum)/2) – ($(‘header#top nav > ul > li > a’).height()/2)) + headerPadding / 1.8, ‘padding-top’ : ((logoHeight-shrinkNum)/2) – ($(‘header#top nav > ul > li > a’).height()/2) },{queue:false, duration:250, easing: ‘easeOutCubic’});
Adjust your padding top to be more and padding bottom to be less. I know this probably feels daunting, so if you need to have a developer handle it for you just let me know and I’ll get you in touch with one
Hey – add this into the custom css box located in your Salient Options panel:
header#top nav > ul > li > a {
padding-top: 8px !important;
}
header#top nav > ul li#search-btn, header#top nav > ul li.slide-out-widget-area-toggle {
padding-bottom: 35px !important;
padding-top: 10px !important;
}
ok so this made it smaller! but i realized you can just put say ‘-80px’ in the backend option for header padding and it shrinks it perfectly!!! for anyone else stumped that is the easiest option!!!
thanks man anyways
ps; this theme is light years ahead of the competition.
Thanks deeds88!
Question 1: “Single Project Nav Arrows Limited To Same Category”
Switched this on but couldn’t get it to work. Open a project detail page and cycle through but goes willy-nilly through categories. Would love this work! Does it only work in combination with some other setting, perhaps?
Question 2: Is it possible to remove the ”All” categories from the portfolio? It seems to be appearing by default even though it was not selected for display within the editor? Portfolio: http://petermcqueeney.com.au/index.php/artworks/
Thanks – no rush with these!
Wizard247
Hey!
1. This is going to be reworked in the next update
2. add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
#portfolio-filters-inline ul li:nth-child(2) {
display: none!important;
}
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2. Worked. Except that I had to use Class selector instead of ID selector:
.portfolio-filters-inline ul li:nth-child(2) {
display: none!important;
}
after your Salient update to 5.5.3.
Thanks – and will wait patiently for No. 1.
Regards, Wizard247
Cheers – and sorry for mixing the ID/class up
Hi,
I’ve applied the fix below in order to have my Project Titles hyperlinked on the portfolio page, but it is not working for me. Has the code for this changed in the last 9 months when the fix was posted?
thanks, Wizard247
File: template-portfolio.php
Replace line 287:
<h4 class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
With:
<h4 class="title"><a href="<?php $the_project_link; ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>">title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
Hey – that code should still be valid. If the link is just not working could you share a URL?
Hey – since you’re using the visual composer portfolio element you’ll need to modify the shortcode-processing.php file with this in regards (it’s located in the nectar/tinymce directory)
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Done and perfect (had to remove one bracket)! I know it has been mentioned before but you do give excellent support. I’m a professional web site designer and have used quite a few high standard WordPress themes in the past, but none have come close to your response time and depth of support. If you ever need a testimonial, let me know!
Thanks so much
I updated to the most recent version of the theme, and now my site will not load. All I see is the custom loading icon spinning away. I can still access the dashboard and everything looks fine. I deactivated all plugins and reactivated one at a time and found no issues. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hey rymathis,
Please share your URL in regards so I can see what’s going on
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Problem was resolved. Thanks for your response!
You’re welcome!
Hi,
Some icons are not displaying I am getting squares and crosses when viewing the website on a mobile device.
http://imgur.com/laAnIhMHey – could you kindly share a URL in regards?
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Hey – this is the error showing:
Font from origin 'http://ezyups.com' has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://shop.ezyups.com' is therefore not allowed access.
You can contact your hosting company to add a rule that will allow that to work
I just contacted my host this is the reply.
“so the theme designer said to add a rule. You will need to contact him and ask him what rule needs to be added, and where, to make it work.I have no idea what he wants us to add, or where to put it”
Can you be more specific ?
Hey again – please see this in regards http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10636611/how-does-access-control-allow-origin-header-work
It looks like the latest version (5.5.3) is serving up insecure content again over https. I’ve tried both the insecure content fixer, plus wordpress https plugins (both separately and together). It looks like there’s an http somewhere that’s serving up images (in this case thumbnails/different sizes according to the JS console). Any ideas on what I can change to fix it? Thanks!
https://www.austinchristmascards.com/portfolio/star-wars-christmas-card/Thank you! Eric
Actually, I think I fixed this problem. I ended up going into individual portfolio items and removing the thumbnail and letting it revert back to using the actual portfolio image for the thumb. Can’t explain why this worked, other than when I first created the site, it was an older version of Salient running locally. So perhaps in the transfer to the domain, something got messed up. Oh well – thanks again for a great theme!
Hey,
Glad to hear you sorted it
Cheers
Does the notice about Visual Composer needing to be loaded as a plugin – mean that if for any reason one chose to change themes – your content wouldn’t be trapped in a more proprietary page builder as it was when I asked this question a year ago? Fingers crossed – I’m dying to use your theme!
Hey – there’s still custom elements in the page builder that would only work in the theme itself, but other standard VC elements would work in any
Great! I’m off to purchase for a job this morning. One more question – is there a way to know which are the custom elements so that when I use them I’ll know how to plan ahead. Not that I’m planning to switch themes – it just seems the best way to be responsible for a client’s content. BTW – It occurred to me that the fact that Salient uses VC instead of a proprietary page builder- is a selling point you might want to make REALLY clear. That was part of my search criteria & there have been other top-selling themes I’ve liked very much but the combination of a great theme & VC is on my list of requirements for a long lasting relationship.
Hey again! Inside of the page builder add element screen there’s a tab that you can click to show all “Nectar Elements”
Thank you for the super speedy reply! This theme will be such a perfect blend of qualities – exactly what I’m looking for. I’ve already purchased it and will be diving in immediately.
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Marker Icon Upload with my own marker not appear in contact page (map)
Hey Visad, please share your URL in regards so I can take a look at the page
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Can you tell me why are you alway asking for URL when there is nothing to show? the marker just won’t appear, tell me how to fix it that it ?
Since there’s no known issue with map markers I would need to see your settings in order to help out
Anyone else his navigation not working with WP 4.1? It doesn’t show anymore unless i am logged on into WP.
Hey faridym, there’s no known issue with 4.1 – can you please share your URL?
Somehow i only see the navigation in the header when logged on to the site.
Hey,
I’m currently seeing that some core scripts from WP are not loading:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.fd-seo.nl/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.widget.min.js?ver=1.9.2 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.fd-seo.nl/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.tabs.min.js?ver=1.9.2 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
Your update might have gotten corrupted – I would try to repair it by following this: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/oops-i-broke-wordpress-how-to-fix-your-auto-update-problems/
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I did all the steps except “8: Visit the home page, run database upgrade if prompted”
I don’t see any prompt
So far it hasn’t worked 
I think I managed to solve it by a workaround. In the past I made a total copy of my WP site using the free plugin wp clone and installed it on another domain soon to be used in the same layout but a different language.
1: What I’ve done, is fro within my hosting deleting everything from fd-seo.nl and reinstalled wp 4.1 from scratch as if it would be a new site.
2: Then I used wp clone from the other domain to get back my content,theme and plugins.
3: This time I did get prompted to update the database. I re-logged on to check everything was back.
4: Logged out to see if the problem didn’t occur anymore.
Seems to have solved the issue.
Hey – glad to hear you sorted it
Cheers
Hi TN,
I have a menu with submenu items on the site www.boefjes.nl. On the desktop version of the site I don’t want to show the down arrows in the menu that I need in the mobile version of the site to be able to open the submenu items.
Can you send me the CSS code to take out the down arrows in the desktop version. I need to keep them in the mobile version though.
It should be something like this:
Desktop version: .icon-angle-down:before { content: ””; }
Mobile version: .icon-angle-down:before { content: “?”; }
Thanks on beforehand, Marc
Hey Marc,
Have you considered using the ascend skin? The dropdown arrows are hidden on desktop with that option
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Hello, I have a very urgent problem with the theme updating. When I try to upload it (zip salient) I get 500 server error and it’s impossibile to upload it. I contacted technical support of my server and they tell me there is something wrong with the updating and ask you. Please can you help me to fix this persistent error? thank you!
Hey creativeradian,
Please let me know what the error stated so I can better assist in explaining what caused it
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The error is “500 – Internal Server Error” and appear after I try to upload the salient zip in the theme installation in Wordpress. I put the zip folder and click “install now” and next appear the error. I tried to upload the folder in different browser (safari, chrome) and different OS but the error persists. I already upgraded earlier the theme but this time does not work. Please how can I fix this?
The error is this: “If you are the webmaster of this site please log in to Cpanel and check the Error Logs. You will find the exact reason for this error there.
Common reasons for this error are:
Incorrect file/directory permissions: Above 755. In order files to be processed by the webserver, their permissions have to be equal or below 755. You can update file permissions with a FTP client or through cPanel’s File Manager.
Incorrect Apache directives inside .htaccess file. Make sure you have not specified unsupported directives inside the local .htaccess file. Such include PHP settings and Apache module settings.” Technical support has corrected the permissions but it has not solved the problem.
Hey – the actual error should be logged in the server logs which should state an exact reason. Is there anyway your hosting company could check that?
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Setting up pages has been super easy, but I’m having issues using galleries in portfolio projects. I want to show my work pretty much exactly as it’s shown in this video: http://youtu.be/0Ql7B-mjDBI
But it seems the directions given here are no longer relevant in recent versions: There’s no “gallery slider” checkbox anymore
Do you have updated instructions on how to achieve this? Also, is there any option for listing the description below the gallery instead of as a sidebar? Otherwise, is there a workaround you’d recommend?
Thank you so much!
Hey katingalls,
That option was removed since it is now obsolete – the image gallery element in the page builder offers the same display as that plus a ton of other options and th flexibility to move it where you need in the page rather than being forced to keep it at the top.
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Which plugin is the visual composer from previous versions? The dark one?
Hey – the old version was 3.7.3
Oh dang I see that they’re on 4. something now. I just noticed some of the layout options aren’t available anymore or a lot harder to achieve. Like the boxed columns. Or full width backgrounds.
Hey again – the current release of the theme offers an updated VC – all the same options should still be in there as before
Can you let me know what I need to add to the shortcode-processing.php to add a ‘read more’ buttom to recent posts excerpt
Hey,
In the nectar_recent_posts function, under this:
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>you’d need to add:
<?php echo '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '"><span class="continue-reading">'. __("Read More", NECTAR_THEME_NAME) .'</span></a>'; ?>
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hiya! thats great – thats worked a treat. Quick question, when I update the theme will I need to change re-upload the amended php file after update? Thank you!
Hey – yes as of now you would need to keep track of the file mod
thanks for letting me know!
You’re welcome
ThemeNectar,
When viewing an individually portfolio the navigation arrows to cycle through the each Portfolio appears backwards.
URL: http://neileverosborne.com/works/
If you click on The Kayapo, the navigation arrows points to the ‘LEFT’ instead of the ‘RIGHT’.
Do you know why this is happening? Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks, EM
Hey EM, if you wanted to reverse the order you’d have to alter this section of the single-portfolio.php file:
<li id="prev-link"><?php be_next_post_link('%link','<i class="icon-salient-left-arrow-thin" />'); ?></li>
<li id="next-link"><?php be_previous_post_link('%link','<i class="icon-salient-right-arrow-thin" />'); ?></li>
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Hi Nectar,
I created a portfolio page using the portfolio-fullwidth-masonry template. I would like to remove the title and space on this page so the projects are flush below the navigation – similar to your example (but excluding the secondary nav)
I would like to keep the single-portfolio pages as is and only remove the space and title on the portfolio template.
Thanks!
Hey poundcake23! Please ensure that you’re using any of the project styles other than the default one – as the default one has padding between the items. Could you kindly share a URL in regards so I could take a look?
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Here is my URL. http://gusdidit.com/portfolio/
I would like to get rid of the word page title “portfolio” and the space between the projects and the header.
I'm using the portfolio template, but I'm forced to add a page title, which I can not remove. I tried to make this work by adding a shortcode but then it just duplicates the projects. I can remove the title if I create a default page using a shortcode but then there is still a tiny bit of space still there.Hey,
Add this into the custom css box in the Salient options panel:
.page-template-template-portfolio .page-header-no-bg {
display: none!important;
}
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Perfect, thanks a bunch!
You’re welcome
@JeffHalligan I had originally changed my portfolio custom CSS to show just the ‘show more’ when you click on it, it had been changed to ‘view larger’. I just changed it back.
I also thought the visual composer wasn’t working, but it really was. It just looked a little different and it was on the text tab instead of visual tab.
Hey Tetra84, thanks for helping out Jeff
Hello!
Could you help me finding why my Icomoon or FontAwesome characters won’t show up ?
Here is the website’s in question : http://lebpm.fr/les-photos/
Thanks in advance !
PS : I know this website is very slow, but I don’t have time to improve it.
Hey Bolos3000,
I didn’t see any icons not working on that page – is there another page I can check which shows the issue?
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Hey I have a few questtions…
1. Do you know anything about images getting cropped to 14 different versions? I just imported 380 products, but I end up with 4000 images?
I also have grey lines on the white backgrounds of the products images. I’ve changed the add_filter('jpeg_quality', function($arg){return 100;}); to 100 but the lines are more apparent. At 60 they go away, but the image quality is not good enough. ITs the 375×400 that are getting use for product archive pages these are the most effected by these lines. see attached image.
2. How can I access all of these cropped images when adding an image with VC? I only have one choice and that is the original image I created. If i turn VC off I can access all of the cropped versions.
Any ideas would be greatly recieved.
Hey warmwhisky,
1. The theme cuts those sizes for the masonry portfolio/blog – if you choose to ever make use of those elements the sizes will already be there. They are defined in the functions.php file if you wanted to remove them.
2. There’s no option in VC right now to choose those sizes but there may be an addon which adds an element to
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