That functionality is already built in. You can specify the custom menu for a page in advanced page settings box in page edit window. Updating theme won’t affect data or options. Only the code changes in the parent theme will get erased. You can make changes in the child theme.

We do have some threads in the support forum which talk about how to add sidebar to individual department/course pages. Even then, for a large project like yours which perhaps involves feedback from multiple people, it is best to hire a good developer who can help meet these requirements. I am sure many more customizations like these will crop up as you meet your client reps and get their thoughts on what the website should contain, how the navigation should be etc. We can only provide limited support for customizations.

Thanks for the response. I am pretty savy at development. I just wanted to know if “page options” were available to add sidebars to pages. Most themes have this – ie. where I can change the page template from fullpage to left-sidebar and then pick the widget that goes in the sidebar.

It is unclear whether your theme allows for such customization on each page??

Thoughts?

It does allow you to add sidebar for pages/posts and but not for custom post types like departments/courses/staff etc. which have their custom design and hence we have not provided support for sidebar for single course/department/staff etc. The pages which list these custom post types (archives) have the option available.

Have not tested it. Should be compatible since we do follow best practices. Thanks for your interest.

Can you test it? I would like to know if it’s compatible before I buy.

Pls give us couple of days time and we will test it and get back to you. Also, you will need to make some styling changes(CSS) to make everything blend well. Thanks

You can have a look here -

http://support.portfoliotheme.org/faqs/invent-theme-how-to-replicate-the-demo-site-in-10-min/

I would still strongly recommend you setup a demo site for reference. Reduces the learning curve quite a bit. Just have a subfolder with wordpress installed on a different DB and install demo site on the same.

The logo should get placed automatically on the same line as logo. Can you reduce the number of parent level items in the menu and see if that makes a difference? You can always use the dropdown to accomodate more items in the menu. I hope I am getting your query right.

Nevermind it just took a minute to process my changes

Actually, I found the home page in my pages section. However, it’s not showing up on the actual direct URL – it’s on soupkitchenfunk.com/lumberton/index.php/home. I need it to be the direct website URL. How can I fix this?

You just need to set the “Home” as the front page in “Settings > Reading” in your dashboard. Pls see this post here for further help https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_Screen .

Got it. Thanks for that – great theme!

You can have a right sidebar anywhere a left sidebar is supported. I hope you are referring to pages and posts which currently have left sidebar shown in the demo site. Thanks for your purchase.

Thanks for your answer one more question is it possible to have both? Left and right sidebar? Left used for navigation and right for gallery and testimonials?

Sorry that is not possible. Pls use column shortcodes to simulate it.

It is possible via LearnDash, which needs to be purchased separately. Pls read more about LearnDash at LearnDash.com. The theme has been tested and is compatible with this paid plugin. Thanks for your interest.

Pls follow this video tutorial for importing data and setting up the revolution slider for Invent Education theme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZ7I-WTdp0

There is a folder named “Invent documentation” seen when you unzip the theme download bundle. You just need to click on the index.html file inside this folder.

for some reason my site isn’t showing the demo content at all http://qualitymarketingave.com/

Pls email me a temporary login to your site via the contact form on my profile page – http://themeforest.net/user/LiveMesh#contact and I will take a closer look. Thanks

I see whole lot of 404 errors on the site on the dev tools console. The theme has not been installed right. Pls check.

Turns out there was an error uploading it. Re uploading it did the trick.

Thanks!

Great to hear. Thanks for the update.

A link to the page will help. At present transparent option is not available with the theme. Will need custom CSS to achieve the same.

Pls email me a link to your site via the contact form on my profile page – http://themeforest.net/user/LiveMesh#contact and I will take a closer look at the menu shifting. Thanks

I’m afraid that didn’t work, but this might be an issue with the pinnacle rather than the Invent theme.

Not sure why that comment was deleted. That didn’t work, but I think it’s actually the fault of a plugin I’m using. Thanks!

Great. Thanks for letting us know.

Yes, you can setup quiz platform for employees using learndash. Pls visit LearnDash demo site to see all the possibilities with creating quiz – http://demo.learndash.com/. The theme is compatible with features of LearnDash, including quizzes.

Yes, it will work.You can check our demo site here -http://portfoliotheme.org/invent/#

Yes you can have a segment with its own background.

Thanks for your interest. At present, we do not have plans to incorporate visual composer for this theme. The shortcodes will not show up on visual composer. The theme comes with a shortcode builder that you will need to use to build the site.

Hey – this is a great theme. But after a long time searching, I am likely buying another product. I realize you can’t meet everyones needs. And really, this is a great looking theme. But if it helps, here is why I am looking else where. Lack of visual composer (this is a major reason). and no mega menu (no big deal, i can buy one, but would be nice.)

I may end up buying this theme some day, but I can’t handoff a website to client and expect them to know how to use shortcodes. This is a university site and will be used by multiple departments. Just too much of a learning curve for too many people. Good luck.

Thanks for your feedback. We may support mega menu later on if we get enough requests. I believe the visual composer or any other page builder is useful only for the home page and rest of the content is either a custom post type with easy input fields for inputting content or just rich text content. Page builders have limited use in this type of template; at least, that is my observation.

1.You need to change line no:36 of file loop-staff.php to

'posts_per_page' => 10,

And also pls make sure that you have set “Blog pages show at most” to 10 in Settings > Reading. 2.You can make use of shortcodes to display staffs in page section. For example you can use post snippets carousel shortcode/Post snippets shortcode.

[segment background_color="#eeeeee"]

[heading2 title="Our Staffs" pitch_text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer elit arcu sit proin a vel porttitor risus."]

[post_snippets_carousel id="staff-carousel" post_type="staff" navigation="true" post_count=6 image_size='medium' display_title=true show_meta=true display_summary=true show_excerpt="true" excerpt_count=10 hide_thumbnail="false" navigation="true"]

[/segment]

Intially create button(using shortcode) using the available colors and then apply custom CSS on that. For eg:

[button id="enroll-button" style="padding: 10px 20px;" color="green" type="rounded" size="large" href="http://targeturl.com" align="left" target="_blank"]Enroll Now[/button]

And apply custom CSS in themeoptions as below -

#enroll-button {
  color: #333949 !important;
  background: #fff;
}

Thanks! I’m sorted now.

Thanks for your interest. You can see some of the backend by having a look a this video.

http://support.portfoliotheme.org/faqs/invent-theme-how-to-replicate-the-demo-site-in-10-min/

At present, we do not have a student login as such and you will need to create wordpress login for a student to provide access. The authorship is managed just like any other wordpress installation by creating users in wordpress admin panel. Hope this helps.

Page section reorder feature was removed since you can drag/drop and reorder the page sections anyway when you design a composite page. The reorder will not affect the page sections anymore.

Got it! Thanks! Although you should probably remove the re-order option from your theme. That’s going to confuse a lot of people.

We are planning an update in next few days to reintroduce sorting via reorder since so many are asking or it. I think it makes sense for a theme like Invent where the custom posts will require custom sorting.