please ignore, i had to proceed with installing a recommend plugin

Hey resshaheen,

Yes, that functionality is contained within a plugin. I’m glad that you were able to get it installed

Kind regards

Hey Aggravated_Badger!

We don’t provide a native Instagram widget in Salient so it would require an embed or plugin at the moment.

Kind regards

Ok, I will test (I have many plugins to check). Thanks! Please if you are willing, help me with three more (I believe easy for you) things.

1) With AI I am working on optimization of Smooth Scroll, because on fast scroll flythroughs through my self hosted video player grids it stops the scroll and loads things unnecessarily (batches of videos there)... and I want to build a custom fix to allow fast scrolls without triggering autoplays (with autoplay being ON in salient, because it’s for a specific effect for those users that decide to scroll normally and experience the video grid). Sorry I am not a dev but I believe there should be a possibility to code for multiple edge cases… to have autoplay on sight enabled + a layer of code that allows fast scrolls through the content without triggering autoplay or pausing it with smart balanced code structure for elite feel for users. Can you please pinpoint me which files are important for this so I can feed it to the AI or at least in what directions I should be prompting and building a fix for that? (I am using Grok 4.1 and so far it works great!)

2) Back to top button doesn’t work like straight jump to link/onepage (#links), but for example if I have a section near the bottom of the site, and everything is lazy loaded to the max and I just load the site and jump to that #link at the bottom then I click the back to top button, the jump to the top isn’t same as to the #link, it triggers sliding/loading of all the elements on the way back to the top. Please investigate, it should be easy to fix. Live Example: http://heavenly69.com/ click the top left button BUY MEMBERSHIP it will jump you straight to #pricing (fast and correct), then click back to top button, it will slide through the entire content triggering loading of everything (which in my opinion should work without loading things, just straight jump to the top).

3) This might be a bug or conscious limitation, but after enabling in Salient Settings: Header Blur Background ON; Header Blur Background Type Progressive Gradient; Header Blur Background Functionality Active in all header states. The page’s Header Navigation Entrance Animation settings is forced to None even if Fade In or Fade In From Top are chosen. I think for someone smart like you who build Salient (wow), building the progressive gradient fade in or fade in from top with the entire nav should be simple. I hope I am not wrong and it’s not a lot of work.

When I am gonna launch H69 and get clients I will buy the Salient Support, but for now I have to survive, lol. Thanks for all the valuable attention and help. Well appreciated!

Hey po1nt,

These are pretty technical questions and go deeper than we can fully cover in the comments. If you’d like more in-depth help, we’d be happy to assist through a support ticket. In the meantime, here’s some high-level guidance:

1. You would need to modify the nectarLazyVideoCallback in the init.js file

2. The back to top function is always animated and thus will trigger scroll events like regular scrolling. To make it not animated, you would need modify the “scrollToTopInit” in the init.js

3. That’s an intentional limitation — animating any layer involved in the blur effect will break the effect, because CSS animations create new stacking contexts, which disrupt how the blur is composited.

Kind regards

Thanks for the guidance, it helps a lot! Yeah I will buy support key after I launch the website and make some clients.

Hey TrafficCone,

There are no additional steps required for existing theme options to carry over into the latest version. It sounds like something may have gone wrong during the update — possibly related to caching, performance plugins, or a child theme — but it’s hard to say without seeing the URL.

Regarding video formats, we’ve never explicitly supported .mov files, as they are not a standard for web playback. Salient has always recommended using .mp4 and .webm files for self-hosted video backgrounds which is still available: https://ibb.co/kgQgMTRQ

If you’d like to share your staging URL so we can take a closer look at the issues you’re experiencing, we’d be happy to help. Please send it through the contact form on my author page here: https://themeforest.net/user/themenectar

Kind regards

Thanks for the fast response. It was very weird as it only had 2 basic tab options on the row editor and looked like a major design change but thanks to your image, it showed something was definitely not right. I cleared the cache before a 2nd attempt of upgrading and all went well this tome round. Thank you.

Hey TrafficCone,

I’m glad to hear you got it sorted. If you run into anything like that again, please feel free to reach out directly through the contact form I mentioned, and I’ll take a look.

Cheers

Really appreciate the kind words, nwnuyhs! We pour a lot into the details, so it’s great to hear it’s hitting the mark for you.

Cheers

Hey DonVlado, the Harbor demo includes the Fluent Form. It looks like the shortcode on your page is broken. Did you install the required Fluent Forms plugin before importing the demo? If you’d like us to manually import that specific form for you, please feel free to open a ticket on the support forum.

Cheers

Привет! Нет, даже о ней не знал. Устанавливали всегда contact form 7. Оставлю заявку, спасибо!

Hey Rindle, I’m glad that you’re enjoying v18

That specific template includes a mobile-specific image for responsiveness: https://ibb.co/XxXcV3Ys

You can switch to the phone viewport in the settings and remove or replace that image as needed.

Kind regards

Hey atwatwx, thanks for the kind words!

You can enable the WPBakery Page Builder for the Global Sections post type (salient_g_sections) in WPBakery Settings > Role Manager.

Cheers

Thanks! fixed

Hey A_K,

Feel free to reach out via the contact form on my author page in regards so I can follow up. Also, please temporarily turn off your CSS optimization in any performance plugins, such as W3 Cache.

Cheers

Sent. Thanks for your help.

Thanks A_K

Hey Andrew!

The Post Loop Builder has more limited functionality when querying pages rather than posts — this is due to a limitation of the native WPBakery query selector that we extend. However, I’ve noted the idea so we can explore expanding this on our end.

Kind regards

Hey govasi, I’m glad that you’re enjoying it!

So far, I haven’t been able to reproduce any saving issues with the raw HTML element. Can you confirm whether you have the auto-save option enabled in the WPBakery settings? Have you tried it with auto-save both on and off?

Kind regards

Thanks for sharing the page, albertoguccione. Only a section designated as a Color Change Section will trigger the change – there is no automatic reversion to a default color past a certain point. In your case, assuming you want the rows above and below it to return to the light background, you’ll need to set the desired background on both of those rows and enable the Color Change Section for them as well.

Thank you, thank you very much. Salient is a truly valuable theme. Alberto

I’m glad I could help, Alberto

Cheers

Since there’s no known issue where the offset causes a Lottie animation to fail, could you share the Lottie JSON URL? Also, have you tried swapping in other Lottie files to confirm whether the same issue occurs?

Hi, as soon as i add some % at the start animation stop playing https://share.cleanshot.com/Vc8Cprjv here is the url https://keesystem.maj.mc/wp-content/uploads/lottie/CRM%E2%80%93%20Client%20Relationship%20Managemen.json

Thanks for sharing, MAJMonaco.

I believe it’s related to the current logic with Lottie files that have a very large frame range, such as that. I’ll be reviewing the logic for the upcoming minor release.

Kind regards

One thing, what font is used at the top of the Signal demo (in black against the orange background). Is that actually Helvetica you’re rocking, or is it a Google font?

Thanks a lot, portpass1974!

It’s a font from Google – Zolando Sans

Cheers

Thanks so much. Salient is the best.

Hey stu12k,

We’ve added the fix for that into v18.0.1, which is available now

Cheers

Wonderful – that works perfectly. Thanks for the speedy response!

You’re welcome, stu12k

Thanks a lot, Cgaffin – we’re happy to share it with the community!

Hey kamil_grk,

The space around the header navigation when using the Contained layout should match the background color you have set in the Salient options > general Settings > Styling tab for the “Primary Background Color” field. If that’s not set as a white as shown shown in your attachment, please share the actual page URL so I can take a look.

Kind regards

Hey FCVOB,

I actually managed to squeeze that option into today’s release

Cheers

Amazing! Thank you. Will I find it in the post loop builder?

That’s correct, FCVOB. In the Post Loop Builder element settings > Item Style tab.

Cheers

Hey brianfreeman!

That’s added through a Global Section in the new location called “In Navigation Top Before Scrolling”.

Cheers

Hey brianfreeman,

It looks like the CSS is being delayed by Hummingbird. Are you sure you’ve disabled it on your end?

Kind regards