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Hi there Andrii,

Long time no speak! Hope all is well with you.

I’ve had it on my to-do list ever since you replied to this ticket, to get back to you and thank you for your help. I’m sorry it’s taken SO long! Just more than 2 years! :-) But here I am – better late than never! So again, thank you for all the great support you provided back then and for answering my question(s).

All the best,

Jonas

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Hi Andrii,

Hope you are well and enjoying the summer.

Great to see the update of the Shogun theme a little while ago! :-)

I noticed that the Visual Composer plugin was updated, but not to a more recent version of the plugin (ie. the back-end features aren’t the same as in the newer versions). Anyway, the update is still very much appreciated, so thank you for that! And I very much respect if you hadn’t envisioned to make ongoing updates of the plugin, which is definitely fair enough. I completely understand… However, as I’m super keen to use some of the newer Visual Composer features, I was wondering if you see any potential issues in simply buying the plugin separately and installing that instead of the version that comes with the theme? I’ve never done that before, and so I would just like to get your opinion before I can ahead and potentially ‘go down a dangerous path’ and mess things up.

Thanks a lot!

All the best,

Jonas

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Thanks for your response Andrii – and for fixing the issue with the blog! Much appreciated :-)

In regards to the points:

1) Brilliant. Thanks for this! Could you give any advice as to making the tiles here keep their square shape on mobiles? That would be ideal really as then it’s easier to make sure that the images are seen in full and are not cropped in an odd way.

2) Ok. Fair enough. I hope that you’ll end up choosing to go ahead with the update and that it’s not a lot of work – but of course, I completely understand if not… And thanks for the temporary fix. I’ll look into that now.

3) Great. I’ve also updated it on my end and it seems to be working fine :-)

Have a good weekend and thanks again!

Best,

Jonas

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PS. The link to the example in point 2 (http://lilykamper.com/), was ment to be: http://lilykamper.com/shop-home/

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Oh, forgot that this feature doesn’t actually exist anymore in the theme! (which I think is a good idea by the way!) – my client just really wanted it back, and so I added it manually. Anyway, I hope this scaling method might be useful to other layout types such as the left-aligned menu, which I believe still resizes on scroll(?)… :-)

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Andrii to the rescue – thanks! Worked like a charm!

Have a good weekend.

Cheers,

Jonas

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Hi Andrii,

Thanks so much for your help!

I’ve replaced the files in theme with the ones you sent, but unfortunately it didn’t seem to work :-( I also made sure to purge caches etc. as I thought that maybe it could have to do with that, but I discovered that the ‘clear: both;’ tag is now applied to at least ‘.woocommerce ul.products’ and ‘.woocommerce-page ul.products’, using the Inspect tool of Chrome – which I would think suggest that the new CSS is now in effect(?). See for yourself here: http://lilykamper.com/new-in/

Any ideas why this fix didn’t work?

Thanks again and sorry to be a pain.

Best,

Jonas

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Thanks Andrii!

I’ve sent you an email with login details and more info.

Will post here if there’s anything I work myself re the issues mentioned, in case anybody else should be interested.

Thanks,

Jonas

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Hi Andrii,

Thanks for your response and sorry about the long list I added – hope it’s okay.

1. Cool! I’m glad it was useful.

2. Looks great! Looking forward to version 1.3.

3. Ok. Hope you will, although I personally don’t need this feature atm. Might be useful for others though.

4. I understand, and if point 5 is something you might add to a future update, the need for different fitting styles becomes less relevant as you can easily crop thumbnails.

5. This would be great!

7. I’ve used the Post Grid method with success, however I was hoping that perhaps a future update of the theme would also have overlays on the single images, posts sliders, galleries and the widgetised sidebar (the thumbnails) of the Visual Composer plugin. Although I am aware that it might not be a very easy plugin to work with, from a developer’s perspective, and so I completely understand if this isn’t something you are planning to do – but it would be quite nice if so.

8. I completely understand, and there are more important features to potentially work on anyway.

10. E.g. if you add the Tokai Helmet (https://satoristudio.net/shogun/product/tokaido-helmet/) to your cart, then it pops up just above the image of the item.

11. Thanks for this! I’ve made changes to the code in order to hide the logo manually (thanks for your help with this earlier on). So does this mean that in the newest version of the theme the logo will hide on scroll if the site is using the centered layout, or is it something you’re considering for the next update?

13. Aha! That makes sense re the ‘back to portfolio’ button. No worries and thanks for the explanation. An option to manually add the parent page/portfolio/blog would be cool – but it would only be a ‘nice to have’ feature… Re the example you send of the previous/next feature, how do you activate this? Is it only applicable to projects and not blog posts?

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One last thing. I am trying to make the site load a bit quicker – it’s a bit too slow at the moment for what’s acceptable for my client – and so if I want to make it not call all scripts (i.e. the retina.js script as it conflicts with WP Retina 2x, and the jquery.nicescroll.js script as I don’t use it at all), do I then simply delete these lines from functions.php file?:

94. wp_register_script(‘retina’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/scripts/retina/retina.js’, array(‘jquery’), false, true);

105. wp_enqueue_script(‘retina’);

[and the same for jquery.nicescroll.js]

NB. I am also installing W3 Total Cache in the hope that this will also help it load faster. Considering MaxCDN too…

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Anyway, thanks for your help!

Best,

Jonas

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Hi again, again :-)

Just wanted to follow up on point 6 (‘Logo loads twice and seems a bit bulky’), and say that I’ve now found a solution to this problem.

After having struggled for a while trying out different settings combinations, I finally found out that it was simply the inbuilt retina.js javascript of the theme that made WP Retina 2x not able to work properly; it would not default back to a low-res version if an @2x version wasn’t available and switching method to ‘Picturefill’ wasn’t possible as the retina.js script was in the way. I simply deleted this script and WP Retina 2x is now working fine. For anyone interested in doing the same (switching to the Picturefill method), please note that you’ll have to define the size of your logo. I did it like this:

#logo img {
width: 300px;
height: auto;
max-width: 90% !important; (to make the logo always fit on mobile screens)
}

.fixed-header #logo img {
width: 150px;
height: auto;
max-width: inherit !important;
}

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Also, in regards to point 9 (‘WooCommerce seems to overwrite page styles’), then I found a solution in simply making a 301 (permanent) redirect of the shop page to a new page which WooCommerce doesn’t overwrite (in my case: /home-shop/). Here are the instructions if that’s something you want to do yourself: http://www.woothemes.com/2013/11/htaccess-url-redirects/

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Hope that’s helpful.

Best,

Jonas

An updated list of wishes/things that I am working on:

2. Add breakpoints to masonry tiles (+ more)
3. Add custom margin option for masonry tiles
4. Add option to choose fitting style for masonry tiles
5. Add thumbnails option to masonry tiles
7. Add overlay on Visual Composer elements
8. Titles on masonry tiles
10. Added to cart message
11. Make it possible to hide logo completely / make minimisation of header happen earlier
13. Previous/Next project/blog post

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