This is Justin, I'm Tonya's Web Designer, and have built out her's and many other sites on Salient.
Really see your theme as being the best in the Envato Market and have recommended it to countless peers.
We have come to an adminUX conflict with the portfolio masonry item sizing settings. This really is a pretty important area to fix to have an even better theme.
As your user guide explains, Tonya would need to persistently produce, upload and set a new featured image for all of her portfolio items in order maintain an aesthetically consistent design with masonry.
Tonya is a busy professional, and has an ever growing portfolio that will be updated weekly.
While we respect how you built this feature, it is functionally broken pursuant with the best practices in adminUX capabilities with modern innovative themes like yours.
Please imagine this scenario:
Tonya has 20 portfolio items properly set with the masonry settings, and she needs to several more. She will need to adjust the item sizing settings of the 20 previous posts, and upload new featured images so as to not display distorted.
As you can relate, this is a poor adminUX and not reasonable for Tonya to experience.
The functionality to automatically scale the image to fit the content window already exists in WP and would vastly improve Salient's portfolio item sizing settings if integrated.
Our ask:
1) Provide the custom coding to fix the issue so that Tonya can set a featured image of any size, and the item sizing settings will properly resize the image to fit without any distortions when she needs to change it, and / or,
2) Release a critical update with the functionality corrected so that an admin can set a featured image of any size, and the item sizing settings will properly resize the image to fit without any distortions.
This is a fair request, that will help you create a better product.
Trust that this request will be handled with the highest respect and professionalism.
Hey Support!
Hope you are all having an awesome day.
This is Justin, I'm Tonya's Web Designer, and have built out her's and many other sites on Salient.
Really see your theme as being the best in the Envato Market and have recommended it to countless peers.
We have come to an adminUX conflict with the portfolio masonry item sizing settings. This really is a pretty important area to fix to have an even better theme.
As your user guide explains, Tonya would need to persistently produce, upload and set a new featured image for all of her portfolio items in order maintain an aesthetically consistent design with masonry.
Tonya is a busy professional, and has an ever growing portfolio that will be updated weekly.
While we respect how you built this feature, it is functionally broken pursuant with the best practices in adminUX capabilities with modern innovative themes like yours.
Please imagine this scenario:
Tonya has 20 portfolio items properly set with the masonry settings, and she needs to several more. She will need to adjust the item sizing settings of the 20 previous posts, and upload new featured images so as to not display distorted.
As you can relate, this is a poor adminUX and not reasonable for Tonya to experience.
The functionality to automatically scale the image to fit the content window already exists in WP and would vastly improve Salient's portfolio item sizing settings if integrated.
Our ask:
1) Provide the custom coding to fix the issue so that Tonya can set a featured image of any size, and the item sizing settings will properly resize the image to fit without any distortions when she needs to change it, and / or,
2) Release a critical update with the functionality corrected so that an admin can set a featured image of any size, and the item sizing settings will properly resize the image to fit without any distortions.
This is a fair request, that will help you create a better product.
Trust that this request will be handled with the highest respect and professionalism.
Thank you,
Justin Law / [email protected]