[Hannah]

Hi Diane,

I am not a Mantra expert but here are some hints that might help get you started while you wait for responses from Cryout:

– to change the header font, you need to go into the Mantra Settings->Text Settings->General font: change the font family to something more exciting. If that doesn’t change the header font, you will need to go into the .css stylesheet and look around for the header entry and change the “font-family:” parameter. OR better yet add Custom CSS into the box found at Mantra Settings-> Miscellaneous Settings-> Custom CSS . If you do that, it will be saved when you ever go to update Mantra. Google “Change Mantra header font family” for more specific coding help.

– get rid of the double column, so that your slider is above one or multiple columns of text boxes and there is no empty frame above the first column: try the Mantra Settings -> Layout Settings -> Main Layout: One column, no sidebar
then: the picture can be used as the single custom slide in the slider, and the columns below the slider can be used to display the text boxes. If you want to post new posts on Presentation page, I think you can do that too, but I don’t know how.

– I don’t see any white space in the slider…is your slider just the picture of you? Looks fine, albeit horizontally stretched.

Good luck!
Hannah

[Andy]

I have found in /wp-content/themes/mantra/admin/main.php there is a section there to load the latest news on the mantra settings page. This was causing the page load on /wp-admin/themes.php?page=mantra-page to slow down or time out. Because the access to the http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/cat/mantra/feed was slow or blocked from within China. While I realise this fix is probably not the issue for most users I found simply removing the whole div dramatically improved the speed load. Lines 327 to 351, as below.

327 <div class=”postbox news” >
xxx
351 </div><!– news –>

It may be worth a try to see if this helps the jquery load faster.

Andy

[Andy]

I have inspected the core files and found the code under mantra/admin:
main.php line 220

add_settings_field(‘mantra_socials5’, __(‘Link nr. 5′,’mantra’) , ‘cryout_setting_socials5_fn’, __FILE__, ‘socials_section’);
add_settings_field(‘mantra_socials6’, __(‘Link nr. 6′,’mantra’) , ‘cryout_setting_socials6_fn’, __FILE__, ‘socials_section’);
add_settings_field(‘mantra_socials7’, __(‘Link nr. 7′,’mantra’) , ‘cryout_setting_socials7_fn’, __FILE__, ‘socials_section’);
add_settings_field(‘mantra_socialshow’, __(‘Socials display’,’mantra’) , ‘cryout_setting_socialsdisplay_fn’, __FILE__, ‘socials_section’);

settings.php line 1990

// TEXTBOX – Name: ma_options[social5]
function cryout_setting_socials5_fn() {
cryout_setting_social_master(9);
}
// TEXTBOX – Name: ma_options[social6]
function cryout_setting_socials6_fn() {
cryout_setting_social_master(11);
}
// TEXTBOX – Name: ma_options[social7]
function cryout_setting_socials7_fn() {
cryout_setting_social_master(13);

That all works in the settings, but where do I change the actual page (presentation page, sidebar, page, etc so the extra icons show up live?

Thanks,
Andy

[Brian Siano]

Jim: thanks, but I found those, tried changing the values, and nothing happened.

[Andy]

In reply to my post 24 hours ago, I reinstalled wordpress 3.7.1 and reinstalled mantra theme, and deleted all plugins. Still the menu wouldn’t load and the pink warning remained.

I think I have now found out a possible error. The page timed out loading the ‘Import/Export Settings’ and ‘Mantra Latest News’ sidebar boxes. Because of this the page didn’t fully load but stopped ‘spinning’. I am not sure why this sidebar is needed or why it wouldn’t load on this particular page, more importantly why my server timed out loading it. Anyway, today those sidebar bits loaded ok after about 20-30 seconds and then the pink warning disappeared and the menu toggles work.

What is the process to load the import/export? Is it looking at my settings or importing something from an external website? Perhaps that website is blocked in China (where I am)?

So, that may be an issue to look into?

[DEH]

Hi, I am a newbie here and this is my first attempt at building a website. The Mantra theme has made it very easy. I’ve exported my THEMES OPTIONS however I’ve been trying to figure out how to back up my database files and have only found “what to do” answers… but not “HOW to do”. For instance the above comment says to achieve it via “the hosting control panel”. Hope you can help because I have no idea what you’re talking about or “how” to do that…. told you, I’m a newbie!!! LOL

[Zed]

I see them inside the header right now.
I assume you found the mantra_title_and_description() function in theme-functions.php?

Make sure you make your customizations using a child theme so you don’t lose all your work the next time you update Mantra.

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[azlivin008]

I’m having this problem as well. I found an easy fix, but it will get erased on the next Mantra update, so please include it with your update:

in the style-mobile.css file ->
line #78 currently reads: #front-columns .column-image {height:auto;}
I removed the “height:auto” and replaced it with “width:100%”

The images now look fine on my mobile device.

[Hypohamish]

Clearly I didn’t look hard enough. Found it!

[Don]

Still no reply after FOUR DAYS? This is really sad. I really wanted to use this theme and I really wanted to pay you all some money for support on it. I read some reviews and even found a review from someone who said they paid for support from you and that they never heard back from you regarding their issue. I think this says a lot. I will be posting my review of the support from this Theme Company everywhere I can. If you can’t make a theme and support it accordingly, DON’T MAKE IT.

[Erock]

I found that if I put the images in /parabola/images/slider folder, they stay sharp.

[jim]

Hi Muneeb

I’ve had a play around with this, and found the following.

I set up a separate page using the Blog template and disable posts from the presentation page.

Created some test posts with Featured images and actual images.
Set the Post Excerpt Settings to Excerpt (rather than full post)
Enabled Featured Image Setting as post thumbnails
Under Featured image setting set the thumbnail sizing
Set alignment for feature image thumbs.

That resulted in all the posts being shown with thumbnails of the feature image (where set).

I hope this helps a little..

Jim…

[Jim King]

Hi Zed

Yep that’s fine I have made the necessary changes and put them into the custom CSS area. Was purely a suggestion for a potential future release, if it wasn’t too difficult to build in, as others may have found it of use to have in standard settings.

Thanks

Jim..

[Mag]

I found one that I can live with. If you set the default background to be what you want on the presentation page, you can choose other backgrounds on each individual page. This seems tedious but it allows for the pages to have a sold color, tiled or not, fixed or not.

It’s called Custom Background Extended

Seems to be compatible with parabola…so far

[MrAwesome]

Only solution I found was moving the “custom text 4” field to the bottom of the page and put a text linking the page with the “blog template”. Just edit the /parabola/frontpage.php file and put this line at the very bottom (and remove the original).

if($parabola_fronttext4) {?><div id=”front-text3″>

<?php echo do_shortcode($parabola_fronttext4) ?>

</div><?php }

Then you can edit text from the admin settings

Regards,
MrAwesome

PS: I know, child themes should be used 😛

[Jim King]

Hi Zed

I think I found a fix for this by modifying the wp-includes>comments-template.php file. (I renamed and saved the existing file) then I edited the file and did a find “Leave a reply” and replaced with “Please leave a comment” (4 instances) and re-saved. This seemed to work for now, but I assume a WordPress update may overwrite this in the future? Is that the reason behind suggesting doing it as a child theme?

Thanks

Jim..

[Lizzie Poole]

I had this problem too but then found my old sample page under All Pages > Trash. I restored the page and renamed it “Welcome”. x

[Jul]

Hello,
I have the same problem and don’t know how to fix this (since I’m pretty new to all the CSS stuff). So if you have found your solution “with some custom CSS” I would be very glad if you could share it here – maybe I can learn!
Thank you in advance 🙂

[Johnathan]

I have this same issue and it just occurred if you visit the site, look at http://www.itsallaboutmusic.net/advertise-with-us/ The air play for bands tab and you cant see any comments unless you click the, # comments if the post has comments then they show up. Did WordPress Change something or is this a theme issue? I searched WP and found nothing.

Appreciate any feedback.

Johnathan

[Deby]

Ah – I’ve found it. I unchecked the main page option and that made them disappear from the excerpts. Thanks

[robbierut]

I found it! Correct code is: #acces a

So yeah, this is resolved 🙂

[robbierut]

mobile view isn’t found under that name, but under responsive 😉 can be found at the layout settings 🙂

[Julie]

Sorry, I think I misunderstood your naming conventions – you are meaning the sidebar is counting as one column and the content area is counting as one column = two columns. It’s not two columns in the content area WITH a sidebar.

Found a shortcode plug-in that works great.

Great theme!! Thanks for the response.

[Jenny]

I want to disable the slider on the presentation page, as I’m not needing it at all, but there’s badly no option for it 🙁 I’m using a child theme and all I found was (when I tried to find the right file for customizing, a function called

if ($mantra_frontpage=="Enable" && is_front_page() ) {
mantra_frontpage_generator();
} 

but haven’t found the code of the function right now ;(

How can I do that?

[william]

Hi I like your Theme Thank you but can’t seem to get the comments to work also, every time i click were it say add comment it goes to a (page not found). how can i get the comments to work on my blog page (Thoughts Of The Day). Thank You!

[Łukasz]

Hi,

so i have the same problem. I’ve been writing on the main forum page about this, then i’ve found this “bug reporting” which seems to be more proper place to write this.

Just as Dave, i have the problem with presentation page slider not showing my posts.
I’ve trying to find info everywhere, and as for the moment haven’t found the answer.

I love Your theme but really don’t know what to do with these issue, so please look on my page and help if You can.

Cheers,
Luke

[Zed]

Hi Mag. Sorry about all the spamming, some messages to make it past the filters.

The presentation page areas enable/disable issue you’re reporting is fixed in 0.9.7(.1/.2).

I also found that the top menu background colour on hover didn’t work, and that is fixed as well, but the top menu text and text hover colour options worked and still work fine.

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[David Spake]

Just did more exploring – the auto generated menu import from standard WP doesn’t appear to link. But rebuilt using the Mantra Menu tool and found it to be more flexible and able to incorporate more items in my site as menu options.

[Pantelis]

ok i think i found it and it works as it appears at least (i hope i didn’t mess anything, please verify if you’d like)
what i did is:
went to editor, at theme-frontpage.php
and searched “specific”, found “case ‘Specific Posts’ :”

and there on the line that says:
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" alt="" title="#caption<?php echo $i;?>" /></a>

i did it:

<img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" alt="" />

is it ok for the two things i wanted? or should i change anything else somewhere else also?
thanks again for your feedback. all the best!

[Olrik]

OK, I found the “post excerpts settings” option. But the problem is now that the articles are cut after à precise number of words (50) whereas all my articles are cut at the end of a sentence with the “more text” option of the wordpress post editor. Moreover, each article begins with a picture which diseappears now.
To have an idea, here is a link of my photography category :
http://bullesdejapon.fr/category/photographie/
Yes, I know, it’s not Parabola. In fact I’m making test with Theme Test Drive before changing the theme. It’s just to give an exemple of what I mean and what I would like to see in this Posts page.