[gingerleigh]

I’m having the opposite problem at http://www.gleigh.com/amazing – I have the page set with no sidebars, but my content is squashing down to about a quarter of the content area.  In Preview, however the content spreads 100% of the content area.  Once published, nope.

Can you please help?

Thanks!

[definitio]

Didn’t seem likely really but I thought I’d ask…

The indentation is a great feature, particularly for long text; distinguishing the paragraphs makes reading easier.

Thank you

[Zed]

Not quite.

Wordpress’ rich editor usually encapsulates <img> tags inside <p> tags (which have the indentation applied to them)

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[Peter]

I think this stopped working when I updated to the new version.

 

None of the news posts I add now show an image when you look at news categories, the images appear ok on the actual posts.

Thanks.

[Paul]

Ok I gave it a go, I copied the column4 code pasted it after column 4 and changed all the 4’s to 5’s,

I then saved the new php file and renamed the old one.old

I get the following error,

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDIF in /home/elitelea/public_html/main/wp-content/themes/mantra/includes/theme-frontpage.php on line 291

[Peter]

None of them do!

They are all identical.

The featured Images is left blank for all of my posts.

[Ben Linders]

Thanks Zed, appreciate that you are looking into this!

[Zed]

Do all 4 have featured images set or just the first two?

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[kate]

Zed, thanks so much for your extremely helpful reply – I’ve  successfully got rid of the WordPress search box by following your instructions.

I’ve just had your emails – via a site on Hostgator. So…..they have delivered them – eventually!

I had no idea I had a stray dash until you pointed it out. I’ve taken your welcome advice and followed instructions to get rid of it. But it’s still there. Have cleaned browser cache etc but it’s showing up in a variety of browsers. Anything else I could try?

Thanks again,

Kate.

P.S. Happy to buy you amazing folks a coffee anytime – just wasn’t sure when you wanted one!

 

 

[Peter]

Hi Zed,

Thanks for your reply.

No, those images are correct as I want them.

http://www.peteralvey.com/category/portrait-photography/

and

http://www.peteralvey.com/category/stock-photography/

Are also correct,

BUT

http://www.peteralvey.com/category/industrial-and-commercial/

and

http://www.peteralvey.com/category/facebook/

Do not display the images when viewed as news categories?

Why do some display the images but others don’t?

Thank you.

Peter.

[Zed]

Hopefully you’ve received the replies I wrote today, but if not, I’m copying them here as well (as there’s no private information in them):

The search bar question:

That is the default WordPress “search page”. As you can see even in their demo, http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/?s=search&submit=Search the big search bar in the middle of the page is right there.

If you don’t like that, you can remove the form from inside mantra/search.php.
Just delete or comment out get_search_form();

Just remember a child theme would be better to implement your customizations as you will not lose them in updates.

And the other question(s):

I see no pending outgoing emails so our emails must be blocked by your email server. Your server doesn’t like our host/ip 🙁

And no, you don’t have to donate each time you have a question to ask. Just use the same transaction id, or reference your previous ticket number (so we can find that easily), or just write that you previously donated but don’t remember any numbers (and we’ll do the searching instead) 🙂

PS: I recommend reading question C11 in the FAQs on how to properly hide the site title without leaving a stray dash in the browser title…

http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/mantra/mantra-faqs

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[Zed]

You can display any number between 0 and 4 columns – see “Number of columns:” in the Presentation page settings for that.

Read more is defined right below that, in the “Read more text:” field.

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[Zed]

If you want to do more than the “default”, you’ll have to learn CSS… and HTML too 🙂

W3C has information for anything concerning HTML and CSS – see thead and class.

And yes, I mean the custom CSS field under Miscellaneous in Mantra Settings, the place where you can type in all your custom CSS so you don’t have to change any theme files.

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[Zed]

If the image URLs are correct, the slider not working is usually caused by a javascript error.

Follow the checklist to rule out an incompatibility between extensions.

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[Zed]

You can only type filtered HTML into the presentation page fields. Shortcodes don’t work (yet).

There’s no other way of doing this (currently) than to modify the theme-frontpage.php file and hard-code HTML or shortcodes.

 

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[Zed]

I assume you mean the two images you see for each post on this page: http://www.peteralvey.com/category/boudoir-photography/

Disable “Auto Select Images From Posts” from “Featured Image Settings” in Manta Settings.

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[Zed]

Yes, IE 8 is the lowest we go.

IE 8 in compatibility mode is in fact IE 7, and IE 7 is insane to create websites for… I can’t even debug a simple CSS on it…

Nonetheless, I think I know what is causing this and I’ll try to find a workaround (which doesn’t break the website for all other browsers).

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[David Lewis]

Hi

Great theme, lots of customisation.  However, I have a small problem.  I’m using a subdomain http://www.s316771102.websitehome.co.uk/ to develop a new site on 1&1 running PHP5.4.  It’s a new WP install (30 Jan 2013), so latest WP and Mantra.  My issue is that the presentation page slider steadfastly refuses to display the 5th (i.e. last  listed) image.  I have varied the listing order of my images (all in the slider folder) to ensure the problem is not image related (e.g. size) and whichever is listed last, that’s the one it won’t display.  I have disabled all my plugins so I don’t think there is a conflict there.  Same result in IE, Chrome, Firefox.  Almost looks like it can only count to 4… Hope you can help

Thanks for your assistance

David

[Colin]

Note that I tried what Zed suggested and the links work fine to display the images in the browser including other browsers without logging in.

 

[Ben Linders]

Reading this I understand that IE 7, and IE 8 in compatibility mode, are not supported.

[Ben Linders]

Link to website is http://www.benlinders.com

The problem appears when I use IE 8 with compatibility mode in windows XP. If I understand you correctly, that would make IE8 work like it is IE7, right?

[Kay]

Hi!

Could you each show us link to your site so we can investigate this further?

Also, Ben, the compatibility mode for IE8 is not enabled by default and when it is on, it’s pretty much like IE7 which we don’t support.

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[Zed]

You’re on the right track… but not quite 🙂
Don’t include php files in the CSS. “require…” is a php function, it won’t do anything in a CSS file.

Mantra’s files are not automatically replaced with child theme files if they get detected.
You need to create a functions.php file in your child theme and include your custom child theme files (copy Mantra’s functions.php file and edit it to include your own files). Keep in mind your directory structure.

Also, not all Mantra functions are over-ridable easily with child themes. Some need to be unhooked and their child theme copies hooked in their place.
But at least the front-page function does not need this.

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[Zed]

IE 8 in compatibility mode behaves and identifies itself as IE 7.  And we don’t support IE7… IE 7 was too insane to be supported nowadays.

Compatibility mode shouldn’t be the default… at least it wasn’t on the 3 computers I tested on (but they had OS and browser updates installed, so this might make a difference).

Even IE 8 has its quirks, but most of the theme works and behaves normally in it.

 

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[Luigi]

Hi Kay!

I tested the mouse-over effect by modifying the original files: defaults.php and theme-frontpage.php.

They worked fine.

After that, I made a fresh install of Mantra (so to get back to the original files).

Then, I’ve created a Child Theme and activated it.

The style.css goes like this:

/*
Theme Name:        mantra Child
Theme URI:
Description:        Child theme for the Mantra theme
Author:                 LZ
Author URI:
Template:           mantra
Version:            0.1.0
*/

@import url(“../mantra/style.css”);

.site-title a {
color: #009900;
}

require_once( get_stylesheet_directory(). ‘/defaults.php’ );
require_once( get_stylesheet_directory(). ‘/theme-frontpage.php’ );

The modified files are: defaults.php and theme-frontpage.php.

I now have placed those two modified files in the Child Theme (inside two Child Theme’s directories, ‘admin’ and ‘includes’), but it seems they’re doing  just nothing…

Since it’s the first time I use a Child Theme, can you help me in getting it to work?

Thanks…

Regards

Luigi

[Zed]

Andrei, there’s no way for us to guess what plugin is causing the issue. Follow the steps here to debug.

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[Maaike]

This is a wonderfull theme. Thank you very much for creating it!

I would love to display my 5 recent blog posts under the 4 columns in the presentation page you have provided.

I tried to put some shortcode in textfield 3 and 4 but these fields don’t support shortcode.

Could you please provide me with the correct html/css code to get these recent blog posts into the front page?

It would be very much appreciated! Thanks in advance,

 

Maaike

[Kay]

Hi Luigi!

Congrats on your site. Looks great.

1. Editing the php file is the only way to achieve that at the moment. Done properly you wouldn’t have to change the code every time you change a photo if you’d keep the same photo names. But it would involve a little bit of work since the whole thing is in a ‘for’ loop.

2. That flashy effect is from the theme. If you want to remove that go to the same /includes/theme-frontpage.php file and remove this part:

jQuery('#front-columns > div img').hover( function() {
jQuery(this)
.stop()
.animate({opacity: 0.5}, 100)
.fadeOut(100)
.fadeIn(100)
.animate({opacity: 1}, 100) ;
}, function() {jQuery(this).stop();} )

Good luck!

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[Javi]

Thanks for your answer, but i can’t found the place. When i go to mantra settings in the dashboard, and i select graphics settings, i can type more codes in the text field, but not see what are inside, i can’t edit there.

 

I’m trying to found the php file where are this codes but i don’t have lucky.

So… i’ve tried to found the line of codes in footer.php and several more files but nothing for now.

If anyone can help to solve this problem, i would be really grateful.

 

Thanks again.

[Kay]

Hi!

Nope, you don’t need to change any files. In the Mantra Settings page >> Miscellaneous Settings you have a field called ‘Custom CSS’. Paste the above code there and save the settings.

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