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That issue should actually manifest itself on IE8, not Firefox.

I use Firefox and I see you’ve set black as the header background colour.

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Are you using any caching plugin or service?

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Elizabeth, if you’re by any chance using the ‘Category Page with intro’ page template, that one doesn’t display comments.  Pages, categories and posts are 3 separate things (using 3 separate templates, as far as the theme is concerned). I’m not sure from your statement what works and what doesn’t.

Joe: The reCaptcha only uses one word for checking. The other word is actually our contribution to Google’s books digitizing effort.

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#primary .widget-container.widget_sp_image, #primary .jetpack-image-container { text-align: center; }
#primary .jetpack-image-container .wp-caption { width: 100% !important;}

This only applies to the first sidebar. If you’ll ever use two sidebars, you’ll need to duplicate this for #secondary.

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The header responsiveness should improve in the upcoming 1.9.9.7 update.

The slider is the backbone of the presentation page, so I don’t think there will ever be an option to hide it.

But you can easily hide it using custom CSS: .slider-wrapper { display: none; } or by editing the theme-frontpage.php file (preferably in a child theme) and comment out / delete the slider code.

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Mantra was not designed with dark backgrounds in mind, so there are still some hiccups to be sorted out.

Could you give me a link with a page that features a troublesome pullquote? As I couldn’t find any on your site so far…

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Hi.

Header scaling is on the list of things improved in the upcoming 1.9.9.7 (which should become available in a couple of days).

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This is improved in the upcoming 1.9.9.7 (which should get approved any day now)

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Notices are not harmful (after all, they’re just notices – in this case it could be caused by using some variables that have no values set). Production servers should not display notices (your server seems to be configured as a development environments). Then you get a warning caused by the fact that those notices get displayed before all other output.

I’m not sure what “Bullit Proof Security” does, but if it’s the one enabling all the debug reporting, then you should turn that off (notices that is) for the time being.

Thanks for pointing this out, we’ll investigate to see if this is indeed an issue with the theme (we develop the theme on production servers with all debugging turned on and I did not see these messages so far). If it is indeed a theme issue, we’ll fix it by the next update. But for now it is not something critical.

 

 

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Did you try disabling installed plugins to make sure it is not a jQuery/script incompatibility?

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There are some typos in there. For example, there are two : after background-image instead of one. Should be:

background-image:url("http://wordpressoddballexotics.xlconsultinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Williams-logo6.png");

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I think there’s a typo there – the !important goes before the ;

.column-image { border: 3px solid #000 !important; }

As a general rule, when CSS fails, add !important 🙂

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If you’d have the site running on a public domain, I could easily use Firebug’s “Net” functionality to determine which css files fail to load (and why).

But since you are developing this on localhost, you’ll have to inspect this yourself.

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You should do the opposite of this to make the comment form show up.

The “Leave a comment” doesn’t refresh the page, it actually moves you from http://www.oaklandjoe.com/blog/ (the blog page with only 1 post URL) to http://www.oaklandjoe.com/next-post-this-is-a-test/#respond (the post’s URL). And it should also scroll down to the comment form – if it were visible.

I assume you disabled comments on pages for fear of spam. Keep in mind that comments written while you’re logged in are not treated the same as comments written by visitors that are not logged in. Did you submit a comment while not being logged in?

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I fail to understand your issue.

What exactly doesn’t work about menus? Could you provide a screenshot (with the menu configuration and the menu not working)?

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The front page columns will always take up equal percentages of the total site width so that they occupy the whole space.

Using 4 columns means they will each take up 25%, 3 columns – each 33%, 2 columns – each 50% and one column will take up the entire width.

If you force a particular width on them, the columns will no longer appear centred on page as free space will remain on the right side.

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There’s a “Custom Footer Text” field under Mantra Settings > Graphics Options (I know, not the most intuitive place to put it) and the theme also support a footer menu so you can add any links you wish extra to the footer text.

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You can do this with code changes (quite a bit of work); or you can do this the “workaround way” by using a header image that is transparent in the top area, then move the site title and description over that transparent area using CSS so it no longer appears over the image.

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You shouldn’t even be able to enable that child theme and should be getting a “Broken theme” warning in WordPress instead.

Change

Template: Mantra

to

Template: mantra

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You can set any number of slides you want if you use post-generated slides.

For custom slides, the number of posts will remain 5 for now  (since we plan on redefining the way the slides are configured in a future version anyway)

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You mean the site title / description?

#site-title span a { font-size: XXpx; }
#site-description { font-size: XXpx; }

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The theme only has one presentation page, which can be set as the homepage of your site.

To create galleries you need plugins, as neither WordPress nor themes include this by default.

 

 

 

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That is not up to the theme.

The content (pages/posts and everything you type in) is controlled, processed and outputted by WordPress.

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I see you eventually got the image to show up.

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I don’t see a menu on your website. Which one is the troublesome page?

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Turn off the image borders in Appearance > Mantra Settings, under Graphics Options.

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Use the built in “Custom Javascript” field in Appearance > Mantra Settings, under Miscellaneous.

Or if circumstances require advanced scripting, edit the theme files (but I highly recommend using a child theme for this).

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Mantra was not created with dark backgrounds in mind, it doesn’t have built-in options for changing absolutely all colours and we never got around to adding such options.

But it CAN be completely customized with custom CSS.  You just need to use a developer tool like Firebug to inspect the content of the website and figure out which areas you need to change colours to.

Or tell us a bit more clearly (with page name and area content/description) what you are trying to change.

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I see the menu is visible now…

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I’ve never encountered the issue.  Perhaps this might help.

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