Mantra 2.0 is almost here! In a few days you’ll be able to get your hands on a fresh copy of your favorite WordPress theme. What do you mean which one? Mantra, of course.
The first thing you’ll notice is the slightly improved Mantra Settings page. You’re welcome. Then you’ll probably notice a new option set: Header Settings. That gives enhanced control over everything inside your header. You can now also upload a logo and the whole header is finally fully responsive. Go check it out.
Of course this little change may cause your child theme (in case you’ve altered the header in any way) to freak out. If that happens, you need to update your child theme to use the new code.
Apart from this, we’ve fixed a few bugs, some JavaScript and some responsive issues. Plugin compatibility has also been increased. But enough general data. Here’s the changelog:
- New and improved Mantra Settings page
- Moved several settings around for better grouping
- The new Header options set: Header Height, Site Header selector (Site Title / Logo / Link / None), Custom Logo uploader, Header Top Spacing and Rounded Corners for Menu Items.
- (finally) Fixed header responsiveness
- Sanitize function is made pluggable
- Hopefully fixed some array merging which sometimes lost the Mantra options
- Improved jQuery plugins compatibility
- Improved mobile view
- Fixed social mail link
- Fixed columns shortcodes
- Fixed HTML layout on the ‘Category page with intro’ template
- Undefined amount of small bug fixes
Mantra 2.0 has been submitted to the WordPress themes directory and should become available in a couple of days.
Anyone can help please! I am not able to access mantra settings anymore! here is what shows up in the settings http://weetutor.com/?p=151
Hi, is it possible to change the rounded corners of the sidebar background title areas? If so, how? I know in the settings you can disable the rounded corners in the top nav, but I don’t see anywhere in settings or in css for this.
is it possible to edit (footer.php) theme mantra?
Installed Mantra 2.0.1 but I am unable to change the settings.On clicking any of the settings section(like header setting, color setting) nothing happens.
Also I have deleted the home page but still it appears in my menu.Please suggest.
Have exactly the same. Tried many browsers and nothing. I remember that older v. worked fine.
Any solution ??
This is caused by JavaScript errors in your WordPress dashboard. See question D4 in the FAQs.
My header image is not showing up at the correct size now with my child theme. What code am I needing to add from the update to make it size correctly and where exactly do I need to add that code? I switched it over to the Mantra parent theme and it is sized correctly so there is something I am missing for the child theme.
It really depends on the code you copied/changed in the child theme. You need to compare your child theme with the 2.0.x version to spot all the changes, then migrate all these changes to your child theme (if necessary).
I just uploaded the new header and it’s very wide. I love the functionality but I liked the narrowness of the old version. I tried setting the header height and top spacing to 0 pixels but it didn’t do anything. Is there anything else I can do. On my site the maroon area in the header is what I’m talking about http://www.mymarketingcafe.com. Also, no header appears when I use Internet Explorer to view my site. It’s fine on chrome but not on IE. Is something happening there? Thanks for the help!
Just to clarify, I meant tall, not wide, as in height of the maroon area. Thanks!
Please advise where the option to make the header clickable to home has moved to. I can’t seem to find it and the function no-longer works. Thanks in advance.
You’ll find it under “Header Settings” as “Site Header”.
Header no longer resizes with screen resolution correctly. Also moves it off to the right a bit too much, right edge is now clipped off. It was awesome before… looking forward to fixes, going back to default wordpress header for now though, no time to remake graphics. :S
Can you provide the URL of your website?
I am having the same issue. Did you figure out a way to fix it?
Please, mantra 2.0 ruin my website. It don’t work. How I do to fix it?
We’ll need more info that that…
I love th Mantra theme 1.9.9.6. However, In creating a new site I downloaded the the new 2.o version. I cannot get the layout functions to work. I deleted and reinstalled, but this wasw no help. Any suggestions anyone.
Great work, this template has proved to be a godsend. Shame about the icons at the top right of the header disappearing, but if this is going to be fixed on version 2.0.1 it should correspond with my site launch!
Great job people….significant improvement over the previous version…theme settings are so much cleaner and easier to work with
Despite checking and rechecking the settings, I have now lost the ability to keep my social media icons in the clickable header image. They just won’t show up there anymore, but they will display in all of the three other possible locations. But I need them back in the clickable header as they were before. This was one of the nice features of this theme.
This is still an option, it’s just a buggy option for the moment 🙂
Will be fixed in v2.0.1
Thanks Zed.
Referring to my previous comment…I fixed it by increasing the size of the Header Height to 150px and then adjusting the Top Margins for the Site Title and Site Description. If there is a better way I’d like to know.
Thanks again fro a great theme!!
Just updated to 2.0, great improvement in the Header Settings, well done guys!! One thing, I can’t see my site description/tag line any more! Updated the style.css but still not back. Any ideas?
Great! Mantra is an awesome theme! Love you guys.
Had a problem with the recent update to 2.0. You can no longer go to the home page on my uploaded logo header and there’s a section of “gray area” underneath my custom logo. Any idea on what I can do to fix this bug?
It seems you’ve found the new header options incorporating/replacing the old header options 🙂
Do you still have issues?
I am completely new to word press and mantra, which is the theme I chose for my website. I can just imagine how much better it will be! Thank you.
Great!
In the german translation I forgot to translate the string “Search” to “Suchen” – please include that in the next update. 🙂
Done.
also endorse this. Ability to add banner or search would be awesome
Can’t wait!
Thank you so much!!!! We are so excited! We need to buy you a whole pot of coffee for everything you have helped us do with our website! You ROCK!!!
Cool… looking forward to see the next version .. and ya ..will surely buy you a coffee with the release of Mantra 2.0. You guys are doing awesome work.
Hello Cryout Creations! You are the bomb-diggity!! 😀
I hope one of the improvements is a page for which to assign blog posts when using the presentation page – which I love, by the way. I ended up devising a new, post-wide category and setting that in the main menu, but it’s messy; it’s clear it’s a category, and not an actual page for the posts to sit on.
Can’t wait for the update! Thanks for all you do! 🙂
I’d love to see an option to add the “Updated Date” of a post next to the published date, just so people can see if an article has recently been updated from the last time it was published 😉
I second that request for an “Updated Date.” Great idea, I have some posts that I update and in order for others to notice it, I have to change publication date.
great news!
Awesome! Just one thing I’d love to see, is an option to add a banner in the header. That would be really cool.
+1 on this request, an option to split header would be perfect (for banner, search etc.), too much space is wasted at the right corner…
Yes please – I would like a way to include an advertising banner in my header area.