Mantra FAQs

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B. WordPress Functionality

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1,163 Comments

  1. I am looking to hide the top/menu/nav bar from one page. I’ve been given smatterings of php and CSS but no instruction from end to end. This:

    nav crap

    was what I was given, but it removes the bar from the whole site. How do I ammend this to remove the bar for just one page.

  2. Hi, I am loving the Mantra theme and my ability to customize just about everything.

    Quick question – I’m having a custom header made and know I can have height from 60px on up to 500px.

    What is the absolute (or better yet, preferred) width? Current size of my header image says it’s 1000×240, but it’s cut off by about an inch. (I increased the height to 300).

    Thanks so much and keep up the awesome work.

    Cheers!

  3. Hi

    First time user after recently switching themes. I have two questions;

    1. What is the coding to add my Skype details and getting it to function?
    2. Will you be looking to add the Pinterest button to the Social tab?

    Keep up the great work.

  4. I just started testing this theme out and it looks great! I’m having problems with selecting images for the slider and columns too. I select “upload or select image from gallery”, select “media library”, and I’ve found no way to select an image. The only way I can get it to work is to hard code the image path into the Presentation Slide image field, then the image shows up. My concern is that when I migrate my site to it’s new home when it goes live I’ll have to change all of the paths. Any solutions/ideas?

  5. Hello ! I have just launched my blog thanks to your wonderful theme, but have one question. I am trying to make it so that only the latest post appears on the homepage, without also limiting the post excerpts in the categories to one post as well. (i.e. like what happens if I go to Settings/Reading and change the # of blog posts to “1”). How can I change the theme settings to make that happen ? Or, if I needed to dive into the php files to manually make a change, which file would I need to modify ?

  8. Hi upgraded to 1.8.4 – a few days ago – I love this theme and all it’s options! 🙂 — However, I am using the presentation page and am no longer able to load images into the slides or Columns 🙁 I have tried resetting to defaults; replacing the entire theme — all have not resolved the issue — if anyone else has had this problem – would love to hear how you resolved the issue!!

    1. An option for that colour would be a good idea.
      For now, use the Mantra custom css box and paste into it:
      #footer { color: #123456; }
      replace with the colour code you wish.

  10. I want to report a bug. If you go to widgets menu and drag the searchbox widget in the fourth footer area and go check the front end you will see that the footer has become full width.
    Then if you remove the searchbox you will see that the footer remains at full width with a thin gray line on the top side.

    Thank you very much.
    nikospag.

      1. Thank you for the response and the compliment. Yours is the first theme, that I have experimented with, where I have had this much freedom to customize and I appreciate the time taken to create it. This is thR first time I have come this close to being happy with how my site looks. Also, the background I used may look familiar from one of the opencart themes on this website.

        Keep up the great work!

  12. Will OpenCart run within the Mantra theme?

    Also — if you ask for a support donation — say $25 — and promise priority response to questions, allow the copyright notice to be removed, I bet you’d get a lot of takers.

    The Atahualpa theme people do this, with great success.

    You do good work, thank you.

    1. What does OpenCart have to do with Mantra (or Mantra with OpenCart)?

      We do not currently plan to charge for support as this is provided on a case by case basis. Usually the easier issues are answered first, while more complex issues that require further checking and testing are answered when we finish the extra checking and testing.

      The copyright notice can be removed under one (or more) condition(s) – read the legal section of Mantra FAQs.

  14. Hi, thanks for creating the Mantra theme; I’m really enjoying it! I do have one question, though. I am currently using it as the three columns, left sidebar, right sidebar, middle content. The middle content and the right sidebar seem to be fine, but the left sidebar is alittle off. The problem is with the titles of the widgets; the widget content is fine, just the titles. For some reason, they seem to be right aligned. I know some basic coding and have gone into the CSS to try to get these to show as left-aligned, but nothing seems to change it. It is not possible to do this for some reason? I’m by no means a coding expert, rather a beginner, so maybe I’m not seeing it. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks so much!

    1. Hi! With a background color the right alignment looks good. Without any… like you use it it’s not so bright. Thanks for pointing that out.
      As for fixing your problem, add this code to the Custom CSS area in Mantra :

      #primary .widget-title {
    text-align: left;
    padding-left: 30px;
}

      The padding-left:30px; line is optional. Play with the value to get your desired look.

      2. Hi! The above code did wonders for me.. but is there a way I can create a padding for the widget contents as well? the contents look too close to the edge when you have a left hand column and I would love to know if there is a way to pad the left hand column(which will be left-aligned) and leave the right hand column (centre-aligned) alone.

    1. This is caused by the plugin you use for the “Receive Each Post by Email” feature. It is incorrecly closing bold tags (by actually opening them once more).
      Because of the way Mantra theme is constructed (sidebars being rendered before the main content), any stray tag left unclosed in a sidebar has effects over the whole content.
      If you disable that plugin, fix it (or contact the author to fix it), your bold problems should go away.

  16. I’m trying to remove the top post navigation but it seems to keep showing up even though I removed:

    nav-above

    Do you have it in another file that I can’t seem to find?

    Any help would be great.
    Thanks!

      1. Actually, it’s not the page navigation I am trying to fix which is found on the menu page. I’m trying to remove the post navigation on the top of the post. Right now you will see Older Post and Newer Post on top and the bottom of the post. I’d like to remove the top post navigation. Can you tell me how I can do that?

  19. Hello,

    Thank you for the amazing theme, it has changed everything about our website. I love the way the presentation page looks, but the slider doesn’t seem to be working for me. I’ve loaded the images and enabled, but am not seeing it move. I’ve used both Chrome and IE9 to test.

    http://www.lapcastpodcast.com/

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    1. Yap, we’ve released a slider that…well… doesn’t slide. Not automatically anyway.
      We are updating the slider for the next version – 1.8.4 ( different look, different animations and more options) and with auto sliding enabled.
      However, until then, to enable the sliding you can go to front-page.php , look for this code :

      jQuery("#slider").easySlider({
      auto: false,
      continuous: false,
      numeric: true,
      });

      And change auto: false to… yap, you guessed it auto:true. remember to leave the comma where it is.

      1. Thank you! This small change makes such an amazing difference. Are there any plans in future releases to allow for filters? For example, instead of manually populating the five slides, being able to pull the 5 most recent posts and images associated with them from a certain category/tag/page, etc?

        1. Actually there are such plans. And it will be done pretty soon. For the next version though we are redesigning the slider altogether. Giving you more choices and creative freedom.

    1. There’s no option for that yet but you can paste something like this in the “Custom CSS” field in the Mantra Settings page :

      #site-title {
      font-size:30px;
      }

      #site-description{
      font-size:20px;
      }

      Play with the numbers a bit to get your desired look.
      Good luck!

      1. I need the same but for “presentation page”. Need to change the font type, colour and size. Is there an option to set it at the custom CSS?

        Thanks

  21. This theme is great, thank you for taking the time to develop it.

    I am working on a site for my place of business and have run into a bit of an issue. For some reason the content on my individual static pages all start in the middle of the page (vertically). This does not happen with my main (blog) page. This leads me to believe that there is an issue with the styling of the pages themselves. Unfortunately I cannot provide a link to show this to you as it is not on a live server at this time.

    Any suggestions you can provide would be great help in this. Thank you so much for your consideration.

      1. I like a lot your theme .playing around with it i still have question .i i do #access { display: right ; } then it does not show up the main manu on the right but on the left .how can i force it to show up on the right???

    3. Hello Jantien, nice site!

      I would be pleased if you can tell me 2 things about your mantra settings (or maybe somebody from Mantra Support)

      – How did you include the form “Contact us”? I know there is a way in wordpress.com, you can just select it from the page settings but in wordpress.org I didn’t find it until now
      – How did you configure the widgets on the left to be shown in your presentation page? I have some that are displayed only in the rest of the pages (About Me, Products, Gallery and so on) but not in the front page
      Thanks for your answers

  24. Hello, really like the site I’ve created, thanks a million!
    4 questions:
    1) Before I moved from wordpress to my own domain, I could automatically link my blog posting to my business facebook and twitter account. Now, I am unable to figure out on Mantra how to make that happen?

    2) I like my header and the shade of the background. Is there a way to make the backround have cool gradiances of shades? Similar to what I am seeing on the background of the site I am on, now, while typing you?

    3) Is there a way to place attachments/downloads on the site within the pages? A link, if you will, to my own articles and proceeding notes.

    4) I added a calendar menu and I realize the posting for days appears on the dates. Can I go in and add other events, somehow, on the menu calendar?

    I will stop at 4 questions, thanks!
    Have a great week, RR

    1. Hi, and thank you for using Mantra 🙂

      1) I’m guessing you moved from a wordpress hosted blog (blogname.wordpress.com) to your own hosted domain. This has nothing to do with the theme.
      Wordpress.com includes some extra plugins and features (like the one that automatically posted your blog content to twitter/facebook) that are not present by default in an own-hosted wordpress installation. For publishing to twitter we use the YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter plugin. We don’t use Facebook publishing, but I know a friend who uses the Post to Facebook plugin.

      2) Our background does not use gradients, it’s an image. Go to Appearance > Background to set your WordPress background.

      3) All information about WordPress posts is available in the WordPress Codex.

      4) You may achieve that functionality with some WordPress plugin. Unfortunately, you’ll have to look for more information into that matter by yourself.

  25. Great theme – thank you!

    2 questions:

    I have one sidebar on the left side enabled, but the title on the widgets flow to the right. Is there anyway to change it, besides editing the css (which will be overwritten every time I update)?

    I have enabled clickable header, but it’s not working. Is it just me? And if so, why is it just me? 😉 I have uploaded a header image, and it’s not possible to click it to go to the frontpage.

    Love everything else, very easy to setup and customize. You did a great job on this!

    1. The alignment is a design choice.
      You can however modify it by adding CSS codes in the Custom CSS area under Miscellaneous Settings. Paste the following code there:

      .widget-title {
    text-align: left;
}

      As for the header… we’d need a link to see if it’s just you 😉

      1. Thanks for the reply 🙂

        I can’t provide a link, since it’s a closed site, for a few people working on a project that’s not public yet, and of course it’s no biggie with the clickable header.

        I’m wondering though, why comments for images doesn’t show up under recent comments in the sidebar. They used to, but with this theme, they don’t. I’ve been looking for a plugin to help me out with that, but have come up emptyhanded so far, probably because it’s not a problem with most themes, I guess. I also guess, that it’s a design choice. But since my project is heave based on images and their comments, it’s really important to be able to see the newest comments for everything in the sidebar.

        I have been looking through the settingspage, to see if it could be chosen there, but if so, I can’t find it.

        Can I do something about that?

        Thank you once again for a great theme 🙂
        Wonderful job.

      2. Hmm.. maybe it’s a change in WP instead. I tried out a couple of other themes to see if the comment thing worked there, and they didn’t. So just ignore my question 🙂

        I have just updated the blog recently to a newer version of WordPress, and changed the theme at the same time, and just noticed the missing comments now, as we were commenting on images again. So assumed it was the theme, but obviously, it’s not.

        *goes hunting for a solution*

      3. HELP!!
        Hi… love Mantra…
        However when I added the CSS code to the custom CSS area…my titles still stay to the right… I used Firebug to find the CSS code:
        #primary .widget-title {
        border-top-left-radius: 0;
        border-top-right-radius: 10px;
        padding-right: 5%;
        text-align: right;
        width: 100%;
        yet can’t for the life of me find this in the stylesheet…
        where do I find this and how can I change the titles from right to left?
        Thanks..

        1. You don’t need to find that in the CSS code. Just add the code in the CSS area in the MAntra Settings. Please try it again like this:


          #primary .widget-title {
          text-align: left !important;
          }

  26. Epic theme for starters Cryout Creations!

    Just a quick question, I was wondering why? When I publish a blog post it will not correctly show my GRAVATAR. In the Post Information Setting I have “author” set to show, but for some reason it will only show the “retro” GRAVATAR which is selected in WordPress/Setting/Dicussion.

    In comments it works, if I post there.

    Any help would be great.

  27. I have just started building this site for my business and need to change all the white areas to black or dark gray. How do I do this? I am very new to programming and know very little at present, so laymans terms would be great.
    Thanks for the awesome theme.
    Aaron

  28. I accidentally put the wrong RSS feed address in the Social Media RSS feed, and now it won’t change. Ideally, I want the URL to be rotodiamond.com/feed. How can I change this? Thanks.

  29. How do I hide the site title and site description and how do I make the width of the site smaller’ it’s at 1370 and I only want 1100…please help, I’ve gone through so many themes and this is the first one I’ve found that is really suitable for what I want.

    1. Go to Appearance > Mantra Options inside WordPress dashboard.
      You’ll find all the options there – site width is under Layout, site title/description options are under Graphics.

      1. Hi, thanks for the theme it’s really helping.

        I have the same problem with the width of my site but I don’t find the option you’re speaking about in Mantra Option/Layout.

        Also in the presentation page I cannot find the way to withdraw a columns, there are 4 whereas I only need 3.

        Thanks for your help !

  30. what program would you suggest for displaying photos either slideshow or still, on a website. i have tried WP Photo Album Plus, but seems a little clunky.
    Thank you,
    Todd

    2. Todd, I strongly recommend NextGen Gallery for WP. It’s probably the most popular gallery plugin and worked very well for a Mantra test site I did. But I ended up going with a different theme because the images would not display properly on my Android phone browser. The rest of the Mantra site was very responsive on a cell phone but it would not shrink the images, and in fact, the ability for me to zoom in/out on my phone was disabled on the Mantra site… very strange. If Mantra ever adds an option to shrink images automatically on a smart phone then it would be the best WP theme out there for both PC and smart phone web browsing.