Mantra FAQs

A. Legal

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B. WordPress Functionality

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C. Theme Functionality

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D. Updates

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E. Specific Functionality

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1,163 Comments

  1. Hello,
    I’m typing in html code for bullets in “Button text 1” under “Extra Text” under “Presentation Page Columns” for the frontpage in the Mantra theme. But it doesn’t show up in the webpage, and when I going back to edit mode, the code I typed have disappered. The same thing in happening when I use the Html code text-align: center; to centre an image. I would appreciate if someone could tell me if there is any solution to this problems.

    1. If your site is not hosted in wordpress.COM, those shortcodes won’t work…you need special plugins to display videos etc…
      Try Viper’s Video Quicktags for the range of video providers supported or Artiss Youtube Embed for youtube if all your videos are hosted in youtube.

  3. Medan din förlängning utvecklare arbetar med kompatibilitetsproblem det skulle vara trevligt om de skulle också göra det befintliga tillägget arbete tillsammans – i synnerhet de grupper / grupper Woocommerce Prenumerationer plugins att arbeta med rollbaserad Plugins som dynamisk prissättning och Rollbaserad Sjöfart och? betalningar – inte kan det vara lite mer samarbete?

    1. Which particular theme/module are you referring to? Nevermind that, it’s still a bit too early for me 🙂
      Unfortunately we cannot test all WordPress plugins out there for issues or incompatibilities. If you are using a particular plugin and you’re encountering issues between it and Mantra, do let us know. We’ll take a look and see if we can fix that issue.
      But please do so in English, as our language skills are not that broad and Google Translate can only do so much…

  4. Right now my full posts are showing on my search page/ or category page. I would like just a paragraph to show and then show a “read more” button. I tried looking in the Reading section under Settings but didn’t find an option for that.
    Can you please help?

  5. I know you posted some CSS for someone else regarding centering the menus on their site. I had the same luck they did and it didn’t seem to work…any other ideas on how to do this? Love the theme otherwise btw and donated 🙂 Thanks!!! 🙂

    1. It worked for me on another site, but I think there was other custom CSS involved that I did not know about. I’ll do some tests on a clean install later today and come up with proper instructions 🙂

    1. Hello Chantrelle,
      Disable Presentation page in Mantra Settings and check WordPress > Settings > Reading… I had the same issue yesterday, solved it (good news), but I don’t remember more…
      Cheers!

  7. The removal of the link to Cryout Creations in the footer is at least discouraged (and if this helps to keep Mantra free and/or the development ongoing I am all for it), but can we remove the WordPress link?
    Truth is I don’t care much for it.

    FYI I have checked Mantra’s code in W3C validation service and it located a redundant exactly at the place of this code, after the links to Cryout Creations and WordPress.

    If it is deleted, the error goes away

  9. Error report:
    After making a clear Mantra 1.9.9.4 installation on a new WP site (that is, no other theme version preceded it), when I attempt to customize the Header I get a 404 error link to a Mantra image:
    “mantra/images/headers/mantra-thumbnail.png”
    From this page/link
    “wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header”

  12. I am tearing my hair out – love the theme and have it working great appearance-wise but it is the only theme I cannot upload images to using WP 3.5 and latest Mantra (1.9x 12/30/2012 Update) – i have to keep changing to another template to upload photos to posts or articles 🙁

    There must be one little thing I am missing as every other theme I have tried in testing has no problem with the uploads.

    2. Disable all the plugins then enable them one by and and check to see when the upload feature fails to work. Then please tell us which plugin it is so we can test it and hopefully fix the issue 🙂

  13. Can you help me out a bit? How do I make content area links and widget area links to become underlined ON HOVER (only) ?
    Been trying out but I am getting links underlined all the time.

    Any help would be much appreciated.
    Cheers

    1. Ok, figured this thing out…Firefox’s embedded code inspection utility didn’t help me much, but I found the target with Chrome’s.

      it’s
      a:hover, .entry-meta a:hover, .entry-utility a:hover, .widget-area a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}

  14. A question again:
    All posts inside my blog are using two language, each language has its own special font family, font-size, line height dan directionality.
    I have tried to insert a css class to display the text for each language using its own font.
    But when I make some texts bold (I use strong) and italic (I use em), those text are displayed using the general font. I have write the css class using !important but it fails.
    I’m sorry for my bad english and thanks for your help.

  15. Suggestion: Is it possible to include an option to show or hide tags in category pages? I feel tags showing in blogs just take up too much space, would be nice to be able to have them display only on full posts.

  16. This is just writing to let you know that the paypal-donation link located in your admin main.php file is being recognized by the plugin “Antivirus” as a possible threat
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antivirus/

    I understand it’s nothing of the kind and the users can instruct the plugin not to report this alert in future checks, but it may scare some people away, because of that endless series of characters displayed.

    Maybe you could put a notice for users to read, so that they won’t be taken up in case they try the aforementioned plugin.

    Cheers, happy new year.

  17. I simply love the Mantra theme, thank you for providing such a versatile theme! I have one problem however, I can’t seem to figure out what I’ve done wrong causing this to occur, but my sidebars contents don’t appear to have a margin. My website is at: http://www.honestlymariah.com

    I am having fun however setting up my new blog location, it isn’t very pretty right now but I keep tweaking the header and the background images to get them “just right”… it’s the artist (me) not the theme. *wink*

    Oh one more thing, before I post this, is there a fix in the works for the odd spaces that appear in the magazine layout, or did I mess something up there too?

    Thank you again for such a wonderful Theme!

    1. They actually don’t have margins when you’re enabling sidebars via page templates. This is not so obvious when the content displayed in the sidebars has some padding or spacing of some sorts (like most of the built-in widgets)…
      Are you using page templates or did you enable the sidebars via the Layout option in Mantra settings?

      The odd spacing in magazine layout is caused by posts not having the same height. This is improved in version 1.9.9.4 (just out).

      1. Thank you, so much, for your reply.

        To answer your question, I adjusted the sidebars in Mantra’s layout settings. I did however mess with the width of the page and overly increased the Header to some obnoxious width by mistake using absolute dimensions, then adjusted the width of the sidebars in relative dimensions. Maybe that messed with it?

        Thank you for the update on the theme… it’s is truly the best theme I’ve seen out there! 🙂 And thank you for explaining the odd spacing to me, it makes perfect sense… and the update did make an improvement.

  18. Hi, thanks for a great theme – it’s by far the best one for customising things how I like them. 🙂

    Just wondering though, is there any way of having the tabs/menu in the centre of the screen, rather than to the left?

  19. Great Theme! I have been trying to use it for the last several days and am now getting this error message:
    Warning: join() [function.join]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/cmrsf1/public_html/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 296
    class=””>

    I identified the script in the file but don’t know what the solution is. Does it have something to do with tweaking the posts settings in the admin or what?

    Many thanks!

    1. I just noticed that this error message is right under the header picture and underneath every post where it should say Leave Comment or Comment: Tried tweaking some of the post settings but so far nothing has worked.

      Thanks!

        1. Any other places to find help? Guess this one went right over your head as I haven’t heard any replies. I updated the theme hoping that would do it but it didn’t… Really like the theme. Hope I can use it!

          1. This doesn’t seem to be a general problem. Not in my site at least and several WordPress test installations I have made.

            I would suggest that you provide some more info about your server configuration (Mysql, php version), exact WP version, other plugins (try disabling them one by one), your exact Mantra options (if you have changed the default settings) etc.

            I think that when trying to get help its useful to try and give as much info as possible from the start, in order to avoid the back and forth of predictable questions and answers and catch the attention of the developer.

            A question in which the developer would have to resort to guesswork just to get the bug resolution process started, that is vague, can be passed by and eventually forgotten in the prioritization of every day tasks.

            My experiences from both free and paid the support.

          2. Thanks, Definito, for taking the time to reply. I did as you said and deactivated my plug-ins until the problem went away. I was thinking I had already done that but did it again at your suggestion. Seems to be working fine, now. Once one finds a plug-in is creating a problem, how do I go about getting that plug-in to work? It’s an important one.

            I appreciate the help!

          3. Good to hear your problem is resolved.

            What was the plugin that was causing the issue, by the way?

            You could inform both
            – Cryout Creations
            – The plugin’s developer(s) through their support form in WordPress (or their site if they take questions there)

            Mantra is quite a popular theme (deservingly so) and that should not leave the other developers uninterested.

          4. Hi, Definito,
            It is a wiki plug-in that seeks out and pulls in authority articles from wiki for whatever keyword you put in. I’ve had questions from these folks on another plug-in I bought from them and never heard back. It’s a good concept, I’ll see if I can get any help from them…

            Thanks, again…

          5. Does this plugin state that it is compatible with your version of WordPress? From that error message it looks like it doesn’t speak the same language like WordPress itself (do you get this same message if you’re using the Twenty-something themes?)

  21. Great theme

    I would like to change te content background opacity to 70% but leave the actual content text and images at 100%.
    Any idea how to do that (in te css code?)

    Thanks
    Ruud van den Bogaert

    1. You can use rgba colours (not supported by older browsers) or a semi-transparent png image as background for #main. Example: #main { background: rgba(255,0,0,0.7) !important; }
      “!important” is there to override any other background colour the theme may try to apply (due to set options).

        1. Yes, you can do that for the menu buttons as well, except it’s a lot more complicated there. The menu is placed in #access. Read question C18 above for the list of menu elements to style.

          1. NIce thanks it works wel 🙂 it looks great

            Now I would like to make the background color in the ‘Botom text’ in the presentations page a little bit transparent. Where is it located in the stylesheet.

            Best Regards
            Ruud
            Netherlands

  22. First: My english is very bad, sorry.
    The theme is great but i have one problem. The first menu on top lists pages. For my website must work posts and not page. Where can i allocations this or make a change on the matra theme?

  23. It’s A Beautiful theme and many thanks for your amazing work. I am still trying it in my local computer.
    I want to center the blog title and its decription, all menu, how can I do it? How can I style it with custom css? Or can you add options to do that like the option to center the header image?
    I also want the post navigation section only link to the post in some category (and excluding sub category). The previous theme I used one year ago has the option to choose this. I has searched the plugin or tutorial to do that but unfortunately I can’t find it.
    Thanks again

    1. Fortunnately I get the answer for my last question at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/next_post_link and http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/previous_post_link.
      But it forces me to add a little modification in single.php line 18,19, 58 and 59.
      Is it correct? I’m still a beginner, I don’t fully understand how to create a child theme or a function.
      I will very happy if this feature and the feature to center everything in the header area will be added to the theme option in the next release.
      I’m sorry and thanks again for your beautiful theme.

  24. First of all, thank you very much for this great theme; you have brought professional class and quality to the freeware theme section.

    I am facing only one small trouble so far.
    I am trying to set a header image (a logo actually, 180x112px) but when I choose it from the media library, I am lead to a screen where I am given the choice to crop the image – as happens with other themes – but with Mantra I am unable to choose the whole image by moving/sliding the dotted crop borders inside the chosen image.
    When I try to move these borders, the whole frame moves, preventing me from setting an height bigger than some pixels.

    This problem is limited to Mantra theme, as I said before, although it is a function offered by WordPress itself.

    Can you please check? Thank you very much

    1. Hi, I am facing a similar issue. I want to add a logo on the top right of the site (above the slider where currently the slide title and sub-title are there. Is there any way to do this?

      Thanks in advance for your help!

      Neetu

      P.S: I agree with other comments above – Mantra is truly the most customizable theme I have seen so far. Fantastic work!

    2. It seems Mantra forces a particular width/height ratio on the image, based on the ratio of the whole header area.
      That is why even on a small logo one is prevented from making full use of it and cannot expand the cropping from or choose to publish the image without cropping it.

      Please, please change this behaviour.

  26. I love your theme! It has lots of amazing features but one problem I have found is that the drop down menu doesn’t work with pages/subpages when you use a page as your static home page instead of latest posts.

    The pages and subpages all get spread across the menu instead of dropping down. It would be grand if you could fix this!!!

    Thanks, again for the wonderful flexible theme and Merry Christmas

      1. Thanks for getting back to me at Christmas!

        It makes the site look a huge mess so I changed the theme but I can take a screenshot.

        Here is what it looks like with a page as a static home page.
        http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-83sKpy01NUs/UNowcLI4zQI/AAAAAAAAAV0/EAgSfFEjm0s/s1600/memorable%2Bdomains%2BCapture1.JPG

        Here is what it looks like with blog posts as the home page
        http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Zn5MoBELm8/UNoxmHSUqRI/AAAAAAAAAWE/vwMK9QGZrkY/s1600/memorable%2Bdomains%2BCapture2.JPG

        Hope the images are clear!

        Merry Xmas
        Suzie

        1. I’ve just tested this on our demo installation running the latest WP 3.5 and Mantra 1.9.9.3 and I can’t reproduce the issue. I also never encountered this problem in any previous version.

          It could be either a javascript problem on your site, or a plugin messing up the menu. Are you using a custom menu or an auto-generated one? Are you using any gallery, seo plugins?
          Is this site live (viewable from the Internet)? If yes, could we see it?

          1. Hi
            Yes the site is viewable but using a different theme temporarily so I will have a play now you mentioned the plugins.

            Plugins – lots!
            Akismet
            Bestseller Azon
            Exclude Pages from Navigation (could this be the problem?)
            Fast Secure Contact Form
            Feedburner FeedSmith
            Google Analytics for WP
            Google XML Sitemaps
            Shockingly Simple Favicon (can deactivate once revert to Mantra)
            Tweet, Like, Google +1 and Share
            Wordpress SEO
            TablePress

            I am going to temporarily disable Exclude Pages from Navigation and report back!

            Thanks for your patience I will be back soon!

          2. No joy after deactivating that plugin!

            Back to your question. no we are not using a custom menu. It’s the standard pages along the top but some are excluded using that plugin e.g. privacy

            http://www.memorabledomains.co.nz/

            We will leave the site with the theme up until you have a chance to look

            Only other thing I can think of is we are using negative numbering on page order for some of the pages -2,-1,0 etc to order them on the drop down menu.

            I tried viewing in FF and IE. No joy

            Thanks for your help

          3. Okay, I figured it out now 🙂 You are not using a custom menu, so your menu is just a list of pages… automatically sorted by WordPress.
            You need to create and set a custom menu. This way you’ll be able to completely sort, order and arrange your menu items (including the drop-down sub-menus)

  27. Hi, Great theme, very generous options!!

    I am trying to add more space between paragraphs. Tried adding the following to the custom CSS box in the misc section but this did not work?:

    p {
    margin-top: 0em;
    margin-bottom: 2em;
    }

    Please can you suggest what I might be doing wrong (my paragraphs are too close together)

    Thank you.

  28. helloo..im using this theme.. I’m facing problems with the slider… I have uploaded images in the mantra setting..with the option Custom slides…but the page doesn’t seem to display any pic in the slider..it just shows the loading icon..iv changed the setting to Show recent posts..but the same happens…Please help 🙁

  29. Many thanks for a great theme — and for this support! Has anyone else had an issue with IE8 matching the width of all dropdown menus to only the widest menu tab which forces longer text to scroll off the submenu? Naturally, Mozilla shows the submenus perfectly. Unfortunately, a large portion of my target audience uses IE… I have tried to modify the css for .sub-menu, menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page as well as for all variations of #access without success. Many thanks in advance.