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1,163 Comments

  1. Is there a way of making the sticky background transparent or change it? The striped grey is really making it difficult for me to select a color that works well with the colors I’ve chosen for my theme and still stand out.

    2. Beside the built-in options, everything else design-wise can be changed with custom CSS.
      For example, .entry-meta { } for the posts meta bar, article.sticky { } for the sticky posts, #access ul li.current_page_item, #access ul li.current-menu-item { } for the current menu items (which is currently black text on dark blue bg)

  3. Hi there, I’ve been enjoying working with Mantra for my GlowPotion.com wordpress site, though some hiccups are roadblocking.
    Problem #1: on wide screen monitors my background image is not filled up the entire window, there seems to be 1.5 inches of white space on both sides on every page; also the header image has like 3 inches of empty white space on each side…very un-aesthetic.

    Problem #2: Is it possible to have more than 4 Columns? Since there is a restriction, I’m tempted to find some sort of Pinterest html code to mimic the columns feature…unless Mantra has a way of doing this with the columns.

    Thank you!

      1. Hi!

        1. The solution is pretty simple actually. Use a bigger image. The image doesn’t stretch itself to fit the resolution. If you decide to use a background image you either use a repeatable pattern or you choose a big enough image to fit most screens (1920×1080 or more). Pretty much the same thing goes for the header image: use a big enough image to fill the width.

        2. Nope, for the moment there is no easy way to get more than 4 columns. It’s a limitation that will be surpassed in the future but will be added from version 2.0 onwards.

    1. Add this code to the Custom CSS area:

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

      Also make sure you update to the latest Mantra version.

      And they are aligned in an aesthetic manner from our point of view 😉

  9. Hi,

    I love the theme and am slowly but surely getting on with the job of making the changes to my site. However, there’s one thing I need help on. The access menu at the top of the site beneath the header needs some adjusting. At the minute, when I press either the ‘Home’ or ‘Blog’ tab, they remain connected to the page below. However, all the other tabs when selected seem to hove above the main page. How can I change this so that either they all hover or that they all remain connected?

    Many thanks.

  11. Hello! I love this theme, but am having a problem with the posts. In preview it will display an inserted image at its FULL width 100% in the content section of the post. But once I publish it and go look at the post, it compressed the image and content down to about a quarter of the content area. How can I fix this?

  14. Hi,

    I really love this theme but I’m having some problem with my header not showing up full-width on mobile devices, even though I have the settings enabled for mobile. I also have my layout settings set to “relative” instead of absolute. In conjunction with this, I notice that my main menu wraps when resizing the screen. Any thoughts on how to overcome these two issues?

    Thanks!

    1. Update to version 1.9.9.7 and you’ll have an option to make the header fully responsive. And could you be more precise as to what you mean by the ‘main menu wraps’ ? Could you also show a link to your site so we can better see your issues?

  16. It may sound weird, but for me Mantra messes up with the display of text in the WYSIWYG post editor…

    – If I use the default theme, the text in the editor occupies all the width available in the content area and the font is normal size
    – If I enable Mantra and create/edit a post, the text font is increased and the text is no longer occupying the whole width, but 3/4 of it.

    Has it something to do with the post text settings in Mantra and the WYSIWYG buttons added?

    It’s annoying…

    1. We really don’t get that. Try disabling all plugins and see if that still occurs. Except for adding a few buttons the Mantra theme really doesn’t touch the WYSIWYG editor.

  17. I’ve noticed that there’s no options for a header banner. Rather sad once you actually need one. So I’d like to ask, if there’s any way, hardcoding or pluginwise to add that. My current logo is 1150×75, with an awfull lot of white space, which could be at better use with a banner.

    Best regards, and thanks for an awesome theme.

    1. I’m not sure what’s the difference in your case between a logo image and a header image. What options would aid you? You can upload an image that you choose the size of and when you make that image you can make the background or any portion of it transparent. That way you can pretty much achieve anything you want.

      1. I should totally get around here more often to see for replies. By ‘header banner’, I refer to an advertisement banner, of the size 468×60. What “options” would aid, could be an option to put in href of image and target destination, or a script (Adsense for instance), and then have it put in the far right of the top, eventually overlapping the excisting header image. In that way it would be above my large white spot 🙂
        I don’t know if it’s something worth considering. Like an enable/disable feature for people who’d like it.

        1. The header is already a very complex structure, with background image, logo or title or link, social icons on top and responsiveness for all these combined.
          Adding an extra element in there will only complicate things…

  18. Yep, now i grased through this page and still can’t see anything that points me to where the Frontpage text
    This could be a title and And this is a second title are embedded, did you hard code these two lines inside one of the php files (but i looked already through them, i use one column layout..
    I also see that your Comments form right here spans properly, while mine does not….

  19. My last post didn’t seem to register. I’m trying to figure out how to get the text to wrap around a graphic or to have it run down the side of the graphic. Tried several things w/o getting it to work.
    Also, how do I get the editor that is more than just the basic WP Editor? The more comprehensive one shows up on one site but not another…
    Thanks!

  20. Hi,
    How do I get the text to wrap either around a photo or next to it? Also, how do I activate the more comprehensive editor that I have in one version for one site but not in another for a different site? I’m using WP3.5 on both…

    Thanks!

  22. Hi everyone great theme! but…I can not manage to import an image on my presentation top screen. The slider is split–the top screen features the infitinitely annoying spinning wheel and the bottom exhibits my blog text [which is fine]. I need to insert an image int the top section. I imported the fancy box plug in…doesn’t seem to help. Please advise!

  25. Hello!
    I don’t manage to change the site title’s and description’s fonts.
    I tried to change it in the CSS but the changes are not taken into account, and I can’t modify it from Mantra Settings either.
    Any help?
    Thanks.

  26. hello how can I change the image in the first column because it does not work with the library media or by moving it from the computer.
    Apart from this it is the best wordpress theme I thank you for trying to find my answer in the shortest time

  27. I cannot seem to get the size of the page correct. I end up with a slide bar at the bottom of the page to move right or left, but when you slide over, there is nothing there? Thoughts?

  28. Hi. Awesome theme, the best I’ve found yet! My pages (tabs like “About” & “Contact” etc.) just below my header don’t seem to be managed thru my Menu Settings. If I make a new Page, it makes a new Tab. I’d like to be able to make Pages but not have them displayed until I say so. And in the heirarchy that I choose. Any help? Thanks so much.

  29. Love the theme!
    I’m having problems with my sidebars though. I have my layout set with a sidebar on the left and the right of the content area. In my left sidebar, my widgets won’t center. They are all the way to the the left side of the sidebar. The widgets center fine in the right sidebar though. Help?

    1. I have the same problem here… I’ve tried and tried to fix it, and no luck. Sorry I cannot help, just thought I’d let you know that you are not alone, I just got rid of what I thought was a widget causing this, but it didn’t help. *sigh* Good Luck and I will keep an eye out for a solution for both of us.