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. Hi I just installed the theme and when I choose the option “header clickable” I get a J Query error and the header picture is all black. What are the dimensions recommended for the header and how can I fix this? thank you

  2. I would like to ask one question: I created my menu through Appearance-Menu and after I created this menu the navigation buttons to my pages appeared on the bottom of presentation page. How can I removed this menu from there?

    Thank you…

  3. This theme is by far the easiest theme to modify.

    My company previously had Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve which I felt was too “basic” and had no way of truly customizing as I felt with Mantra.

    As I continue to work on our site and “modernize” it, I just feel that Mantra really serves me best with all the awesome bells and whistles.

    My only request, a tiny one, is if somehow you would be willing to add Yelp to your social networking? It would be really nice if we can have that icon ‘floating’ at the top as well. Just a tiny request. I would add the icon via “NEWSocial” but I am truly a bit terrified of creating a ‘child’ theme (seeing as the last time I did this, the codes erased all my previous code and I had to build from scratch!).

    In the meantime, I love playing with the theme…here and there.

    Thanks for the great work!

  4. I feel in love with Mantra, and all its possibilities. However, the slider does not work, even with all plugins deactivated. So I can’t use the theme, since a slider on the front page is essential to my client. Hope you get this sorted and i will love using the theme. I think the concept is brilliant and it must be a huge amount of work. happy to pay for it when it is working correctly. Thanks.

  6. Good day,

    I have another question: I’ve added a couple of articles, with an image (all the way top left). The images appear fine in the full article, but not in the excerpt on the front page. I’ve tried using “featured image”, but that doesn’t do anything either.

    How do I get my pics to appear on the frontpage?

    Thanks for your time.

  7. Hi, I´m starting now in site/blog creation, I really liked the Mantra Theme, I´l like to know if it´s possible to reduce the frame size ised to insert the image in the presentation page. Thank you!

  10. Loving Mantra so far! However, I’m wondering if there is a way to include the featured image on the blog entry page, since that doesn’t seem to be an option in the admin section.

    If you do happen to add the featured image on each blog post at a future date, could I request that the image be selectable between full-width (scale/crop), thumbnail (right/left/center float with/without caption), and completely off? It would be even more awesome if that could be controlled per-post for variety, but getting it working in general would be just plain awesome. As in: even more awesome than it is now.

    In the meantime, is there a fix? I don’t know even which template I should be looking at, and am having to rebuild a web site using a new theme (Mantra, of course… the old theme just didn’t cut it).

    Thanks in advance for any help.

    1. That happens because you added #access { margin-top: -25px; } to the custom CSS.
      Were you trying anything particular with this (like placing the menu over the header image)?

      1. The webmaster who installed Mantra quit, so I’m having to learn fast. Anyway, http://www.conservativepartyla.org looks fine and it has the same CSS, as:
        ——————————————————————————
        #header, #sheader {
        margin-top: 35px;
        }
        #access {
        margin-top: -25px;
        margin-left: 90px;
        }

        ——————————————————————————-

        California has as its CSS:
        ——————————————————————————-

        #header, #sheader {
        margin-top: 35px;
        }
        #access {
        margin-top: -25px;
        margin-left: 90px;
        }
        ——————————————————————————-

        I just want the California navigation menus to look like Louisiana.

  12. Hello,
    I am designing a website with Mantra,But have a problem of removing contents of the first home page with four images and their texts,Could someone help me in this?,thanks!

  13. I’m loving my new Mantra, but I took a wrong turn at FAQ C24 (adding new social).

    I’m using WordPress 3.5.1 and Mantra 2.0.1 (viewed in Firefox 20.0.1).

    I thought I followed all of the instructions (creating child theme, import parent style.css, pasting code into functions.php, and activating child theme, etc).

    I get my new button with the other socials, but I also get linked text to the left of each button:

    ” title=”MiA”>MiA” title=”Facebook”>Facebook” title=”Twitter”>Twitter

    Quote marks were part of the text as copied. The second copy of each name (MiA, Facebook, Twitter) represents the button image.

    This process also removed my header image. I had to select my header image, again.

    Question: How do I get rid of this ugly linked text and have just the buttons?

    This is also a problem in Google Chrome (26.0.1410.64 m) and Internet Explorer (10). Mousing over the buttons lights up the linked text associated with each button.

    http://www.missionatlantis.com/blog/

    ————————————————–

    On closer inspection, it appears that the functions.php code has a flaw. Right around,

    ?>”mantra_social$i”}); ?>” title=”

    Notice the two php end tags and no start tag. I wish I had time to debug this. I look forward to the fix.

    Thanks!

      1. New problem. I pasted the new code in my functions.php file and can’t see my blog or log in. I get a blank white page in both cases. If I scrub the code from my functions.php (zero bytes) then everything is “normal,” again, only no new social button.

        I made the change to “newsocial” (shouldn’t that be “Newsocial”?) to the name of my graphic file, so the error seems to be something added to the code.

        New bug? Help, please.

        1. Hello again. I re-edited the question to remove the code completely (in case there were more typos caused by the editor/plugin text formatting) and included the sample child theme itself. Hopefully this will work for you.

  14. I’m loving the design thus far. The only issue I have is the spacing around my header. I want minimal padding around it, but can only change the top and the right side. How do I get 1px spacing on the right as well? Also, is there a way to get my social media buttons to line up horizontally under the header? Right now I am using a widget in the left column. Thanks!

    Kristen

          1. That’s where the spacing comes from. The logo has top and left margins, so it aligns better on the header area. That function is intended for small… logo images 🙂
            If you want a margin-less image, try setting your image as header background in Appearance > Header. Just make sure it is the size requested by WordPress so no cropping will occur.

          2. Well, I was able to get the header margin-less (Thanks so much!), but now despite how I crop it or don’t crop it, the header won’t center (it’s cutting off on the right side. Is this header setting in the style sheet or part of WordPress and how can I fix it? Thanking you in advance. 🙂

  15. Hi great theme, one serious question. Why do I have to use the default permalink in order for the links on this page to work. http://www.itsallaboutmusic.net/?cat=5 If we set it to postname the links come up as page not found. We change to default and no issue. It’s only these links which are hosted on our site they are previous recorded shows that have the issue. Thank you for your time.

  16. referring to Updates D6:
    I had Mantra working perfectly well on my selfhosted blog on a Synology DS up to Mantra version 1.9.x. I upgraded to 2.0.1 last week and cannot get into any Settings ever since. Not being a developer, I have no idea what you mean by jQuery interference with plugins: I have disabled all WordPress plugins I’ve got and – for good measure – also my IE AddIns. Still no luck (and the same is valid for Firefox, Safari and Chrome). So I removed my entire WordPress blog and set it up from scratch (no way back, I created a blank new one). Unfortunately, still no luck. What is it I am doing wrong? Please advise!

    Andy

    1. Which WordPress version are you using?
      If you’re willing to give us a login to your website to investigate this further ourselves, you can use the premium support form to create a support ticket. Just type in ‘settings no js after update’ in the transaction id field.

  17. Hi,

    First of all thanks for this wonderfull theme! One small question; I would like to change the font color in white just for the sticky post. This is for the header text and the content. Could you tell me how to do this?

  18. Hello,

    Again thank you for creating this great design.

    I still have not managed to get this to work:

    I would really like the links in the bottom 4 colums on the presentation page to open in a new window or a pop-up window, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I have tried to “check” the box for pop-up, but it does not work.

    Can you help me?

    I look forward to hearing from you and thank you very much in advance!

  19. I am using the magazine style on this theme and on the front page, it shows all the text for each post. Does anyone know how to have it show only some of it, not the whole thing?

  20. Hello

    Here is my problem, being new at this I have no idea what to do. I created my first website using wordpress 4 months ago about it. Until now everything works perfectly, but this morning, can not connect to my site, the pages display the same error message:

    Warning: Division by zero in / homez.311/ludotheqt/www/wp-content/themes/mantra/admin/custom-styles.php on line 22

    Warning: Division by zero in / homez.311/ludotheqt/www/wp-content/themes/mantra/admin/custom-styles.php on line 23

  21. You say “a) You can set the site header to use an image in Appearance > Header. Then hide the site title and description text from Mantra Settings > Graphics, the Title and Description option.”….I just updated to 2.0 & those options aren’t here….where do I go now? Did you leave them out?

    1. That option merged with the new header options under “Side Header” in the Header section of Mantra Settings. Hiding the site title and description is now as simple as selecting something other than them to display in the header.

  22. Hi, I’m new to wordpress and mantra, and was wondering if I could get some help.

    I’m using the Presentation Page, and changed it so that the slider will display my latest posts. I’m wondering how to make a picture appear in the slider? Do I need to add a picture somehow in the post? How do I do that so it will show up in the slider, and not just in the post?

    Thanks!

    1. Oh nvm, I figured it out.

      Just in case someone else has the same question…

      You need to add a featured image to the post, which you can do in the lower right corner when editing a post.

      1. I had a similar issue with a slider picture. And still do. After setting the image, the pic would appear in the slider…BUT…it was completely distorted. I tried more than a dozen times to fix the image size but it only made it worse instead of better! Finally I gave up, and now I just have the post preview text in there instead.

    1. I have done it, but I cant figure that out where to do it in the site that I am trying to do now. Zed any feedback on this? I saw a previous response about editing the theme functions.php file, the HEAER_IMAGE_WIDTH but I cant figure out how to insert my new witdth. Please help. I cant tell you how frustrated I am, specially because I have done it before. Thank you very much

  25. Hi
    I am trying to use the really cool presentation page with my customer graphics. The graphics show up just fine. I have filled out all the other stuff, like title but it still displayed the “This could be a title” and “And this is a second title”. I have filled out the titles in the presentation config page.

    Any help would be appreciated

  26. Are there any site developers out there who will work for $50 – $75 an hour and are familiar with Mantra? I’m developing a static real estate site but can’t seem to make it look professional. I’ve got the content, it just needs polishing.

  29. Hey guys!

    I am new to all of this.. and have a question I can’t figure out!

    I have the homepage of my site (www.youngwithincome.com) as the default Mantra text.. It says I can edit it, but I don’t know how? I want to keep the format but put my own words..

    Help?? Thank you very much….

  30. Hello.

    I am nearly done creating a webpage using this great design 🙂

    But I would really like the links in the bottom 4 colums on the presentation page to open in another window or a pop-up window, and I cannot figure out how to do it. Is it possible and can you help me?

    I look forward to hearing from you and thank you very much in advance!