Mantra FAQs

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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. I was using [mantra-multi] [mantra-column width=”2/3″]… on some pages. It doesn’t work after last update. Is there a way to have back columns?

  2. hello –

    Our company has been using Matra for little over a year. We only now have been experiencing a few issues regarding: (1) the slides. Slide 1 keeps populating the old picture and content that we had, not the new current one. (2) the posts. I have posted several posts since April 22 but that is the ‘recent’ one it keeps showing.

    Any insight / solutions to these two issues would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

    1. Double check that you have actually published the posts. If that is the case, remember/check if you are using a caching plugin. In case that is also true, disable the plugin or use its clear/flush cache functionality to force a content update on your site.

  3. how do I change the background color of the signature/bio line. My client wants a black website with white text. problem is this bio area is staying white, no matter what i change. so the text in it is also white.

    1. Mantra was not really designed with black colour schemes in mind (it doesn’t have full colour control).
      You’d need to use CSS to change that:
      body #entry-author-info { background: ... }

  4. Using the mantra theme, how would one position the widgets, so that some of them will be at the top, and the rest down at the bottom of the site? I’m blind, and I’m trying to do that. Only I can’t figure out how. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

  5. Is it possible to remove the space between the menu and the top of the slider? I’ve tried

    #access {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    margin: 1px auto 0;
    width:100%;
    }

    #main {
    clear: both;
    padding: 0px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    }

    but the gap remains. I’m not sure what element is adding the space.

    thanks

  6. Hi. I am trying to edit the size of my H1 tag but have been failing badly. Whatever style I try to give it (like underline) gets automatically applied to post title, but any changes to post title are not reflected in H1. It looks huge, and I would appreciate help to make it look reasonably sized

  7. Is there a way to have the link ‘Leave a comment’ under a post instead of just below the header on the right side (which is small an people don’t see it) on the Main page ? Thanks

  8. Since you call your Mantra theme your flagship I wonder why you have not tested it with woocemmerce yet. Will you test it in the near future? I would not like to switch to another theme since everything is up and running well.

    1. “Flagship” was a word used to describe Mantra a while back when it was our most advanced theme. Things have changed in the meantime so thanks for pointing that out.

      Due to some particularities of its styling, Mantra does not get along with WooCommerce. In fact Mantra doesn’t interact well with many third party plugins (and I don’t believe we will change that anytime soon since it demands editing too much of its functionality, making updates of older installs problematic).

      1. See mantra that most people use – it’s worth it to upgrade and renew the code and will use it even more because it’s the best style in which it is worth investing time

  9. Hi,

    Firstly, thanks for a great theme! I really love it, and I’ve been using it for a number of years now.

    However, I have two problems (problems from the start, but I’ve lived with it until now)…

    1. I am trying to get rid of all references to the author. I’ve tried a number of “remove author” plugins, but they don’t get rid of all references to the author. The author on pages, directly under the post name (if you post to pages) doesn’t disappear, and the big author block at the bottom of posts doesn’t disappear. Is there something I can do to get rid of it? Can you not include a setting somewhere?

    2. I’m trying to get rid of comments too. I’ve tried a number of “complete disable comments site wide” plugins, but again, this doesn’t remove all references to comments. For example, the “…0 comments” line is still there for each post, but on a page (when you post to page). Any help with this too?

    Thanks again for a great theme! I hope I can get these two issues sorted 🙂

    PS. My website is http://www.ancientpaths.co.za, if you need to look at it.

    1. Henk Keuris,
      being in the dashboard, go to Design / Mantra Setting.
      In the 7th categorie (“settings of post-info” or something similar), you can find the option the deactivate the post-author-info.

  10. Hi,

    I love the theme but I’m having trouble finding the header widget to put a contact number etc in the header, as well as the social network icons.

    I have 4 sidebar widgets (2 x sidebar 1, 2 x sidebar 2), 4 footer widgets and 2 content widgets (above and below content) but no header widget, although I have seen previous posts about adding one – any suggestions?

    Thanks

  11. Hi Is there way to set up different color of sidebars title background ? Im using 2 sidebars one on left and one on right. I want to make left sidebar bacground color 1 and sidebar title background – color 2, then right sidebar will have opposite (sidebar background – color 2 and sidebar title background – color 1).

  12. Hi,
    thank you for a great theme! How can I change my text in a table cell to the middle? Right now it is on top and I have tried the valing=”middle” but it won’t work and the text will appear on top of each cell. How can I fix it?
    I’m currently working on a test site which will be transformed to my original site. Thanks a lot for your help!

      1. I don’t see where else to leave a question, so… I would like to be able to remove the ad block that shows just under the menu but above the post or page. I’ve been looking through all the code but can’t determine which snippet governs this.
        Thanks!

  13. I love this theme but am having a problem getting all my widgets to show up on one side of the page. Three of the widgets show up on the right side of the page where they are supposed to and the rest show up towards the bottom of the page. Yet, I have them all set up under the primary widgets. How can I fix this so they all show up on the right side of the page.

  14. Is it not so that mantras are patterns of repititions? Or i am wrong? What are the 4 seasons? They campaign us our hole live. What are thoughts? They are patterns or not? Is the goal not to break all that?

    1. Hi.
      We have not tested Mantra with WooCommerce enough to tell you whether you will encounter issues or not.
      Our other themes though are better tested (and even have dedicated child themes just for WooCommerce).

  15. I posted a question yesterday about the menu not working correctly. It still is not I have de-activated ALL plugins.

    It is adding new pages to the menu when I do NOT have the add top level pages to menu.

    It is also putting the menu items in alphabetical order when the home page is viewed!

    They are NOT in alphabetical order in the menu settings but they are on the actual page.

    I cannot remove the pages because they do not show up on the menu settings page as being on the menu.

    This is really bizarre. I have tried adding them then taking them away, no luck. If I choose another theme then reload Mantra I will lose all the work I have done I assume.

    Site is webdesign.ufochick.com