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1,163 Comments

  1. Hi, I just love this theme. I am building my first wordpress site and you made it so easy for me. I do have 1 question is there a way to add a column/sidebar on the presentation page?

  3. I just wanted to say what a great theme this is! I did a test site but ended up going with another theme because of a smart phone browsing issue, but now that I see how to fix that I’ll have to give this theme another try.

    But I did want to alert you to two “bugs”:

    1.) Under the Layout settings the page width does not match the width given under the Header appearance page. Ex: Layout page says width is 810px but Header page says to use image that is 860px wide. It would be nice if these widths matched.

    2.) I tried to insert some new Block Quote CSS into the Miscellaneous section but it wouldn’t work. I had to delete the original Block Quote code in the style.css file for the new styling to work.

    Again, a fantastic theme!

    1. 1) The WordPress computed header width includes some padding that is always there and is not included in Mantra’s computed width. This is not really a bug, it’s just not documented/explained 🙂
      2) I’ll have to test this myself and figure out why it didn’t work for you.

  4. 2 Questions about the presentation page regarding the Nivo Slider

    I’ve seen other websites using the slider make it rectangular, say 800 X 300 however the adjustment with/in the mantra theme wants to keep it Square, so that when i input 800 X 300, it makes is 800 X 800, is there any ways to adjust this within the custom css?

    2nd question is the slider is centered, is it possible to use a float command to shift it to the right, from what i read of the code it is an absolute item, and my understanding is you can’t float those, again was wondering if there is code to input into the custom css to adjust location.

    Thanks for any help!
    Great Theme, very intuitive

  5. Hi. I love this theme!
    Just one problem using 1.8.9.1, I get the following error when enabling social icons in the footer:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function mantra_social_icons() in /home/xxxx/xxxx/wp-content/themes/mantra/footer.php on line 52

    Possible bug?

    2. Yap, it’s a known bug in 1.8.9(.1). If you really need the footer socials, edit footer.php and change mantra_social_icons() to mantra_set_social_icons().
      Otherwise, just leave that disabled and wait for 1.9.0.

  7. Hi there,

    I was wondering how can I get to add a place inside my posts where I can put a pdf document to be open or downloaded by users. Now i used links to where my documents are on the server but it seems that tries to open a page that doesn´t exist

    For example I saved the pdf file I want to show in “http://www.pirenetrek.com/wp-content/uploads/06/pdfs/Vall-de-Riquerna-y-estany-Tapat.pdf” but the browser tries to open this page that obiously does not exist. How should I tell the link to go to look for the document inside the directory “uploads”?

    Any help will be appreciated

    PS: always say nice and great THEME!

  9. May I ask a technical error issue, i was working out mantra on my localhost very well but now after the whole blog is online, when i click on “save changes” after doing mantra settings i receive this:
    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web7/40/77/51603477/htdocs/wpgallery/wp-includes/l10n.php:334) in /mnt/web7/40/77/51603477/htdocs/wpgallery/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866

    my xampp runs php 5.2.9 while my hoster 5.2.17
    might this cause the problem? if not, what can it be and how to solve, i want to use the theme on my site …

    thank you
    sofian

    2. That’s a warning caused by whatever plugin you use for the gallery – wpgallery. It’s outputting text where it shouldn’t.
      I don’t think it’s PHP version related. I think the configuration on your local host is just different than the one on the hosting account, and you weren’t getting that warning (but it was still there).

      You’ll need to debug what’s on line 334 of wpgallery/wp-includes/i10n.php file and figure out what’s going on.

  10. Hey people,
    I have a problem!
    I want to change my site from 1 sidebar to the right to 2 sidebars on each side. But when I select the desired layout my sidebar is suddenly left, leaving a white empty space on the right. When I try to fill it up myself with widgets my site sort of shifts. The middle column suddenly covers the left sidebar and though the sidebar on the right has widgets in it, next to it there’s still a white empty space.

    I hope someone can help me with this!
    Thanks in adance 🙂

    1. Hi Suze, I have exactly the same problem. Just sent an email with this question to support and now I see your comment. Hope someone can help with this !

    3. I believe that’s a bug brought up in 1.8.9 together with the structure changes intended for mobile devices.
      You can either revert to 1.8.8 or wait for 1.9.0 (where I think it’s fixed).

  11. HI there
    just wondering if the version has come out where we can get rid of the ‘read more’ columns on the presentation page? Or how we can get rid of those?
    thanks, have a great day

  12. Hey guys, I love the theme and how customisable it is. Thanks for offering this to the world.

    I had a question: When I try to use the presentation option, I select the dropdown with the categories in but it just takes me to mydomain.com/catagory/slug

    Am I doing something wrong that it does that or is it a bug?

    Thanks in advance

      1. Hi Zed,

        Mantra version: 1.8.9.1
        Wordpress version: 3.3.2
        Browser: Firefox 12

        Issue occurs admin side. I choose the category from the drop down in the presentation option and it redirects to the page as mentioned is last comment

          3. Hey, no worries. I had a mess about with the functions and managed to add another box for a 6th one and changed some of the layout of it and added options to define the link titles

  13. Thanks for the update to 1.8.9.1 and de the great template . The problem is fixed.

    My next question is about mobile devices. is it possible to scale the page by zooming in an out? I only see the left part of my page on my iPhone (different browsers). The page is not scrollable or zoomable. What could be a solution?

    2. We added a new piece of CSS to make the website resize itself on small-screen mobile devices.
      You can disable this feature (it will be disabled by default in the next update) by removing all CSS following the
      /* =Responsive Structure
      line in mantra/style.css
      This will make the theme behave like before.

  16. Regarding my last post: I solved issues #1 and #2.

    Line 52 in footer.php was:

    It should be:

    After I changed that, the fatal error disappeared and my taskbar re-appeared. Leaves just #3 but that is an ‘old’ issue I can live with.

  17. Hi,

    I updated to 1.8.9.1 and three things happened (or didn’t happen):
    1. My black WP task bar at the top doesn’t show up anymore when I visit my site as administrator.
    2. At the very bottom of the site it shows a fatal error:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function mantra_social_icons() in /home/vhosts/succinct.ca/subdomains/blog/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/mantra/footer.php on line 52
    3. The home page, which is set as one column, no sidebar, still has the sidebar (this is not new, but still exists

    The issues 1 and 3 are no real biggies but #2 looks kinda ‘unprofessional’. I’d appreciate it if you would be so kind to have a look at this.

    Thanks

  18. Hi, great theme! Just one question, does it support IE6? I know it’s an such old version, but still, there are plenty users of it in my country. If it doesn’t support, is there anything I can do about that?

  19. header question: i know to upload a custom header graphic in appearance>header, but when I do the WordPress for some reason demands that I crop the image before display. Then the image is small and your theme tries its best to get it to fill the header space and it comes out looking stretched and pixillated. (check out alignbodyworks.com) What am I doing incorrectly if anything? Have you run into this before? Do you know why my WordPress thinks the header graphic should be cropped? frustrated…
    Thanks for any help, it’s appreciated.

  20. Love your template…thank you for making it available to us. It is so versatile that even though many people use it, each site can still look so different.

    I’ve noticed most of the people who post here don’t use the featured image on their pages so I couldn’t find any help here.

    I can’t seem to get it to work right.

    On the pages where the featured image is to appear there is some error in css coding in which there is space above and below the image. see: http://chaliceonline.com/photo-gallery/sing2010/ (and other pages in that same category). I can’t seem to find the code to correct.

    Also is there some way to crop the featured image without uploading a separate file? I’ve tried cropping in the media library but it still uses the full image. Sometimes that is not feasible since it crops exactly the same off top and bottom.

    Another problem I had was a conflict with another plugin. On our booking page, the forms plugin uses li and with the bullets enabled they showed up on the forms page and not very well, I might add. I tried my hardest to code the css to not include bullets on that page and got frustrated. So in order to use the bullets on other pages I had to create a new div on the forms page and find all of the coordinating css codes to use it. It was complicated but it works.

    I would so appreciate any help you can give me.

    Thanks in advance,
    Kris

  21. Thank you for the terrific theme! I’ve been looking for a suitable theme for a long time and this is just what I want.
    some questions:
    1. I enabled favicon but it doesn’t work, http://mydomain/favicon.icon doesn’t show the favicon either, I’ve tried to change some code in header.php–actually I know little about that–Anyway, I can make it show in the http://mydomain/favicon.icon , but it still doesn’t show in the browsers. What could be wrong? I’m sorry I cant provide a link because it’s a local site, I’m still working on that.
    2. I want to make the sidebar background color show gradient, or add shadow or button or anything to make it less flat, like the menu, any CSS code can do that? any suggestions?
    3. My site is not English, the “says” in comments doesn’t show well, where can I change it?

    I’m not sure if the questions are too silly…..sorry for the trouble anyway, and thank you for the theme again, it’s really great.

    1. 1. It’s favicon.ico. Anyway, some browsers don’t show it right away (I don’t really remember which do what), so after you upload/set your favicon, try accessing your website from a different computer or browser on which you haven’t viewed the website before. Otherwise… wait a couple of hours (days), and the browsers will eventually read the favicon.
      2. I suggest you install Firebug for Firefox, and play around with css backgrounds, shadows and whatnot.
      3. For that you’ll need to translate the theme (to keep the changes on updates)

  22. I really like playing with this theme. Thank you for all the hard work.

    I have a problem – If you go to the page you will see that the body is left aligned over the left widget column. I can’t seem to correct this by adjusting sizing in the layout section unless I change the layout to body on left, two widget columns on right.

    I would like the home page to flow differently as well. I would like one featured article to take up the entire width of the body, and I would like the latest article from each of four main sections to show up in two columns below that. How can that be accomplished? I have seen this done in other themes.

  23. Hi, thanks for the great theme. I’m italian and I used Mantra for a professional site of a B&B. Also I used qTranslate plugin to translate my site in other language such as english, but I’m not able to translate the Presentantion Page. How do I??? Thanks.

  24. When using the magazine layout is there a way for posts to flow down the page, e.g Post 2 drops beneath Post 1 in the left hand column then on being forced off the bottom of the left hand column by new posts moves to the top of the right hand column.

    1. At the moment the only way to make that work is to keep the post excerpts the same height. If one post is higher then another then the second one will go under the previous one. We were thinking about making 2 columns for the magazine layout but that way posts will not follow the order horizontally anymore but it will be vertically.

        1. Adding article.hentry { height: 200px; } in Mantra’s custom CSS box will make all homepage posts same height, making them arrange correctly.
          This height fits most articles while not leaving too much white space between them, although you’ll need to edit some posts to make them shorter to fit.

  25. I’ve exact the two same warnings as Chase.
    What could be the problem?

    Warning: Missing argument 2 for wp_kses(), called in /home/bikesport/domains/teameasy2bike.nl/public_html/x/wp-content/themes/mantra/admin/mantra-sanitize.php on line 85 and defined in /home/bikesport/domains/teameasy2bike.nl/public_html/x/wp-includes/kses.php on line 502

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/bikesport/domains/teameasy2bike.nl/public_html/x/wp-includes/kses.php:502) in /home/bikesport/domains/teameasy2bike.nl/public_html/x/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866

    The second problem is: uploading a flavicon doe not work

    Thanks a lot in advance

  26. Hiya, love this theme it is beautiful and easy to use (when I open my eyes lol) and I love it.

    Forgive me if this is a gumby question, I’m still (relatively) new at this. I’d like to put the contact form into the bottom text of the presentation page… where I’ve got “phone me, email me..” I’d like to put “or contact me via the below form”. Unfortunately my contact form is a widget and when I tried to paste the HTML for that into the bottom text box it just pasted the contact form code… 🙁

    I’d also like to put the widget for the blog posts in there too, maybe.

    I like keeping the bottom footers of the theme clean and easy to see, for branding purposes, else I’d just install the widgets there, but they’d fit so much more nicely in the text box.

    Again, forgive me if this is a really dumb question. 🙂

    1. There are no dumb questions.

      The widget only goes in a widget area, otherwise it’s not interpreted and will not result in desired results.

      So at the moment you won’t be able to add that contact form in the text area unless you use a HTML contact form.

  27. I noticed some other people posting this problem but I didn’t see a ‘fix’ for it (I might have overlooked it and if so, my apologies).

    As far as I understood it should be possible to create a static home page with another layout (i.e. 1 column, no sidebar) then the rest of the pages. So I created a page, called it ‘Home’ set it to one column, no sidebar. In the WP settings I set the page as the static landing page. That works, but it shows up with a sidebar.

    It is no real big deal but it would be nice if you could have a look at this. Thanks a lot.

    1. We are looking into that. At the moment the only solution is to delete the file front-page.php from the mantra folder. You will not be able to use the presentation page anymore but then again you don’t use it either.

      We’re still looking for a 100% fix.

  28. Hi,

    I posted a comment yesterday, but I’m afraid it may have been caught by the spam filter as its not showing up for some reason. If that’s not the case, my apologies, you can ignore this.

    The issue is that, on my website since updating to 1.8.9, it seems that the layout does not display properly if the browser window is less than 800px wide. It’s especially noticeable in portrait mode on phones and tablets. Any suggestions as to why this is happening?

    Thanks for the help, and of course for the great theme!

  29. Please could you add an option to customise the text before the comment box? The reason I want to do this (and so should everyone in the EU now) is that I want to tell the user that by adding a comment, a cookie will be stored on their computer and by continuing, they are giving consent for this. This is now a requirement in EU law.
    I know I could do this by editing css, but I’m sure many people would appreciate this functionality for the above reason.
    Thanks for the great theme.
    Andy

  30. Hi,

    In regards to the problem encountered by Brian. I believe that my site is experencing the same issue, but instead of freaking out I wish to get back on track.

    Working with the Mantra Settings, the problem seems to be with the Main Layout and using the three colums, sidebar on each side. When that layout is selected, the text that represent to blog postings go into the sidebar on the left. This problem doesn’t seem to occure with the other selected layouts.

    here is a link to the site with the problem occuring.
    http://www.worldofthinkers.com/

    Please keep up the great work on the best theme for WordPress.

    Venner