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! Love the theme!

    But I have a problem. I want to use the presentation page, as a welcome page with pictures sliding. So far so good. But I also want a tab in the menu to link to my blog-posts. But where are my blog posts? When setting pages in wordpress you can choos what page to put your posts in, but I can’t seem to find that option i mantra? I hope you understand what I mean, and that you can help 🙂

  2. Hi
    love this theme however i do need a bit of assistance.
    My presentation page show a background that I want to show on all pages of the site, unfortunately when I go to another page the site there is a solid block of white where the image should be. I can see the extreme outside edge of the image but not the actual image itself.

    I have set the page width to 970.

    Thanks

    Ciaran

  5. Hi,

    I like this theme, very much. But since I installed it, I’ve had problems posting media (images). I can upload them to my media gallery but when i try to post them it freezes up.

    What could i do to fix this problem?

    Thanks.

  6. Hi,
    Great theme indeed. But I’m suffering with some issues. There are a lot of tutorials where they taught about showing different menu to logged in users and non logged in users. I can’t implement that codes in ” Mantra “. Can anybody tell me how to implement these codes. I’m a php novice. So please tell me in breif.

  8. I updated to Mantra 1.9.3. this morning and since then the Presentation Page settings haven’t been working at all. I cannot change any of the Slider pictures, can’t access them at all.

    Is this a 1.9.3 Mantra bug of some sort?

    Cheers!

  9. Thanks for the answer to my header size question. I recreated my sites logo exactly to the dimensions of the header and it looks great now!

    I’m still wondering if there’s a way to move the “leave a comment” tab to the bottom of a post instead of the top. I tried doing it myself but I’m pretty much a newbie at coding. Anyone have any suggestions?

  10. Hello!

    Is it possible to make the header “hide” beneath the page buttons? As for now, the header is on top of the buttons, and since they are looking like tabs popping up from the content box, it would look really nice to get the header beneath them.

    Thanks! Mantra is by far the best theme I have tried since I installed WP.

  11. Hi there,

    I’m trying to change the background color for my comments so that it matches pages without comments. In other words, I’m building pages and using comments to insert variable information, but would like to have no background on the comment boxes. Thanks! Love the theme.

  12. I’ve been trying for days now to get the sidebar transparent.
    I placed this in the miscellaneous section provided in the mantra settings:

    #primary,#secondary {background: transparent;}

    ^this lines allows me to change the color I can make the sidebar and color I want but trying it to be ‘transparent’ shows no change, in that the sidebar turns a dark opaque grey.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks!
    B

    This theme is great!!

    1. That should be #primary, #secondary {background: none;}. If this still does not work right, add an !imporant: #primary, #secondary {background: none !important;}

      Also note that Mantra has options to hide the site title and description, so leaving them blank in WordPress is not necessary (plus it hurts SEO and a title-less window looks wrong in the browser)

      1. #primary, #secondary {background: none;}
        and
        #primary, #secondary {background: none !important;}

        These do not work:(. The only way i found the sidebar to become transparent is to set the entire #wrapper to transparent. The issue with that means I have to go into everything other place and set it to a color. <<that doesn't really feel ideal.

        Any further help would be greatly appreciated.
        Thanks
        B

  14. Hi. Really like the theme. Two questions:

    1) is it possible to relocate the “leave a comment” button to the bottom of a post, instead of the top?

    2) Is it possible to upload a full image to the site’s header, instead of being forced to take just a thin crop? I want my header to display my company logo, but try as I might, I’m always forced to crop just a rectangular section, instead of the whole thing.

    Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

    2. 1. requires modding the theme.

      2. The header image size is controlled by the header width (same as site width) and header height (configurable in Mantra settings).
      If you create an image with exactly the same size, you will no longer be asked to crop it. You can leave parts of the image transparent if they have no content, so the image matches the required size.

  15. Hi guys, I have noticed that the cryout creations copyright stays intact on the slider page but when you go into the posts it disappears even though in the footer.php file it is there. Any idea what could be causing this. I just don’t want you to think that I am trying to take away from what you have done

  17. The page tabbed “home” does not show up on the pages list in my dashboard (I’m using Go Daddy). The page did, however, have an “edit” button at the bottom and so I could add text and graphics. I linked the graphics to other pages. Now, the edit button at the bottom of the “home” page is no longer there and I have no way to delete or edit this page.

    Help!

    Andrew

  18. Hi,
    I made a german translation of the theme, based on the pot-file in the language-folder. But there are many strings appearing in english in my options although I translated them and uploaded the fulltranslated .po and .mo. What’s going wrong?

    BTW: I like your theme! 🙂

    Krissie

    PS: I found some typing errors in the english strings. How can I correct them?

  19. Hi, i am trying to override the standard drop down menu in the theme with the plugin (commercial) from uber menu. It seems after parsing the code inside the header.php, the drop down doesn’t override in the mantra theme and i displays double menu’s. I have made a separate menu but it seems not to disappear,. What did i overlook ?
    Here is what i have added in the header.php from mantra theme:
    wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container_class’ => ‘menu-header’, ‘menu_id’ =>’prime_nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’ ) ); ?>

  20. Hi, Great Theme, just started playing but I can’t get rid of the image in Presentation Page Column, if I leave it blank I get an area where the image was. Is there are way to remove the image?

  21. Heya, Complete noob here [sounds of disgust acknowledged], working on my first WP site. I understand the principle of the child theme, and why its needed, having digested the relevant documentation. (No need to refer me back to the codex page.) Question is: May I take it that my Mantra theme options, as selected in the dashboard, will be saved and carried over to a future Mantra update (i.e. that they won’t be overwritten as non-child html/php changes would be)? If so, and out of curiosity, what file are they recorded in, and referenced from?

    Thank you for what appears to be your uncommonly generous support for Mantra. If I use it, I’ll definitely buy y’all a few cups o’ joe.

    1. Mantra options are always kept between versions. There was one incident between v1.4 and 1.5 where all settings were lost on update (due to a forced rename of all variable names). Hopefully this will never be the case again (and if it will, we’ll try to warn everyone before the update).
      Keep in mind that if you configure Mantra (as the active theme) and then create a child theme, your saved Mantra settings are not inherited to the child theme when you activate it and you’ll need to redo all settings (this is because the settings are saved by WordPress based on the theme names).
      All settings are saved in the database by WordPress’ engine as a serialized array.
      Since version 1.9 Mantra also has an import/export feature – so you can now make backups of your settings or even transfer them over to another site. And in a worst case scenario, all the settings are human readable in the export file.

      1. Well, I did enable it and I added custom images to the directory, but nothing has changed….Any thoughts on this? Is the slider in the body of the presentation page or is it in the header? Thanks!

        I love the theme and will be making a donation shortly.

  23. Hi I am just putting together my Mantra site and I have chosen to use the Presentation page. I cant seem to work out where I alter and place text for this page. Have searched and searched.
    Probably looking me in the face. I can see where you add and edit posts and add and edit pages but what about the home presentation page??? Cheers Monz

  24. Hi Guys, I have started to blend my website with my blog and create a new site using this great theme. I have moved my blog post from .com to .org but the embedded videoes did not come across (Chris has already explained this to me). I have now finally got round to start updating my video links only to find they will not show on a post. I have tried the standard upload function and also tried adding the Video Sidebar Widgets plug-in but with no effect. Any ideas?
    Colin

    1. Embedded media is not related to the theme. That’s WordPress alone. WordPress.org hosted blogs have a lot of built-in modules that self-hosted blogs do not.
      The JetPack plugin (created by the WordPress team) includes, among a lot of other useful tools, the video embedding ability. You’ll however need a WordPress account to be able to use this plugin.

  25. Hi,
    First up – I cant thank you enough for this theme. It has unbelievable customisation options 🙂 I will do my part to ensure that you can get better with this product.

    Quick qs – I want to change the colour of the tabs under the header section and the meta section (where the posts are). Please advice.
    many thanks

  26. Hello,
    Would be nice, if only the Mantra files were deleted during an update. I use some customized templates with Mantra and after every update these files are deleted. So please don’t delete the whole folder. Delete the old files with a file list. Shouldn’t be a great thing of work

  27. Hi,
    Please tell me where I can find the code to chenge titles(above and below the slider) which page of the wordpress editor.
    I know it is in the
    html> body.home> div#wrapper .hfeed> div #main> div #forbottom> div #frontpage> div #front-text1 > h1 .

    I can’t find the div #frontpage> div #front-text1 > h1 portion of the code from .php file. Please tell me where the code is. I know some php, css but not expert.

  28. I enjoy to have this nice theme.
    I have drag the “Category” into the first footer widget area, “comments” & “recent post” into the third& fourth footer widget area. Since I created many categories and the length of the some categories are about 500px wide.
    If I check “display as dropdown”, the dropdown menu will overlapped the nearby widget area.
    If I uncheck “display as dropdown”, it will not overlap nearby widget area, but the footer are bulky.
    How can I fix the width of the dropdown menu? Can anyone help me?
    [I am sorry that link cannot be provided, but I have captured the screen for your information as below:
    https://picasaweb.google.com/103229278261463870665/1July2012?authkey=Gv1sRgCPy1kvL8mbj2EQ#5759887985237016178%5D

      1. Zed,
        Thanks for your response on my query. Since we are constructing the site in bilingual (both languages are formal language for us), some of names will be long.
        How to force the “select” width?
        Any link / documentary in Mantra/WordPress is talking about this issue (for my reference)?

  29. Hi, great theme!
    I want to add pics in pages, but there’s a problem. All the pics have the same border, but I hope some .gif pics don’t get any border. I add them by url, I tried to use html code border=”0″ but failed. I guess I ‘m not good at it. Could you help me with that?

      1. Thank you.
        I’ve solved the problem, but I found if I set any border in the theme setting, CSS could not make pics border-less. So I choose the first non-border setting, and add border code to where I need in CSS .

    1. THANKS, KAY!

      I am loving Mantra. I evidently neglected the instructions about the settings to make the presentation page active. That is on me. I appreciate your help.