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1,163 Comments

  1. Your theme is simply the best I’ve found as far as number of options and easily resetting them! Great job!

    I do have some problems, though.

    The main one is the top menu (the one at the bottom of the top banner). Is it possible to disable that? I need to compartmentalize the contents, and that menu defeats my purposes.

    Also, this probably can’t be done, but it doesn’t hurt to ask — it’d be a great help if I could have different menus in the sidebars of different pages, i.e. main page has menus A, B, and C. Another page has menus A1, A2, and A3. Another has menus B1, B2, B3, etc.

    Any help appreciated!

    1. These are actually more WordPress question than theme-dependent.
      You cannot disable the main menu (there’s also a top menu which can be enabled above the header). What you can do is hide it with CSS:
      #access { display: none !important; }

      As for separate menus (placed in widgets) for different pages… that’s not possible without editing around the theme files.

  2. I’d like to be able to add another slider on the presentation page, specifically in the “bottom text 2” field. Silder size would be different to that for the top slider and would be useful to scroll through sponsors or other content not as important as that in the top slider. Is it possible for this field to be modified so that it could be used for another slider? Thanks for a great theme.

  3. Hi,

    Looked through all the comments and cant seem to find an answer to my query.

    Pretty simple really, on the main presentation slider, is it possible to set it to “Latest Posts from Category” but also insert an image aswell? I had it set to custom where it toggled through some links to other pages with images, then decided I would like to set it to “Latest Posts from Category”. It is currently set to that but as the box is quite large, it displays a short intro of the post with a read more link and just has a black background with a round buffer icon :/
    In the settings I cant seem to find how to add an image anywhere.

    Thanks,

  5. Hi! Great Job you do! Tnx!
    Some remarks: I love your ‘white-Light’ strategy. And I would like to have it ALL(most) white, background and all. Then there is just one little issue: The selected menu-tab is plainwhith with no shade or lining. Also the other tabs now hang a little lose and lost in the sky. I solved this for the time being by colouring the header light gray. So how about the following suggestion: If the selected tab would have a shade, or a tiny liitle line around, and the whole menu-component would ‘stand’ on a tiny – left and right side fading- line (so on the top of the contentpain) the menu would gain body and still be very subtile light.

    Another thing I noticed: In earlier versions, in the text version of the header, there was a vertical bar between the title and the sub-tiltle. This disapeared somewhere before the current 1.9.8 …. and I liked it so much…. Can you give it back please…

    Thanks Guys!

  6. Hi!

    First of all thank you for this theme, it’s awesome.
    I have two questions, I looked for solutions here and there but I didn’t find anything.

    1/ I wish my featured images could appear on the “single” post, as a normal first image. As a “post header”, if you want (not the blog header !)
    I do not want to do it manually for each of my posts : I’m sure there’s a code but I’m afraid I’m no expert, and I don’t want to do anything wrong… Can you help me ? (By the way, this would be a nice option in the “Featured image” settings.)

    2/ There are some strange large dots in the “sharing zone” offered by Jetpack, in the lower part of each post, just before every icon. First, it’s rather ugly, and then, you can click on it, and it opens a windows with an error inside, so this is pretty annoying… Is there a way to fix that ? I saw that issue on my blog, but also there, for instance : http://www.mymarketingcafe.com/chapter-au-lait/

    Thank you very much (and sorry for my English…)

  7. The Mantra WordPress Template is Fabulous – EXCEPT…. I have designed the same website three times. First to see if the template was one I wanted to use. Second to create a test site. Third to create the actual site to go public. When I created the Third site – the scroll feature did not work properly and still does not. Some pages scroll and others do not. Some pages show the “leave comment” area and others do not. The second thing to break on the template was the field for SEO at the bottom of the blog area. Instead of remaining confined to it’s space – it extended out further to the left blocking some of the area needed to select blog categories. It these are bugs – they need to be fixed. It they continue I will need to change templates – as it is – if they work well I am ready to put some money on the line because you deserve something for your marvelous effort. But as the template stands now – not so much!!! One further comment – I copied verbatim the settings from the test site to the actual site so I am not sure where the problem occurred.

    1. We cannot provide an answer right away since we don’t know the cause. Does a fresh copy of Mantra work? If yes then you must’ve edited something in the theme. The $matnra_options variable that you are getting the errors for is actually the array in which all the settings from the Mantra settings page are saved.

      If you still need help start a support ticket and give us temp access to your WP installation.

  10. These lines of code/functions seem to be what is causing the problems:

    /* Code/Function #1 that is causing problems */

    /* This retrieves admin options. */
    $mantra_options= mantra_get_theme_options();
    foreach ($mantra_options as $key => $value) {
    ${“$key”} = esc_attr($value) ;
    }

    /* Code/Function #2 that is causing problems */\

    // Getting the theme options and making sure defaults are used if no values are set
    function mantra_get_theme_options() {
    global $mantra_defaults;
    $optionsMantra = get_option( ‘ma_options’, $mantra_defaults );
    $optionsMantra = array_merge($mantra_defaults, $optionsMantra);
    return $optionsMantra;
    }

    $mantra_options= mantra_get_theme_options();
    foreach ($mantra_options as $key => $value) {
    ${“$key”} = $value ;
    }

    Every error message I am getting on my page has to do with this variable $mantra_options or the foreach loop that uses the $mantra_options variable or an array_merge that uses the $mantra_options variable. Bottom line: this variable $mantra_options is what is causing my problems and I need you to research this issue and find out what this variable is supposed to do and what I can do to fix this problem.

    Thank You,
    Jason
    p.s. Please send me an email so I don’t have to keep checking back here to see if you have answered this question.

  11. Ok…so I am STILL having this problem with the mantra theme!!!!!!!!!!! (See my post September 10th, 2012 at 11:30). I have done NUMEROUS clean installs, database backups, restore databases, delete everything except wp-content, and wp-config.php. You name it, I’ve tried it a hundred times!!!! Every other theme works just fine but when I activate mantra, all hell breaks loose. I love the mantra theme and I want to use it. I designed my site using mantra and have the site 100% ready but I can’t launch the site because mantra breaks everything. PLEASE Cryout Creations. Help me fix this. And before you ask: Yeah, I tried that. Nothing has worked. You need to figure out what is wrong and fix it.

  12. Folks, love Mantra theme, however trying to figure out how to prevent menu (UberMenu) from left side panel to go under main panel – I know it has to be done with z-index: , but what element I need to apply it to?

  15. I have installed the site that I created using Mantra and I transferred the wordpress files to my root directory so that I could set the URL to http://www.mydomain.com instead of http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress. Anyway, after doing this and going to my domain, I get a LOT of errors that are basically the same (I have posted some of them below).

    This function below seems to be the one causing all the trouble:

    function mantra_get_theme_options() {
    global $mantra_defaults;
    $optionsMantra = get_option( ‘ma_options’, $mantra_defaults );
    $optionsMantra = array_merge($mantra_defaults, $optionsMantra);
    return $optionsMantra;
    }

    AND
    This foreach() loop is also causing lots of errors:

    foreach ($mantra_options as $key => $value) {
    ${“$key”} = esc_attr($value) ;
    }

    Here are some of the errors when you go to my page (my URL is ccseniorservices.com if you want to go there and see the errors if that would help):

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/ccss2012/public_html/wp-content/themes/mantra/admin/main.php on line 24

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/ccss2012/public_html/wp-content/themes/mantra/admin/main.php on line 29

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/ccss2012/public_html/wp-content/themes/mantra/admin/main.php on line 24

    Thanks, Jason

      1. Hi Chris! Love the art that you’re making!

        What you want to remove is the caption shadow. To do this go to the Mantra Settings Page >> Misc Settings >> Custom CSS and paste the following code:


        #content .wp-caption {
        -moz-box-shadow:none;
        -webkit-box-shadow:none;
        box-shadow:none;
        }

        Good luck!

  17. Ok, 3 questions basically about the same thing: 1) I’m trying to have the “Extra Text” Titles on the presentation match the font and shadows automatically applied to my page and post titles. While I’ve found how to un-do the italics on the titles, the font is showing up bolder than the rest and without the shadows. 2) I would also like to remove the italics on the extra text content so the font matches the rest of the content on my site, and 3) is there any way to re-position the extra text so the title’s and text on the presentation page are above/below the slider, the columns, or as a sidebar etc..? Any help would be much appreciated!

  18. Just testing if it’s possible to post here. Didnt work last time i tested. If it’s posted, feel free to remove it.
    Last time the message was “You put the wrong thing in the circle , Please try again”

  23. Three questions.

    1) How can I adjust the size/font/color/style of the extra text sections on the presentation page? Both for “Bottom
    Text 1” and “Bottom Text 2”?

    2) Is there a way to adjust the background color of the entire sidebar? Right now it’s plain white, like the rest of the content, but I’d like to be able to set the sidebar apart by using an off-grey color. I can see where I can adjust the sidebar header or text color, just nothing for the sidebar background.

    3) I’ve set the “text shadow” setting for headers and titles to “disable”, but my page titles are still showing a text shadow.

    Thanks in advance!

    2. Josh, regarding #1: I’ve tried inline css styling, and that didn’t do it. HTML is recognized in that box, so I got desperate and tried the deprecated font-color tag, and that didn’t even work.

      1. Michael,
        I asked a similar question not too long ago about the “Top Title” and “Second Title” boxes. The text I put into those boxes was coming up in italics and I wanted them removed. I received a reply with the following code that I was instructed to insert in the “Custom CSS” box under “Miscellaneous Settings”. It did in fact work, but I’m not a coding expert (or even a novice) so I don’t know if this will or won’t help with my current issue.

        Here’s the code I was told to use:
        #front-text1 h1, #front-text2 h1 { font-style: normal !important; }

      2. Michael,
        I had a problem previously with the “Top Title” and the “Bottom Title” text boxes displaying in italics. I got a response that had me add the code below to the “Custom CSS” box found under “Miscellaneous Settings”. Now, I’m not fluent in code in the least, but perhaps someone else can figure out how to edit “Bottom Text 1 & 2” using the same idea?

        #front-text1 h1, #front-text2 h1 { font-style: normal !important; }

          1. Michael,
            You are the man! I did NOT know how to apply CSS before, but after looking at the link, I think I’m starting to get a grasp of CSS. I’m not a complete loss, I have built several computers of my own, I just never got much into programming/coding. I’m starting to pick up on some of the CSS language/format, but this is a great resource I can use now. I just have to learn where to find various things within the code itself to make further adjustments (I want to change a lot of the widget fonts/styles on the sidebar, along with changing the background color of the sidebar.). Should help clear up a couple other tweaks I wanted to make on my site. Thanks again!

  24. I need to create more templates but even if I copy the page.php file and name it clients.php and just change the code at the top of the file from

    /**
    * The template for displaying all pages.
    *
    * This is the template that displays all pages by default.
    * Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages
    * and that other ‘pages’ on your WordPress site will use a
    * different template.
    *
    * @package Cryout Creations
    * @subpackage mantra
    * @since mantra 0.5
    */

    to

    /*
    Template Name: Client
    */

    Then set the page to use the Client template then the sidebar breaks and suddenly becomes half the size! Any ideas what might cause this?

    Thanks!

        1. Hi kandasa!

          Please give us the .po and .mo files, we’ll include them in the next version of the theme and you won’t have to replace them after every update. Start a new support ticket and upload the files there.

  27. Think i have same problem as Bain? (i just updated – my bad i didn’t read here first, but as the update didn’t give any info what the update was for, i guessed it had some security issues involved)
    See: “Hund -> Lure Coursing -> LC-trening Trøndelag” – Not just wrong position, but impossible to hit/navigate to the side.

  28. Hi,
    I’ve got 2 problems:

    (1) I don’t know if this is a problem with the Mantra theme or not. I’m trying to create accordian-style menu widgets. I’ve tried several different plugins, and they all behave in this way: the menu will not slide open like an accordian menu should. All menu items are always open, no matter what settings i choose. I don’t know if jquery is the issue, because I can’t find an accordian menu widget that doesn’t use jquery.

    (2) This weekend, I set up a nav menu that has one primary and 3 sub-levels.
    The first sublevel is fine.

    The second sublevel doesn’t open to the right of its parent, but instead, aligns at the top of the first sublevel menu.

    The 3rd sublevel has some sort of z-index problem. Every other 3rd sublevel menu item appears to be layered below the page content.

    1. Item (2) is a known bug; we’re currently hunting the bug down hoping to catch it pretty soon.
      (1) Mixing plugins that use a lot of javascript with themes that use a lot of javascript is never a great idea (and something usually fails). If you could list the plugins you tried, I’ll give them a test and maybe find a solution.

      1. Hi,
        Thanks for the info. I can’t remember all of the plugins I tried, but I do remember two of them: Floating Menu and jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu
        Thanks a lot!

          1. Hello. Just installed 1.98, and the menus look better now, but are still having z-index issues. The 3rd level menu is still having the issue in which some items layer below the page content and you can’t read or click them.
            Thanks,
            Michael Bain