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. Can you use an iframe in the extra info section? I tried to add a table with two columns on my site with some static information on one side at the bottom and a scrolling google calendar via iframe on the other side at the bottom. When I add this html code to the presentation page extra info settings and click save. It strips out my iframe code. Can I escape it some way to make it save?

  2. I’d like to add social networks’ ‘share’ buttons on my Mantra-based website but I cannot find a way to do that… In Mantra settings, there are social media settings but to link a website to your own social media pages. I tried to use plugins but they do not seem to work on the homepage…
    Any similar experience? Help?
    Thanks!
    Magali

  4. Hello, I installed Mantra theme too in my wordpress blog but I I have the same issues as “fastspeak”:

    I want the slider to show the latest posts so I changed the settings for the presentation page for slider to make it show the recent posts. But after that the slider get’s the title and a small excerpt of the post but does not show any images. Note that if I use custom slides it works. I did not remove any copyright or something. I just changed settings to this:

    Select the content you want to load in your slides: Latest Posts
    Number of posts to show: 2

    Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

    1. Since you disabled the slider I can’t see what’s wrong.
      Make sure the image links are right and make sure no plugin you are using is overriding WordPress’ included jQuery version.
      And I see you’ve removed our copyright. That’s very nice of you…. NOT!

    1. The post separator is a grey border at the bottom of the posts/articles… You can customize is as much as you can customize CSS borders:
      article.post, article.page { border-bottom: 3px solid #EEEEEE; }

  11. Can someone please tell me how to add the meta back to the sidebar. I added like I had in previous versions and it looks awful. It is not aligned like the widgets like it used to be. Please help me as this is driving me to distraction

  12. I tried to submit a support request but the captcha on that form seems to be broken (so I used the contact form instead).
    I also provided the paypal transaction ID.
    Please reply to me or fix the form (the captcha on the support form behaves fine)…

  13. I love this theme – as you guys know. But with all the updates, it becomes a huge chore to change the code to keep it to what I want it. I made a couple of suggestions that would benefit the theme and you seem to have ignored them.

    Do you not listen to your users and implement good changes? I fear I may have to go elsewhere to get a theme that allows my changes to be kept intact. It is hard work to make all the changes so I don’t lose my edits and you don’t have many hooks to make a child theme work.

    I beg of you to look back at the changes I was offering and implement them,

    Please get back to me you lovely people

  15. Hi everyone at cryout creations,
    Thanks for this absolutely wonderful gem of a theme. I’m actually proud to have you guys in my footer.. !
    I had a small problem wherein I was using the ‘presentation page’ for my site and as of now I have configured 2 posts to be shown in the slider using the custom posts function in theme settings. Both slider images are sadly linking to the same post! What can I do to make them link to their own posts?

    1. This is a known bug caused by a change to make the slider more compatible with IE (thanks a lot, IE!) – the link of the last slide is applied on all slides. This issue will be fixed in the next update.

  16. Hi
    I am a total newbie so please excuse the stupidity.
    My site is not yet online, i am editing it from the server.
    I have just installed the Mantra theme. Its Great!!!
    Just what I wanted, Well almost.
    My first question is :-
    Is there a way I can add more slides to the presentation page. I love the slides but i would like to add a lot more.
    Cheers
    Derek

      1. thanks for your quick answer.
        I have managed to add extra line on the admin page that selects the custom images, I can select the images then save but when i go to the site it is still only showing 5 images (after refresh) i assume there must be some code that limits the images to 5.
        What file is this in?
        Thanks

  17. Hi!

    I seem to be having problems with the links in the presentation page slider. I chose to show custom slides for the slider and have 5 different pictures pointing to different links in my website. However, when the slider is clicked, the site goes to the last link in the slider. No matter what picture I click, they all point to the link of the 5th slide.

    I really don’t know what to do to fix this. I hope that there will be somebody who can help me with this. =)

  18. I have a litte problem with displaying my static page’s titel (not your themes presentation page) in my browser tab. It simply says “-“. The other pages on my site will show their titles in the browser tab (also followed with “-“; I guess that’s some kind of default option……in your theme……?????
    I would like to show my static (home)page-title in the browser tab. As with the other pages I put in a title, but is does not show?
    How to resolve this?

    I am using the “Mantra”theme al over my site now and changing to “Twenty-Eleven” or some other themes seem to solve the problem, but I do not like the Twenty Eleven theme or the other themes. So the problem seems mantra-theme related……(also would like to remove the default “-“……)

    TIA,
    Erik

    1. Go to Appearance, and select Customize (beside the Mantra theme). Fill in Site Title and Tagline. This populates the fields. Then, to turn off the text (so it doesn’t display over your header image, go to Mantra Settings – Graphics Settings -Title and Description and select Hide.

  20. Looking for a way to make my post excerpts include the videos/picture I put at the top of my posts. Currently not working. Tried looking in the excerpt settings and didn’t see anything for this option, it just defaults to putting the first text of the post in my excerpt.

    My sidebar information is also missing and I’m unsure how it disappeared or where to get it back, so any help there would be appreciated. Don’t see an option under appearance to get rid of it, so not sure what happened.

    1. Hmm… the first image in the post is included in the excerpt if the option to do this is enabled (Mantra Settings > Featured Image Settings > Auto Select Images From Posts). Videos… not possible without modifications to the theme.

      You can disable the sidebar completely if you set the layout to no sidebars (Mantra Settings > Appearance > Layout). At the moment your site doesn’t work… so I can’t do more checks.

  21. Hi! My site is a FAQ site and I would like the after the excerpt to read
    Would be nice if that could be done in the settings. I guess now I have to modify it in the source.

    Does anybody know where to find it?

    Best,
    Arno oeecoach.com

  23. Dumb question here,

    If I update the theme to the new (1.9.9.1) will I lose all customizations I have made to it? There is a note that suggests that but I was unsure and don’t want to update it if that is the case!

    However, the theme is amazing, I have tried a ton and found this one to easily be the most sleek and customizable one around!

    Thanks!

    1. If you have done changes in theme files, it will be lost. If you have done it in Misc -> custom – it should not be effected. But just in case, just do a “export” of settings on right side there.

  24. Hello,
    I’m looking for some help regarding customizing the main menu text color. I can’t find an option to choose the menu text specifically. Can anyone provide me with the Custom CSS code I should use to set the menu text color? Thanks!

  25. I want Mantra to display comments by default. Some searching suggested this code:

    I added this to the loop in index.php but it has no effect. Can anyone explain how I can enable comments on every post?

    Thanks in advance.

  27. Not sure where to leave requests for future releases…could you make it so we can change the bullet image both in the content and the sidebar?

    Also it would be great to see a page of examples….like a page of sites that use Mantra theme to see all the different ways people use it.

    1. You can change the bullets in the sidebar. In the content you can only hide the bullets. And it will probably stay that way.
      The page of examples is not a bad idea and we might do it i the future. Until then you can click on people’s names right here in the comments and most of the times you’ll see their sites.

      1. I actually meant to change it to a custom bullet, one that would match the style of the website.

        Could you at least allow the content bullets to match the sidebar ones?

        I did figure a word-around to replace a custom bullet, by adding the file to the bullets folder and renaming it one of the bullets you have already. But the size has to be exactly the same as before or it won’t work. Just seems there could be an easier, more effective way.

        1. Nope there isn’t. Since it has to fill the same space it has to have the same dimensions. You can however play with the padding of it. Replace the bullet again and we’ll give you the custom CSS code to make it fit.

  29. Hello!
    Tnx for the Mantra-theme! I like the adjustablity of this theme but two things I cannot seem to change.
    1. is het backgroundcolor of the “date, category, comment” line above each post. It has a white background and I would like to change it to grey, like the background of the sidebar (see: http://www.eviz.nl/blog.html and you will see what I mean).
    2. I would like to change the size of the header (height). As you can see I am using the blog in a Iframe so I have no use for a header

    TIA,
    Erik

    1. Real sorry but you removed the copyright link from our theme and we don’t offer any support to people that do that. You can read more about that right at the legal section of this page.

      Good luck!

      1. Eh…? I am not awere that I have. It still says powered by Mantra and WordPress and it links to your newwebsite (which is not in use yet). When the blog is in iFrame it only opens in the iFrame (i have to figure out how the link opens in a new page). When the blog is outside the iFrame there seems no problem: http://www.eviz.nl/blog/
        Or are you refering to another copyrightnotice?

      2. I’m sorry to be picky Kay, but … in v1.9.9 at least, $mantra_defaults[‘mantra_copyright’] is set to an empty string (in admin/defaults.php). Isn’t it therefore a bit difficult to accuse anyone of having “removed the copyright link” when that link (for them) never existed?

        1. Really nice of you to go all that way. That variable actually stores your copyright text. The text that actually goes under the mantra copyright. Like ‘Copyright © 2012 YourSite’ and stuff and it’s an editable field in the Graphics settings.

          We would have no reason to make a constant text like the ‘Powered by’ text into a variable anyway.

          1. Yep, figured that … and it makes perfect sense.
            Just for my edification then (though possibly others as well), when you refer to “removal of copyright”, do you actually mean the “Powered by …” link in #site-info (produced by mantra_site_info(), and overrideable by child themes)?
            My main reason for asking is : since you have done so much to enable easy child theme support, and you recommend using child themes, could you not supply an example of how you would like people using a child theme to pre-define the mantra_site_info() function in such a manner that the Mantra theme still gets mentioned? Because as soon as a child theme is activated, the site info becomes that of the child theme, not Mantra, and “Powered by Mantra” becomes “Powered by [name of Mantra child]”. The inference then is that support requests made here (and where a specific website can be viewed) will be refused … very politely, of course!
            [ An alternative could be to enhance Mantra’s mantra_site_info() to cope with child themes in a manner that suits you? While still leaving it overrideable? ]
            Oh, and thanks for the quick response btw. A really nice theme!

          2. “Really nice of you to go all that way. That variable actually stores your copyright text. The text that actually goes under the mantra copyright.
            Like ‘Copyright © 2012 YourSite’ and stuff and it’s an editable field in the Graphics settings.”

            As far as I am aware I only made my copyrrightsettings in that form in the graphics settings and have not changed any other copyright-settings, As I mentioned in this topic before there is still the “powered by mantra and wordpress” text and link above my copyright-notice.

            There may be some misunderstanding (or jumping the conclusions) if you have looked at the other pages then the blog-page on my site for your copyrightnotice. Those pages are not built with your mantra-theme nor with wordpress. Those pages are (my own design and) built with the wysiwyg web-editor studiowebdesign/webplus. I did not like the blog-possibilities of that software. WordPress and your theme filled my needs for a blog. I could match the mantra-theme with the rest of my pages (made before I built the blog), that’s why I like your theme so much. That’s also the reason why the blog is in an iFrame.

            I did not know anything about php/css and html so that’s why I wanted your help with the header and the meta-text-bar-background-colour. I am a fast student, I think, cause I managed to do the changes.

            Nevertheless, if I have removed any copyrightnotice that I was not suppossed to, let me know and I will place it back.

            greetz,
            Erik

          3. Hi guys!

            @Wizzud

            Yes we mean the ‘Powered by’ text.
            And yes we enabled child support but we don’t constantly check it out.

            The fact that the function is override-able is not an issue but the fact that we use a WordPress variable to get the theme’s name is. When a child theme is created that child theme’s name is used there by default. We will fix that in a future release.

            And we never ‘politely refused’ anyone for some other name appearing instead of the word Mantra there. People usually delete the whole text (including WordPress) and replace it with their own. That doesn’t just happen.

            Anyway, thanks a lot for the heads up on that 😉

            @Erik

            My bad here. We check sites in great speed due to the large number of support tickets and other projects so I just looked at the front page, saw something else and you know the rest. Now I see that you’re using Mantra only on your Blog page. Sorry about that.

            Sooo, wanted to reply to your issues but I see you figured them out in the meanwhile.

            Thanks a lot guys and good luck!

          4. “@Erik

            My bad here. We check sites in great speed due to the large number of support tickets and other projects so I just looked at the front page, saw something else and you know the rest. Now I see that you’re using Mantra only on your Blog page. Sorry about that.

            Sooo, wanted to reply to your issues but I see you figured them out in the meanwhile.”

            No prob Kay. I am glad we have figured that out in a nice way.
            And good luck to you too!!