The new PARABOLA theme is out now!

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1. i am still having a problem with adding information on the right side of the header bar. At this point I decided to add the telephone number at the end of the firm name line (Goncalves Law Office). So the left side is complete with my firm name and telephone number on the same line. Temporarily, it will do, but it does not look very professional. I am accustomed to having my firm telephone number and some further firm descriptive information immediately on the right side of the header area.

   I would not describe myself as being any more than a novice when it comes to coding, so it will be appreciated if your solution is uncomplicated.

   Thank you.

2. Hi there,

   I just want to ask if their is any other way to remove this “Powered by Paяabola & WordPress.” at the footer of the page.

   1. Please see questions A1 to A4 in the FAQs (these apply to Parabola as well).

   2. Can you resolve it?? im triying to find how to eliminate that.

3. how can i add boot strap css and shorcodes ….it will support or not

   1. What is the purpose of adding bootstrap CSS? And what shortcodes would those be?

4. Thanks for a great looking theme. If you don’t mind, I’m going to work with it a bit first. I have a LOT of wordpress themes, premium and free, and the ones I like the most I can never get to do what they are supposed to do. I’ll let you know how parabola works for me.

5. This theme is the best free theme one on the market. I love parabola panel. Thank you for creating it. I had made 2 little websites projects on it. I realy wish to buy you coffe:) Can some one tell me how can I off comments wondow on my website? Sorry but I’m just silly graphic designer girl.

   1. Reading our comments tutorial would be a good starting point 🙂

6. Hello!

   I love the way this theme looks, but I would really like BLOG POSTS to show up on the presentation page the way the PAGES do. Is there anyway to do that? That was honestly the reason I picked this theme; I thought the “pages” were blog posts.

   Thanks!
   -C

   1. Pages do NOT show up on the presentation page. But as of v1.1.2 posts can. Check the second option under Parabola Settings > Presentation Page.

7. Hi, I’ve just installed this theme for my website dundalksnookerleague.com and I’m having serious problems viewng widgets, plugins (League Manager) and embed links (Challonge) on my pages on mobile devices (works fine on laptop or PC)… the layout on the home page is perfect, but without being able to view the other content on a mobile device I’m afraid the theme is worthless… please help.

8. Hello, when ever I install the theme and try to use a child theme it really doesn’t work. The theme is all to one side and doesn’t look as it should. Any ideas? Maybe I need to import more than just style.css?

   1. You must not be using the correct structure in the child theme. Make sure it has the proper content in the required style.css file.

9. Excellent theme, guys. Have used it twice: http://www.scarletshift.com and http://www.lewismurphy.com. Very cool work!

   1. Very nice uses of the theme. Almost looks like two different themes.

      So the slider images don’t have to link to pages, aye?

      1. When you use custom slides, no. They can have any links you want or link to # (nothing).

   2. Micheal Murphy, where did you effect the change to get the Div Header color to spread Full Width of 1050px by 173px at: http://www.scarletshift.com/ AND where do I change the color. Thanks.

      1. That area is controlled by the “Header Background” colour option in theme settings.

         1. THANKS A LOT!

10. Hi Zed. How can i re arange the menu bars in the header? I want the menus in the right side.

    1. Hi Dennis!

       This isn’t Zed but I hope it’s the next best thing.

       We’ll be adding a menu alignment option really soon but until then add this to the Custom CSS area:

       #access ul li {float:right;}

11. Hi, this theme must be the greatest news since WP arrived!
    There dont seem to be any limitations so far…
    besided that I cannot hide the “Powered by” on the bottom of the pages, although I ticked “Hide the footer (copyright)”
    How do I do that?

    1. “Hide the footer” option does something else – it hides the whole footer area on the presentation page.
       There’s no option to remove the Powered by line; see questions A1 to A4 in the FAQs

12. Is it possible to move the text area above the 3 column of photos? When viewing with a phone, all you get is image after image before getting to any written content down below in a static page.

    Cool theme by the way, I especially like the default graphics you used.

13. I absolutely love this theme. Thank you very much for such excellent work. I can’t believe it’s free. There is so much thought and creativity gone into it that it’s like a premium theme but free.
    Once again A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU

    1. Thank you for using it 🙂

14. I am very new to wordpress and this is my very first theme, I must say it is amazing. Still trying to familiarise with the customizing. Few questions though,

    How do I go about changing background of the header/menu?
    And is there a way for me to include plain text instead of picture on the presentation page in 3 columns below?

    1. There’s no built-in support for that at the moment. We’ll add it in a future update.

15. Hi Zed, I want translate parabola in Italian language, but with poedit 1.5.7 i can’t open the file… Some error. I try to open it with poedit 1.5.5 because i see that you have create the file with this version, but i can’t open too.
    Can you Chek the language file for poedit is ok ?
    Thank you soo much.
    Mirko

16. After last update (0.9.7.2 ), Parabola crushed. It disappeared from the themes list, and WP (3.6) told me “index” file was missing. The only way to solve it was deleting parabola folder via FTP client (in my case, FileZilla), and uploading the whole theme again (0.9.7.2 version) with FileZilla too, “manually”. It worked. I hope you guys may solve this soon, or notify WordPress of the issue is on their end. Great theme, though! Terrific, to be honest 😉

17. Mantra has worked flawless for my business website for the past few months. Question is, If I upgrade to this new theme, what all will I have to reconfigure? Like widgets, and all the “mantra settings”? Will it be like starting all over again? I have never changed out themes before but always a first time for everything! Thanks for all the hard work guys @cryoutcreations

    1. Mantra and Parabola, although sharing the same structure and administration backend, are two different themes, all variable names are different and there’s no way to transfer settings from one to another.
       If you decide to switch themes, you’ll need to re-do all the settings and work you did the first time with Mantra.
       The widgets associations with sidebars is the only thing that will not change, but do to how the sidebars are handled differently in Mantra and Parabola, your widget may appear in the wrong sidebar.

18. When will parabola be available for automatic download from wp?

    1. This theme is absolutely amazing…don’t hesitate download it! See my site for more inspiration: http://www.paulmasters.net

       Two questions though; what setting controls the font colour on the sider ‘post excerpt’ and can I make that text bold!?

       1. Wow your site looks so fine! Anyway how do you edit the background color for the header to black? I can’t seem to figure that out!

    2. This is up to WordPress’ theme review team. We have no saying here 🙂

19. Is there any way to port settings from Mantra over to Parabola? I like the new theme, but I don’t want to start from scratch.

    1. There’s no way to transfer these over, but if you can install them both at the same time on separate websites/folders, you can copy/paste most settings from one to the other as 90% of the options are the same.

20. Hi How can I inegrate font face ? I added the font-face css, put my fonts in the fonts folder theme but is seems like the parabola settings have priority

    1. in what document is the font called ? thanks

       1. Are you integrating Google fonts or your own custom font files? Different procedures apply for the different methods.

          If your CSS declarations are overwritten by Parabola, try adding “!important” to your font rules.

21. great I like it! though I don’t know how to change all the titles are now in capital even though I changed the font. Also I would like the header area to have the same background as below. thanks!

    1. ok I found the css to disable the text-transform and to keep the same background on the header I just remove the colors in the settings, great 🙂 Now I am looking for a way to center the menu….

       1. I got it too adding a container to header.php 🙂 thanks for this great theme!

          1. There is now an option for this in the 0.9.9 update.

22. Looks pretty but keen to know few more things like compatible with responsive design, theme is flexible or fixed width size, fully customization from admin panel etc..

    Thanks

    1. Well, since it’s absolutely free, you can test it out yourself.

23. Mantra is exceptional. Can’t wait to try this one. Thank you.

24. Oh! Decisions…

    I love the new theme – it looks great!

    So…

    Mantra has some features I like that Parabola doesn’t have that I really like, and Parabola does some things I like that Mantra doesn’t do.

    What’s a girl to do! 😉

    1. Could you make a list of the features you like in each theme?… maybe we can find a way to mix them up 🙂

25. Absolutely awesome theme!!! If my client likes the layout i’m surely buying/donating to your team for this wonderful creation for WordPressers everywhere 🙂

    Only thing I see right up from (1st few mins) – My client doesn’t have any Social sites *Crazy I know” Amish lol … but the top icons won’t remove for me, the right and bottoms ones do.

    Thanks CryoutCreations!

    1. Re-download and get version 0.9.3, as that issue is fixed there.

       1. Thanks Zed, I will try that!

26. The very best workmen ship on this theme I have been using your Mantra theme for some time and your new theme Just put a smile on my face .I have been trying to create an old Newspaper look and have tried many many themes .YOURS IS THE BEST BY FAR Thank you with much graduated .

27. Fantastic theme! (Sorry for my poor English)

    I inserted Google Analytics’ JavaScript to the Custom JavaScript of Miscellaneous Settings.

    But it doesn’t work property.

    To make it clearly, I saw the source of my blog. The source was
    So, I directly put my Google Analytics Code to the headers.php to work correctly.

    I hope it will be fixed!

    1. Thanks for pointing that out. There was a bug with the custom JS field which is now fixed in version 0.9.3.

28. Nice Theme
    I am testing it for now in a localhost environment and encounter a problem with the presentation page!

    When a static homepage and the post page are defined my presentation page does not show up!

    Having the same configuration with your mantra theme works fine

    1. Apparently, that’s standard WordPress behaviour.
       When the page set as a homepage has a page template set. it gets prioritized over the presentation page (which is ignored).
       This also happens in Mantra if you select one of Mantra’s page templates.

29. Great theme-so easy to customize. It looks great and loading times are jus lighting fast. Congratulations guys.

    1. Thank you 🙂

30. Absolutely love this theme – so customizable. Can I persaude you to add more page templates?

    1. We will, eventually. But first we’re ironing out possible bugs and making sure the feature set is final.

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