[Louis]

1.9.9.6 and 3.5.1.  Did not reset to default because that would have made everything go away.  I am having similar issues with a newer site, and really getting worried about stability of this version of Mantra.  This time, when I previewed the site, it showed the mobile version on my PC.  For this particular client I am building a separate mobile site, so I disabled the mobile view.  When I did this, Mantra forgot the width settings and I was unable to restore them on the Layout page.  Fixed them the same way as the previous issue then exported for safekeeping.

[Neil Cameron-Rollo]

I’m having pretty much the same problem. At first I thought it was the Formidable Forms Pro plug in but I’ve pretty much eliminated that now.

I’d be really grateful for some help on this, I’m a bit of a newbie to WP so any help would be appreciated.

Kind regards

 

Neil

[white-rabbit]

C11. How do I use an image for the site header and also hide the site title & description? / Why does my browser displays a dash as the site title?

a) You can set the site header to use an image in Appearance > Header. Then hide the site title and description text from Mantra Settings > Graphics, the Title and Description option.
If you’re using a (partly) transparent header image, it might be a good idea to disable the header background colour as well – Mantra Settings > Colors, leave the Header (Banner and Menu) Background Color field empty.

b) The right way is to use the option to hide the title and description instead of blanking them in WordPress settings, as you’ll be left with a functional site title in the browser window and footer of the website (instead of a stray dash “-“). The option can be found under Mantra Settings > Graphics, Title and Description – show/hide.

[white-rabbit]

Thanks for your help.. If I need to use it into widegt in sidebar? There is a kind of sanitization code?

i.e. this code

http://pastebin.com/mYskeqPX

doesn’t work… It should be like this:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/441/23279681.png/

in Mantra looks like this:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/203/43587302.png/

how to remove code sanitization? or is it a pro feature/request? 🙂 I’ve also tried to put the code into a script in root directory instead of online link..

I do not need the code into every pages.. that happen if I put it into Custom JS

[Kay]

Actually that’s kinda implemented already under the form of the Mobile view. If you use it with the Absolute Dimensions.

The absolute dimensions are used on desktop browsers, but once the screen resolution drops under 800px (mobile devices) the layout becomes relative. You can give it a try by manually rescaling the browser window.

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[Kay]

Could you show us a link to your site?

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[Helen]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I just tried to put a sticky post.  The problem with that is that it only displayed the hyperlinked text as hyperlinks when you click on the post itself.  I really need to create a short bit of text which links to my main site at the top of my blog. I need this because my blog is outranking my site for a key search term and my blog is not currently a good landing page.  The before content widget sounds good, any idea when it will be ready?  I do need a solution now though.

[Alan Wexler]

The Header color is black on IE and Chrome, and invisible on Firefox!  I can’t remove the color from IE/Chrome, and can’t create a color on Firefox.

[Elaine S]

Hi Grady:

Thanks for your great help, but somehow its still not working.   What am I missing?

I typed the following into the settings and changed the picture to a png version of the logo. I have this in my media library and copied the path, but somehow the logo is not showing on the presentation page.   I took out the Title in the General settings because I thought that might have something to do with it, but still no logo is appearing.   Do you have any other suggestions?   Thanks for the awesome help as I’m a newbie at this!

/* Mantra Custom CSS */

#header

{

background-image::url(“http://wordpressoddballexotics.xlconsultinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Williams-logo6.png”);

background-size: 200px 75px;

background-repeat:no-repeat;

padding-top 40px;

background-position: top left;

}

[Rinelle Grey]

I’ve tried everything. 🙁 I think it’s a problem somewhere in the coding. It’s minor, in the scheme of things, but it would look far more professional if they images were centred properly.

[Frank]

This is the only thing I’ve been having trouble with changing. I’ve tried adding the custom CSS to a child theme, to the custom CSS settings in the Mantra settings, and even the CSS settings in the editor, but it never changes the color. I think I might need some additional hand holding to know where this custom code should go to work. Other than that, this is a great theme. Thanks.

[Zed]

There’s a “Custom Footer Text” field under Mantra Settings > Graphics Options (I know, not the most intuitive place to put it) and the theme also support a footer menu so you can add any links you wish extra to the footer text.

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[Zed]

The theme only has one presentation page, which can be set as the homepage of your site.

To create galleries you need plugins, as neither WordPress nor themes include this by default.

 

 

 

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[Zed]

Use the built in “Custom Javascript” field in Appearance > Mantra Settings, under Miscellaneous.

Or if circumstances require advanced scripting, edit the theme files (but I highly recommend using a child theme for this).

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[Sara]

Phooey.  Doesn’t work for me.

I must be placing it incorrectly.

I am at Mantra Options –> Miscellaneous Settings –> Custom CSS…

…and I copied and pasted each — refreshed.  Still the same.

Sorry that I am not very good with CSS, but is there a special place that you put it?

[Ivan]

Hi there,

Having issues with the slider in IE – works fine in all the other browsers, but IE is just has the spinning circle – Have been pulling my hair out trying to figure this one out…Thanks for the help

[jerjer51]

Zed : I think it’s in blog pots

[jerjer51]

Hello,

I use the theme mantra to develop the site of my association and I would like that it displays in homepage only articles of the category ” news “.

How to set up easily this configuration?

Is it possible to plan this option in a future version via the interface Mantra settings?

Thank you for your help

[Zed]

My French is quite rusty… 🙂

Do you want to display “news” posts on the standard “blog pots” homepage or in Mantra’s “presentation page”?

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[white-rabbit]

could you speak english?

[Tche]

Hi,

I am also using a child-theme and it works (more or less), the code I set in my style.css is as following:

<code>/*

Theme Name:     Mantra Child

Description:    Thème enfant du thème Mantra

Author:         Thierwish

Author URI:     http://AllWeWish.org

Template:       mantra

Version:        0.1.0

*/

@import url(“../mantra/style.css”);</code>

I think the brakets in yours are missing. Just copy-paste-adapt to check.

If it still doesn’t work, check also the name of your child folder:  “mantra-child”  and its location: next to the parent one (not inside) I hope it can help.

I said it works “more or less” because all my customizations are not taken… but some of these are well.

So I am moving the pure stylish one in the “Mantra Settings”//”Miscellaneous”//Custom CSS through the wordpress admin because these are overwriting everything (sorry if words are not exactly the same, I am working in French) I ll keep my customized templates in the child-theme and my child style.css empty…

Cheers,

Tche

[Zed]

Inserting custom code in the presentation page implies programming knowledge.

Adding somewhat of a sidebar on the presentation page is even more complicated.

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[Zed]

Chrome is broken on my Android device, but the fonts in Mantra work just fine with the built-in browser (an unbranded trimmed down version of Chrome).

I see you’ve changed your site setting and no longer using a Google font, so I can’t test your website as well.

But as a general rule, make sure the piece of text in question is not copied from somewhere and has a <font….> tag along with it.

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[Zed]

First off, the “Post Excerpts on Home / Archive and Category Pages” need to be set to “Excerpt” and the “Featured Images as POST Thumbnails” and “Auto Select Images From Posts” options need to be enabled.

Then this is how the theme behaves:

• on a post with featured image but no images inside, the featured image will be displayed
• on a post with featured image and more images inside, the feature image will be displayed
• on a post without featured image but with images inside, the first image from the content will be displayed
• on a post without featured image and no images inside, no image will be displayed

This way you have automatic post images (when you have images inside the post), which you can also override as you wish through the “featured image”.

So  I do not believe that this behaviour needs any change.

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[Bob M.]

Thanks, I modified the functions.php and that seems to have done the trick.

Any update on the share buttons not showing up on the presentation page?

Bob

[Jens Justesen]

Hello Zed. I have tried all my plugins, and there are no bandits among them. A fellow on the danish WordPress forum suggested to 1) put all my work into another WP-theme, 2) remove Mantra from the computer, 3) reinstall Mantra, and 4) shift back to Mantra from the other theme. I am considering doing this, but I am afraid of loosing my things in the process. What do you think? Is it safe? Kind regards JJ (ps. I am opening a new thread about images – in sidebars, and frames. Do you have the time looking into it?)

[Zed]

I used featured images for posts on my blog as well, and I did not encounter this issue after updating.

Did you test to see if this happens when all plugins are disabled? Could be an incompatibility between a plugin and the theme.

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[Zed]

While I can see the issue on your site, I cannot reproduce it on our test installs.

Could you create a support ticket and send us an export of your theme settings? Perhaps a combination of options triggers the problem. (just type anything in the transaction id field).

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[Zed]

I can confirm the mobile menu is acting a bit strange.

We’re looking into it.

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[JAP]

Hi Kay,

Many thanks for your answer!  That would be really great to have this fixed in a later version because I really love the theme you have developped here and all the customizations it allows. I have taken quite some time to select it among the hundreds possible and tweek the look&feel to my very needs. Would really hate to switch to another one and do not have the skills to go and play with the CSS code behind it to be honest. So far, I have had only a few complaints from readers using portable devices with smaller screens but it might become a bigger issue with a developping audience.

I’ll definitively keep an eye open on your next releases! Keep going !

JAP.