[Colin]

Note that I tried what Zed suggested and the links work fine to display the images in the browser including other browsers without logging in.

 

[Ben Linders]

Reading this I understand that IE 7, and IE 8 in compatibility mode, are not supported.

[Ben Linders]

Link to website is http://www.benlinders.com

The problem appears when I use IE 8 with compatibility mode in windows XP. If I understand you correctly, that would make IE8 work like it is IE7, right?

[Kay]

Hi!

Could you each show us link to your site so we can investigate this further?

Also, Ben, the compatibility mode for IE8 is not enabled by default and when it is on, it’s pretty much like IE7 which we don’t support.

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[Zed]

You’re on the right track… but not quite 🙂
Don’t include php files in the CSS. “require…” is a php function, it won’t do anything in a CSS file.

Mantra’s files are not automatically replaced with child theme files if they get detected.
You need to create a functions.php file in your child theme and include your custom child theme files (copy Mantra’s functions.php file and edit it to include your own files). Keep in mind your directory structure.

Also, not all Mantra functions are over-ridable easily with child themes. Some need to be unhooked and their child theme copies hooked in their place.
But at least the front-page function does not need this.

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[Zed]

IE 8 in compatibility mode behaves and identifies itself as IE 7.  And we don’t support IE7… IE 7 was too insane to be supported nowadays.

Compatibility mode shouldn’t be the default… at least it wasn’t on the 3 computers I tested on (but they had OS and browser updates installed, so this might make a difference).

Even IE 8 has its quirks, but most of the theme works and behaves normally in it.

 

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[Luigi]

Hi Kay!

I tested the mouse-over effect by modifying the original files: defaults.php and theme-frontpage.php.

They worked fine.

After that, I made a fresh install of Mantra (so to get back to the original files).

Then, I’ve created a Child Theme and activated it.

The style.css goes like this:

/*
Theme Name:        mantra Child
Theme URI:
Description:        Child theme for the Mantra theme
Author:                 LZ
Author URI:
Template:           mantra
Version:            0.1.0
*/

@import url(“../mantra/style.css”);

.site-title a {
color: #009900;
}

require_once( get_stylesheet_directory(). ‘/defaults.php’ );
require_once( get_stylesheet_directory(). ‘/theme-frontpage.php’ );

The modified files are: defaults.php and theme-frontpage.php.

I now have placed those two modified files in the Child Theme (inside two Child Theme’s directories, ‘admin’ and ‘includes’), but it seems they’re doing  just nothing…

Since it’s the first time I use a Child Theme, can you help me in getting it to work?

Thanks…

Regards

Luigi

[Zed]

Andrei, there’s no way for us to guess what plugin is causing the issue. Follow the steps here to debug.

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[Maaike]

This is a wonderfull theme. Thank you very much for creating it!

I would love to display my 5 recent blog posts under the 4 columns in the presentation page you have provided.

I tried to put some shortcode in textfield 3 and 4 but these fields don’t support shortcode.

Could you please provide me with the correct html/css code to get these recent blog posts into the front page?

It would be very much appreciated! Thanks in advance,

 

Maaike

[Kay]

Hi Luigi!

Congrats on your site. Looks great.

1. Editing the php file is the only way to achieve that at the moment. Done properly you wouldn’t have to change the code every time you change a photo if you’d keep the same photo names. But it would involve a little bit of work since the whole thing is in a ‘for’ loop.

2. That flashy effect is from the theme. If you want to remove that go to the same /includes/theme-frontpage.php file and remove this part:

jQuery('#front-columns > div img').hover( function() {
jQuery(this)
.stop()
.animate({opacity: 0.5}, 100)
.fadeOut(100)
.fadeIn(100)
.animate({opacity: 1}, 100) ;
}, function() {jQuery(this).stop();} )

Good luck!

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[Javi]

Thanks for your answer, but i can’t found the place. When i go to mantra settings in the dashboard, and i select graphics settings, i can type more codes in the text field, but not see what are inside, i can’t edit there.

 

I’m trying to found the php file where are this codes but i don’t have lucky.

So… i’ve tried to found the line of codes in footer.php and several more files but nothing for now.

If anyone can help to solve this problem, i would be really grateful.

 

Thanks again.

[Kay]

Hi!

Nope, you don’t need to change any files. In the Mantra Settings page >> Miscellaneous Settings you have a field called ‘Custom CSS’. Paste the above code there and save the settings.

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[Kay]

We’ll try to fix that in the next theme update. Until then if you could show us a link to your site we could explain how you could achieve that.

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[Zed]

You remove that from the same place you typed it in. If it’s an input field in Mantra settings, you’ll find in Mantra settings, in the same place under Graphics settings.

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[Zed]

See http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/forum/t/minimal-step-by-step-tutorial-for-debugging-bugsissuesincompatibilities

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[Ben Linders]

I’m also using the 3 colum, 1 left and 1 right sidebar. In Internet Explorer 8 on windows XP, the main text overlaps the left side bar if compatibility modus is switched on (which I think is the default). If I switch compatibility modus off, the site looks ok, although there some strange things while loading. Chrome is ok both on XP and windows 7, as is IE 9 on windows 7.

Anything I can do to make this work on IE 8?

[david]

I found the answer to this, albeit very strange. I was only able to disable the comments function when viewing all pages and un-checking the box in “quick edit mode”

[Rich]

I am not sure what you meant by the reset button. I refreshed my browser in there? If i hit the restore defaults on the bottom left of the page on the mantra settings page, i will loose everything i put into the website, i only know because i tried that last time. Is there another button i don’t see? Thank you for the help

[Zed]

The “sticky” option is set in the dashboard when you create/edit a post, in the Publish panel under Visibility; click edit to see the checkbox.

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[Zed]

Every line of text that appears on the presentation page is editable from the Presentation Page section of Mantra Settings. Just click on the names of the areas/subsections and a lot of fields will open up.

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[Zed]

I don’t believe that will help you. Mantra does not include any javascript libraries, it just uses WordPress’ own.
I see a lot of javascript errors on your website. The only way to debug that is to disable ALL plugins and see if the errors go away (if not, more testing is necessary to pinpoint the problem).
Then enable the plugins one by one and always check to see when the issues reappear.

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[Andreas Torgersen]

Hello, if you go to my page at http://www.seoc.no, you will see a animated 3d man pointing at a table. I’m trying to get this picture centered.

I have already tried to put the relativ sizes, but it seems like that this is not supported in the field “Extra text 1” under the folder “Presentation page”. Can you please tell me if it’s right that this is not supported, and if so, will this be corrected in the next update?

I also wonder if it’s possible to create a footer to be shown under “Extra text 2”?

[Zed]

jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries uses the “latest” jQuery library from Google Code. I assume this “latest” got updated at some point in time in the past few weeks and is no longer the same 1.8 included with WordPress.

Google calendar might also use jQuery…

Disable that plugin for a moment and see if your issues go away.

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[definitio]

Also try Dynamic Widgets…extremely versatile and user friendly advanced options

[Zed]

Karolina,

You are using a plugin named ‘jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries’ which loads its own jQuery library which may or may not be incompatible with WordPress’ built-in one. I recommend switching to Fancybox for WordPress

You are also using a ‘jj-nextgen-jquery-slider’ plugin which loads its own nivoSlider jQuery plugin, the same slider we use in Mantra. A plugin should not load js code on pages it is not active on.

These doubles are most likely incompatible with each other and will fail to work if active at the same time.

You need to be more careful when installing plugins and leave active only those which you use.

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[Karolina]

Hallo, leider geht seit heute der Slider an der Presentionspage nicht mehr, es wird nur noch das erste Bild angezeigt.

Bis jetzt lief alles tadellos, ich verwende die Version 1.8.7. möchte allerdings auch nicht updaten, denn ich habe sehr viele Einstellungen vorgenommen.

Könnt ihr mir bitte helfen?

Danke

[Zed]

That’s an odd issue.

Maybe these steps help: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cheatin-uh-error-on-anyone-who-is-not-an-editor-or-administrator?replies=3

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