[Michael McGhie]

I am having the same type of problem. I am able to use image select option and grab the slider image which is 1050×350. When I go to [Save Changes] it it goes to page “http://psalm84christians.org/wp-admin/options.php” where it says it is unable to find that page. I tried different areas of the presentation options like the 3 column images and the pages just doesn’t want to save and goes to an unknown page. Help!

[Raul]

Recently, I used the export and import settings to manually change the text through the scripts, but I’m not exactly satisfied with the way it looks and the time it took to do that. Is there an easier way to change the front texts?

[Zed]

That’s the empty site description/tagline (which you can hide from the Header Settings).

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[Zed]

#content .page-header { display: none;  }

will hide it via CSS

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[Zed]

It’s the second option in the second row next to Site Title.

Hover over the fields to see their names (or click on them to open the color selector which also displays the names of the fields)

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[Zed]

A better way of doing this is to copy that modified index.php file to a child theme (so you don’t lose it on the next update).

We’ll try to add an option for this functionality in a future update.

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[Zed]

It’s from us… WordPress only gives you updates that have passed through the theme review.
We just didn’t get around to posting the changelog yet.

PS: One can never be too paranoid 😉

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[greenmen]

Instead of using slides you can use other options. I havent tried it but i am sure there is a way
Choose
Slides content: choose sticky posts or specific posts should help

[Fulco]

Hi Zed,

Thanx for your reply. This clarifies a lot to me. As I wrote somewhere in my previous posts, I already discovered that WP generates cropped images automatically (in an FTP client you can see that). I also figured out (after that post) that it crops to the dimensions that are set in Mantra at that time for any image uploaded after the header dimensions settings become effective.
So I can follow your story on this.
However, for a non seasoned websuite owner, and as shown by your header image, automatic cropping does not always provide a nice view. Your header image is only a part of the big image. When the header height and width are not in the same proportions as the original image, you will end up with a part that you might not like.
Unless there is a possibility to enter height and width for the chosen header image and an option to maintain aspect ratio of the original image, which is already uploaded to the media section, there will be no other option than to upload only images cropped to the correct size.
Another option would be to crop outside of WP, upload through an ftp client and select a picture by using the right url (which is somewhere in your mediasection of WP or whatever location on your server you might choose).
This last method is in my opionion not a valid option since WP advocates that it is a platform for users without knowledge.
In order to make things really user friendly, it would be neat to have the possibility to have the option in the header settings to enter height and width of the header image, an aspect ratio select/check box for cropping purpose, after which the selected header image is cropped.
This way images can be displayed as original, in whole, resized in a user friendly way.
All this of course besides the possibilities already at hand, and as shown by your image.

Again, thanx a lot for the nice Mantra theme and keep up the good work.

Regards,

Fulco

[Ken Drabinsky]

I have not been able to solve the Presentation Page Slides portion by putting in my own pictures. I just copy the link however doesn’t preview no matter what size it is. What am I not doing?. Also when I try to put in a blog it won’t finish downloading.

[John]

Same problem…can someone help?

[Deby at So Sew Easy]

Any one have any ideas on this? Since switching to the extracts view, the featured image thimbnails are tiny and I’d like to change the size, but the featured image thumbnail size doesn’t appear to be working properly.
If its not working in the Mantra options, can I change it manually in the code somewhere?
Anyone know?

Thanks, Deby

[Zed]

Hi.

I would have replied to your previous forum topic, I just didn’t get around to it.

The checkbox you mention does a totally different thing than the issue you reported. It’s meant for the mobile/responsiveness view of the site, it has nothing to do with featured images used as header images.

The fix we included in Mantra 2.1 / Parabola 1.0.1 makes the theme use the image with the exact size as the header to display there. This works when the uploaded image is bigger or at least exactly the size of the header (as configured).

The trick is that WordPress generates cropped images on upload, and it generates them on the sizes configured at that exact moment. If in the meantime you changed your header size, the images are no longer valid and it reverts to using the full size version.

I tested this behaviour (after implementing the fix) and as you can see in the image below, the 1920×1080 image (which is also displayed in the post, but also set as a featured image) is cropped and resized to fit in the header at the correct size (as configured in the settings).

If you still encounter issues getting the wrong image size after the updates, try to delete that image from the library and re-upload it (to force WordPress to re-create the smaller versions).

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[Zed]

The presentation page fields (most of them) support shortcodes.
So you’ll need to use a plugin that lets you embed videos via shortcodes (like Jetpack does)

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[Zed]

I did see that issue on IE8 (and we plan to fix it in a future update), but in IE9 it worked fine for me.

What exact IE versions did you test on?

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[Deby]

Oops, replied to wrong thread – its far too late. Original question still remains.

[magnus Bozell]

Hi
I had the same problem and i had to redo all of my pics and galleries in Cincopa and run them from there. Now it is working =)
Although i have a problem with my blog page that is not showing excerpts and i can´t figure out why. I have all the boxes checked that i am supposed to have (i think), but it is still showing as a full post. Why? Can anyone help me, please?

BR
Magnus

[Julia Trops]

Gernot, that was the perfect solution to what I was experiencing as well, thank you.

Now my blog posts are showing up, and also my sidebar! You are brilliant!

Thank you so much,
Julia

[Sarah]

Thanks for your advice XB0n3, unfortunately I tried that but it didn’t work either!
I think it may have something to do with the url of my website?
I have 2 websites-
http://www.thecallrecorderstore.com
and
http://www.thecallrecorderstore.com/Blog/
and only the /Blog one is wordpress- that’s the one I’m trying to edit- I’m not really sure how it works to be honest but I think the problem could be to do with this?

[Alice]

Hi there. This is exactly what I am looking to do and the above seems very helpful. Unfortunately as a newbie to this I am not sure where the index.php is (or where my parabola folder is for that matter)
I can see Parabola “settings” but I cannot see it in there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

[robbierut]

mobile view isn’t found under that name, but under responsive 😉 can be found at the layout settings 🙂

[Zed]

Those are category pages. Create category links for various categories in your menu – http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages

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[Gernot]

Hi Mauro,

I also started using the Parabola Theme and I wanted to display the blog beneath the presentation page. I couldn’t find any option in the Settings Page to do so, but a very small modification of the template code seems to do the trick:

Get the index.php in your Parabola folder
in line number 16 in that file, instead of “else :” write “endif;”
in line number 59 delete the “endif;”
Upload the modified index.php to your Parabola folder

I’ve done it this way and for me it works, so far nothing seems broken.

[XB0n3]

Hi,
For some reason the slider just won’t work on my website, I am very new to the theme so it may be that I just haven’t figured it out yet.
The presentation page is enabled, and I have uploaded several slides, but for some reason they just do not show up on the actual website.
Not really sure what to do- having read the above posts, I tried disabling the other plugins but this didn’t make a difference.
I have updated WordPress, so it is the most recent version.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Sarah

Hello Sarah I had the same problem.
I disabled the presentation page. deleted my static home page. and made a new static home page Enabled the presentation page and it worked again.
hope it helps you out.

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[mirko]

with 1.0.0 is all ok expect

#: single.php:40
msgid “View all posts by ”
msgstr “Vedi tutti i post di ”

[mirko]

Hi Zed, thanks for the theme.
I like it 😉

I have some problem with many translation in the po file.
It’s work fine, but these translations remain in english and not in my language.

#: single.php:40
msgid “View all posts by ”
msgstr “Vedi tutti i post di”

#: admin/settings.php:831
msgid “”
“Accents #1 and #2 should either be the same as the link colours or be ”
“separate from all other colours on the site.<br />\n”
” Accent #5 is used for input fields and buttons backgrounds, borders and ”
“lines.<br />\n”
” Accents #3 and #4 should be the lighter/darker than the content ”
“background colour, being used as borders/shades on elements where accent #5 ”
“is background colour.”
msgstr “”
“Accenti #1 e #2 dovrebbero essere gli stessi come i colori dei link o essere ”
“separati da tutti gli altri colori nel sito.<br />\n”
” Accento #5 è usato per il testo inputato e per lo sfondo dei bottoni, ”
“bordi e linee.<br />\n”
” Accento #3 e #4 dovrebbe essere più chiaro/scuro del colore di sfondo ”
“del contenuto,essere usati come bordi/sfumature su elementi in cui l’accento ”
“#5 è il colore di sfondo.”

#: admin/settings.php:104

msgid “”
“Select the width of your <b>content</b> and <b>sidebar(s)</b>.\n”

“\t\tWhen using a 3 columns layout (with 2 sidebars) they will each have half ”

“the configured width.”

msgstr “”

“Seleziona la larghezza del <b>contenuto</b> e della/e <b>sidebar</b>.\n”

“\t\tQuando usi un layout a 3 colonne (con due sidebar) ognuna di loro avrà ”

“la metà della larghezza configurata.”

#: admin/settings.php:45
msgid “”
“Choose your layout. Possible options are: <br> No sidebar, a single sidebar ”
“on either left of right, two sidebars on either left or right and two ”
“sidebars on each side.<br>\n”
“\tThis can be overriden in pages by using Page Templates.”
msgstr “”
“Scegli il tuo layout. Le opzioni possibili sono: <br> Nessuna sidebar, una ”
“singola sidebar a destra o sinistra, due singole sidebar a destra o sinistra ”
“o una singola sidebar per ogni lato.<br>\n”
“\tPotrebbe essere sovrascritto in pagine usando il Page Templates.”

[Zed]

#footer2 { color: #fff; }
#footer2 a { color: #fff; }

Rounded corners are a bit more complicated; first leave the Footer Widget Background Color field empty
#footer { background: none !important; }
#colophon { background: #f5f5f5; }
#footer2 { border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px; }

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[Zed]

Mantra doesn’t yet include native support for WordPress 3.6’s galleries.
We are looking into this…

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[Julie]

Ok then – that would answer why they don’t work.

What plug-in would work for the demo pages and templates? None of the template pages seem to be working either. Tried using two columns, sidebar on right and it’s just one column with right sidebar.

http://childreninfamiliesfirst.org/demo/entire-post-list-sidebar/

Thanks!

j.

[Koray]

I’ve got the same problem. I tried with a differt template, no problem. Only with Mantra template.