[Dan]

Hi Niclas,
Don’t feel like an idiot, I went for a year not knowing what the kitchen sink was 😉 To make a blockquote you need to go to text, highlite the text field and then click the blockquote button, return to visual and you’ll see the results. It’s pretty much the same with the IMG insertion, it needs to be done in text mode unless I’ve missed something.

Dan

[Carmen]

Um. That’s a strange request. Lol. I can describe it in more detail perhaps. On the presentation page of mantra there is a slider. The slider can be changed in height and width. On my page I made the slider smaller in width: http://www.personaldevelopmentinsights.com. I will make it slightly smaller still. On the left hand of the slider I’d like to put words that state the benefits of personal development. These would be in the format of dot points like this:
– boost your confidence
– gain clarity
– improve your life
– reduce stress and anxiety

HOW is it possible to write words beside the slider?

Mantra is such a versatile website platform I know there must be a way. I just can’t find it. 🙂

Thank you!

[Zed]

Appearance > Parabola Settings > Presentation Page…. Slide X / Column X / Extra Text items are clickable and open up a lot of input fields that control the actual content.

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[Arden]

Hi! I’m having the same issue – I have 3 footer widgets, and when it shrinks down for mobile, they turn into 3 really skinny columns, instead of moving to be in a row as you scroll. Has anyone already worked on a fix for this?

[dan]

Yes, I too would like to place the tagline under the site title and change the font. The settings have separate changes for site title and tagline color, but not text. I tried everything and nothing changed the text in the header. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan

[Steve]

I actually found another (related) bug. When I view the site on my iPhone 5, the Presentation page column images have strange aspect ratios.

First, when I created an image to match 201 x 322, I did so, but when I viewed the site on Firebox the aspect ratio was squished (but on these images – no other aspects of the site had an aspect ratio problem. SO in settings I altered the image box dimensions to 212×322, and ir compensated for the squished look. Now the image looks as it should.

When I then view this on my iphone with Safari, in portrait these images looks squished in from the sides (which means that, had I left the pixel dimensions as they were, it would look squished in Firefox, BUT correct in Safari mobile – since I corrected for it for Firefox, it now causes the mobile to looks wrong). Then, when I flip to Landscape, the image looks squashed (like hor the original image looks before I compensated).

So between this and the social media icons overlapping (and maybe too big), it appears that therre’s some overall bug with the layout scaling in both the web and mobile versions – and in the case of some images like the column images, it’s causing inconsistent aspect ratio problem.

Just wanted to provide this feedback, hopefully to help improve the theme. Thanks!

[Olga]

I have the following settings currently:
Main font: Segoe UI (Google field blank)
Header font: default (Google field: Philosopher)
Sidebar fond: default (Google field blank)
Headers h2-h6 fonts: default (Google field: Philosopher)

[Gloria]

Thank you for answering. I don’t have any comment plugin installed. I tried Twenty Twelve and comment form does not appear either, the only difference is that there shows a “Leave a reply” link below the post.

[Zed]

What are you writing in the Google font field?

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[Zed]

Are you using any plugin to split the page into two pages? I see a “page 2” for items 5 to 9.

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[Renier]

I agree! Having custom sidebar would be much easier, instead of trying to fit all the information and widgets in the sidebar.

[Zed]

You’ll need some CSS tweaks to achieve that and I don’t see either the HTML module or a newsletter module on your site.

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[Zed]

You’ll need some CSS tweaks to achieve that and I don’t see either the HTML module or a newsletter module on your site.

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[Elfew]

I added widget area, add style of widget but I dont know where to register this widget?

I can see the widget area in widgets in settings, but I cannot add widget to this area, because I registered it bad…

Please help 🙂

I used this manual:
http://www.webologist.co.uk/web-design/how-to-add-widget-areas-to-your-wordpress-theme

First step is OK, I just add this line under the header
Second step is the problem – I cannot find registered lie in mantra theme
Third ste is OK, I just add this to style.css

Thank you for help

[Zed]

There’s already a way to add your custom social icons. Just not the easiest.

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[Zed]

1. For the logo image, if your logo is already in the media gallery, find its URL and try to copy/paste it into the logo URL field.

2. All widgets have particular classes/ids which can be used with CSS for cutomizations.

3.
#branding { position: relative; }
#access {position: relative; margin-top: -30px; }

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[Zed]

1. is a tag required for compatibility with older Internet Explorer versions; will be removed once IE8 is completely phased out and no longer used.

2. I remember that was supposed to be fixed; we’ll have a look at it.

3. will eventually be fixed

4. this is not caused by the theme, as it looks to be from the menu or a (category?) widget

5. until WordPress allows better control on the order of en-queueing styles, we have no way to correct this;

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[RolandOfEld]

anyone!? these issues are driving me crazy!! especially the logo question.. no matter what I have tried I CANNOT set a logo image!!

[intelligenceordeath]

I was having the same issue, and realized that if I deleted the hash mark from each “link” field for the social media icons, the icons disappeared! Hope this helps anyone else having this issue!

-Intelligence or Death

[Zed]

Okay, so that clarifies the oddness (since both themes use 95% the same code).

While that plugin is no longer maintained, I doubts its the culprit, as the slider works fine in my tests with the plugin installed.

Plus, I see your website is loading a jQuery copy from code.google.com, while my WordPress with Parabola and the Timeshow plugin load the local copy of jQuery.

Check your other plugins as well…

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[Zed]

Did you add widgets to the right sidebar as well?

Unlike Mantra (if you’ve previously used it), in Parabola the right sidebar is always the right sidebar, and left sidebar is always left. When using only one sidebar layouts, the widgets don’t get moved over.

The header should become transparent by simply leaving the background colour field empty (this trick works even in Mantra on all background colours). There’s no need to edit files for this.

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[Carole]

Hi Zed,

Thank you for the info. The permalinks appear to be OK. The problem was only manifesting itself on the last post I made, which I had done just after I installed the latest Mantra update. I therefore assumed incorrectly that this was the reason for the error. Having checked that the permalink setting was correct and with the knowledge that the theme was not to blame. I decided that there must be some data corruption so I deleted that post and re-did it. The problem seems to have resolved itself.

I think somehow, that the post id had become corrupted. The post was visible on the posts page (called article blog) and the title was visible in the Archive and Recent Post widgets but if you clicked on the widget links or the “more” link from within the post itself it came up with the 404 error page.

Anyway, it is all resolved now. Thank you for your help.

I really like the versatility of your theme and have used it on my friend’s website too. Her website is called http://www.humblebeevintage.co.uk. I have three more domains which I will be setting up shortly and intend to use your theme on all of those as well.

Many thanks for your help

Carole Puttick

[Zed]

I get the Not Found error on all browsers.

Make sure the page with that ID exists, that the page is published and is publicly visible.

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[Zed]

That only happens if you leave links blank (or use #) since WordPress believes they link to the homepage and marks them as “current”. It is not a bug.

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[Betsy Powell]

Never mind. This can be marked as resolved. I found a work around from earlier posts.

[Detlef]

You can either use a custom menu and arrange it accordingly

Or, if you prefer to stay with the automatically generated menu, just use the ORDER field when you edit a page and arrange it accordingly

[Zed]

Hi.

Sorry about that. We edited the CSS a bit to improve compatibility for plugins that add custom content inside posts, and we overdid it a bit, leaving the excerpts out of the configurable options.

We’ve already fixed this and submitted the update. You can grab the fixed mantra/admin/custom-styles.php file right now from the 2.0.5 archive and replace the existing one.

Also add these lines to the custom CSS field:
.entry-content, .entry-content p, .entry-summary, .entry-summary p {
font-size:15px; line-height:1.7em; }
.entry-content p, .entry-summary p { margin-bottom: 10px; }

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[Dean]

Update. I think I may have found a plug-in that was causing the problem “User Login”. Deactivating that has partly fixed the problem, will give it a day and see if everything else comes right.

[Dean]

I think my problem may be related. I run three sites, http://www.militarymodels.co.nz, http://www.wwimodeller.co.nz and http://www.wwiimodeller.co.nz. Exact same settings on all three sites. WWIModeller and WWIIModeller no problems (so far). Militarymodels only works completely in Chrome. In Explorer, Firefox and Safari several widgets dissapear from the left sidebar (including categories and links) on the home page but appear on other pages. When the categories widget does appear the category links then only show posts up until the end of May.
Don’t get why it only effects one site.

[Zed]

Add a class on the image, for example class=”borderless”

Then go to the custom CSS field and add in
img.borderless { border: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; }

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