[Zed]

Direct embeds have always been a core WordPress feature: https://wordpress.org/support/article/embeds/

If these no longer work for you, then something may be affecting or disabling this.

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[Zed]

The sharing buttons are not part of the theme, they are added by Jetpack. This might provide some insight into what needs adjusted in Jetpack’s configuration:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharing-icons-not-showing-up-correctly/

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[Zed]

Try the following CSS:

body #nav-toggle span::before {
    content: "\e820  MENU"; /* note that there are two spaces before the "MENU" word */
}

or simply

body #nav-toggle span::before {
    content: "MENU";
}

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[Zed]

WordPress 5.5 made some deep changes about its bundled JavaScript libraries and objects causing many plugins break – some of them released updates to account for the changes and WordPress added backwards compatibility for some of the changes as well in the 5.5.1 update.

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[Zed]

Is the theme’s option to use featured images in the header currently active?

The theme also uses a size requirement (75%), under which it will not use the featured image in the header to avoid possible cropping and blurriness due to the large difference between required size and actual size.
If the featured images are generally not used in the header and you’re fine with the possible side-effects, you can turn this size requirement off from the options.

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Do you mean you want to apply (different) background images to the content of different pages?
There are plugins that can do this for the site background image, however the content container is specific to each theme and plugins can’t really assume or guess which one it is.
It is still possible to do this with custom CSS, however you need a different CSS block for each page you want to apply a (different) background image to:

.page-id-PAGEID #content {
    background-image: url(URL-OF-THE-IMAGE-FILE);
    /* further background configuration */
}

Replace PAGEID with the numeric page ID (also works for posts) you want the styling to apply to. You can find this ID in the dashboard (in the editing URLs) or on the frontend as one of the classes applied to the body element.

You can further customize the positioning and appearance of the background image with other CSS properties:
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background.asp

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[Zed]

Try the following custom CSS:

#front-text3 .wp-video {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-bottom: 1em; /* just is just so that it doesn't sit too close to the text below */
}

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[Zed]

All of the theme’s bundled fonts are included in the resources/fonts folder.
The social font uses multiple files for legacy purposes – browsers used to each support different file formats but nowadays they’ve reached a common standard and mostly rely on the woff (and woff2) formats.

If you plan to replace the socials font with your customized copy, I suggest loading your font under a different identifier and then to apply it on the socials instead of the theme’s font:

body .socials a::before, body [class^="socicon-"]::before, body [class*=" socicon-"]::before {
    font-family: 'yournewfontidentifier';
}

Using the same identifier can be problematic, depending on the order the fonts are enqueued.

Don’t reorder the glyphs in the font as that would break the theme’s socials detection styling.

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[Zed]

The official Mantra 3.3.0 update released this week includes the fix for the missing comments issue.
Thank you all for suggesting corrections and for the patience.

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[Zed]

@StudioDangerboy: how are the videos embedded (which shortcode/widget/block)?

@tomppa28: JS optimization shouldn’t cause issues, it’s only the CSS that needs to be applied in the correct order (and optimizations sometimes mess with the order). But that really depends on what the plugin is actually doing under the hood.

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The theme uses an icon font for its social icons. Did you modify this icon font or loaded your own icon font to add the extra icon for Telegram?
Without it, CSS is insufficient to perform such a change.

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If I remember correctly, we identified the issue via the support service as being caused by a JavaScript error on the frontend.

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[Zed]

The theme does not implement custom layout functionality for posts – it only has this feature for pages (via page templates).

To achieve the same result for posts you’d need to create a custom handling template (starting from the default single.php file) based on the template hierarchy and customize it to use the desired layout class and force display the desired sidebars.

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[Zed]

Does the site have a general header image set? The search page appears to indicate that it doesn’t.

When a general header image is set, that image will be used on the blog section (this is a special section for which WordPress ignores any page attributes set on the placeholder page) and on the ‘portfolio’ section (which appears to be a standard posts archive, not a static page using Jetpack’s portfolio shortcodes).
The featured image in the header functionality is only available for individual posts and individual static pages that display their actual content (and are not placeholders).

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[Zed]

Since you changed themes in the meantime, I cannot see what section you were referring to.

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The slider transitions cannot be entirely disabled, but you can set the animation type to fade, animation time to zero to make transitions instantaneous and also set the pause time to a large number of seconds (multiplied by 1000 as the value is entered in milliseconds).
Setting the pause time to zero makes the slider cycle continuously, which uses up CPU time.

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[Zed]

We did consider such an option when we created the landing page’s functionality, but decided not to include it because we didn’t have many possible configuration values for it.
WordPress doesn’t have a popularity attribute – what criteria would be this based on? most views? (WordPress itself doesn’t log views), most comments? (comments are a separate post type).
We did, however, include a anima_boxes_query_args filter that can be used to directly customize the WP Query as needed. Below are the existing parameters that are passed along to the query:

	$args = apply_filters( 'anima_boxes_query_args', array(
		'showposts' => $options['anima_lpboxcount' . $sid],
		'cat' => cryout_localize_cat( $cat ),
		'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
		'lang' => cryout_localize_code()
	), $options['anima_lpboxcat' . $sid], $sid );

        $custom_query->query( $args );

$sid is the section’s number (1, 2 or 3 for boxes).

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[Zed]

The theme’s meta layout options are only applied to the standard pages (in the free edition) and extended to posts and jetpack portfolio posts in the Plus edition.
To activate the dashboard controls further, you’ll need to duplicate the respective meta functionality defined in includes/meta.php to apply to your custom post type slug. The frontend should get handled automatically as the existing code doesn’t check for post type.

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[Zed]

The image block captions do not use specific styling to make them appear different.

If you want, you can use custom CSS to customize their appearance, for example:

.wp-block-image figcaption {
    font-style: italic;
    font-size: 0.9em;
}

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The butterfly slide does not appear to have CTA buttons set (if it does, check that both the links and labels are filled in in the slide options). The other two images have buttons set and they are both visible for me.

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[Zed]

Is such a quote currently visible on the site (I search for but couldn’t find any)?

Some sections apply more specific styling that can override the one set in the editor, but for general content locations (pages/posts), the editor layout should be uses accordingly on the frontend.

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Mobile devices normally get to see the mobile menu, which is touch-enabled.

For some larger mobile devices which have enough screen resolution to display the standard menu but do not handle hover events (that the standard desktop menu uses) – we’ve added the forced mobile menu option that replaces the desktop version of the menu with the mobile one, which fully supports touch events.

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[Zed]

The landing page is enabled, but is the specific icon blocks section also enabled?
Sections can be individually turned off through their configuration options.

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[Zed]

The opacity of the featured images gradient overlay is not directly configurable. To customize it you can use the following custom CSS:

body .post-thumbnail-container:hover .featured-image-overlay::after {
    opacity: 0.5;
}

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Section #1 – as you’ve numbered them – configures the theme’s landing page static slider image (which is not a header image), which is only available when the landing page itself is used. This section is capable of displaying either the (default) static slider image, a full-fledged slider or the general header image.

Always use configuration option #2 to assign a header image for the site. The header image will or will not be visible on specific site sections depending on other theme configuration options (including option #1, featured image use and specific header image meta options).

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Our themes are not optimized/integrated specifically for any content builder plugins, including Elementor and Beaver Builder, but the themes do adhere the WordPress.org coding best practices and you should be able to use any builder plugin inside the (page/post) content areas to build your content.

Could you please describe the snags you ran into while using Esotera?

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I am sorry for the slow reply, but we’ve been kept somewhat occupied for the past week with some personal matters.

We are aware of the issue since @abigal2 pointed it out and have already implemented the necessary correction in our development code to support WordPress’ 5.5 change making comments to always have a type.

Unfortunately, due to guideline changes and requirements imposed on repository themes since the last Mantra release, submitting the next update requires from us to perform extra changes in the theme and these will need some additional time to implement.

Until then, if you’re not comfortable with the manual edits described above I’ve added a theme zip that includes the necessary correction to our own archive.
You can use this plugin to update an already installed theme via manual zip uploads.
Alternatively WordPress 5.5 theoretically implements this feature as well, however it hasn’t worked in my tests (if it does work for you, then that’s great). Later edit: apparently this was an issue for sites hosted on Windows only and is fixed in 5.5.1.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Zed.

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Is the icon blocks section enabled in the options?

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The mobile menu does not currently use the optimum color scheme.
We’ll correct this in the next theme update, when the mobile menu will inherit the main menu’s text color for all its elements.

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From what I see in the plugin’s documentation, the image file needs to be a SVG for the plugin to do its job (it doesn’t replace regular jpg/png images with SVGs dynamically).
Did you assign a SVG image file as the header image of the site? The theme does not care about the file format that’s being used, it just retrieves and outputs the correct image URL as returned by WordPress.

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