Mantra 1.6.5 fixes translation and brings Featured Image settings

Mantra / WordPress Themes

Yes, it’s finally fixed. Mantra is now translation ready. Internationalization, I18N, localization, translation or how ever you want to call it, is finally functional and we’re counting on you guys to make the Mantra theme available for as many languages as possible. In a couple of days we’ll add a short tutorial on how you can translate Mantra or any other WordPress theme for that matter.

Another addition in the new version is a set of Featured Image settings that allow you to use the Featured Image section in your posts. You can choose if you want the Featured Image to be selected automatically as the first image in you post, or if you want to upload a different image instead. You can also select the dimensions your thumbnails will have and you can choose if you want the Featured image to be used as a header image on the post’s page.

There were also a few bugs fixed, some typos corrected and a couple of rearrangements made, all thanks to Mr. Zed.

We’ll meet you back here for the new version !

Mantra is a clean, highly configurable and totally free WordPress theme. For more info check out the theme's page.

30 Comments

  2. I am trying out the Mantra theme now. I like it. One thing that would be great would be if could use percentages rather than pixels in the layout settings for content/sidebar width. something like overall width settings say 70% to 100% and then content width 50% to 90%, sidebar width 50% to 10%.

    1. Yes, that will be an option in the future. We are using only absolute values at this time though, as we postponed relative values (percentages) untill we implement the third column.

      So in the future (before version 2.0 for sure but we can’t be any more precise than this) you’ll be able to choose between defining your site’s width in pixels or in percentages.

      1. Excellent. Thank You.
        Another cool feature would be if for the post/archive excerpts, you could manually define the number of characters to use (rather than the predefined drop-down) and also to be able to include the featured image in the excerpts.

        Thanks again, great work

  3. Hi guys,

    I’m having a little trouble with removing the site title from my header. I’ve added #header h1 { display:none } to the stylesheet which removes it from my home page, but not my other pages. What else do I need to add?

    Thanks.

  5. Hi,

    I’m having a minor problem when it comes to this kind of theme updates. Whenever I update your new version of theme to our blog, we also need to repost the Google analytics script for tracking purposes on the header.php file. Currently, there’s been some error whenever I tried to paste and save the code before the closing head tag.

    What seems to be the problem? I need help ASAP.

    Thanks!

    1. That’s because updates always overwrite the theme files. This is how WordPress works.
      If you want to make modifications in the theme’s file, you either need to stop updating the theme afterwards (but this means no new features/bugfixes), or create a child theme on Mantra and add a different header.php file for that child theme.
      Of course you’ll need to manually compare Mantra’s header width the child theme’s header on updates and see if there are changes implemented in Mantra that you’ll need to sync to your child theme. But this way you’ll be able to update Mantra whenever a new release is available without losing your customizations, and benefit from new features (except those related to header.php).

  7. Yikes. The update completely reformatted my site and I am very frustrated. I don’t understand why an update would completely destroy all of my customisation ( very minor – images and colours). Yuck.

    1. First of all – grow up okaaay?

      Second of all – I see you brought your site back to what I guess you’d call normal. Yuck! We’re giving this free theme months and months of our time and you complain about loosing 1 minute worth of customizations? Yikes!

  8. This is a lovely theme, but there seems to be something a little screwy with the “posted on” date format.. possibly only when the date is in UK format (day, month, year)

    The month and year are fine, but all of my posts appear to be on the 5th. quite odd!

  9. I love this theme for my blog. It displays correctly in Firefox, Safari and Chrome. I am having problems with how it displays in IE9. I don’t normally use IE, so I am not sure how long it has been like this. The side bar on the right disappears, the text blends into the background, ect ect. You get the idea. Any help or suggestions short of not using IE would be helpful.

      1. A second comment on the same topic is usually overkill, but this I have to say:
        Internet Explorer can easily be considered the Hitler or Stalin (or any other evil ruler in history) of browsers. It is marginally tolerated as long as it proves itself useful, but will eventually need to be assassinated.
        Many web developers were probably lost in the contiguous battle with IE’s issues, incompatibilities and maddening particularities.
        IE needs to be treated like the nuclear disasters of Cernobil or Fukushima – minimal contact, careful and controlled exposure only to avoid a greater disaster, since a too large dose of IE poisoning is deadly.

  11. Hi,
    first thanks for your nice theme. 🙂

    I’m making a site for a friend who will open a veterinary.

    I saw a setting where you can hide the page description, i set that to hide and it works on all pages i created but not on the Home page. My homepage is called “Welkom” and it still shows on the page.

    How do i get rid of it?

    thx. 🙂

    1. Yes, there seems to be a small bug when you select a certain page to be used as the home page.
      Thanks for noticing it, we fixed it, so you will have to wait a couple of days for the next version to become live and everything will work as expected.

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