Mantra 1.9.4 – Page Templates

Mantra / WordPress Themes

If you just updated to 1.9.4 be sure to check your page templates. We changed the names of the old ones and we added some new ones. You can now finally create any layout you want for each and every page. Oh joy!

Apart from that, we continued with the ongoing security updates. We changed a lot of functions, updated most of the security and data sanitization functions, and reorganized bulks of code.

For 1.9.5 there will be [shortcodes]. And more security changes.

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

64 Comments

  1. Hello just one problem. On my front page, under the random images, the numbers or the dots are not in a good place and stay just on the four images under. (i’m french sorry for my bad english).
    Lorill

  6. Hi,
    Can you please tell me how to get my videos back to normal shape? They are all twice the size they used to be and i can’t find a way to change it back.

    Thanks in advance!

    /Ron

  7. I’m running Mantra 1.9.4, and whenever I try to go into the “Mantra Settings,” nothing works. none of the buttons work, I cant change anything. And when I go to view the website, everything gets compressed to about 50px’s wide and centered into the middle of the page.

          1. Yes I did, and the same thing happened. whenever I edited anything under Mantra Settings, on either computer, the site would compress to 50px wide.
            And I’m sorry I can’t give you a link to the site, I’m building the site on a local server before I publish it to the net.

      1. Thank you, but I’ve tried that and there is no change, perhaps because there is a background picture? Now the menu appears transparent with the photo showing through the menu bar area.

  9. When I share the home page on Facebook, it doesn’t find an image to use. I want it to use the header image… although, come to think of it, the header is 1100×264, so I actually want it to use a different image. Is there a way to set this?

    Thanks again for the amazing theme!

      1. Sweet, thanks!

        Sharing posts works great, but if I’m sharing the home page, it doesn’t pick up any image.

        But then, I wouldn’t want it to use the header image, so it’d be great to have something in Mantra Settings to set a ‘Default Social Media Image for the Home Page’!

  10. I’m wondering if a few things are possible with the latest version of Mantra:
    1. To add more sliders. I’d like more than 5
    2. To remove the white border from the slider image
    Thank you,
    Leah

        1. Rude? Why?

          First of all there was support. We answered all 6 of your tickets. In case you didn’t get them, please check your spam folder as I see you didn’t reply to any of them.

          And we don’t really care if the client asked to remove the copyright or if you left it on in your other sites. This is not optional. That copyright is the only thing we ask for in return for this FREE theme and the only way to remove and still get support is the Fast Support donation. Also have a read here… http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/mantra-faqs/

        2. Client? Does that mean you make money using (partly) somebody else’s (free) work?
          Our terms of usage specifically say you can remove the copyright only if you make a donation for our free work.
          Don’t come asking for support when you (and/or your client) don’t respect us and/or our work.

          2. Also, I always donate. Once my client is happy with the work, and I get paid, you’ll get the donation. And, because I LOVE mantra, you’ll get the donation every time i get paid – if I do. You deserve to be paid for your work. There was never a dispute over that. You don’t know me well enough to make these assumptions. My ethics are such that no matter how nasty you are with me, if I use your work, I will pay you for it.

  12. I update tot version 1.9.4. But I prefer the older version 1.9.3. because I don’t want people to have the possibility to give their comments on every page. In the older version there was a special template which gave this option.
    Can I reinstall the older version, or is there a setting in the new version which I can use?

  14. Hello,
    you are the author’s theme wordpress “mantra” and I have a suggestion for this. You have create the function to put links from social networks in the header of the website is really well done. I would suggest if it was possible that this function, such as putting a flag of a language and if I click it I get on another site but translated. In this case the function must be able to load images (flags). Is what it would be possible?

    Sincerely,

    Patrick

    1. Older versions of IE (6,7) are not supported and we don’t plan on supporting them. They are dead and should stay dead.
      The theme should look acceptable on IE 8, although a lot of the graphical details will be missing.

  17. Hello, I love the template, but had one quick thing that I got stuck on. I am trying to raise the height of the header area just a bit so I can fit a bigger image in it. Right now it is cutting off some of my image. I need to change it from 110px from 60x.

    When I inspect the element I see a line of css code that does it:
    #branding {
    background: url(“http://www.radbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/radbrain-head1.png”) no-repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;
    height: 60px;
    }

    and it says this code is “inline:37” but I cannot find it in the backend editor anywhere, so where is it and how do I do this quick mod?

  18. any way to get mantra to use my own custom black image tabs, instead of the default white ones?
    I’ve simply extracted them from the theme, GIMP’d them black, and added the modded images to the same folder that contains the originals, then copied every line referencing them from styles.css, pasted those lines into “custom css” in misc. settings, and altered each line to refer to the black tab images.

    None show. I also modified the back2top.png in a similar fashion, and it isn’t showing either.

    1. @Kylie Lange & @ Sara-Tace :

      Make sure in the Settings >> Reading settings it’s :

      Front page displays -> Your latest posts

      then save the settings.

      Sara, did you try disabling all plugins for a moment and checking if it works then?

    2. I had this happen when I updated the theme. I lost the home page, no more slider, it was just my blog.

      I made sure that my reading options were default, Then I made sure that the presentation page was enabled, Then I went to the page I created for my blogs and set the template to Blog Template (Posts Page) and everything came back up.

      I had other issues where my mantra settings page was not working, closed and opened IE, same issue. CTRL-F5 and all came good. Update is functional just some minor changes I had to make.

  20. Hi, I upgraded the Theme and lost my Home Page. Freaked out and am having my hosting company restore to my older version of Mantra which is fantastic by the way. Just wondering what the issue could have been here so that I can upgrade other sites that I build using Mantra as the Theme. Thanks Kylie Lange

      1. I have tried doing it that way and the front page comes back but not in the right sizes. The top header is half missing and the images in the 4 columns are distorted so they go right across the screen. So instead of them being 4 columns going across the page there are 4 columns going down the page. Any ideas here? Thanks Kylie.

        1. I had this happen when I updated the theme. I lost the home page, no more slider, it was just my blog.

          I made sure that my reading options were default, Then I made sure that the presentation page was enabled, Then I went to the page I created for my blogs and set the template to Blog Template (Posts Page) and everything came back up.

          I had other issues where my mantra settings page was not working, closed and opened IE, same issue. CTRL-F5 and all came good. Update is functional just some minor changes I had to make.

  21. Hi Kay,

    Everything downloaded fine except under the mantra settings page, on the presentation page, nothing happens when I click on slides or boxes. My old information stayed but the field to enter the information does not come up when I click the link. I was going to add a third slide. Let me know what I need to do.

    Thanks,
    Jo Lynn Deal

    1. Also, are their instructions on how to change the layout of every page with the new version. You said it’s a feature you added but I’m not sure what that means.

      Thanks again.

      1. For the layout templates, when creating or editing a page you have in the right side a Page Template selection. You can choose from there the layout of that page.

        For the other thing you mentioned, did you try disabling all plugins?

    1. heh.
      Ya, but I couldn’t access the settings. Restarted my browser… all is good.
      I guess I had too many browsers open on too many pages for too long (as usual). Clearing the cache didn’t help, I actually had to restart ’em.

      Thanks for looking and even bigger thanks for this awesome theme.

  25. Just upgraded to 1.9.4.
    Oops! The image for column 4 on the presentation page is now M.I.A.
    I am unable to resolve the problem because the column settings do nothing when I click them. Tried in FF13 and IE9.
    Click my name to see the site.

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