The new Mantra version brings a few small design changes. We improved the looks of the sticky posts, the headers, the next and previous post links, the page numbers, the comments avatars and a few other minor things. The tag-could widget bug has been fixed as well.
We also fully optimized the theme’s internationalization and created the .pot, .po and .mo files that will help you translate the theme vith ease. Okay, we admit. The translations don’t really work yet, mostly because we don’t use a localized environment and testing features that we don’t use can sometimes be quite troublesome. But hopefully the internationalization will be up and about in the next release 🙂
Hello, me again. I use the antivirus plugin, and your updated theme set off the antivirus warning in the functions.php and mantra-admin-functions.php. In the first file, it had a problem with this on line 123:
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . “/mantra-admin-functions.php”);
In the second file, it seemed to have a problem with your paypal encryption code on line 1109.
Just FYI.
Thanks a lot for the info and don’t worry about it. The antivirus plugin probably still needs a few patches.
Hello! I just updated the Mantra theme to 1.6.3 and now the settings I make in the “Graphics Settings” screen aren’t working, even if they show they’ve been correctly set in the admin. This happened in Opera and IE. Please help.
Could you give us a link with the site in question?
I’ve installed v. 1.6 from wordpress.org. Should translation work? It does not work for me. I’ve tryed to put my .mo file in root and language folders both, but with no result.
Nope, it still doesn’t work yet. But we’ll have it working as fast as possible.
Ok, thank you anyway! I hope it will be soon 🙂
I’ve got a Dutch translation (mantra-nl_NL.mo) ready to go. Hopefully the next version of Mantra will accomodate localized versions.
Thank you very much. The new version 1.6.3 is out now but the internationalization hasn’t been fixed. It will be fixed in a few days though.
I am using Mantra for a new web site. But, the result is wider than the normal view and requires people to scroll from right to left to see the full page – and I do not like it.
I have tried changing the width of the page in the style file from 1100px to something smaller, but nothing has changed. I have also tried to change the left point of the web site title, agan without any results – what should I do?
Try saving the settings in another broswer like Mozilla Firefox.
If you want, i have found that in mantra-admin-function.php, in the apperence settings, the is a ” on the first “”, in IE this is causes a problem. if you delete “” and “” you may now use the Save Settings button in the Mantra Settings page
in the “” i wrote and
form
Thanks a lot for your info. We have fixed that bug a while back and that was indeed the problem. But the new version of Mantra has been on the review queue at WordPressfor over 6 weeks now and we’re still waiting for the new version to be approved and released to the public.
I love mantra! Thank you so much for it. I’m one of those who has post information settings not working. I tested each plugin and at least one, the Nivoslider WP plugin, causes the conflict. Can you tell me how to remove the date and author manually because I can’t do without Nivoslider now?
If you want to get any help on this site, you must leave the copyright link on your blog intact. I see you removed the link and just left the text.
Am having a hard time using Mantra as a parent theme. Are there any problems in using it as a parent theme for a child theme? I can’t even add any css + elements
How are you trying to add your own css?
I recently upgraded to 1.5.7 and now my “Blog” page doesn’t show the images in the posts. If I click the link for the post, the images show up there, but no images on main Blog page. A few other issues popped up, but I got them solved, this is the only issue I’ve got left.
Could you provide us with a link to your site so we can see the problem ourselves?
Hi,
I want to change the category page to only display the titles of the posts in each category and not the whole post as it makes the page huge!!
I located the category.php and removed the following line:
<?php the_content(); ?>
But it still displays the whole of the post in each category. Can you advise please?
Please wait a little more for the new version. It will include new admin options that will enable you do that.
After upgrading to the latest version and also updating wordpress, the sidebar is now located at the bottom of the website. http://www.gs-diving.com
Do you have any suggestions as to how I make it fit next to the text, like a normal column should do?
I have increased the total width to 1100 (both in functions.php and header.php). Otherwise the tabs across the top don’t view properly (esp ipad/iphone)
I am unable to move the slider in IE8, Firefox (latest version) nor Chrome (latest version).
The slider shows a sidebar with 0px, which I guess is why the sidebar has defaulted under the text. My content is 760px. Thanks in advance.
I see you’ve managed to fix the sidebar.
I’m guessing it was because you were unable to move the slider and the content/sidebar sizes did not get saved.
This is the first time we get a report that the slider does not work in Firefox… are you using any particularly complex extensions (security / scripts / javascript related)?
has the 3rd column been added yet, ie. second sidebar?
Nope, and it probably won’t be for a while now. It’s not us… it’s WordPress that is taking painfully long to review themes, thus making it a lot harder for us to add new content for the theme.
Hey there,
is there any possibility to change the spacing between the header-image and the navigation?
Phil
Not yet but we’ll try to implemet that in a future version.
I´d like to use the social media buttons in the header and i´ve insert my facebook link in the mantra settings, but effective the link doesn´t work. The link is now “www.myurl.com/www.myfacebooklink.com”, but i´ve only written “www.myfacebooklink.com”.
Could you please help me?
Remember to start the links with http://
Maybe you could make this clearer in the settings instead of just putting “Insert your facebook address” as I was having the same problem (fixed now). I actually emailed you about it but haven’t heard back, although I understand that this may be because of the time of year I hope you are having a much deserved break.
Thank you for your feedback. We will try to make things clearer in a future version.
Hi,
I have been using Mantra theme for some time now and feel great about it.
However there is one thing that I have not got to work is tag cloud (with varying sizes, as in your website).
I am not using any custom tag-cloud plugin. Could you please shed some light on this.
Thanks,
Sarang
I guess I should have read http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-themes/mantra-and-the-not-so-buggy-1-5-6/ this one first.
Got it for now.
Best,
Sarang
Hi, the mantra platform is excellent, however I have just done an update and it has created a problem. The side bar (right) now is displaying below my text – I don’t know why and can’t work out how to change it. It was fine before the update.
Also the slider to adjust the page width doesn’t work.
Please help
weird how filling in this form led to inspiration – I worked out how to fix the problem! Cheers
I have tried chaning my browser (changed for IE to google chrome) and I still cannot make any changes in the mantra settings? I am not able to change colors, texts. etc. Am I missing something?
Please be a bit more specific about the troubles you’re encountering.
1. Does the option tab slide open when you click on the Text Settings/Color Settings/Layout Settings titles?
2. Are you able to edit the fields (colors / texts)?
3. Are you then able to click the Save button?
4. Does the page reload and display the “Settings saved successfully” message?
I am able to edit fields but when I click the save button, nothing happens. I do not got confirmation that settings have changed and they go back to default.
Which Chrome version did you use? Did you try in any other browser beside Chrome and IE?
I changed to firefox and it is working now…thank you 🙂
I am trying to translate mantra theme to but I don’t get it to work properly, it seems that none of my .po-files are used? (placed under themes/mantra/languages).
Is this a known problem and can you give me a hint in the right direction to solve this problem.
We’ve encountered the same issue right here, on Riot Reactions. Right after we figure it out and come up with a solution we’ll return with a reply.
when I save the settings page the slider automatically reverts to 0. this means that i cannot use the theme at all 🙁
Change the browser. Read here http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-themes/mantra-and-the-not-so-buggy-1-5-6/
so i updated today from 1.0 something to 1.5.7 — and it totally messed up my site:( what’s going on?
i’ll activate the Mantra again so you can take a peek… but the posts aren’t showing at all, just titles and a little excerpt, on the MAIN PAGE. 🙁
Did you try clicking the Save button on the Mantra Options page? Remember to also add # to all colours defined there if you have changed any of the default ones.
i had to pick another theme for now, until i can get Mantra to work for me again.
this is what i get when i click “preview” here: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/fa2ba9a6-0007-44ce-ade6-7db7210b207c/80bc79e5840c2e1ab23dc4b551d71158
it’s also how my page looked after i upgraded to 1.5.7.
as opposed to the theme right here on your page, which is how my page looked like (with my customizations of course) prior to the upgrade. 🙁
sorry, i deleted the note by mistake. here’s how your preview looks like again: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/f1955c3a-82b8-414b-8cfe-01e2920920dd/16ccf4cbf7b42bfa72ebd5895a59bb57
and see how my blog looks when i activate your 1.5.7 update: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/cdf1d5b1-de29-4a74-b98c-eb83a340aefd/7b1473c981d5d59a3e39e7331c439241
appreciate any help you can provide… thanks!
Thank you. We know of that issue. All you have to do after installing the theme is saving the settings in you Mantra settings page. Try to use Firefox as a browser when you do that. This issue has been fixed in the next version but it’s still awaiting moderation at WordPress.
Why did the custom header image get reduced to such a small size? Is there any way to increase it back to the old standard of 900×200? And, if I update my other sites, will it mess up the 900×200 headers that are already in place?
Yes, I too would like to know how to increase the header image size. I added in a custom CSS but the menu bar did not move. Any suggestions?
The header image size will be customizable in the next Mantra version. Hope that will make things easier.
Any idea when this next version will be available?
I would love to have a larger header.
Tanx!
//Jenny
This is no longer under our control. The WordPress dudes now have the power of life or death over the next version. When it will be approved, it will be appear as an available update.
Hello,
First of all I love the Mantra template, it looks great. When I proudly showed my website to my colleague we noticed that the layout of the Wales-activities page is all wrong. At my work IE7 is used and on the Wales-activity page tables (made by plugin TinyMCE Advanced) are displayed on the right side of the page throughout the widget-area. Everything is fine at home, I use IE9 or Mozilla, but using IE7 it’s not acceptable and a lot of Dutch companies are using IE7. So my question is: is this due to the template or maybe the plugin I used? Can I do something about this myself? Thanks for your help.
It looks even worse on IE6…
The problem is that some choose to use old, poorly done, ridiculously incompatible browsers, while they can update to newer version at no cost (either updating to IE8/9 or switching to an open source browser).
From a developer’s point of view, making websites that otherwise look perfect on normal browsers to look acceptable on IE older than 8 requires a lot of tricks and hacks, and working with no included style debugging tools whatsoever. That’s why most developers are long ignoring IE6 (which was a real pain in the… behind) and IE7 is very far on that path as well.
Everybody switched away from IE6 when Google decided to no longer support it on Youtube.
I’m guessing that when most websites viewed on company/school/faculty computers will no longer be viewable on IE7, the admins that should have updated the browsers will eventually have received enough complaints to do so…
I did not mean this reply as a backslash at you, it’s more of a bark out to those admins out there whose jobs include updating browsers in their workplace network and fail or ignore to do it. You’re making the developer’s work a living hell!
Anyway… the problem you’re seeing there on IE7 is probably fixable with some CSS hacks… but without any CSS debugging tools included in IE7 and us not using that particular plugin, there’s little we can do to help you.
Try adding
clear: both
; for#content table
in the theme’s style.css, but I’m just guessing here. Any fix for IE is done by guessing.