Mantra 2.2.2 loves twos

Zed

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1. What’s news for 2.3.0 version??
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   Nice theme, my favorite one

2. Hey Zed,
   I really appreciate all the work that has gone into and is still going on with Mantra. Lovin’ it!
   Quick question for you, I am using the presentation page with “extra text” using both the “top title” and “second title”. This is giving me 2 “H1 tags” (as does this page) which is not great for SEO.
   Is it poss to make the Second title H2???

   Many thanks
   Alun

3. I like Mantra and just built my online magazine around it: http://www.imtbtrails.com.
   I like tremendously!
   If I had a wishlist, it would to allow more columns (maybe 8 total?) and to have the ability to customize further the navigation bar. I would love to have it match my websites.

   This is a very easy Theme to use and the first place I would come to look at themes for future sites. Thank you!

4. Our site scfruittree.org is currently running Mantra 1.7.5.
   Should I anticipate any issues updating to 2.2.2.
   The plug-ins I’m running are FormBuilder, TinyMCE Advanced and MapPress

   1. That’s a really big step. Make sure you create proper backups before updating, some things might fail 🙂

5. How does Mantra work after updating to the latest version of WordPress? ANy issues to watch out for?

   1. There are no issues with Mantra 2.2.x and WordPress 3.7(.1).

6. great theme, the mantra ! would love to have also two languages (one URL; bi lingual site) available ,

7. Do you have any idea why the WP Bulletin Board plugin would cause the words/descriptions under the four categories on the presentation to disappear. I turn it on: they disappear. I turn it off: they re-appear.

8. I recently updated to the latest Mantra version – all is working fine, presentation page fine, etc.

   However if the presentation page is disabled, I can get to the blog simply with domain/wordpress.

   If the presentation is enabled, then domain/wordpress gets to the presentation page, but I cannot get to the blog page. I tried domain/wordpress/blog, but it did not work.

   Thanks for any help.

   1. I stumbled onto a solution – don’t understand how it works, but it works.

   2. This is documented in the FAQs:
      C17. What if I want to use both the presentation page and the blog page?

      If you’ve enabled the presentation page and also want to create a blog page (like the default WordPress homepage), create a new page and choose “Blog Template” as the page template. Then add a link to that page in your menu(s) (if it isn’t created automatically).

9. Also – I have a menu with drop down (expanding nested items). On the presentation page it all works fine, but when you click through to any standard page, the menu drop downs do not activate on rollover.

   Here’s my test box so you can see it for yourself:

   http://ec2-54-234-97-241.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

   1. You have javascript errors on your site, one being caused by the fact that you’re loading a very old jquery version:
      <h3 class="widget-title">Questions?</h3>
<div class="textwidget"><!--If you already have jquery on the page you don't need to insert this script tag-->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      the other one being
      ReferenceError: TWTR is not defined
<script src="https://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script>new TWTR.Widget({ ...

10. Is there any way to enable the sidebars on the presentation page? I can’t seem to find any way of turnng that on?

    1. There is no such functionality in the theme. The presentation page is not supposed to have sidebars.

11. Last Parabola update broke the home page. It used to be a static home page with another one for posts, but after last update home page became blank. I set home page to be “posts page”, and now it is showing the slider and looks normal… but it doesn’t show the post on the homepage neither on the former “Posts page”

    1. Depends on the version you updated from. A little while back we changed the template files location in Parabola (which makes all pages using templates to fail). Make sure your posts page is using the (current) Blog template.

       Since you updated and it’s not a fresh install, the blogs are not displayed on the presentation page (as it was in the previous versions). You can enable them from the presentation page settings section.

       If you want a static page instead of the presentation page, disable the presentation page and set a static page under Settings > Reading.

12. Do you think the update is the reason I suddenly (this morning) can’t upload images to the presentation page slide? When I try I get a blank, but the images arein my media… Please help I have just spent 4 straight days working on my website and really like your theme.:)

    1. Try to upload the files via the Library and copy/paste the file URLs to the presentation page settings fields.
       We are looking into this.

       1. Thank you for responding, I tried your suggestion, but it still doesn’t work. I still can’t add or change any slider images. Any other ideas?

          1. What doesn’t work? Uploading the images via the Library? Copy/pasting the URLs? The theme displaying the set images?

13. Everytime I try to customize my theme, it asks me to login and password, but even already being logged in the system keeps asking for login and password, is there anything I can do to customize?

    1. This should not happen. Sounds like an issue with your WordPress. Are other theme’s settings pages functioning correctly?

       1. Hi Zed,
          I am getting the same thing here with one of my client’s sites. Everything is working fine, but whenever I click on the Themes link, I get thrown to the Login page even though I am (obviously!) already logged in. WP and all themes and plugins are always kept up to date.
          Terry

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