Mantra 2.3.4 still breathes

Mantra

Yes, it is still alive! Despite such a long break in releases (the longest break yet), Mantra still has some breaths left.

One of these breaths is the 2.3.4 update, bringing the eagerly awaited (and fiercely requested) social icons bugfix (bug kindly bundled by yours truly with the previous update).

Changelog:

  • fixed the social icons (unable to disable) bug introduced in 2.3.3
  • corrected the meta show/hide options not working for custom post types (pointed out by tkemmere)
  • corrected content editor (html .mceContentBody) width to properly use the configured site width instead of an arbitrary number
  • improved handling of empty site title and/or description (will no longer display a single dash in the browser title)
  • updated French translation

 

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

61 Comments

  2. Hi,
    first, I want to thank you for this great, customizable theme 🙂

    I just want to verify, whether is theme is still maintained. A half year without new releases is really the longest break yet.
    Is there any reason?
    Do we have the risk to maybe get unfixed mantra-errors in a futurity wordpress-release?

    1. Mantra is mature enough that I do not believe we will be adding any new features or options.
      However, we will be maintaining it by correcting bugs and releasing compatibility updates for new WordPress versions if needed.

    1. Mantra is mature enough that I do not believe we will be adding any new features or options.
      However, we will be maintaining it by correcting bugs and releasing compatibility updates for new WordPress versions if needed.

  4. Hi
    Thank you for your great design.
    I have a problem with the notes!
    I can`t assign any link to any Note.
    The notes have a wrong default link address that can`t be changed.
    what should I do?

    thanks in advanced.

      1. I mean Posts. I can assign permanent link to my posts. an unchangeable link is fixed to all of posts.
        If it helps, I actually use Persian language, which is right to left.

  6. Mantra is awesome and at least perfect choice for my wordpress project. Just few important issues, which may be relevanto also to other users:
    1.) Is there an wp caching plug in you could reccomend in use with the mantra template. I use the presentation page of mantra with the slider. WP caching plug ins that compress or mignify CSS and JS gave me some troubles and caused the slider not to work
    2.) On view of an article is it possible to make visible the image in evidence on top of article as used to on the standard wp themes?
    3.) For the slider on the mainpage I use the “show articles in evidence” parameter. As on the bottom of same page I show also excerpt of last 6 articles. Is or will there be a way to exclude articles in evidence to avoid display redundant information?
    Anyway: big up for mantra!

    1. 1. No matter which plugin you use, you need to disable Javascript minification/compression. CSS minification could also create issues in some cases, so if you have issues, disable that as well.
      2. If you’re referring to the featured image, that is displayed when post lists are set to display excerpts.
      3. The theme has no way of telling between the two. Use a separate category for slider posts, in conjunction with “WP Hide Post” plugin which allows you to hide posts from specific listings/sections (including the homepage). Or simply use publish dates far into the past for slider posts if dates don’t matter.

  7. Hello,

    How to disable the creation of multiple graphics when it adds a new image to the post. I do not need them and it is getting through it more and more – I want to turn it off but how to do it?

  13. Hi guys,

    is there a way to turn off the slider on the presentation page? I have 3 categories on my blog and I’d like to use the presentation page to simply link to them using the columns. But I don’t need the slider. Thanks in advance!

  16. Zed, I have bought you guys coffee in the past and getting ready to do it again! I am building a National Website for a Bike Manufacturer from the Mantra Theme and they are loving it. I add plugins that function flawlessly with Mantra. The WebGuy

  18. Hello

    Is there a code for making the sidebar static/sticky/fixed? As in when a visitor scrolls down, the sidebar remains fixed/static/in place? Would be a great help ! 🙂

      1. Thanks for the response..i saw this feature on another website and was pretty sure it would improve ctr as well as reduce bounce rate, which is a critical part in ranking. I would surely appreciate if there can be some way out

  20. Hi guys! We’re a start-up coffee shop and roastery using your Mantra theme to help us maintain our online presence. So far, the theme has been great (we’ve gotten several compliments on the site so far), and I just wanted to say THANK YOU for continuing to make this customizable theme available and easy to use!

    We can’t donate at this moment as all our money is literally tied up in coffee, BUT I’d love to mail you all a bag of our coffee as a VERY small token of thanks for all you’re doing to keep this theme going and up to date… and when we’re able to donate, we certainly will!! Feel free to contact me (Laura) if you’re interested. http://www.shortwavecoffee.com/about-us/

    1. Please continue to feed, water and stroke Mantra!
      We use Mantra to help street people stay alive with healthy food, a warm place to gather and plenty of social support.
      Don’t let our favorite WordPet template ever die, we luv you Mantra.

  21. Hi, when I try and submit a Sitemap .xml I keep getting this message:
    This page contains the following errors:

    error on line 11 at column 66: EntityRef: expecting ‘;’
    Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

    http://cafegeneration1.com/ 2014-05-08T16:18:51+00:00 daily 1

    I have used this theme for a few of my clients but never had this problem before, I have done nothing different with this site. Can you please help?

  22. Люблю этот шаблон. А после того как написала о нем, очень много блогов перешли именно на этот шаблон.

  25. I’m using a right sidebar. The widget titles are colored dark gray/black as the background and medium blue as the widget titles. How can I change the widget titles to orange so it’s easier to see against the dark background?

    1. As Mantra does not have advanced colour controls, you’ll need CSS for that. Unfortunately your site is non-responsive at the time I am writing this so I cannot give you the exact rules.

  29. This is great! I just switched to the Mantra Theme from Weaver, and I hope there is long continued development. I’ve seen the request in the WiKi about the ability to use the Magazine Layout on specific categories, and would love to see this myself!

    I’d like to have my home page use the standard blog layout, while selecting any category would use the Magazine Layout.

    Keep up the great work. Think its time to donate a bit for the project.

    Thank You.

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