Mantra and the not so buggy 1.5.6

Mantra

The latest version of the Mantra Theme – 1.5.6 fixes all of the problems that 1.5.3 (the previous version released to the public) had. The process did take quite some time (about 2 weeks) because it took us a while to acknowledge and fix all the issues and then the WordPress theme review process delayed us even further (for over a week).

And before we let you know of all the stuff the new Mantra 1.5 has to offer over the older versions, we have to let you know of some known issues. So here it goes:

Known Issues

  • The Save Settings button in the Mantra Settings page in the admin section does not work in Opera (versions 10 and 11) and IE (versions before 9) browsers. You can easily fix this by changing your browser when using the Mantra Settings page. We are currently looking into this matter and we will fix it as soon as possible.
  • The tag-cloud widget displays all the tags the same size if you selected a value other than Default in Mantra Settings -> Sidebar Font Size . This will also be fixed in the next version of the Mantra Theme.

And with that out of the way, we can now focus on the new additions that came with Mantra 1.5.

New in Mantra v 1.5

    • The new and improved Manta Options page. It now takes a lot less space, is nicely animated, and is a lot easier to work with. Also, it does not work in Opera and some IE versions :D.
    • The new color selector. Also not backwards compatible with the previous color selector ( you’ll have to add a ‘#’ if you just updated from a pre 1.5 version of Mantra and want to keep your old colors).
    • The new slider and width selector. This has been a really tough one but now you can choose the width of your site, of the sidebar and the content area. And all that with just one slider. Now we’re thinking how in the hell we’re gonna do this when we’ll add a third column (second sidebar area).
    • Post Excerpt Options. A new set of options for post excerpts. You can choose whether to have post excerpts on your home page or on category pages and how many words should they have. You can also overwrite the default ‘…’ and ‘Continue reading’ texts.
    • A new animated Back to top button, enabled by default.
    • Added an option to hide the text that usually accompanies the comment form.
    • The theme is now 100% translation ready. We’ll create and add the .po and .mo files in the next version.

That’s it for this version. Hold on till 1.5.7 arrives.

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

15 Comments

  1. I have figured out how to change the width and height of the header in the functions.php, from researching on other forums, but when I change this all it does is to change the background size and leaves the header untouched.
    I am making the changes here:
    Theme Functions (functions.php)
    define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, apply_filters( ‘mantra_header_image_width’, $totalSize ) );
    define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, apply_filters( ‘mantra_header_image_height’, 90 ) );

    Please could you tell me if this is the right place to make the change, because if so, it is not working.

    Thanks again for a great theme. 🙂

    1. Yes this is the place to change theme. For now at least.
      The width of the banner will always be the same size as the total width of the site hence the $totalSize variable. You needn’t change this really. The height on the other hand you can change to your liking (repalcing the 90 value in the HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT). We’ll add this as an option in the 1.6 update in a couple of days.

        1. I have been testing out the random header option, which is again a great feature of Mantra. Only problem is that I am unable to remove the very narrow header image that I first uploaded. Is there a way to remove it, so that it does not show up in the random selection?

  2. I’m noticing quite a few 404s for:

    wp-content/themes/mantra/js/img/top_back.png
    (referenced in styles.css)

    Which doesn’t exist – should it?

    Thanks for your continued support for a great theme.

  3. Hi,
    I am getting along quite well with your wonderful theme. It has so many helpful features.
    Right now struggling with the banner and it looks totally silly at the moment. Just trying out different images and montages, but cannot find a way to change the width and height. I would like it to be wider and to stretch the whole width of the site. Can I do this and if so where please?
    Thanks 🙂

  5. So i see 1.5.6 came out today and i see you added that it will include the preview image into all the posts. Of course for those of us who were adding the image into a post already, we have double images now. Is there a way to turn this off? I didn’t see a setting for it in the menu.

    1. Hi Sean!
      How were you inserting the images? By simply inserting them into posts?
      The new images that are showing up should only appear if they have been selected as a feature image in you post page.

      1. Kay,
        I am inserting them into the post manualy and I have also made them the featured image. This only effects the main home screen and not the individual posts themselves.

        I do this so that i have an image for the “OnSwipe” ipad plugin.

        Your theme used to not display the featured image before, so it wasn’t a problem. All i’m looking for is a way to turn the auto insertion of the featured image off.
        Other than that, it looks great!

        1. Hi Sean, sorry for the long response time.
          We will include an option to disable the auto insertion of the featured image in version 1.6 of the theme.
          But until then you can quick fix this by editing your CSS:
          Go into your Mantra theme folder, open the style.css file , scroll to the bottom and add the following rule:

          .post_thumbnail { display:none !important; }

          Hope this helps!

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