Mantra is alive and kicking. Things at WordPress were moving so slow we almost thought about giving up and upload the darn theme files ourselves. But just as that sinful thought was crossing our minds, one great guy got involved ( thank you emiluzelac ) and long story short Mantra 1.6.3 surfaced. A small bug that was stopping the custom settings from being applied was fixed soon after and then there was 1.6.4 which is now the current version of the theme.
So what is new? Well a lot has changed. The code architecture has been improved upon, making Mantra a lot quicker to load, the whole admin section has been revamped for a quicker and lighter user experience, and 2 new options were added: the custom header height which so many of you have requested and the featured image settings which now only enables and disables this feature. We will be working on expanding that in future updates with custom sizes for thumbnails, header images and even auto selected images.
We’re still working on the fixing the translation and we’re really close. Most likely it will be fixed in the next update coming in a couple of days or so.
Hi Kay,
I have tweaked theme’s style.css to suit my needs, however with every update I need to merge my changes. Is there any other efficient way of doing this?
I have read somewhere about wordpress having custom.css file for similar use.
Thanks for your help..
Best,
Sarang
Posted message too soon, 🙂
What I meant was I am not sure if Mantra provides similar functionality.
Basically what I am looking for is some convenient way of keeping my tweaked style without merging.
Thanks,
Sarang
Just installed v. 1.6.5
It seems localisation works. Thank you!
I’ll try to make Russian translation now
Yes, we will release the details about version 1.6.5 in a few hours. And yes the localization now works and thank you for taking the time to make a translation.
Hi,
I have been using Mantra theme for by blog for almost 6 months now and must say I love it.
I appreciate your providing mantra for no-charge.
However I was wondering if it is possible to enhance Mantra to include post-formats as well.
Thanks,
Sarang
Yes we will include them in future updates. They are on the todo list 😉 so it’s a matter of days.
Well the custom settings still aren’t working, and I just upgraded to 1.6.5 and yes using firefox and not IE or Opera.
Please post a link to your site if you need asistance.
The settings saving has been fixed and it now works on all browsers.