The Mantra Theme has over 100 customization options!
Mantra is our official Riot Reactions / Cryout Creations WordPress theme, created by our WordPress mastermind himself, Mr. Kay.
Mantra is a general purpose WordPress theme, featuring a whole pack of customizable options and easy to use tweaks, capable of tuning your WordPress to your very specific needs and likes.
As it is and will be the official Riot Reactions theme, it will always be under active development, so expect even more features and surprises
Mantra has been released and is available for download right now (for free!) from the WordPress Themes Directory.
For useful information on theme customization and a list of the most frequent questions we receive, do read the Mantra FAQs.
For those of you wishing to achieve more theme customization than what is allowed by theintegrated control options, we recommend using child themes instead of manually editing theme files. This feature is pretty well documented by WordPress and has the main advantage of keeping the theme up-datable. While any changes done to Mantra’s files are lost on each theme update, a child theme is a separate (partial) theme that is separate from Mantra and is not overwritten in an way.
When updating to v1.8 or newer (from an older version), make sure you are using WordPress 3.3 or newer, otherwise you will no longer be able to configure the theme (and your site will look messed up)
If you are using a Mantra version older than 1.6.4: please note down all the customized options you have set in the administration before updating. The update will reset all your theme options to the default ones. We are really sorry this has happened, but we were asked by the WordPress moderation team to change all the variables names, otherwise the theme would no longer be approved.
No matter what version you’re using, disable and re-enable any caching plugins after updating. And also use the “purge cache” option if your plugin has one. Many such plugins cache theme-related files and cause problems with how the theme works.
New in Mantra v1.8
Unfortunately this list can’t keep up with all the enhancements, advancements and bugfixes of the latest Mantra versions. Information will be added here when time allows….
The all-new Presentation Page with an animated slider and 4 columns
The Slider and columns are fully editable from the admin section
The new Magazine Layout
Two new menus – one in the header and one in the footer
Mantra new requires at least WordPress 3.3
New in Mantra v1.7
The third column (second sidebar) – if some of your sidebar widgets disappear after the update, they’re probably on the other sidebar.
New and more (24!) social media icons (up to 5 can be displayed at the same time) and 4 new ‘areas’ to place them in
Custom CSS field for custom styles without modifying theme files
More fonts and customization options ( a total of 35)
Reset to defaults button (in case you got lost in the maze of options)
A lot of fresh new bugs
New in Mantra v1.6
Translation works like it was intended to!
Post formats
Several bugfixes (’cause too many bugs at once means infestation)
The custom header height which so many of you have requested
The featured image settings
New and improved options user interface
New in Mantra v1.5
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 eventually fixed
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. The .po and .mo files are available as of 1.5.7. Translations actually working… is still a feature to be done in a future release. Translations are working as of v1.6.5.
Solved issues
1.5 – 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. Solved in 1.6.3
1.5 – The tag-cloud widget displays all the tags the same size if you select a value other than Default in Mantra Settings > Sidebar Font Size. Solved in 1.5.7
If you’ve recently updated to Mantra 1.8.1 or 1.8.2, it’s very likely that’s what you are here for These two versions of Mantra are plagued by a couple of small (but somewhat annoying bugs) like images not getting displayed on the homepage, some comment fields issues and a couple of other little things that needed fixing. So if you’re using 1.8.1/1.8.2, please update to 1.8.3 before reporting any issues. No matter how much we may like bugs, we hope to have fixed most…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? A meteor? It kinda looks like an UFO! Could it really be ?! Or maybe… is it … Superman wearing a sombrero? Close enough but no. It’s the new Mantra update with the symmetrically numbered version – 1.8.1 – one standing at the edge of infinity and seeing itself on the other side. Is that one the same as this one? Can they be the same with a whole infinity between them? Is space really the final bla bla bla… There’s more →
Wow it happened all so fast we dind’t even have time to create a post log for 1.7.7, that 1.8.0 made its way into the spotlight. So we’ll do a post for both. Mantra 1.7.7 – Fixed a weird bug that’s been…ahh… bugging us since the begining of Mantra. The bug made the hide/show post meta settings not work in certain conditions. All good now. – Mantra now gives you the option to make your header image clickable and link to your main page. You’ll bla bla bla… There’s more →
We just started creating a knowledge base for Mantra in the form of a FAQ. Be sure to check it often as we’ll constantly add new info that we think can improve your relationship with Mantra. The Mantra FAQ page is here.
We’ve almost finished including the relative dimensions in Mantra. This means you will be able to choose your site’s width in percentages as well.
Until then version 1.7.7 should be available any moment now with the new custom favicon uploader.
Well we fixed some more bugs. Don’t we always? But somehow we always end up creating more. Otherwise we wouldn’t have anything to fix on every new version now would we? And then we added 3 new options. The long awaited and yearned for option to disable the default text shadow on headers is finally here. No more editing the CSS, no more extra declarations in the custom CSS field. Now it’s just an Enable/ Disable option in the Graphics section. Then there’s the on bla bla bla… There’s more →
Mantra 1.7.5 is a pretty small update that mostly fixes a few bugs still left over by 1.7.4 . So it’s like patching a patch. We also added 1 more social link ( to a total of 5), made the social icons smaller so they look much better and now really fit our theme. We also added 3 more social ‘areas’ where the social icons can appear. So now you can have your social icons appear in the header, under the menu to the left bla bla bla… There’s more →
The new 1.7.4 version sets softly on the open wounds created by 1.7.2. It stops the bleeding. It straightens bones. All is not well yet but it does feel better. You still shouldn’t get out of bed for a few days, it’s just not safe yet. There’s still a high fever and you’re still in shock. But we thought about that too. With the new bandage version come a few nice things that you can play with: You have more fonts to choose from ( bla bla bla… There’s more →
Yap. The new version 1.7.2 is here. Don’t let the .2 at the end fool you, it’s the first in the 1.7 series. And it brings quite a lot to the table. The greatest and by far the shiniest of all its glitters is the new third column, or second sidebar if you wish, that you can arrange anywhere you want. But as not everything that glitters is gold, there’s a slight problem with it. Go figure, ei? If you just installed the Mantra theme bla bla bla… There’s more →
We’ve finished enabling the third column for Mantra. It will also have 11 social sites and logos available. And a custom CSS area. And more… coming soon to a blog near you -> Mantra 1.7 !
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