This plugin is designed to inter-operate with our Mantra, Parabola, Tempera, Nirvana themes to enable their settings pages.
As of April 2026, Cryout Serious Theme Settings is a WordPress admin plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 859K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 9% this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
This plugin is designed to inter-operate with our Nirvana, Tempera, Parabola and Mantra themes and enable their classic settings pages.
The plugin is intended to be used with the following theme releases:
This plugin has no use and will do nothing if you do not use any of the listed themes.
I’ve been using Nirvana theme from this developer for over a decade now on several sites, and used this plugin in tandem with it since it became necessary in order to retain the existing theme functionality when wordpress introduced the customizer. The theme and this plugin have proved to be very reliable and stood the test of time. Its allowed me to do everything I’ve needed to; at various times I’ve considered moving to a more ‘modern’ theme but its really not been worth the effort given the the benefits I might (or might not!) get. I know this theme/plugin works well, does everything I need and I’ll stick with it as long as it continues to be updated and function properly.
I have used their Mantra theme for many years. Now support does not reply despite me having a current subscription (made several attempts to create a ticket on their website and also sending email and no reply or life sign). I suspect they might have ceased to exist. My advice is go for another supplier.
I’ve had this installed for a few years now and it seems to work just fine.
This was fine when I was using an earlier version of WordPress, but since upgrading to WP 4.7.2 I’m reluctant to use it (and Mantra theme or any others dependent upon it) since it’s not (yet) shown to be compatible with any WP version above 4.6.3.
…no hassle no mess. Great stuff.
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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