Ahimsa for WordPress FAQ

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Certain questions appear with a predictable frequency from those of you who have found Ahimsa for WordPress worthwhile, so here is a FAQ that hopes to answer them in one place.

How do I add an image / photo to the header?

See this post.

How do I make my blog title (left column of header) not wrap text making the header taller than it needs to be?

The way to avoid this is to prevent the text wrap by making the spaces between words non-breaking in some way. One way is to edit your blog title (in the settings page) and replace spaces in it with   which is the HTML way of saying “give me a non-breakable space”. Another way is to style it by creating a custom.css file in your Ahimsa theme directory and entering in it:


#title
{
    white-space: nowrap;
}

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Dave Weinberg writes:
February 20th, 2010 at 10:45 pm

greetings-

so sorry to bother you with this one – I’ve tried to trouble shoot for awhile and I’m just not quite cracking the code or css or whatever… I am trying to get that little yellow vertical rule thingy to shift to the right on the header for http://sfiaudio.com/ – notice that SFI Audio is wrapping to two lines. I’d like it on one line but for what ever reason this combo of words is wrapping. can’t figure it out…

I was able to make it work in this other site by following the FAQ instructions and inserting a graphic http://shortfusecentral.com/new/ but cannot get it to work with just text.

CAn you help?

much obliged and thx-
-d.

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Ahren Code» Blog Archive » Shortcodes in Ahimsa for WordPress writes:
June 1st, 2010 at 2:55 pm

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Rick Z writes:
July 1st, 2010 at 2:25 pm

Experimenting with Ahimsa 3.2 …

How can I make the right sidebar wider?
It’s a bit too narrow. Double the default with would be much better.

I have looked at the CSS, but can’t work out what the edits should be (guesing more than one row).

tia :-)

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- ravi writes:
  July 1st, 2010 at 2:54 pm
  
  Rick, the CSS is not there because there is no set size for the sidebar(s) ;-). They expand to take up as much space as is left over after the main content section takes the space it needs. To force the sidebar(s) to a particular size or %, edit custom.css (Dashboard->Appearance->Editor is one way) and add:
  
  .sidebar { width: 300px; width: 20%; /* or some such */ }
  
  Hope that helps!
  
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lunenburg writes:
July 13th, 2010 at 11:55 pm

Hi, Ravi,

I have to bother you with one question. Right now, the title and the tagline/description are displayed in the same line. How to make the description appear on the second line instead of immediately following the title?

many thanks!

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- ravi writes:
  July 21st, 2010 at 11:24 pm
  
  Hello lunenburg, to achieve that you will need to edit the HTML in header.php. If you are up for it, let me know, and I can give you some detailed instructions.
  
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lunenburg writes:
July 21st, 2010 at 11:37 pm

yes, I want to make the change. Any advice from you would be great!

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- ravi writes:
  August 31st, 2010 at 5:41 pm
  
  lunenberg,
  
  apologies for the late response. To move the tagline/description down to a second line, you should edit header.php, in particular the section below:
  
  <a href="/">
  
  and change it to something like this:
  
  <a href="/">
  
  This might not render exactly as you want, but if you want to give it a shot and share a URL with me, I can help you fine tune it.
  
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Mojtaba Cazi writes:
February 14th, 2011 at 4:58 am

Hi Ravi,
I want to have page numbers in the footer of my home page (something like Page number plugin…) how can i integrate such plugins into your theme?

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miss composed writes:
February 22nd, 2011 at 8:11 pm

well… I did not make backups (I read the warning lines only after…). How do I refresh all the mass that I did?
I am a newbie… I tried deleting the theme and then installing it again but it did not help…

I highly appreciate your help since it is my favorite theme, but somehow I made my paged disappear …

Yours,
Miss Composed

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ronan writes:
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:21 am

Hello !
Your template is wonderful, but i don’t understand the way to resize the side bars… i edited the custom.css, but it seems not to be working.
Thanks anyway ;)

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Vincent writes:
April 1st, 2011 at 1:55 pm

Hi Ravi,

Thanks for this briljant theme. I am really impressed.
Do you have plans for bringing this theme to buddypress?
We are building a community with wp/bp and would love to use your theme. Or is it to hard to convert it?

thanks and keep up the good work.

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Neopangaia writes:
May 10th, 2011 at 12:43 am

yes please for the love of all that’s holy,release some sort of patch for buddypress users.

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AndreyPolyakov writes:
December 23rd, 2011 at 9:26 am

Hello!

I think it’s one of the best theme I’ve ever seen, but… where is pages menu??? Can I add it to template or only use widget “pages”?

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Tanguy writes:
March 5th, 2012 at 6:06 pm

Hello !

Hope someone who’s still alive behind this site ;-).
First of all, thanks : it’s a very nice theme.

I have some problem with the cartpress plugin running at the same time. Product list no more visible, image gallery too,…if i switch to an other theme everything works. But it’s not an issue for me to manage my products and image by changing the theme.

Thanks

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- ravi writes:
  March 5th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
  
  Hello Tanguy, I responded to your other comment. Can you create a request at http://help.ahren.org/? Thank you.
  
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