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Download: Ahimsa 3.3

September 6th, 2010 by ravi

The only three things guaranteed in life are death, taxes… and your periodic update to the Ahimsa theme. Fortunately only the first two are injurious to your health, while the surgeon general actively encourages use of the Ahimsa theme by pregnant women and children ages four and above.

So, here it is, Ahimsa 3.3!

Download Ahimsa 3.3

What’s new?

Bottom bar fading in index page now uses jQuery
Show permitted HTML tags when comment box gains focus
Edit/Reply for Comments hide/display on hover
Added a download box style (use a div with class=downloadbox and within that a link to the download with class=download)
New “comment guide” option to display some help text next to comment box
Fixed comment date/time display weirdness
Added Google “Droid Sans” font as fallback for “Trebuchet MS”
Converted all relative font specifications to absolute pt format
Lightened blockquote and list backgrounds in default skin
Removed first letter styling for post content
Changed behaviour of blockquotes and lists not to stretch background under jacent elements
Handle lists within blockquotes by not styling them
More spacing between posts in the index/home view
Fixed the “single pixel offset” problem when sidebar is collapsed
Made background colour more consistent during slidebar slide in/out
Fixed an issue where post bottom bar background colour did not extend all the way to the bottom
CSS cleanup and many, many small fixes
Tested on Firefox 3.6.3, Safari 5, Chrome 5.0

18 Responses

as writes:
January 19th, 2011 at 2:06 am

thanks for great theme. best wish for you! looking for the next version!

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- ravi writes:
  March 7th, 2011 at 10:18 am
  
  Thank you for your kind words. I am working on support for WP 3.1 “Post Formats” in the next release of Ahimsa which might be Ahimsa 4.0. Stay tuned here on the blog, or follow @ahrencode on Twitter!
  
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Sifte writes:
March 7th, 2011 at 10:07 am

Hi

I just installed your theme, it is a beautiful theme and feels bad to use it for free.

But I am having major problems!
after installation, I dont seem to have the option to dock/un-dock the sidebar.

I could not find your help section! so posting here! apologies.

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- ravi writes:
  March 7th, 2011 at 10:21 am
  
  Hello, can you explain a bit what you mean by ‘dock/undock’? Thank you. I just checked your site and it seems fine to me, but perhaps I am not noticing some issue…
  
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  - Sifte writes:
    March 7th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
    
    Dear Ravi
    
    Thanks for your reply and interest.
    after installing your theme, I have tested my blog on IE8/Chrome 9/Firefox 3.6; in every case, I get to see the sidebar for a second and then it disappears, which is fine as I have selected “hide sidebar by default”; but the problem is, I cant find the “sidebar button” to pull it out [i.e. undock it, sorry for the confusion].
    
    Also, the site width goes beyond the limit of the browser and I get a horizontal scroll bar to fully read a post.
    
    I am running WP 3.1.
    
    Regards
    
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Sifte writes:
March 7th, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Apology Ravi, the problem was from my end. one rogue post messed up the front page. Interestingly, my previous themes never seemed to have affected from that post.
The site (and theme) is working just fine since I removed that post.

Many thanks and kind regards.

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- ravi writes:
  March 7th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
  
  No worries! Glad you fixed it. I was going to suggest that there must be some element in one of your posts that is setting the width of the page. Since Ahimsa is a flexible width theme, it takes on the width of the largest unbreakable element in the page.
  
  Have you fixed your sidebar issues as well?
  
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  - Sifte writes:
    March 7th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
    
    yes, it was the rogue post that was creating all the problems, everything is working great now, thank you.
    
    one more question though, is “Ahimsa” a sangskrit word which means no violence [I think]?
    
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    - ravi writes:
      March 7th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
      
      Yes, that – non violence – is approximately what it means. A philosophy of non-violence or “do no harm”.
      
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Mike writes:
March 8th, 2011 at 8:13 am

How can I change the width of the sidebar?
All long content does not fit and is positioned on a new line.

For example: the tekst Markdown Cheatsheet in the sidebar show like:
Markdown
Cheatsheet

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- ravi writes:
  March 8th, 2011 at 9:55 am
  
  Hello Mike, the Ahimsa theme is a flexible width theme i.e., the theme lets the browser decide how to allocate width. That may not be the desired option in certain cases, such as the sidebar width. To force the sidebar to a particular width, you can go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Editor, and edit custom.css and add the lines:
  
  .sidebar { width: 300px !important; }
  
  That forces the width to always be 300 pixels. Instead of a pixel width, you can also specify a percentage (e.g: 20%). Another option is to prevent word wrap:
  
  .sidebar { white-space: nowrap !important; }
  
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Mike writes:
March 8th, 2011 at 9:16 am

Other question.
How do I change the height between lines? On my website there’s a lot of space between a new line.

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- ravi writes:
  March 8th, 2011 at 9:56 am
  
  Mike, see above comment on editing custom.css. You can edit this file and add settings such as the below:
  
  .entry { line-height: 100% !important; }
  
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  - Mike writes:
    March 8th, 2011 at 11:04 am
    
    Thanks Ravi!
    Works great!
    
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flowax writes:
June 27th, 2011 at 2:26 am

Hello

I wonder if this theme is still under develpoment or not? I love it but i get some warnings when using 3.2 version. I’m going to switch 3.3 but when looking at the release date it’s a bit outdated.

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- ravi writes:
  June 27th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
  
  Hello flowax,
  
  yes, the theme is definitely still under development. I have been hit with a lot of feedback from the WordPress theme moderators, many of which are constructive; but some are obstructionary (for example, the person reviewing my theme took exception to my use of capitals for HTML tag names in CSS files). I am trying to work through all of these and resubmit the theme to the WP Theme gallery. At the same time, I am pushing forward on the next release, which should be out sometime in July. Among other features, this theme will include support for the newly introduced post types capability in WordPress.
  
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  - BuzzD writes:
    December 13th, 2011 at 4:51 am
    
    Hi, do you know if the theme (I’m using 3.3) will still work after I update to wordpress 3.3?
    
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    - ravi writes:
      December 13th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
      
      Hello BuzzD, so far so good for me: all three of my themes seem to work fine on WP 3.3 (see this site for Ahimsa).
      
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