Ahimsa for WordPress: Version 2.1
January 13th, 2009 by ravi

Below is the download link for version 2.1 of the Ahimsa theme for WordPress.

Download Ahimsa 2.1 for WordPress
Ahimsa for WordPress
Version 2.1

What’s new:

  • Support for WordPress 2.7’s new comment mechanism (including threading, paging, per comment replies).
  • Some changes to comments section, including:
    • Consistent use of title and action capsules.
    • Moved reply form to its own box.
  • New configuration options for/to:
    • Default display of sidebar in posts and pages.
    • Turn off the § prefix symbol for sidebar sections.
    • Turn off display of date/author for pages.
137 Responses  
  • Mike Boas writes:

    Thanks, Ravi! Looking good — I’m trying it right now at “Almost A Movie.”

    I like that you’ve made the S icon easy to remove and given us the option to have the sidebar on all the time.

    There was one thing I changed in the past, but now I can’t remember where it was located. The first letter of each post has that bold red font, but I’d like to omit it. Do I look for that code in the CSS or in one of the other template files?

    • ravi writes:

      Mike, in fact I thought I had removed it from the style, since even I was somewhat ambivalent about it, but it looks like I did not (remove it). You can make the change by editing style.css (in your Site Admin -> Theme Editor) and removing (at around line 702), the following:

        .entry > P:first-child:first-letter                                                               
        {
            color: #662222;
            font-size: larger;
        }
        
  • Tayway writes:

    Love Love Love this, my only wish is that it had horizontal category navigation

    • ravi writes:

      Tayway, thanks for the kind words. I am not quite sure I understand what you mean by horizontal category navigation? Can you explain?

  • Roy writes:

    This template doesn’t seem to work verry wel. With WP 2.7 I get javascript errors. The initSBMargin() doesn’t seem to be defined. Also some parts of the site seem to overlap

  • Richard_Cream writes:

    Where is the nav bar for pages. Only categories seem to show up

    • domesticdad writes:

      I had the same problem but I figured out you have to go to widgets and turn on the “pages” widget…Then you have no problem…It shows up in the side bar as well…

  • Richard_Cream writes:

    How come pages don’t show up in a nav bar anywhere? I can only seem to get categories

    • ravi writes:

      RIchard, did you go to the Theme Editor and add the necessary sections? If you look at my site, you will see that pages do show up, so it is possible in Ahimsa. Please ping me if you need more help and I will be glad to give further info.

    • ravi writes:

      Richard, on second thought, perhaps I have misunderstood your issue. What do you mean by “nav bar”? I was thinking of the sidebar, but perhaps you are speaking of something else?

  • Shaun writes:

    Hi there, WordPress Virgin here. I’m looking for a template that allows me to insert paid ads. Is this one of them? Any help appreciated!

  • Shaun writes:

    Hi, I’m looking for a template that allows me to insert ads. Will any WordPress Template do that, or do I need to look for certain ones? Any help appreciateD

    • ravi writes:

      Shaun, you will probably find WP plugins that can accomplish what you want, and which should work with most templates/themes. Themes that support widgets (a requirement for any new theme) are probably a safer bet. I haven’t done any work with ads so I am afraid I don’t know what is involved, but if you have more specific questions I can still try to take a shot at answering them.

      • Shaun writes:

        Ravi, thank you. Can I safely assume Ahimsa supports such widgets?

        • ravi writes:

          Shaun, I can think of no reason why it won’t work in Ahimsa. I believe I am fully widget compliant in my code. If you try some paid ads widget or plugin and it doesnt work, feel free to ping me for help.

          • Shaun writes:

            Hey there
            Things have been progressing nicely using your theme (and people LOVE IT), however I have downloaded ad widget WP125 successfully but it doesn’t appear in my widgets on the site itself. Any ideas?

            • ravi writes:

              Shaun, did you go to Appearance -> Widgets and add the WP125 widget to the sidebar and then remember to Save Changes? If so, let me know, and I will try to debug the issue on my blog.

  • Shaun writes:

    Ravi I’ve tried to install Ahimsa but I’m told a stylesheet is missing?

    • ravi writes:

      Shaun, please download the zip file either from here or from the “Featured Themes” section of wordpress.org. The zip file in the wordpress.org page for the theme is incomplete for some reason. I have sent email to WP folks regarding this.

  • kickass.log » Blog Archiv » Wordpress Theme Ahimsa auf deutsch writes:

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  • Stefan writes:

    Hi ravi,

    thanks for this wonderful theme. For me and other german users i translated your theme in german language. Maybe it’s interesting for some of your vistors. They can download it here:http://www.kickasslog.com/2009/01/wordpress-theme-ahimsa-auf-deutsch/

    Greetings from Stuttgart, Germany
    Stefan

  • Matt writes:

    This is one of the nicest themes I’ve found.

    Thanks for sharing it. Keep up the good work.

  • Chris writes:

    DO you think you could add the ability to choose whether the sidebar is on the left or the right?

  • orin writes:

    My “reply” box in the comments fails to say “reply” – I’ve done some tweaking (as an amateur) but I don’t know what I might have horked.
    http://oddwalkministries.com/oddblog

  • orin writes:

    nevermind, figured out I had to enable threaded comments…

    • ravi writes:

      Orin, thanks for mentioning this. It shouldn’t be necessary to enable comment threading to fix this! I will take a look at the code and get a fix out shortly.

  • chrome writes:

    I loved this theme, it was so easy to modify the colours to something else, but unfortunately friends who used Opera couldn’t even render some pages so it’s been removed.

    Good job anyway though. :)

    • ravi writes:

      What version of Opera are they using? In Opera 9.63 I am seeing little issues other than that there are no rounded borders and there is an annoying tan coloured bar at the top of the comments section with a “Reply” link in it, that is confusing.

      • SCdF writes:

        I have similar issues in Opera– specifically Opera 9.63 in Windows and Linux. The lack of rounded corners is fine, but it does not correctly render comments at all.

        Check out the following two pictures depicting the same blog post at the same time:
        http://mylittlepwnage.com/misc/blogTheme/Firefox.png (Firefox 3.06 Linux)
        http://mylittlepwnage.com/misc/blogTheme/Opera.png (Opera 9.63 2474 Linux)

        The whole comment section doesn’t seem to render correctly. Also, if you don’t have threading comments it’s a little odd to have the outer part of the reply button but without the actual word ‘reply’.. prehaps the entire button should go.

        • ravi writes:

          SCdF, thank you for taking the trouble to attach the screenshots. I hope to have a new release of the theme up next week which should address many of these issues. The blank Reply button is annoying indeed (and this blank capsule appears in a few other places too). I will include fixes for it next week.

  • Mark writes:

    When the sidebar is closed (fadeSidebar js function initiated), the main content is a couple of pixels indented to the right – which takes away from the rounded corners effect in the browsers that support it. I’ve been trying to modify both the js and the css, but without any luck. Any suggestions?

    • ravi writes:

      Mark, I spent quite some time ironing out that issue so I am surprised it still shows up… can you show me some site or page where this happens? What browser are you using (and version)? I cannot reproduce the effect, so any info from you would be very useful. Thank you.

  • Crystal writes:

    Love the theme and I am thinking about using it on my site however I was wondering if it would be possible to have a fixed width instead of fluid?

    • ravi writes:

      Crystal, do you mean you would like the main content section to have a specific width? Or do you want to drill down deeper and have fixed width for the sidebar, etc? If you wish you can file a feature request at:

      http://ahrencode.16bugs.com/projects/3703/bugs

      Please be sure to add the details to your request, and I can see if I can implement it.

  • Crystal writes:

    I was actually just talking about the main content area or at least I think that is what I am talking about. Basically I would just like the dark gray, white line, and the green in the far background to expand and contract when you adjust your browser window and not the actual text.

    • ravi writes:

      Crystal,

      okay, so we are indeed speaking of the same thing. You want the main content area to have a static size. That’s possible… if you haven’t given up on the theme, can you contact me via email (code (at symbol) ahren (dot) org) and I can give you some small code changes you can make to the theme using the editor, to implement the change you want.

  • Radhesyam writes:

    Forgive my ignorance, being a newbie to Wp, but I want to display PAGES in my sidebar as you have done on this site.
    How do I do that.
    Also the Calendar you have – I would like that.
    Please tell me how to do it – I know it requires editing in theme editor but I don’t know which file to edit or what code to put!

    Thanks
    Radhesyam

    • ravi writes:

      Radheshyam,

      go to your Admin pages and choose Appearance -> Widgets option. You can then drag in the Pages and Calendar widgets from the left to the current selections on the right. You then have to click on “Save Changes” at the bottom of the list on the right. That should do it.

      I will try to post some screenshots next week.

  • Aditya Belgaman writes:

    loved this theme.. been usin’ it from today. But i have the same problem with Orin, there is no reply link on the reply box. On the other hand, i don’t know how to enable threaded comment. Can you help me?

    thx again for the theme

    • orin writes:

      To enable Comments (Aditya), from the dashboard, lower left, click under Settings the “Discussion” link – then it’s “enable threaded comments” under “other comment settings”

    • ravi writes:

      Aditya, I think someone already pointed this out in the comments, but let me add: go to the Admin section of your blog and choose Settings -> Discussion (this is in WP2.7 — if you have 2.6 or older, let me know). Then enable the checkbox for “Enable threaded comments”.

  • domesticdad writes:

    I am also confused on how to add pages…You explained to another gentleman to go to theme editor…I have written pages and then published and they do not show up on the side bar menu or even on the site…I would like to add pages as well as posts…Thank you so much for the theme though…

  • Kirill writes:

    Hice job!

    But WPNG Google Calendar widget does not works on sidebar with your theme. :(
    Any suggestions?

    Please check out on my website.

    Thanks again!

    • ravi writes:

      Kirill,

      I cannot reach your site right now, due to some network issues (not sure at which end!). Did you remember to add the Widget in the admin page Appearance -> Widgets and then save the changes? Please let me know. If you did that and it still does not show up, I will add the widget to my test site and see what might be going on.

  • Rylee writes:

    hi, Ravi, thx for the wonderful theme, but I really have a question:
    I choose to “Hide Sidebar by default in Main/Home page” and “Hide Sidebar by default in posts and pages”, but when I open the site, the sidebar just appears and then fade away. I’m wondering if we can make it just “invisiable”, not a fade-away style.
    waiting for ur reply, thx.

  • Kyle writes:

    Awesome, awesome theme ! with easy options and a nice look, win win!

  • Stephanie writes:

    I’d love to see this in a 3-column if possible!! It’s great.

  • Otto writes:

    Ravi,

    Love the theme. Would love to use it on my blog. Is there any way to get an image into the top red bar? I would love to incorporate my company logo up there–or even simply replace the text with an image bar.

    Thanks

    • ravi writes:

      Otto,

      a later version of the theme will let you upload and use an image banner. For now, in order to achieve this, you need to first upload the image somewhere, then edit the theme (either directly in the theme directory, or using the admin pages: Appearance -> Editor). Then you can modify Header (header.php) and add in an HTML “img” tag in the header, pointing to your image. If you need help, please ping me via email to code (at symbol) ahren (dot) org.

  • Otto writes:

    one more question: when I install this theme i always get the name of my blog stacked on the left, ie each word on one line. i notice here that the words “ahren code” are next to each other, not stacked..how do i do that on my blog? thanks

    • ravi writes:

      Otto,

      in order to prevent the word wrap, in my blog configuration, I set the title to be:

      Ahren Code

      The “ ” is HTML speak for “no break space”. This prevents the browser from deciding to break the line at that point, when it makes its rendering decisions.

      Try it out and let me know if it doesn’t work for you!

  • E.B. writes:

    Another WP Virgin wants to know something simple: Can the beige, red and orange colors be swapped out?

    • ravi writes:

      E.B, they can be modified, but in order to do that you have to edit the stylesheet. If you go to the Admin pages for your blog and choose Appearance -> Editor (this is WP2.7, for 2.6 or earlier you have to go to Themes -> Theme Editor, I think), you can then select the Stylesheet (style.css) and start hacking around with the colours. I am afraid I have not consolidated the colour scheme into the smallest set of entries, in the stylesheet. That will happen in Ahimsa 2.2 which will also include a few alternate colour combinations, as well as giving you the ability to set some of the colours to any colour of your choice.

  • Fernando lopez writes:

    Como puedo hacer para que los botones se vean en español, no se nada de nada, pero escogi este tema por sus colores y versatilidad, agradezco cualquier orientacio, desde ya gracias

    • ravi writes:

      Fernando, I am afraid I don’t know Spanish, and Google’s translate didn’t help much. Are you asking about how to change the text in buttons to Spanish? I hope your knowledge of English is better than mine of Spanish!

  • Dave Gilliland writes:

    In the reply or comment box, the “Leave A Reply Button is on top of the Name entry box. Is thre a simple way to move the button off of the entry box?

    • ravi writes:

      Dave, do you mean the “Leave a Reply” header? That’s not a button. I just want to make sure we are talking about the same thing. If you don’t want that header, I can tell you the changes to make to remove it. Let me know.

  • Fernando lopez writes:

    Bonito tema , pero lo deseo en español, como realizo los cambios, que archivo debo modificar, gracias

    • ravi writes:

      Fernando, sorry my knowledge of Spanish[?] is close to zero. I think you want to translate the theme text into Spanish? If so, there is unfortunately not one single file that you have to change. You have to change, at least, single.php, index.php and page.php. Additionally, if you want the header and footer bars also in Spanish, then you have to edit header.php and footer.php.

      I am hoping to internationalize my theme in one of the next few versions…

  • Hama writes:

    very nice template nice!

  • Korpil writes:

    I definitely love your theme, but I’m having trouble with the comments, I have already enabled threaded comments but no comment at all appears in the single page. It can see how many responses exist, but it only displays those who were added AFTER I changed the theme…. editing any old comment doesn’t help either…

    I’m using WP 2.7 selfpublished… and I’m also a Spanish user, if I figure how to fix the comments problem, I will translate the theme to Spanish.

    Para Fernando López, estoy tratando de publicar el tema en español, tan pronto como pueda, lo haré disponible.

  • Korpil writes:

    I had to change the wp_list_comments call to show every pingback and trackback, that was what was happening. I also have the Spanish version ready to distribute. How should I send it to you? Or would you like me to host it in my site? I’ve only added a “translated to spanish by” text.

    • ravi writes:

      For others: Korpil and I have been communicating via email and he was kind enough to explain the issue and his fix to me. I have made a similar fix in my code and that should be available next week.

  • Lekatt writes:

    Really like your theme, but having trouble with the comments. It seems the comment doesn’t post until another comment is posted. It is always one behind.

    • ravi writes:

      Its a bug in my theme… I have it fixed in my private version and will have that out next week. Could you check back on my blog or send me email if you need further info? (my address is code [at] ahren [dot] org).

  • Akshay Dua writes:

    Hey Ravi,

    Great theme! Really superb, no kidding!

    I am not able to see the \Links\ widget however. How do I do that?

    • ravi writes:

      Akshay, assuming you are running WP 2.7, you have to go to the Admin page, and then choose Appearance->Widgets, and add the Links widget from the left column to the right one. Then you have to scroll down and click on Save Changes.

  • Ged Duncan writes:

    Hi Ravi

    I really like your design, it is very elegant and colourful, and would love to use it. Big problem is IE. Are you managing to iron out the bugs, and will it be IE compatable soon?

    • ravi writes:

      Ged, I am trying to both make the theme presentable on IE7/8 and perhaps even IE6. However the rounded corners will not happen in IE since IE does not support any form of the CSS3 border-radius property :-(. At a later stage, I might use images to render the rounded corners, but that would be a sad backward step…

  • bernddasbrot writes:

    Great theme with lots of potential!

    I can only second some of the request made in the bugtracker for really flexible theme. Especially thse two would make a huge difference and turn into an all-purpose theme:
    – option to have the sidebar on the right OR left
    – various color schemes (incl. self-defined ones)

    Hope we’ll see this implemented soon!

    • ravi writes:

      The custom colour schemes is definitely coming in a couple of weeks (Ahimsa 2.2)… the choice of sidebar position (left or right) might also make it in, but that’s a bit tougher, and I don’t want to promise that for 2.2.

  • Mario writes:

    Hola Ravi, el theme esta muy bueno, pero me gustaria saber si se pueden poner las esquinas redondeadas para que se vean en el IE.

    • ravi writes:

      Mario, I use CSS3 properties in Gecko/WebKit (Firefox/Safari/Chrome) to render the rounded corners. That’s not possible in IE without using images or fancy table tricks, unfortunately.

  • gabrielle writes:

    this site is not compatable with IE at all…

  • Damien writes:

    Hi,

    I like your theme very well and use it on my website :-)

    Is it possible, in a next version, to have a new sidebox horizontaly, just behind the title of the site (it would be nice for a few pages like ‘help’, ‘contact me’,….)

    Regards,
    Damien

  • Abishai writes:

    I found a problem with the tags on posts: there is a closing but no opening before the tag list. To fix this I modified line 89 of index.php from:
    $before = ”,
    to
    $before = ”,

    • Abishai writes:

      The above should read:
      I found a problem with the tags on posts: there is a closing but no opening before the tag list. To fix this I modified line 89 of index.php from:
      $before = '',
      to
      $before = '',

      • Abishai writes:

        Sorry not working… the missing word is :P

        • ravi writes:

          Abishai, still no luck!! Do you want to just email me? code [at] ahren [dot symbol] org.

        • ravi writes:

          Abishai, I think you mean the missing span tag? Actually, in this version, I decided to not do those capsules for the tags… because I found them a little too overwhelming. So, what I really need to do is remove the closing span tag! ;-) Do you disagree? Do you think the tags should be in capsules? I personally prefer the simpler comma separated version in this release.

  • piernodoyuna writes:

    To fix the problem with the first comment, look for this in “comments.php”:

    Delete it and save the document.

    En español, busca el texto de arriba en “comments.php”, guarda de nuevo el documento y se acabo el problema del primer comentario en la pagina del articulo.

  • piernodoyuna writes:

    Ok, can’t show code.
    Delete line 28 to 32 in “comments.php” and save it

    • ravi writes:

      Thank you for posting that. I have a similar fix coming up next week.

    • orin writes:

      Can someone give me the quick php to do an ifelse around lines 28-32 in the comments.php file? Basically I want to skip those lines of code if the browser is IE. thanks!

      • ravi writes:

        Orin, those lines are just comments. You can safely remove them. I did not terminate the comment properly which is why IE was messed up. Firefox/Safari are more forgiving!

  • Robert writes:

    Hi Ravi,

    I’m using your theme on my WP blog, however the fluid width feature doesn’t seem to be working quite right. It works perfectly fine for me on this blog, but on mine, it doesn’t fully reduce to the width of the window when I unmaximize or change the width of the physical window. Can you help point me at the right place to look to fix this?

    Cheers,
    Robert

    • Robert writes:

      Hi Ravi,

      Disregard. I failed to look at the actual content and noticed a very wide image. The code itself is perfectly fine.

      I’m feeling a little like a bit of an idiot.

      Anyway, love the theme!

      Cheers,
      Robert

  • kalley writes:

    Hi Ravi,

    The themes do not support IE, there is a blank shown in the top of IE .

    • ravi writes:

      Kalley, yes I think this is an issue with IE6. Are you using IE7 or 8? If so, then its much worse. I am working at this problem this weekend and I should have something up, hopefully, next week.

  • steeephen writes:

    Hi Ravi,
    yet another WP virgin, but I managed to install Ahimsa in minutes – it’s excellent, thanks.

    In response to previous posts re: ‘ads’, Google AdSense works perfectly with your theme – even managed to colour code the ads to match at: worcestershirewebdesign.co.uk/blog

    Tested my Ahimsa in 4 browsers and no issues with Firefox, Safari or Chrome – just wish I.E.7 was as good as them at doing it’s job…

    thanks again.

  • kalley writes:

    Ravi,Thank you for your attention. IE7 or IE8, I have not tried, but at a lot of people still using IE6, and I hope the best of CSS compatible with IE6. Finally, or thank you very much for bring us such a beautiful template.
    Yours kalley

    • ravi writes:

      Kalley, supporting IE6 is quite difficult (if you don’t believe me, see http://bit.ly/Qv0YE). However, in an update I hope to put out today or tomorrow, I will have better support for IE7/8, and some improvements for rendering in IE6. Please check it out and let me know what remnant issues you see.

  • Dave Gilliland writes:

    Ok.. I’ve writte you before about this.
    It bothers me that in this section… the reply/comment section above the “name” entry box is overlaped by the “Leave a Reply” lable.

    can you do anything about this so that it does not overlap?

    • ravi writes:

      Dave, I think I have this fixed now (I am assuming you noticed this problem in IE?) and will have a release tonight or tomorrow.

  • Nancy writes:

    I am having the width issue that is discussed. Your page loads fine and the width adjusts, mine doesn’t. Using Firefox3.

    • ravi writes:

      Nancy can you give me a URL where I can see your problem, or can you describe it in more detail? Thank you.


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