The Ahimsa WordPress theme has a bug that renders the “Site” and “Comments” feed links at the top right unusable (by adding a “feed:” at the front of the URL). This will be fixed in the next release, but in the meantime, you can make the following change to overcome the problem.
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One question that crops up in the comments or via email is how you might add an image (such as a logo) to the red header bar of the Ahimsa theme. This is a tricky issue, because how you accomplish this depends on what the function of the image is and how large it is. Perhaps you want the image to be a background image for the header, like is the case for many WordPress themes. Or perhaps the image is a small logo. The changes to be made to the header code vary correspondingly.
A frequent question I am asked is how to add widgets (the boxes for “Tags”, “Categories”, “Calendar” and so on) in the sidebar. This is not an issue specific to the Ahimsa theme, but is a WordPress feature that is fully supported by Ahimsa. Below is a Blair Witch Project like ;-) video that shows you how you can add widgets to your sidebar through the WordPress admin section of your blog. I hope the video file format is viewable on your system. You may need to install QuickTime (free).
Below is the download link for version 2.2 of the Ahimsa theme for WordPress.
What’s new:
Stay tuned to the blog for additional info on skins.
Below is the download link for version 2.1 of the Ahimsa theme for WordPress.
For Ahimsa for WP 2.0′s collapsible sidebar, I made a design choice to leave the sidebar visible by default on the main page (this is configurable), and hidden by default for posts and pages (this is not configurable). The thinking here was that when a visitor is reading a page or post, the browser real estate for the content should be maximised, and distractions minimised.
However, I have received quite a few requests to make the sidebar visibility configurable for pages and posts also, and far be it for me to question my users’ design choices ;-). So I have created a bug, which you are encouraged to track, comment on, etc. I have targeted this feature for the immediate next release (2.1).
In the meantime, here is how you can overcome this feature of mine, right now:
1. Visit your blog’s admin page and choose Design. 2. Click on Theme Editor.
3. Edit the Page and Single Post templates one at a time, and remove the following section of JavaScript code (present at the top of the Single Post template and the bottom of the Page template):
<script language=’JavaScript’> fadeSideBar(); </script>
Below is the download link for version 2.0 of the Ahimsa theme for WordPress.
As indicated by the major version number change, there are a lot of new features in this release:
A word of caution: some of these changes might be reversed in a later release. I am ambivalent about:
Just realised that I had not uploaded Version 1.2 of my Ahimsa theme for WordPress here, though I had posted it at wordpress.org. Here it is:
This version introduces a few changes:
This release includes:
And various other small changes and fixes. This site has already been updated with this version of the theme.
Download: Ahimsa-0.5.zip
Ahimsa is the WordPress theme that adorns this site. If you would like a copy of it, click below!
ahimsa-0.4.zip
Tested on: // WordPress 2.1 // Safari 3 Beta, Firefox 2.0.x, Camino 1.5 //
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