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Audacity of Tanish: A theme for WordPress

August 4th, 2009 by ravi

Ahren Code’s Audacity of Tanish is a WordPress Theme with a dark motif and some slick (IMHO!) jQuery action for post display and collapsing, etc. Click on the links to the left to download the theme (you can also install it from the WordPress site), view screenshots and a grainy video, or post feature or bugfix requests.

Features

Darker colours with bright text
JavaScript effects for showing hiding posts, post info and links, etc
Bottom bars: sidebars at the bottom (up to three)
Configurable background tile and image
Option to show Blog Authors in bottom bar
Author Gravatar in post
Comments block show/hide
… and a lot more

Please click on the Screenshots link above to get a preview of the theme.

License

This theme is released under the latest version of the GPL (currently v3), whichever that may be at the time of your use. For the GPL, see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.You are free to use this theme for any purpose you choose, in a manner that conforms to the GPL. I would like you to leave the attribution at the bottom of the theme, but you are not required to do so.

Installation

Visit the WordPress site for detailed and authoritative instructions on installing themes. For the impatient: it is usually as simple as extracting the archive and copying the directory (“tanish”) into your WordPress installation directory under wp-contents/themes.

Notes

Versions of this theme lower than 1.0 (e.g: 0.9) are, as the number indicates, alpha releases. They have not been fully tested on all browsers (in particular IE7 and Chrome). Please be aware of this if you should choose to use this theme. I would love to hear from you if you find issues, so that I can fix them ASAP.

If you like this theme, or especially if you decide to use it, send me email or post a link to this site, leave a comment here, or some such, so I know it was useful! And if you really, really like it, how about rating it at WordPress.org?

46 Responses

Ahren Code » Blog Archive » Audacity of Tanish 0.9.1: A theme for WordPress writes:
August 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am

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valdelis writes:
August 14th, 2009 at 9:52 am

Very nice theme, thank you! I think I’m gonna install it on my new “old” blog :)

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- ravi writes:
  September 1st, 2009 at 3:32 pm
  
  Hello! Thank you for the comment.
  
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Denis Ciumbargi writes:
September 13th, 2009 at 5:57 am

Hello, i downloaded this theme as an blogger theme from another site, i don’t know if you created it for blogger also… but, if you did, i need some support.. there is a big problem of displaying page elements in the edit layout options… the gadgets don’t show up so that they can be reordered or edited…

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- ravi writes:
  September 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
  
  Denis,
  
  this theme is intended for WordPress. I have no idea, in fact, how
  Blogger themes are structured. Can you point me to the site from which
  you downloaded the Blogger version of the theme?
  
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  - shiroi writes:
    October 21st, 2009 at 2:48 am
    
    Hi ravi,
    
    Your Tanish theme is really cool. But because I use blogger blogs primarily for personal use, I was really happy when I saw this theme converted to blogger platform. Here is where I got the theme: http://wpbloggerthemes.blogspot.com/2009/08/audacity-of-tanish.html. I think Dennis got his theme from here too.
    
    You might want to add for your next release a navigation bar after the header so that it will be user-friendly for all site visitors… just a suggestion :)
    
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    - ravi writes:
      October 21st, 2009 at 2:19 pm
      
      Shiroi, Thank you for the comment and the pointer to the Blogger theme converter. It seems to do a decent job of it!
      
      I am not sure what you mean by a navigation bar. Can you explain? Thank you.
      
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- shiroi writes:
  October 21st, 2009 at 2:40 am
  
  If you’re still looking for adding page elements, check out this site: http://bloggersentral.blogspot.com/2009/07/creating-navigation-tab-in-blogger.html. It discusses how to add an element to put a head navi bar on blogger blogs but the works is the same when you add gadgets for any “locked” elements.
  
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Ahren Code » Blog Archive » Download: Audacity of Tanish 1.0 for WordPress writes:
September 14th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

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Glenn writes:
October 7th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Problem.

Installed using WordPress 2.8.4.

When I click on Appearance and click on Tanish Options, this come up.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: scandir() in /home/content/g/l/e/glenn1barker/html/wp-content/themes/tanish/functions.php on line 214

Any ideas?

I think this is line 214 from the functions.php file: if( $options[$fldname] == $image )

$checked = “checked”;

Thanks,

Glenn

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- ravi writes:
  October 7th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
  
  Glenn,
  
  my guess is that you are running on a system that uses PHP4, and the
  function mentioned below (scandir()) is available only in PHP5. Are
  you capable of checking and letting me know? If so, I can give you
  custom changes that will work for you.
  
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Glenn writes:
October 7th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Yes, you are correct. I have it running on a php4x system. Please let me know what changes are needed.

Thank you,
Glenn

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- ravi writes:
  October 21st, 2009 at 2:41 pm
  
  Hello Glenn, I am working on it right now. Please contact me if I haven’t given you a version by Friday. Thank you for your patience.
  
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  - Glenn writes:
    October 24th, 2009 at 9:32 am
    
    Just checking on the PHP4x functionality.
    
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    - ravi writes:
      December 29th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
      
      Glenn, I am terribly sorry for the lack of response. I will ping you via email to see if you are still interested and if so, I will send you a fixed up PHP4 capable version tomorrow.
      
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      - Glenn Barker writes:
        January 2nd, 2010 at 11:07 am
        
        Do you have the PHP4 capable version yet?
        
        Thanks,
        Glenn
        
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        ravi writes:
        January 2nd, 2010 at 10:00 pm
        
        Glenn, would you mind if you give you the latest version of the theme (to be released in week or so) rather than the older version that’s on the WordPress theme site and which you are using? It’s easier for me to make the change in the current code than to go back and fork the old code.
        
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        ravi writes:
        January 4th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
        
        Glenn, please let me know if a newer version of the theme is fine with you.
        
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October 8th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

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Glenn writes:
October 8th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

Any progress? Thanks in advance, Glenn

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Richard Lowry writes:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:27 am

Tarnish is very cool. It is unique from any other blog format that I have seen. I immediately installed it in my WordPress blog and I love the look. Thanks.

Richard

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- ravi writes:
  November 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
  
  Richard I am glad you like the theme. If you have feature requests or issues to report, you can do so using the Feedback button on this blog or using the issue tracker at GitHub: http://github.com/ahrencode/Audacity-of-Tanish-for-WP/issues.
  
  I also left a comment on your blog regarding RSS feeds.
  
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kickradio writes:
July 11th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

Still having problems. The Tanish Options link gives me: “you do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” I no other problems other than the tanish options link from the admin dashboard.

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- kickradio writes:
  July 13th, 2010 at 2:06 am
  
  Ive been having problems accessing the Tanish Options from my WP admin control panel.
  
  When I click on the Tanish Options link I get this:
  
  http://kickradio.com/wp-admin/themes.php? page=AudacityofTanish
  
  this gets: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
  
  THE SOLUTION:
  
  but in the browser window if you change it to this:
  http://kickradio.com/wp-admin/themes.php? page=Audacity of Tanish
  
  it converts to this:
  http://kickradio.com/wp-admin/themes.php? page=Audacity%20of%20Tanish
  
  and the options are available…
  
  The link through webpress does not like spaces in the title
  
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  - ravi writes:
    July 21st, 2010 at 11:22 pm
    
    This was exactly it… wish I had checked your post before I spent some time debugging the issue. I responded on your GetSatisfaction post as well as on my other blog post on which you had left a comment. I have a fixed version coming up, but in the meantime, see:
    
    http://getsatisfaction.com/ahrencode/topics/cant_access_options_for_tanish_in_admin_dashboard
    
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Rob writes:
July 18th, 2010 at 4:33 pm

Hey Ravi! Is the bottom area the only space to put ad banners on this theme?

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- ravi writes:
  July 19th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
  
  Hello Rob, since there are no “sidebar”s in the theme (widgets appear at the bottom, in three columns), I guess the answer is yes. Of course if you are a WP code ninja, you can hack in the ad banners anywhere you wish. And if you have such an idea in mind, I will be glad to help you out with answers to any questions you have.
  
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JeannieU writes:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:16 am

I have been trying to upgrade one of my blogs to WordPress 3.0 on my test server, theme is Audacity-of-tanish. Most everything worked except for the Tanish Options: I get “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
How do I get those back?

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- ravi writes:
  July 19th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
  
  Hello JeannieU, others have reported this problem as well. I am investigating it and hope to have a fix tonight.
  
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  - JeannieU writes:
    July 19th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
    
    Meanwhile I have been using the “Kickradio bypass” (spacing the page name in the browser) to get around the problem. WP 3.0 may require you to be more UNIX with your naming conventions now …
    
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    - ravi writes:
      July 21st, 2010 at 11:23 pm
      
      Jeannie, see above for a temporary fix. Fixed version of the theme coming up soon.
      
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Ursu Radu writes:
July 21st, 2010 at 3:45 am

Buna ziua,

As fi interesat de un link-exchange cu blogul dvs. Daca sunteti interesat astept un email pe admin@motruinfo.ro

Cu respect,
Ursu Radu

(Dupa vizualizare as avea rugamintea ca acest comentariu sa fie sters)

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JeannieU writes:
August 26th, 2010 at 8:39 am

Hello Ravi,
I was a bit too impatient and went produktion with the bypass. I’m tickled pink, how nicely my wishes came true with your design on top of the WP engine. I tuned your color design down somewhat, though, because my art is somewhat on the flamboyant side on it’s own. But it was actually your color design that attracted me to your tanish-theme in the first place. Well, now I’ll wait more patiently for your update…

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- ravi writes:
  August 31st, 2010 at 5:27 pm
  
  Jeannie, thank you for all the kind words and your patience. Apologies for my lack of update on the theme. The latest WordPress natively supports background image configuration, so I am working on getting all that stuff out of my theme and letting my users set it using WordPress. I hope to have a new version of the theme out shortly.
  
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Sample Templates writes:
February 8th, 2011 at 4:51 am

Hay Ravi! this theme Audacity of Tanish is serious eye candy! loved the design and layout..will need this for my new site..thanks for sharing this with me!

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- ravi writes:
  March 14th, 2011 at 11:56 am
  
  Thank you for your kind comments. It is always a pleasure to hear from my users.
  
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Kartik Singhal writes:
March 13th, 2011 at 1:26 pm

Hi, I just started using another of your wonderful themes today.

I felt one important part missing on the theme – Search. If I try to put it on the bottom (side)bar, it doesn’t show up properly. Any hacks for this?

And sorry, I tried finding if this was already resolved on your tenderapp, but didn’t bother to post there.

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- ravi writes:
  March 14th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
  
  Hmm, I had coded it such that if you add a Search widget, it would not be collapsed… let me check my code. Another option is for you to style it that way using custom.css. If you want to go that route let me know and I can work with you.
  
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  - Kartik Singhal writes:
    March 14th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
    
    Yeah it’s not collapsing, but also not fitting into its specified area too.
    
    Sure, it would be great to work with you. I was wondering if that search box could be put outside of the sidebar to make it easily visible and distinct.
    
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