This WordPress theme doesn’t need screenshots, since it’s the very theme you see on this site! It’s an extremely amateur effort (especially in the sense of the principles of UI design) but I am putting it out into the world anyway, in the unlikely case that someone might find it interesting.
If you are interested in keeping up to date with this theme join the mailing list by clicking on the link in the box to the right. Mail to the list will be very low volume and I promise not to sell your email address to anyone!
You can also click on the Bug Tracker link to file bugs or feature requests against this theme.
A German translation of this theme is available courtesy of Stefan at his blog.
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 (”ahimsa”) into your WordPress installation directory under wp-contents/themes.
wp-contents/themes
Notes
This is by no means a “best practices”, complete or feature-rich theme. At some point, I hope it will be. In particular, you may wish to note the below:
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?
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WOW wonderfull,magnificent and absolutely majestic
Hmm… Matt lives in the Philipines? ;-) (that’s the IP address block the comment came from). I will take the compliment either way. Thanks Matt!
And its April 2 already in the Philipines!
thanks for this. it has helped me alot.
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I love the theme and am trying it out for my new website. However, I really want a 3 column site and see that your site using Ahimsa looks like a 3 column version. Is it possible to add that flexibility? Or do you have that coming? If so, I’d REALLY love to have it.
Kieran, no my site is two-column, not three. And I am afraid no 3-column in the near future. I will investigate it around version 3.0 timeframe (at least 4-5 months from now).
In reference to the 3 column theme post. I would not be interested in 3 columns but and I think I am right here why not move the sidebar to the right column or at least give an option to do that. My reasoning on this thought is I believe that search engine spiders start reading a page on the left and if you are blogging with this theme you want those spiders to find your posts easy. Moving beyond that the theme rocks and the colors offer the user a little eye candy and the load time is actually very fast as the eye candy is done by code and not images. Keep up the good work on this great theme!
Wow, Ahren, I feel in love with Ahimsa at first sight! Fresh, spacious, original — many thanks for sharing.
Love from Germany!
Hi Ahren – I think this is an excellent theme. In the past the themes I have used have been very minimalist and generally I do not like the heavily designed themes, but this is the first design I really like.
I love the fact that it is flexible and loads very fast with good CSS.
Thank you!
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Hi,
I saw your templates..look great! I wonder if it possible to edit the top header by putting my own logo in it? and how? Thanks.
JYO
Imran, Nik, Patrick, thank you for your comments.
JYO, you will have to go to your Admin section and choose Appearance -> Theme Editor to edit “header.php” and add the HTML code to insert your logo image. If you need further help, please contact me (http://ahren.org/code/contact).
I went searching for a new theme and I Love this one! It’s simple and doesnt distract from the content, while being nice to look at. I’m going to tweak it a bit to match my style, but overall nice look.
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#comment-number not work?
Example: http://ahren.org/code/ahimsa#comment-1974
The tempalate is great! I use it on my blog,now. Is there anyway that I can show the pages? Thanks a lot, Ravi!
ok, la verdad este es el theme mas espectacular que he podido enconttrar ya que combina muy bien los colores y ademas que no se desvia la atencion del contenido principal, sobre todo que es muy llamativo
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Hi there, I found this theme on the wordpress theme site, and was very impressed, and I’ve decided to use it for my blog. I’m also considering using it as the home page for my website as well, so I’ve got a consistent theme, and because I like it so much.
Thanks for the great work.
– Axman
Axman, thank you for taking the trouble to leave a note. Such comments are a great motivator.
Hi Ahren,
Great template, it’s perfect for a new client. The 1st character of any post or page content is markedly different than the rest of the text, and I couldn’t readily understand how to identify it in CSS params (at least in stylesheet.css) to tweak it. Even in FireBug… ;-(
How/where do I control the first character?
Thanks!
Jay
Jay,
look at the style sheet (style.css) in the Theme Editor and edit this section:
.entry > P:first-child:first-letter { color: #662222; font-size: larger; }
You can either remove it or modify it to your preference.
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