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

Roy, can you point me to a site or installation which has these problems? I would love to fix any issues I find.

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, 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.

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, 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, 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.

Stefan, thank you for taking the trouble! I am honoured!

Matt, thank you!

Chris, sure can do… it will take a bit of trouble since doing it right would mean I have to move the “tab” to the right also, but it can be done. Can you file a request at:

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

Thank you.

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.

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.

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, 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,

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.

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.

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”

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”.

Howdy, did you enable the Pages widget in your Admin->Appearance->Widgets page and Save Changes?

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,

that effect was intentional, to show the viewer that a sidebar does exist ;-). It is possible to make it not appear at all, but it will take some code changes. Can you file a request at:

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

Thank you.

Kyle, thank you!

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,

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, 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, 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, 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, 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…

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.

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, 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, 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…

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, 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.

Damien, a lot of people have asked for this feature. I will try to throw it into 2.2.

Thank you for your comment.

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