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Rachel for WordPress

June 16th, 2010 by ravi

Rachel is a WordPress theme that started out as a child theme of Audacity of Tanish, but grew divergent enough that I decided to release it independently.

Rachel retains quite a bit of the styling of Audacity of Tanish, with a face-lift via some splendid fonts made available recently by Google.

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 sidebar, but you are not required to do so (and I fully understand if you choose to disable it — in fact, there is a theme Option for that!).

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 (“rachel”) 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 exhaustively tested on all browsers (in particular IE7 and Opera). Please be aware of this if you should choose to use this theme. At the same time, a good bit of testing has been done (and found acceptable by standards!) on Safari 4, Safari 5, Chrome 4 and 5, Firefox 3.6, IE7 and Opera 10.53 (all but IE7 on Mac OS X).

I would love to hear from you if you find issues, so that I can fix them ASAP.

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Ahren Code» Blog Archive » Download: Rachel 0.8 for WordPress writes:
June 17th, 2010 at 2:07 pm

[...] Rachel is a theme for WordPress. Read more about it here. [...]

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Babs writes:
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:27 pm

I really like Rachel, but it seems that Rachel’s sidebar does not like Ozh’s Who Sees Ads. The first ad widget shows in the sidebar, but anything below it ends up behind the sidebar. And the first post appears below that.

If you can point me in the right direction, that would be great. It’s a cute theme.

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- ravi writes:
  June 22nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
  
  Hello Babs, it would help to be able to debug this on the site in question. Do you have the above configuration (Rachel + Who Sees Ads) live somewhere so I can see what’s going on and also look at the HTML/CSS etc. Thank you.
  
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  - Babs writes:
    June 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 am
    
    I’ll switch it over, now. The URL is http://recipes.babspace.com
    
    The ads appear fine in between the posts, it’s just the sidebar. For what it’s worth the ads also appear fine in the sidebar of Ahimsa. :)
    
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    - ravi writes:
      June 23rd, 2010 at 12:14 pm
      
      Investigating…
      
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    - ravi writes:
      June 24th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
      
      Babs, I have a fix! ;-) Please let me know if you want me to send you the modified theme (or you can wait for it to be available for download from my site tomorrow, or from WordPress.org in a few days).
      
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  - ravi writes:
    June 28th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
    
    Babs, version 0.93 of the theme is now available for download from here or from wordpress.org (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/rachel) and it fixes (or at least should fix) your problem. Give it a shot!
    
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    - Babs writes:
      June 30th, 2010 at 10:17 am
      
      Woot! It works!!!!! Thank you!!!
      
      I was a little worried at first, because it seemed the sidebar was stuck “open”, and I couldn’t move my widgets, but after a few refreshes it all worked itself out.
      
      It is a terrific theme.
      
      Thanks again!
      
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      - ravi writes:
        June 30th, 2010 at 10:22 am
        
        Glad to hear of it. Throw some stars my way, if you feel like it, at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/rachel.
        
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- ravi writes:
  June 24th, 2010 at 10:37 am
  
  Babs, I have a fix I think. I am testing it and will have an update shortly.
  
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macs writes:
June 28th, 2010 at 7:20 pm

Hi, thanks for this fantastic theme. Only one question: do you think in next release can be possible change the title from text with a custom jpg or png? I think this the only need i have, rest awesome! Congratulations.

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- ravi writes:
  June 28th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
  
  Hello macs,
  
  thank you for the kind words. For the title image, can you file a request here: http://github.com/ahrencode/Rachel-for-WP/issues. In the meantime, you can add the image in one of two ways:
  
  1) if you don’t mind having the image appear below the title, you can create a text widget and add it at the top of the sidebar, and in the text widget you can add the IMG tag to display the image.
  
  2) if you want the image to appear above the title or replace the title, you can go to Dashboard->Appearance->Editor and edit header.php and replace the PHP call for the blog title with an IMG tag.
  
  If you decide to go either route and need more help, please do not hesitate to contact me.
  
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thomasjwpayne writes:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Hello. Really great functionality on this theme. Wondered if there was any way to edit the meta data widget. Ideally was looking to remove

“Entries RSS
Comments RSS
WordPress.org”

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- ravi writes:
  July 21st, 2010 at 11:20 pm
  
  Hello Thomas, the Meta Widget comes from WordPress and is not part of the theme, so it cannot be modified in the theme. But you can achieve this using one of many WP plugins, such as http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/customize-meta-widget/. Hope that helps.
  
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