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Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:04:09 +0000

Ludger,

thank you for your wonderful comment. As I have written before, these
really make my day and more than pay off the work I put in on the
theme. I am delighted that you (and your audience) found it useful.

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:06:06 +0000

Hello Marieva,

The design (which is common to most WordPress themes) is to not show
comments in the home page where (typically) a number of the latest
posts is shown. A viewer can click on any post (its title) to see the
full details of the post, including comments. This post page can also
be visited using the comments link, yes. The comments are not
collapsed. In the front/home page, the comments are not shown at all.
Clicking on comments takes you to the post page for that page, which
also includes the comments.

In your case, your home/front page is:

http://thedinnerdish.com/ />
and here you can see the left sidebar and the link for comments. If
you had more posts, some of those would be shown here as well.

Then, if you were to click on a particular post in this list, then you
visit that post page. Example:

http://thedinnerdish.com/?p=1 />
In this page the post is displayed along with comments. The sidebar is
collapsed to the side by default and can be viewed by clicking on the
Sidebar tab. You can change this default behaviour by going to your
blog Admin Dashboard and choosing Appearance -> Ahimsa Options.

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:14:05 +0000

Hello,

I am afraid I have bad news... I just found this out recently myself:
if you upgrade using the WordPress built-in theme upgrade mechanism,
the upgrade deletes the existing theme directory completely, before it
installs the new one. And since I store the skins within the theme
directory, they are lost during the upgrade. I was not aware of this
unfortunately. And now I am thinking of options to (a) communicate it
to users so that others do not suffer this problem you just did, (b)
put in changes in the next version of Ahimsa to store the skins
elsewhere.

I am terribly sorry for the changes you lost. Your only option might
be any backup that might be done by your hosting provider. Do you
think that's a possibility?

Ahren Code : Audacity of Tanish: A theme for WordPress

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:04:04 +0000

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.

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:30:04 +0000

Jon, multiple sidebar support is coming in the next version. Stay
tuned! Follow it here:
http://github.com/ahrencode/Ahimsa-for-WP/issues#... />
Thank you for your kind words.

Ahren Code : Fun with Ajax

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:10:05 +0000

Christophe,

Is there such a thing? All AJAX bashing is good AJAX bashing! ;-)

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:39:12 +0000

Hello Hein, look around line 169 of header.php. Let me know if you
need more details.

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:22:05 +0000

Hein, a very good point. My first implementation did in fact leave the
sidebar tab fixed as the page/post scrolls. Unfortunately, without
using JavaScript to keep moving the tab as the page moves (an ugly
hack), I couldn't get it to work for IE. But I do agree with you that
it�s a good feature to have. I created a bug for it on GitHub. I will
try to revisit the implementation for the next release.

http://github.com/ahrencode/Ahimsa-for-WP/issues#...

Ahren Code : Reply via email for WordPress blogs

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:16:07 +0000

Ray, that's true, they do say that. I guess I am just a bit paranoid
about my comments! The other problem I have with Disqus or
IntenseDebate is that the theme styling has to be adapted to handle
their inserted HTML elements.

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:43:04 +0000

Ruben, have you added the Pages widget in your Dashboard -> Appearance
-> Widgets section?

Ahren Code : At long last: Ahimsa 3.0 for WP

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:14:05 +0000

Hello,

are you perhaps using AdBlock or some such plugin/extension with your
browser? Do you see the ads in the sidebar (at the top) on this site?

Ahren Code : Audacity of Tanish for Posterous

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:38:07 +0000

Thank you!

Ahren Code : At long last: Ahimsa 3.0 for WP

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:36:23 +0000

Hello Robert,

do you meant that you want to turn off comments for all pages but
leave them open for posts? If so, I am not sure there is a way to do
that in WordPress without a plug-in or changes within the theme code.
If this is what you are shooting for, I can give you the code changes
you need to add to the theme to make it happen. Let me know!

Regarding a drop-down navbar, that is a lot of UI work to do, so its
not trivial. I have been considering implementing this for a future
release since I get this request a lot, but for now, if you want the
navbar you will have to use a plug-in that provides that feature. I
believe there are a few.

I hope that helps!

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:30:13 +0000

Hello Julius,

did you sign up at WordPress.com? If so, you are restricted to the set
of themes they offer with the service, unless you sign up for the
premium service. As far as I know, they do not offer Ahimsa as one of
the available themes to the free users, unfortunately.

Ahren Code : Reply via email for WordPress blogs

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:23:04 +0000

Vladimir, I am glad you found my comments useful. I am sending this
response via email via Intense Debate ;-), which has worked out fairly
well for me.

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:41:13 +0000

Hello Mario,

Thank you for your comment. I am afraid I do not know anything about
SEO. Have you tried a general Google Search? Smashing Magazine, which
I read occasionally, has an old post that seems to be informative: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/09/22/comple...
.

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:06:04 +0000

Charles,

multiple sidebars will be available in version 3.1 of the theme
(coming in October). I am not sure I understand your problem though --
can you explain a bit? Also, your blog is throwing SQL errors --
probably caused by the \"Comment relish\" plugin, if you have it
installed.

Ahren Code : Audacity of Tanish: A theme for WordPress

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:16:05 +0000

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?

Ahren Code : Ahimsa for WordPress

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:20:04 +0000

Hello Hans,

you are right I am afraid. I had the impression that the border-radius
CSS attribute was working in Opera, but I don't know why and how I got
that impression. I had already corrected the stylesheet description
(see: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ahimsa) to reflect this.

Ahren Code : John Gruber's 15 minutes of schadenfreude

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:34:04 +0000

Chema, yes, I agree. There is always that option with Free Software:
have a problem with it? Fix it! ;-) But I don't want to come down too
hard on Gruber who is a fairly sensible fellow. But his argument that
he has never encountered security issues with his software and
therefore WordPress is different and dangerous is a very strange (to
say the least) statement!