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WordPress Theme: Ahren Code Ahimsa


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License


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Thank you for downloading Ahren Code's Ahimsa WordPress theme. 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


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Please visit the WordPress site (http://wordpress.org/) for detailed


and authoritative instructions on installing themes. For the impatient:


it is usually as simple as extracting the archive (which you seem to


have already done, since you are reading this file!) and copying the


directory ("ahimsa") into your WordPress installation directory under


wp-contents/themes.





Customisation


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Skins


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Ahimsa supports "skins" -- CSS stylesheets that can be created and


modified using the Ahimsa Options page of the Admin section of your


blog. Skins can be used to customise the colour scheme of the theme


to your liking. You can even share your skins with other users. See


the Customisation section of the Ahimsa page:





http://ahren.org/code/ahimsa/





Custom Styling


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If a skin doesn't go far enough for you, and you are a CSS ninja who


wants more control and detail, all you need to do is create a file


called "custom.css" in the themestore directory, in which you can


add any styles you desire. And when you upgrade Ahimsa, this file is


left alone, so your customisations should be safe. The themestore is


typically under WP_ROOT/wp-content/themestore/ahimsa, where WP_ROOT


is the root directory of your blog's WordPress installation.





Notes


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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:





* The theme is intended to be bold yet pleasing. YMMV! ;-) It was built,


  like many other themes, by hacking the default. A cursory look at the


  contents will demonstrate the rather shallow understanding of the CSS


  and PHP involved. I hope to clean up most of that in future releases,


  if there is interest in this theme.





* The theme uses rounded-borders using Mozilla/Gecko and


  WebKit/KHTML/Safari specific CSS attributes. I could use the CSS3


  border-radius attribute, and I probably will, but it won't help much


  since IE does not support it anyway. Rounded borders do work with


  Google Chrome since it is based on WebKit.





* The word "ahimsa" can be taken to mean "non-violence".





