Tarski is a WordPress theme. It’s intended to be usable out of the box, by people who just want to get on with writing and don’t have time to learn web development first. Coming with a choice of tasteful header artwork, Tarski has numerous options accessible via a simple, easy-to-use options page.
For the more technically-minded, Tarski provides a flexible basis for any number of alterations, from simple things like changing the header, to more complex structural changes. ionfish is actually running a modified version of Tarski, so as you can see, fairly drastic alterations are far from difficult.
Take a look at the documentation for detailed installation and setup instructions, as well as plugins Tarski plays nice with.
We release this code under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. You are free to download, modify, and distribute this theme as governed by the GPL. Violators will be punished by an angry teddy bear.
We’d like to thank everyone who made this happen, and hope you enjoy the theme. Stay tuned to this channel for further updates… and please do leave us a comment if you wind up using it!
17 comments
February 28, 2006 at 7:14 pm
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February 28, 2006 at 1:50 pm
rabsteen
this is lovely. checking for ajax comments…
February 28, 2006 at 4:30 pm
ceejayoz
Nope, no AJAX comments, but that might come in the next release.
February 28, 2006 at 7:33 pm
tom
Yum.
Nutritious and delicious.
March 1, 2006 at 7:59 am
kagudesu
Is there a way to center the theme in the browser window?
March 1, 2006 at 10:36 am
ionfish
Yeah, just go into style.css and change the margin for
#wrapperfrom0 auto 0 0to0 auto. Change thetext-alignproperty for thebodytocenter, so it’ll work in older browsers too.We plan to make stuff like this easier in future releases.
March 1, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Logan Leger
Nice theme. Recommended functionality would be support for gravatars/favatars and asides. Again, very nice theme… clean and simple…
March 1, 2006 at 3:16 pm
ionfish
Glad you like it, Logan. I’m already drawing up a long list of stuff for 1.1…
March 2, 2006 at 9:53 am
sixface
Love the theme. Clean, Neat, Nice and simple…. Thanks for the same.
March 2, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Logan Leger
ionfish, I am trying to add the animated livesearch feature by Steve Smith to Tarski but am having trouble. It appears to be working but I believe there is something in the Tarski theme files that I need to edit. I can’t seem to find this file or to properly diagnose the problem, any assistance you can give would be greatly appreciated.
March 2, 2006 at 6:54 pm
ceejayoz
Logan, yes, you’ll need to edit the Tarski theme files to integrate that live search. You’ll also want to make sure to get the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries.
Contact me by e-mail if you still can’t get it working and I’ll take a look.
March 3, 2006 at 3:17 am
Seid Balbido
How do I un-install this theme?
Does this theme make database entries?
March 3, 2006 at 3:56 am
ceejayoz
Yes, the theme makes a couple database entries for configuration settings. We haven’t written an uninstall script… seeing as there’s probably a total of a couple kilobytes of extra data in your database
If you’re really anal about disk space, though, you can run the following SQL query against your database:
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE 'tarski_%';That should delete all of Tarski’s saved options.
As for uninstalling the theme itself, just switch to a different theme and delete the directory.
March 3, 2006 at 4:00 am
eric
HI. I HATE YOUR THEME; HOW DO I KILL IT?
CAN I USE FIRE?
Nice theme, guys. Wonder how many people will use my header? ;P
March 3, 2006 at 4:00 am
ceejayoz
Hehe. I wonder how many will realize there’re another two headers. ;-)
March 3, 2006 at 6:17 am
Logan Leger
Oh thanks ceejayoz. Unfortunately, I backed-up before I updated Tarski. I’ll recompile it and see if I can’t get it to work this time, if not I’ll definintely e-mail you. Thanks.