Thank everyone for voting on the sidebar poll for Amazing Grace enhancements you would like to see.
It looks that most people wanted New Features and Cleaner HTML so I got busy and produced the update to both themes.
Child Themes
Blue Grace now behaves as a child theme for Amazing Grace. That means that both themes share the same code and only have different styling and images.
This will make it much easier to maintain, and you get two themes in one package.
Cleaner Code
I swept the code and removed unnecessary code, made optimizations and made it generally easier to read and change.
Optimized Images
I redid images, optimized them for size and removed the unused ones.
Full WP2.7 Support
Even before WP2.7 is out, both Amazing Grace and Blue Grace are enhanced to support all 2.7 goodies like sticky posts, nested comments and paging.
The new theme can be downloaded from the link below only, I will update the theme pages once the initial testing period is over.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:51 AM
Another question: Is there a way to scoot the RSS icon over so that there is room for more categories?
December 12th, 2008 at 5:29 PM
I've been using your Amazing Grace theme on my blog - it's great, very clean and well laid-out.
I updated to WP 2.7 this morning and updated Amazing Grace to 2.7 to take advantage of WP's new integrated comment threading (I had been using the "Wordpress Thread Comment" plugin, complete with groovy Engrish email notification text).
Is there any way to tweak your theme so that the threading is more obvious? The indent doesn't really seem sufficient to distinguish the nesting layers - please see my test comments here.
I liked how WPTC blocked each nesting level out in its own indented, colored box, but I'd rather use as much of the integrated WP functionality that I can (my host's PHP settings make upgrading a bunch of plugins a real pain).
December 10th, 2008 at 5:08 PM
A few questions:
I use your original version of Amazing Grace, and I have made a few alterations to it along the way. If I install your new update, what is the easiest way to keep said alterations, or is there a way at all?
Also, for some reason I cannot get usericons to show up where they should - they continue to just show up as anonymous heads. Any idea what is up?
December 8th, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Mike the theme had numerous changes. The best way would be to compare them using a file compare tool.
December 8th, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Hi Vlad,
I currently use blue 1.0. Will this work with WP 2.7? I have made many mods and am unsure about how to upgrade to blue 3.0 without losing those. Is there a best practice for this?
December 8th, 2008 at 11:39 AM
I updated both themes, and CSS for child pages is added as well.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:49 AM
Thank you for the themes.
One question, which I think is a bug: When you create child pages then display them in the sidebar, they do not display indented. It appears that the html code is incorrect. For example, I get this html when I try to use child pages
It looks like the closing tags for the parent page are wrong.
Any ideas on how to fix this ?
Thanks
December 5th, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Nice, once I'd sussed that I have to upload both themes, or I end up with a blue blog with bits of the old one. Made me decide what style changes I really did want to re-implement, I went for 'kiss'... Now I can decide what was probably just a needless tweak.
Thanks, Vladimir
December 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Thanks
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December 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I have updated the files, please download again.