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.
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I have uploaded amazing grace theme... Its really nice..
i'm having same problem like jenny. Right sidebar shows as empty. What do I do wrong?
Thanks for an awesome theme!
I'm having problems with widgets in right sidebar. Right sidebar sometimes shows as empty. What do I do wrong?
Hi
thanks for the wordpress theme, looks good and was easy to change. After a few weeks the header went a bit "wobbling", the logo shifted to right and the sometimes rthe depth of header area increases. Is their any simply solution
Many thanks for your help
Donald
This kind of things naturally don't happen by them selves. Undoing your recent changes to theme/plugins setup should help you fix it.
I am having the same problem as Irene Dorang. I don't see anywhere that I used the "more" tag however and am not sure how to correct this problem. Can anyone help?
Never mind my last post about the sidebars being pushed below the content on the main page for the Amazing Grace theme, I figured out it was because I used the 'more' tag on a post. When I removed the more tag the sidebars popped up in the right hand column again.
Again, thanks for this great theme!
Hi Vladimir, I love this theme - its simple and beautiful at the same time, and my pages are popping up in search engine results quickly.
One problem just came up tonight in both Firefox and IE, on the home page the sidebars are now below the main column. This only happens on the home page view, not individual posts, categories, etc.
I updated all my plugins, had not added any new ones in months, I think I have the latest version of the theme, did not change fonts, etc. I'm using WP 2.7.1 but it was showing fine before - basically, I have not changed anything except I was starting a draft post with a Youtube video of 480 width, did not post it and since then have deleted the draft, problem still occurs.
Can you tell me what I should do? Thanks, I'd really appreciate the help.
I have a new WP install and installed your Amazing Grace theme. How do I toggle between Amazing Grace and Blue Grace?
Also, I added 6 more categories and they do not show up. What am I doing wrong?
I had the same problem... in the themes admin page, it said it was a problem with the blue. The problem was that I upgraded the theme from previous version, and the name of the folder was AmazingGrace, and shouldn't have any capital letters, so, I renamed to amazinggrace and now it works. :)
Excellent theme, thx!
TIP: Try downloading the latest version available from my site
I really call the amazing grace theme, but when I activate it, the right sidebar gets pushed under the left siderbar...I tried removing widgets from it too..no change. When I try Bluegrace, it seems to work fine, but needed the color of amazing grace..Can you suggest what is the easiest wat to change header background color ONLY.
Thanks for the great themes. I really like the double navigation in the header (page and category based). Very cool.
Thanks in advance.
I've recently loaded Amazing Grace and really like the theme. I'm having a problem though as both side bars will not show. The right side bar presents under the left with a large space on the right. Any thoughts?
Mike please download the theme from Blue Grace link on my sidebar. That archive will contain latest version of both themes.
Thank you for a great theme. I just love the amzing grace. Keep up the good work!
I want to use your amazing grace 3.0 theme for my wordpress721. I downloaded amazing grace and then when I saw the theme in wordpress, it said to upgrade automatically to amazing grace 30, which I did. Now when I try to open the theme for a view, nothing opens. The other themes open but not the amazing grace 3.0. At bluehost, I uploaded the amazing grace 3.0, but it doesn't unzip to the themes directory. Do I need to remove the original amazing grace first? What should I do to get this to work? Thanks
Another question: Is there a way to scoot the RSS icon over so that there is room for more categories?
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).
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?
Mike the theme had numerous changes. The best way would be to compare them using a file compare tool.
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?
I updated both themes, and CSS for child pages is added as well.
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
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
Thanks
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Greetings again Vladimir, as you will see, I updated to Blue Grace, but take a look at the color discrepancy around the bg-portrait part of the header. Also, do I simply upload jpg's named bg-portrait1.jpg, bg-portrait2.jpg etc, into the /images/ folder in the theme?
Let me know how to fix these issues. Thanks for the great theme.
Cheers.
I absolutely love Blue Grace - it is so welcoming to see on the blog.
Hi Vladimir,
Thank you very much for a great theme. I updated the new version but category pages are broken.
Thanks
Hi Vladimir,
Will you consider converting this into a 2-column theme with an expanded footer?
Greetings Vladimir-
I have been using your Amazing Grace Theme, and I am about to switch to the blue version. Thanks much for a great theme.
I have a couple customization questions:
1. How can I use my own photos for the photos to the right of the header text?
2. When I switch themes to the new blue one, will it mess up my widgets, design, or anything else I should take note of?
3. If you take a look at my blog, the popular posts section in the 1st sidebar has at least two missing links. Do you know a simple solution to clean this problem up, or where to look for solutions?
Thanks much,
-Garrett
If you made significant changes it's best that you stick to them. new version of the theme only makes it easier for new users to modify.
If you still want to modify I recommend using a file compare tool such as one that exists in Total commander. It will tell you exactly differences in two files so you can compare files in the new theme to you old ones.
Best way to keep things as painless as possible is to create a child theme - like I did with blue grace. This allows you to just copy over your child theme with new updates.
Hi I downloaded your theme, its nice. I will try it thanks anyway
Hi, congratulations, your theme is wonderful and i installed it without troubles. I think i will change the pictures on the right top :)
I use Blue Grace.
I would ask same. I do little changes to theme (translation in files, new text on theme etc). Sorry bad English.
ooops - forgot the click the Notify me link - so will do here.
I am currently using Amazing Grace. I had to make some changes - like taking out the top bar links to fit into what I needed for my blog - as well as changing the image and a few other things. If I load the update I assume that will wipe out all the changes I made. Can you suggest what I should do here. I'm not a techie so afraid to mess with what I have but also would like to see the new stuff.
Thanks -