I decided to surprise all fans of Amazing Grace theme, with an ice-fresh free blog theme which I call Blue Grace.
In all modifications of Amazing Grace, blue seemed to be the most popular so I decided to redesign the theme with blue in mind.
There are other subtle changes, like rss feed icon, typography and header styles. I am keeping the theme live on blog for few days so you can get a better feel of it and provide feedback. This is not final and I hope to tweak the theme in the upcoming days.
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Hi, love your theme!
I really want to implement chess viewer deluxe on my site, but can't figure out how. Any tips anybody?
Heres the link . At the bottom of that page is a link to a page explaining how to implement the viewer, but I can't get it to work. I don't know where to past the code, basically.
I know this is way off topic, but don't know where to ask.....
Excellent theme. My thanks and compliments.
I did have Amazing Grace up for a while, because I really liked it's layout; It only took some minor changes to make it fit my content. And here they are as adapted to the Blue Grace theme.
Janey, I note in the comments here, apparently had the same width problem. To solve this, I modified the sidebars as follows:
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#sidebar-left
{
background:#F8f8F8;
border:1px #ccc dashed;
font-size:1em;
float:left;
margin-left:10px;
width:150px;
padding:2px 1px 0px 1px;
}
#sidebar-right
{
font-size:1em;
float:left;
margin-left:10px;
width:140px;
padding:1em .0em 2em .3em;
}
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That works OK for what I'm using for ad templates and content. Your mileage may vary. It does get the display width down to one wide on a 1024&768 screen which was my objective.
I also added non-standard blockquote calls..(Nested blockquotes... yeah, I know it's not kosher, but frankly until the figure out a way to deal with that issue, I go with what works)..
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blockquote {
display: block;
padding: 2px 10px;
font-family:Courier;
background-image: url(http://bitsblog.florack.us/images/bq1.jpg);
border:2px dashed #DCD8A8;
}
blockquote blockquote {
display: block;
padding: 2px 10px;
font-family:Courier;
background-image: url(http://bitsblog.florack.us/images/bq2.jpg);
border:1px dashed #DCD8A8;
}
blockquote blockquote blockquote {
display: block;
padding: 2px 10px;
font-family:Courier;
background-image: url(http://bitsblog.florack.us/images/bq3.jpg);
border:1px dashed #DCD8A8;
}
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Of course the objective with that is a different color layout for each nest of blockquote. The code allows for a triple-nested quote block if things that that bad. (Usually, they don't but...) This allows for a more easily understood discussion thread.
I also added a (slightly ham-handed) mod to more obviously mark links on the page. Again, visibility issues for my readers. Because of where I had to place that call, it makes some of the more graphic links..(for example, the header and footer) look a little less smooth than I'd like, but I can live with that for now. I wish there was a way I could apply that heavier underline just for the body of the posts and not the 'static' parts of the display. I suppose there is a way, I've just not found it yet.
As I say, I roiginally had AG up. I Loved the layout of the original Amazing Grace, but was a little nonplussed with the color. It looked realy nice, but some of my older readers were having some problems with it from a readability standpoint. When I found Blue Grace online, I was very pleased indeed. That smile got wider as I realized it was going to be only some very minor work to transport the mods I'd added to the original AG theme, over to BG.
After Christmas... and the added expenses that brings, you'll be getting a donation from me. Again, my compliments.
Hello Vladimir, I appreciate this very nice theme of yours, but is there a way to fit the theme in full view by removing the scrollbar? the theme looks too wide to me, but all in all, its good. Thanks.
It looks great. I have downloaded it.
Vladimir,
Thanks you for a job well done. I made the switch with no difficulty what so ever.
John Stevens (idahostevens)
This is THE theme, so awesome. I just installed it, I'll fool around with the colors and stuff. But it's so awesome! Thanks!
@Will - Photos in heading has been covered many times in original amazing grace thread and also in the forums - have a peek.
Thanks everyone for the support. I am glad you like the theme!
How do I change the photos in the heading as I really prefer beach photos and would like them to run exclusively as many believe that living at the ocean is a sign of success... Or am I just stuck with the photos in the Blue Grace Theme? And I don't understand how to manipulate the photos.
I do like the blue theme much better and would like to thank you for it. It has been proven that a majority of people prefer blue to any other color.
Thank you,
-Will
I wrote last week that I'd find a site to use Blue Grace on since I have three blogs with the Amazing Grace theme already and I created a blog today. It looks gorgeous. I love it! Thanks Vladimir!
Hello All,
I have just downloaded and applyed this new WP theme , just one question as i am a newbie to WP. my site containes 2 home page btns how do i go about removing one of these?
also how can i have random adsense within the site? is it possible with this Theme?
thansk for a great Theme Vladimir!!!
B.
Lovely theme Vladimir. I hope that you'll release 3rd one. Never say no....
Vladan
Ooh, this is lovely! I love the Amazing Grace theme and have it on 4 of my blogs. I really think I'll have to change at least one to Blue Grace.
Thanks for a great theme, Vlad!
Wow wow wow! Thanks. I have been using your theme for quite a while now and THIS is exactly the colours I wanted. I won't change my current site, as I have put quite some work into it, but I am starting another one end of this month and will definitely then use Blue Grace. Please let us know when all tweaks and stuff is sorted out.
Is there a way to convert Amazing Grace to the blue shade directly?
It`s very nice. Like sky, like ocean, like eyes... I` like it :)
What a beautiful scheme! Very appropriate for your Dalmatian photos etc. I'm hoping you'll consider doing something completely different - I'd love a rich red theme for use with my flamenco and belly dance sites.
Vladimir,
I was an Amazing Grace Theme User and now I am looking forward to trying your Blue Grace. Your themes are a cut above the rest man. Great Work!!
Regards,
AG
I appreciate so this new version I've already translated in French. The link: Blue Grace 1.0 Fr
Great theme. I appreciate the work that went in to it, and your willingness to make it available. All the best to you.
Thank you for this very Mediterranean theme.
Would it be possible in the next version to have a little more space between each ticket?
Wow...I thought I really liked the original Amazing Grace. Now I don't know...this blue is so nice!
Thank you for all you do.
XOXO
Thanks, Steph!
Vladimir - I love the calming visions of blue in this WordPress theme! You are right that it would be great for water-related blogs. What a nice alternative to the Amazing Grace theme. Stephanie
UPDATE To earlier comment:
*I got the fonts to change. I guess it just didn't take until I hit refresh like 30 times. Eventually the font's changed.
*I did figure out the social bookmarks. I forgot to remove "return" from functions.php.
I am still having issues with the other items I mentioned. Thanks!
Hi Vlad,
Wow, what can I say! Looks great. I have been trying to implement on my site and would like to ask the following.
*I cannot stand "Times New Roman" anywhere. How do I change it to say Arial? I went through the stylesheet and replaced every font name I could find to Arial but I still see Times on my site. Help?
*I use a plug in called "My Link Order". As you might see on my site, it puts a "dot" in front of the subcategories of this plug in (links & media). I have chatted with the plugin developer about this and he said the issue is theme related and I should ask the them developer about it. Any thoughts on removing those dots?
*The other thing I noticed on this theme is the social icon thingies at the bottom of the posts are gone. They were there this morning when I was on your older theme, but once I switched to blue, they disappeared. Help? (I also noticed that they link to images on your site, when your site was down yesterday, they didn't work. Maybe you should adjust the theme so those icons are stored locally within the theme?)
*Rotating images - Obviously this didn't work as I had the older colors for the file "_bg-frame.jpg". I went ahead and created a new jpg of this with the new colors. If anyone needs it, just let me know.
Thanks Vlad, we do appreciate you!
Thanks Amy! If you ever want to start an eco-blog on water you will have a theme :)
I love the shades of blue. I think this is a perfect option to the original version of Amazing Grace.