Amazing Grace is a lightweight, super-optimized WordPress theme packed with features. It uses 3 column layout for maximum accessibility and small digital footprint for minimum bandwidth usage and loading times.
Features
- Modern, three columns, Photo-friendly, Widget ready, SEO friendly
- Passes xHTML/CSS validation
- Out of box full SEO optimization including titles and page headings
- Easy to add Adsense
- Optimized for speed and loading time, no javascript usage
- Adjustable rotating images in the header
- Gravatars support
- Out of box Social networking buttons
- Multi-pages widget
- Chunk long urls in comments
- Redirects Google image searches to your site for better exposure
- Customized 404 page
- Access to admin menu from home page (click on blog description)
- Plus much more...
Few words on the theme
The name comes from a popular tune called Amazing Grace. It is my favorite tune and it exactly describes how I feel about this theme. Find more about this beautiful song in Amazing Grace Lyrics, Chords and Movie.
When a theme is in question, I prefer ease of use and speed above everything else. That is why Amazing Grace uses optimized images, excerpts on home page (it helps generate more page views too), no javascript and "you can't miss 'em" navigation menus.
Additionally, I have fully optimized the theme for SEO so you do not have to worry about it. Just write your best stuff and the theme will take care of everything else.
Built in social bookmarking include Digg and del.icio.us.
Regarding design, I have hired a very talented designer called Magnus Jepson who did the initial design. I have taken it from there and after few months the theme came to it's final representation.
Installation & Usage
- Unpack this archive in your wp-content/themes/ directory.
- Go to Admin WordPress and select presentation.
- Select Amazing Grace
- You can also use Theme Test Drive plugin to see how the theme looks with your content before going live with it
Customization
Everyone has a different taste and there are couple of easy customization changes you can do to change Amazing Grace to suit your needs.
If you did not find what you need you can check out my WordPress Forums.
- Make sure to check the Ultimate guide to Amazing Grace, and also part 2
- Change the colors - You can download Amazing Grace psd file and change the graphics to your liking
- Adding rotating images in header (version 2.0 of the theme and up already has this implemented)
- Create images you want to rotate and put them in your images/folder under the names bg-portait1.jpg, bg-portait2.jpg and so on.
- Open your style.css and remove background reference from #portrait-bg section
- Enter this code in your header.php just below the stylesheet line (one beginning with link rel="stylesheet")
<style type="text/css">
#portrait-bg { background: url(<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/bg-portrait<?php echo (rand()%69); ?>.jpg); }
</style>- Replace "69" with your maximum picture number
- Preparing rotating images - You can read this tutorial. Alternately you can download the instructions by Sven Niemetz for a more flexible solution.
- Show Full Entries/Excerpts on index page - If you want full entries replace the_excerpt() with the_content() and vice versa. Changes should be applied to index.php and archives.php
- Display categories - Theme will display four categories by default. If you have more then this, you need to edit file header.php, and find wp_list_categories (at the bottom). This function controls how your categories are shown. You can include or exclude certain categories. Full description of the command is available here.
- Display pages - Pages are displayed also in header.php. You need to find a line with wp_list_pages. This command also allows you to include and exclude pages to show and you can read full description here. Alternatively, you can remove the command and just list pages manually one by one in the same way the Home page is listed in the line above.
- Change archives and categories excerpts to full posts - Edit archive.php and change "the_excerpt" with "the_content"
- Add AdSense (or any other) ads - You can add your AdSense code to ad_middle.php. Easiest way to insert ads into sidebar is to create a text widget, paste the adsense code into it and palce it anywhere on your sidebar
- Display Social bookmark buttons - If you want to display social bookmarks buttons, edit function.php, and remove 'return;' at the beginning of the file.
- Different Social bookmark sites - It is little trickier but generally can be done by changes in functions.php. You will need some icons too.
- Download Plugins - Find out about all the plugins I use to help you customize the theme further.
Change log
- Aug 02nd, 2008, v2.4 - Compatibility with 2.6 (mostly CSS changes).
- Jul 06th, 2008 v2.0: Added many visual tweaks and gravatar support.
- Feb 19th, 2008 V1.2: Fixed search issue, changed stylesheet to reflect recent changes on the blog
- Jan 18th, 2008 v1.1: Added hover background for entry links; fixed footer link colors; maximum of five categories displayed by default; category drop down boxes styled
- Jan 13th, 2008 v1.0: Initial release
License
Amazing Grace theme is released under GPL License.
You may freely remove footer links if they bother you.
Reviews
- Very nice review by Ryan of Theme Playground
- Jaypee gave it a thumbs up at Jaypee Online
Services
See my WordPress Consulting Services page for more information and rates.
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561 Comments
your theme is awesome. but it creates some problems in mozilla firefox 3.6. plz take a look. thank you.
Dude that's so awesome! And the CSS is really well laid for customization! I love the theme, thanks man!
I use this theme for my travel tips website http://vacationholidayinfo.com/ .
It's Great.Thanks.
Hey
I am running the Amazing Grace theme on a WP 2.8.6 installation. I would like to replace the searchbox for a adsense for search in the same position on the page. Is there a way to do this without too much coding or preferrably none at all.
hi, could you tell me where I can find the header hight in order to resize it?
I want to embed a flash swf but it should have a bigger header
I have it on tests and under construction to http://www.kinderland.ro/wpdir
Hi.
I love your theme and it has been perfect to get my blog set up! I just have one question - I cannot find the archives.php. I wanted to change the front page to excerpts, and I did on the index.php - i just can't find the archives.php, could it be under a different name?
Your theme is so easy to use and has such great tutorials and guides! I don't know much about computers and I was able to do almost everything. Again, thank you for your great work.
Hiya,
Just trawling through the posts to see if anyone came up with the method to show child pages dropping down from the header parent pages?
Seems to really limit the theme, well for me anyways!
Love the theme otherwise and I am busy 'tweaking' it! Will donate once making a dollar or two for sure!
Many thanks
Ian
I use this theme and I love it! I am having trouble placing my Aweber opt-in box in the right sidebar. Since there are two right-sidebars, my opt-in box is too wide. How can I install my opt-in box at the top of the left right-sidebar and push everything else down below the opt-in box?
I would also like to know how to adjust my tagline. I would the tagline text to start closer to the left margin so I can see all of my text.
Thanks.
I love this theme! It has been easy to work with and is just so lovely! I upgraded to 2.86 (I think) and when I try to login I get a blank screen. Could this be an incompatibility issue? I'd rather downgrade than lose this theme!
Nice job !
a french translate of the 3.1 version:
http://phstern.free.fr/index.php/traduction-francaise-du-theme-amazing-grace-178
merci beaucoup ! :)
thank you very much for the awesome theme!
I love it!
I have been trying to change the rotating photos without success. I have followed the above instructions because I want my photos to sit within the original frame however when I paste my own photos to the template, all I see is my photo and no frame regardless of what size I make my photos. What am I missing here? Thanks. It's a great theme.
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Hey Marcus,
If and when you find a resolution to your image issue, pass along the note would ya? I also would like to change the default images to mirror my blog's social media focus, but haven't been able to get the code right.
Thanks,
J. Neil Ferree
FerreeMoney
Hi Neil,
I managed to make it work!! I used the alternative method. Go to "Preparing rotating images" above and download the instructions by Sven Niemetz. Just follow exactly what he says to do. Hope it works for you. Shout if I can be of any more help. If a "code idiot" like me can get it right, you will too!
Cheers
Marcus
I only can say - this theme is great. I use it on one hobby-blog of mine, it's about trucks and truckers driving into the orient (I'm not sure if I can place a link here, so I won't).
the slideshow in the header is an awesome idea.
Thanks for that outstanding theme,
Sascha
I'm in love with this design. I wanna used this in one of my blog. I'm downloading it now! Thanks for sharing this free design. Cheers!
Amazing theme you have there. I've used it before and it was one of the best ones to customize around with. Highly recommend to everyone!
Hey Vladimir,
It would be excellent if you were to make the COMMENTS element in the AG theme become more prominent so that I could engage my readers more.
The current "comment" link seems to be more down played in this theme than in some others I've been looking at.
Any plans to do this in the near future?
Cheers,
Neil Ferree
@FerreeMoney
Is there going to be an update to the theme soon?
Absolutely awesome theme for travel blogs. Thanks so much for sharing.
i like this theme..soon i will try it..thx a lot^^
Vladimir,
Thanks for this excellent theme!!
I am having the same problem as Ekios (2 Jan 09) with a horixonal line showing in Firefox.
Has anyone worked out why this is happening or how to fix it?
Thanks
The best free theme that suits my purposes that I have found.
Readily accepts plugins and widgets are extensive.
AND;
Has comprehensive documentation.
Hi Walentine, The same problem with you ,but ravel out . In the file: style.css change width=153px; to width=149px; OK....
Hello.
I love this theme but when you watch the page in Internet Explorer you can only see one collum. in chrome and firefox there are two sidebars to the left, but only one in IE, whats the problem?
To bad, beacouse other this theme is awesome
Vladimir,
I use this theme for my family blog. It's great! However, since I've updated to Wordpress 2.8.1 things have started breaking, starting with not being able to use Settings=>Media tool to resize the "fullsize" option for my images. Any chance of making an update anytime soon?
Thanks!
Great job !
Thanks again for the free template.
I just stumbled across a blog that looked interesting, and I noticed the theme looked awesome and had a lot of features. She had the name of the theme/creator, but no link to the theme, so I had to search to find it. Going to use it now, thanks for making it!
koxp indir download thnx.
Solid theme, I absolutely love it. It also loads incredibly fast and is simple / straight forward. I'm using it on one of my smaller blogs.
I have this theme on one of my blogs. The load time is extremely wonderful. I recommend it.
Thanks for the feedback
http://www.mpos.net/s/p4.asp
Hello Vladimir
I absolutely love your theme, and I want to use it for my blog, but I realize that the pictures do not show up when I browse on opera,safari and chrome.
Does it mean that Amazing theme is not compatible with any of the above stated browsers or I need to adjust my settings.
Thanks
Anxiously waiting for you reply
Looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing..
http://coolday.blog.com/
Thanks for the feedback
very good theme. have you this for blogger?
Hey Vladimir,
I've been using your Amazing Grace theme for about 6 months now. Only had a few snafus when adding WP plug-ins and widgets but mostly is it works like a charm!
Wondering if you have plans to ADD a "drop down" schema to the PAGES tabs on the top banner/header?
Would also like to modify the 4x main images. I will try and find the method/routine on this in your knowledge base, but if you or some reader has a pointer on this, I'd appreciate the link.
Best,
Neil Ferree
Muy bueno el tema. Lo estoy usando hace unos dos meses. NO había ningún problema hasta que actualicé a wordpress 2.8 Desde entonces no se ven los sidebar en IE. Si se ven desde firefox y opera. ¿un problema mío o del theme?
this is a very fine theme you can see on so many blogs! thanks
Hi Jim,
actually, don't you think that keeping the author's signature would be a "smarter attitude" in such a case !?...
Hey, i was wondering how to remove the footer credit link? anyone done this? or is there no way to remove it actually?
Great theme, Vlad, but I have a question about scroll bars:
I generally use Google Chrome to edit my website at http://www.layofflist.org/ but I checked the layout in Avant and IE and it displays differently on both. It looks great on Chrome and even Firefox (although a page is missing), but Avant and IE have a scroll bar on the side and bottom of the posts, which really is pushing readers away form the site. Why would the scroll bar show up on IE browsers, but not on Chrome and Firefox?
Love this theme! Thank you!
Hi Vladimir, I have to admit I liked your site a lot better when you still had it in the amazing grace theme!
Great theme and look forward to reading your book.
Hi,
I have a problem that I can't seem to fix. While it may be a simple problem, I'm lost. If you visit my site at http://www.layofflist.org/ you will see that the Previous entries arrow is at the top of the post and not the bottom. When I click Previous entries it goes back and then the previous and next selections are in the proper location. Any help is appreciated.
Great template, but I have a question about subpages: I try and add a child page to a parent page but it doesn't show up. The parent page works fine using Wordpres, but when I ask for a child page it doesn't show up. Any suggestions? I've looked around but there are no clear answers. Thanks
Nice theme. Great...it will be appreciated if you can add demo also.
hi..this blog very good..
its important for blogger
thanks
@alex
I don' think there are any italian translation. The best way is change a little bit the code and use .po file to localize your theme. (u can edit po files with PoEdit tool)
check here: http://www.wordpress-it.it/wiki/Main/LocalizzareTemiEPlugin
ciao ciao
G.
Hi Vladimir, this is a great themplate, nice work! :)
In 1hour i built up a great blog for a customer's real estate agency.
does an Italian localization exists already for your template? This would save me a lot of work.
Thank you!
thax Thanks for the feedback. I've added instructions on how to
Thanks for the feedback. I've added instructions on how to show full posts in the customization section.
Trying to remove the blog title from the header without removing the text from the "Blog Title" section. Adding #header h1 { display:none } to style.css doesn't work.
I receive 2-3 new subscriber daily on my Blog. I get an email alerting me to this, but am not clear on how to communicate with these subscribers (I suspect) they are clicking the RSS feed.
Vladimir, do you have any plans to add a eMail communication feature to this theme?
Vlad,
I love the amazing grace theme. Unfortunately I am unable to add any widgets to my left column. Can you give me any advise.
Sincerely,
Al G
Great theme and look forward to reading your book. A Live Demo would be nice also. Thanks!
I'm using text widgets in the sidebars and they come very close together. How to add a bit more space between widgets? Or even a dotted line or similar?
Very nice theme. You should provide a live demo.
Paolo
Oops sorry, it wasn't the theme that was the problem it was a couple of plugins (older versions of the All in One SEO and Advanced Tag Entry that caused the problem (also with my old theme, I hadn't tested all the admin areas after updating to WP 2.7!) So - now I'll be using your theme for sure! Thanks for making it.
Hi - I would love to use this theme on my site however, I couldn't do without the fantastic OZH Admin menu plugin. If I activate the theme it breaks this plugin (admin pages have the drop down menu in the middle of the page not the top. Any idea why this would be?
I downloaded the most recent Blue and loaded it up. But I'm still getting the same behavior, on some computers Firefox displays the right sidebar underneath the left one.
Dudley
Dudley: download the latest version from Blue grace page!
Olga: Upgrade your WP !
I'm using the AG theme, 3.1. I have access to the site from several different computers using the latest release versions of IE and Firefox. Generally, it displays fine IE. Oddly, with Firefox on some computers, the right sidebar appears as it should, but on others it appears at the bottom of the left sidebar. This seems to happen no matter the screen resolution or the contents of the sidebars. Any ideas?
Installed the amazing grace but getting error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: single_tag_title() in /home/dietha00/public_html/wp-content/themes/amazinggrace/index.php on line 3
Hoe to fix it?
Aren't those just one level? OK, I will contact him! Thanks! :-)
Brian already created puul down menus for Amazing Grace, contact him directly.
Aha, there is someone replying on the forum about this. Vladimir, does this appeal to you at all, I haven't noticed you replying.
Hi, ya know, the excerpt does not show a "click to read more" link on the front page. How would one change that?
Also, I've been asking for a few months for participation in creating a pull-down menu for this theme. I would have to pay between 50 and 80 bucks to have it done, since I don't know how to make a cross-browser compatible pull-out and pull-down menus for pages and categories within this theme.
Anyone want to share the costs with me and then make the pull-down menu available to everyone...mostly because what if it winds up costing a bit more?
Best,
Dainis
@Chris
You can modify the RSS icon with Photoshop or paint, etc.
This is the rssbig.gif file in AmazingGrace/images.
Also, you can modify it, go to style.css and see on line 47 as this exemple :
#rss-big {position:absolute;
background:url(images/mascotte.gif);
width:100px;
height:70px;
top:128px;
left:120px;
}
* Sorry for my bad english language
a very nice theme.. i must try.. i like maximum accessibility
Hi.
Really nice theme, but I was wondering if you could update it to be localization friendly (using .po and .mo files). Since Wordpress itself is very nicely multilingual, it's a shame that almost no themes are. It would make life so much easier for us who are publishing in other languages than english.
I found a tutorial on how to do it here:
http://www.zyblog.de/2006/01/15/localizing-wordpress-themes/
Adding localization to your theme gains it even more friends.
:)
Is anyone having an issue with photos not appearing in Firefox? If so, did you have a fix for this?
I also have a question. What tools do you use to create those RSS feed icons (guy reading a paper) or buttons? Is it Photoshop or is it flash? or some other tool?
Hello, thanks for this nice theme. Please, I search how to display the comments with the most recent first. Also, when a user has a gravatar, it appears that only half on the dark part of the comment. On the white part the gravatar appears entirely.
Thanks by advance for your reply.
hi, i am using your theme and id like to thank you for this. i just wanted to ask, the theme is supposed to have a 3rd column but in my site, there is no 3rd column, i dont know whats wrong with it. i would appreciate so much if you could help me. thanks again!
Thank you For Themes. I Like It.
Hi,
Ive been using your theme for a time now ant it is awesome, i was just wondering if there is a way that, in a side bar i can show an rss feeds pictures and not the titles. I have a realstate page and would like to show the prefered listings pictures.
Hello,
Could you please tell me how to change the pictures on this theme? I tried uploading the same size files into the images folder and naming them bg-portrait1.jpg 2, 3 etc however they are too large no matter how many times I resize them.
How can I get them to be "framed" as you have with the rotating pictures on the template?
Hi, how can i use a page template in this theme?
I love the Amazing Grace theme but I am having the same problem as Enrique. The sidebars are being shown on the bottom of all pages except the Home page.
Can you discuss the fix for this
Hi,
I really love this theme! I need your help, what happened is the two side bars went down to the bottom page. I'm having difficulty about it and I don't want to change my theme.
Thank you very much
Erique
Hi,
I'm interested in seeing what plugins you use other than your own. I clicked the link above and it's not working.
Thanks
thanks for very beautiful theme
Good theme, thanks
Hi Vladimir,
I've just downloaded this wonderful theme for my new blog. Everything seems to work fine except the possibility to display full posts in categories/archives. You mentioned to edit archive.php file and use the_content instead of the_excerpt however this file is not included in the pack. Coould you please help me? Thanks!
Hi,
Can you tel me how did you change to solve this probelm?
thanks
G.
Try re-downloading the theme file, but from Blue Grace page - the comment issue should be fixed now.
Oh, that's right, the right side goes down sometimes: usually on comments page, where comments from other users are not allowed.
If you allow it, the right side is OK :-)
Hi,
How do I make my first page of my blog only have summaries instead of the full text of the blog? I have tried to change it under reader settings but it does not work. Anyone have any ideas?
Hi Everyone
I really like this theme, With the help of a friend am getting it looking more like a bridal/wedding info site, long way to go yet, I am open to any suggestions to improving the site
Thank You
Regards Dave
What do you mean by SEO friendly?
Thank you very much. all i had to do was remove the tag cloud. That was the thing that was messing me up.
Thnaks again.
@Departamentos
I solved the problem, that seems a well known issue, (check here for instace), reducing the dimension of my ADsense banner that was wider (160px)than the real dimension of right sidebar (153px)
Bye
G.
Hey you are right! IE6.0 generate bad sidebar visulization...i suppose that is, as usual with IE, a margin problem. i'll try to fix it...
You can check the visualizzation compatibility with other browser here
http://browsershots.org (seems to be a problem with IE6 and previous only)
bye
G.
Great theme.
How do I unsubscribe from email notification of these comments though?
I t is really a beautiful theme. I just have one question. In IE6 the right side bar doesn't show where it is supposed to. If the article is long it shown beneath the left side bar. If the article is short it shows up beneath the rticle on the left side. I would like to know your comments on it.
Thank you very much
Oops let me try that again
Aurelien
I posted the following into the Single Post template:
You can see it in action on my site - just click on any of the names in the directory on the front page.
Hi Vladimir
Thank you for your great theme. I'm using it on my blog. The 2nd method for rotating pictures in the header is MUCH easier (with a transparent frame), why not integrating it in the next version??
I have a question: why isn't there, and how can I add, navigation links to next&previous posts on an post page? since posts are displayed by date, it would make sense to be able to go back in time to previous articles without going back to the home page. I have unsuccessfully tried to copy/paste the div for navigation which can be found in index.php... but it gives me a   only :(
Thanks for your help !
It seems that the code already supports the display of unlimited categories in the header, but it is the CSS that limits what can be shown. http://www.yourliferegained.com has 8 top level categories, but only 6 of them are showing. If you look carefully at the header, you can see that there is possibly a second row of boxes under the first one, but it does not display properly.
I also fixed index.php to display the excerpt on the front page, category pages, index pages, and search results while showing the full text on single post/page pages:
<?php the_tags( 'Keywords: ', ', ', ''); ?>
Yes you can, Dainis!
1. Open page.php
2. Put on the top:
3. Save it as checker.php (your new template)
4. Go to admin area - edit page: time-zone-checker
Choose Checker as a template
Because the get_sidebar code is located on the top of footer.php you will need to do another footer...
1. Open footer.php
2. Delete this line:
3. Save it footer.php as footer_checker.php
4. Now go to checker.php and delete the last line:
5. Put in that place:
Here you can get more information:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
Hi,
Is there a way for me to make either a custom template for a specific post of page, so that I can move the sidebars out of the way (not even have them) on a page like this one:
http://curetinnitus.org/community/time-zone-checker/
See how the map overlaps with the sidebars?
Best,
Dainis
PS-Landry: I posted on the forum about this, maybe we can get together on the dynamic menu thing! :-)
Hi Vlado, I still love my Amazing Grace theme but was distressed to notice today, that my page names in my sidebar and post names in my index have all turned blue! I can't work out what has happened unless it has to do with me recently upgrading SEO Title Tags. Any ideas?
Hi, Your theme is really very Graceful.
Congrats
a very nice theme, I've needed a german translation for my . Perhaps You could an seperate language-file in the next theme? Thanks for creation.
I really like the AG theme. It's clean, fast and tidy.
Would like to know if the default settings are 2 columns v. 3 columns as my Blog site only shows the 1 right column, not 2 like yours?
Also, would like to know where in the settings (or other location) is the settings to ADD the AdSense widget to the AG theme?
Thanks,
Neil
I tried replacing the_content with the_excerpt in index.php and it works as it should ONLY on the home page. Looking the code, I noticed that the theme code tries to distinguish between the home page and a single post, but the logic does not consider that if you have the excerpt on the home page you should have the content on the post page.
I can most likely fix this myself, but I am not a programmer (or have not been one for 20 years) and would rather see the theme's logic fixed properly.
Your theme looks great and I am thinking of using it for my site. I was just wondering if there was any way for the sub-page menus (sub-menus for pages that have child pages) to be displayed when the page menu item is clicked. Thanks.
Hello,
I like your theme and am using it on two seperate instances, and have been using it for several months. My only problem is I am getting a lot of 404 errors from niftycorners.css and niftycube.css.
Thanks, John
I uploaded your theme Amazing Grace on my website http://www.taxguru.in. My problem is that Unwanted Space between Title and Body of Post.
I am getting large space between header body and First Post appearing on website, Left Side bar and right sidebar. Please solve my query as my site is looking a little dirty due to this despite having so great theme.
How do I change the floating graphics at the right hand top of the page? I'm stumped. I bet its simple--but I can't seem to find it.
Thanks for your theme.
Great theme! Thanks.
I have run into an issue. The Home page is fine but when I open a specific post then the two sidebars are displayed below the article rather than on its right.
Any idea what could be wrong?
Thank.
HI, again...
i want only report an interesting issue about your theme validation regarding particularly this error:
there is no attribute "aria-required" , regarding the comment form.
an attributes that are not yet accepted by the xhtml validator.
look here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/218054
bye
G.
Wow thats one nice theme you have there. Thanks for sharing.
excellent theme
thanks a lot :)
Hi Vladimir
I love your themes, I am new to this blogging, have posted several posts, all appear full length on home page, instead of shortened with Continue to read full story, have looked at few of the other sites some are full article some are shortened with continue.
What have I missed or is this the theme
Once again Thank you
Regards Dave
One more thing: I am wanting to do this step that you describe, "Change archives and categories excerpts to full posts - Edit archive.php and change "the_excerpt" with "the_content""
However, I cannot locate archive.php within the Amazing Grace folder. Am I missing something? I checked and another of the themes I have installed has it's own archive.php file.
Amazing theme, thank you!
I am however going nuts trying to figure out how to force the category links at the top to be in the order I want them. I fully understand the codex, but I don't want them sorted by post count, or alphabetically or by the ID number (unless I can edit the ID number). Is there ANY way to do this or is that just a limitation of WordPress?
this theme will be perfect for my new travel blog! thanks ;)
HiVlad,
Fantastic template, very simple to customize, i'm working on it...to change some graphical elements, colors and so on (just to make it a little bit more personal ;))
If you want you can check it on my blog http://luxemozione.netsons.org/.(is not complete, im already working on it)
Only one question, when i check with w3c validator there are many error, that i think are caused by some plugin, im not sure.
What do you think?
How can i fix?
thaks
Bye
G.
Thanks Vladimir.
Nice and clean theme. Now I feel so relax everytime I stare at my screen.
Hey, anyone want a dynamic pull-down menu for Amazing Grace? I posted the project on eLance and have someone who will do it for $80. If we have a few takers to split the fee, then we'll really improve the theme. 8 people at $10 each and we can give the code to Vladimir to share. What do you think?
Pulsing effect is a part of the animated gifs.
Very nice, this theme looks great just as it is and the provided photos are a challenge for me to find or take something of my own that look as nice as they do.
I was able to get the social bookmarking buttons working, but there's a pulsing effect that I'd like to turn off. How is that done? Is it in CSS or is this a PHP thing?
Absolutely fantastic template. It's very clean, sharp, simple and modern-looking. Great job!
Love this theme!
How do I add the following widget under the search box:
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Thanks!
Ivan
I love this theme, Vlad. Thanks so much.
The link above to "Download Plugins - Find out about all the plugins I use to help you customize the theme further." does not work.
I would be really interested in knowing the plugins that use and think are worthwhile.
Thanks so much for your help, Josy!
Hi again. In the previous version I edited the archive.php to always show the full posts (the_content) instead of the the_excerpt, how do I do this in version 3.0 of the theme? And how do I hide the categories tabs at the top? Thank you in advance.
Thanks for your fast reply! Sorry, I wasn't using version 3.0 of the theme... now I am :)
Does it support WP 2.7 threaded comments? I can't get it to work.
Thanks for a great theme!
Nested comments work, but need to be enabled in your Discussion settings first.
Jazzy,
To keep tags from showing, you can edit the theme's php. If you're using WordPress 2.7, got to appearance, editor. If you don't want tags to show up on your blog posts, select the "single post" php and find this code "<?php the_tags( 'Tags: ', ', ', ''); ?>" Simply delete it and save changes... then tags won't show any longer. Before you got mucking with the php though, you might want to make a back up copy somewhere. I generally copy the original php onto notepad/texteditor and then start fooling around line by line... always making sure I've got a copy of the last php file that worked correctly.
glb,
I checked out your moose site. It's nice. I like your pictures. As for gravatar, yes, a gravatar is slightly different from an avatar. If you go to the gravatar home page, you can register and upload an avatar. Take note of the email addy you use with them. Once you do this, from then on, as long as you use the same email addy and the blog has gravatars enabled, your gravatar will automatically show up when you post. For example, as I said in my earlier reply, my gravatar shows up... I'm not actually a registered member of Vladimir's blog... but as long as I post using the same email addy that I used with gravatar, my pic shows up automatically. I don't mean to take up Vladimir's site with posts not exactly pertaining to his theme, so if you have any more questions about gravatar, feel free to email me: josey at foldsomething dot com
Hello, I am using your theme. I really like it so much! Nice work! :-)
Thank you for sharing your creations!
Oops! I have another question. I am using an animated favicon which only shows up in Firefox. They say that by using two different favicons and then putting this coded in between your head tags, the non-animated favicon will show in IE and the animated will show in any browser that supports animated favicons.
What .php page would I put this code in?
Thanks again for any help.
Thanks, Josey, for the answer to my question. As you probably can tell, I am sort of a newbie altho I have had the site for a while (just didn't do a whole lot with it). :-) I am using 2.7 and I am using the amazing grace theme so I guess I am set. Not real sure what you mean by a gravatar account. I signed up to my own blog using another name and nothing showed up where I could either put in an avatar (do avatar and gravatar mean the same thing?) I did check and my avatars are turned on in the discussion setting.
Hi Vladimir,
I'm using Amazing Grace theme. But now I would like to hide tags on my website.
Do you have any ideas about hiding tags on the blogs?
Please advise.
Jazzy.
Thanks for this great theme. I do have one question tho. How is it possible to use avatars (or maybe in this case a Gravatar??) when signing up. I can't find anyplace where someone can use their own avatar or even a default one. Thanks to anyone that can shed some light on this.
Vladimir,
I'm still loving your theme! In fact I spent a whole day modding my new SMF based forum to match your theme... it took me a whole day because I've never used SMF before.
Anyhow, I do have a quick question about Amazing Grace for Wordpress... Is there a way to get rid of both side bars for only one specific page? I'd like to have a little more room on one page to display an Amazon Associates a-store on the site instead of linking to it.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! Happy new year.
-josey
Kim: Disable wp-chunk plugin, it's already embedded in the theme
Rachel: Why don't you ask Brian. Brian hello ? :)
Ekios: Well I do not see them in my firefox if that makes you any easier :)
Ih there :)
First of all, thank you so much for this amazing theme ;) I use it from the begining of my blog, tried an amazing amount of time to use some other one but alwaaaaaays fall back into his arms ;)
But I'm having a small issue, on firefox 3 a horizontal line appears and I really don't know how she comes here or why ... you can see it here : http://ekios.free.fr/amazingbug.jpg
It's driving me nuts right now because I turn and turn and tuuuuuurn everything in every ways and I still can't figure how it comes ... :(
So if you have a few seconds for help ? :)
Thx for this theme again,
Ekios.
Finally figured how to change my photo on the header.
To view my photos changes go to http://www.iPhone16gbBuy.info.
I downloaded the tutorial from up above "Preparing rotating images" there was a note pad that helped me"
I am having a problem with the reply on my posting. There is some code at the bottom I can't get rid of it.
Anyone experienced this problem. the code appears right above the "Reply Here" box at the end of a post.
Go here to see the code: http://www.iphone16gbbuy.info/iphone/how-to-take-great-iphone-photos
Hi Veronica
You have to go to feed burner and registar. http://www.feedburner.com.
Here is the code in the header, it should look like this.
<a href="" title="">
So have you done those to things. You also have to go into setting into feed burner and put you url from feed burner into there.
Hope this helps.
I am having trouble changing the photos in the header. If you can shed some light on that.
Kim Dion
http://www.iPhone16gbBuy.com
Is there anyone that can help me with my question? If you can please help. My question is below in an earlier post. The time shows that I asked it earlier today, but in reality I asked it last night my time.
Thanks
Rachel,
...just check out the "Customization" section above. :-)
It can be easy to miss stuff that's right under your nose.
Best,
Dainis
nice themes. thanks u fery much
okay...yeah - i know there is an explanation for the question i'm about to ask on this site...and i know about 7 million people have asked about this topic...but the thing is - i changed the photos in the rotating postcard in the header on my amazing grace themed site a while back, then i updated with the new version and now i cannot figure out FOR THE LIFE OF ME how to do it again...i've reviewed the steps a million times and i am missing something...is there anywhere i can find more info on this subject? i've been looking in the forum and going thru google and i'm at a loss...i know there is some idiotic step i'm forgetting but i don't know where else to turn...
anyone...??....
anyone..??...
it would really make my new year if i could get this taken care of ;)
thanks in advance for any responses
best,
rachel
How do you edit code within the theme to get your Feedburner feed to come up when you click on the giant Feedburner RSS Icon? I've tried to figure this out on my own, and all I've done is to have No feed link show up. Not the automatically generated WordPress Feed or Feedburner's feed.
What do I do? How can I fix this?
Hi
Great Blog and I am have installed the latest file to my themes. when I try to upload the theme I get this error.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare make_chunky() (previously declared in /home/kimdion/public_html/iphone16gbbuy.info/wp-content/plugins/wp-chunk.php:28) in /home/kimdion/public_html/iphone16gbbuy.info/wp-content/themes/BlueGrace/functions.php on line 260
Can you tell me what I can do to correct the error. It wont install. I used the one click and also installed through FTS and still same error.
Thank you
Kim Dion
Finally, I found the most suitable theme for my Travel & Tourism corner. With this, I will start working on my new corner soon.
Thanks for this well-made theme.
Vlad,
Ah, I managed to ruin my WP install. Since this update came in one big list of files (completely different format). I followed the readme.txt installed it in the /themes folder (so all your files were not in a dedicated folder) When it did not work, I deleted those files....and the index.html file that needed to be there. That resulted in a White Screen of my site. I made a new empty index.html file and got the site back, but my Admin page was not accessible. So, now I have to uninstall the entire site and database and start over (I don't have enough knowledge on how to repair it) 6 weeks and dozens of set up configs down the drain because of one file and not enough instructions and proper foldering of the updated files. Arrrrgh!
Still love your site and info, but your updates need more directions.
thank you so much for this wonderful theme vladimir! I changed my theme and I'm now using it.
Vladimir, thank you for making this great theme available. I chose to use it for my first WordPress blog (using 2.7) and was so proud of myself for figuring out how to change the photos in the header, install WordPress, get the theme working and make my first post. But now I'm absolutely stumped by something that's probably simple--if you know how to do it.Here's my roadblock:
I read your instructions that the theme is designed to display 4 categories by default. I went to the Categories section of the Dashboard, found the one category that comes in the theme and changed it's name to "About," and this displays on the blog in a little tab in the header.
Then I added three new categories. These new categories are listed in the Dashboard, right under the "about" category, but they do not display on the blog. On the main page of the Dashboard, they are listed as "pending." What must I do to make them "approved" so that they show up in tabs on the header, the way "About" does?
I read all of this page you gave a link to...http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories...but being new to this, don't know how to apply it to my problem.
Thanks in advance for any advice on using this feature-packed theme!
Hi Vladimir,
Very nice theme indeed !...Thanks for your pretty good job !
got it working on my web site.
As I am using NextGen slideshows, I was wondering if there was a way to implement the NG slides in your header in lieu et place of rotating imgs ?.....
Cute.
Anyway, just figured it out --- it's a plugin issue.
Robert,
Probably just frost. You can get rid of that with an ice scraper and make sure to turn on the de-fogger on your monitor. Also, it helps to let your computer run for a while to warm up before you use it.
:-)
--Dainis
I like the theme, but for some reason, I can't implement it on my blog --- I keep getting a "white screen of death," so to speak.
The folders appear to be in the correct location. Any idea what the problem may be?
Solved the problem and removed halfinstalled files of the theme - It works now alright again in defaultmode again. I made a mistake not reading your instructions in the readmefile - started to load in the zipfile as it is...Moving on in learning curve!
Vladimir - I've upgraded to WP 2.7 w/o any problems..... do I need to download the latest version of Amazing Grace? - are there enhancements or changes that I need for WP2.7? Thanks!
I would suggest using latest version of Amazing Grace as it supports wp2.7 specific functions like nested comments, comment pages etc.
Tried to install via zipfile in WORDPRESS as usual
My worldpress choke up with warning
Do you have to be superexpert to use your products?
any advice
Ben
two questions. If is possible to make subpages, for example ABOUT the first subpage "comments about us" second sp "press realise"
and if is possible to modified for make a page with two or three columns.
I updated to WordPress 2.7 and the latest version of Amazing Grace is running smoothly. Thanks Vladimir... only one small gripe though. Did you change the dimensions of the column where posts go? All my embedded videos were off by about 5 or 10 pixels! It took me a while to fix the embed code on the videos... I'm not sure how to change the php for the theme. Anyhow, it's ok now, but PLEASE don't do it again! lol
This is a great theme for my site; thanks so much for making it available!
Sorry if this is on the site, and I'm just missing it. But for my specific needs, is there a way to make the entire post visible on the index page instead of just the post excerpts?
Gratefully,
T. Cristine
Hello,
Recently I switched to a new theme...so now I want to unsubscribe from these comments, but the subscription manager is not working for me...Could you maybe take my email off the lists? Thanks
Vladimir, thank you for such a great theme. I've been using it for about a week now for my photoshop blog. I love it and people think my site looks great, and I have you to thank for that.
Any hints on how to create dynamic menus for Amazing Grace?
Oh my! :-D Hadn't recognized this option on the new dashboard! :-D Thank you so much for your help! Your theme's really amazing, I'm now using it on theolobias.de. Thanks for the great work!
You need to enable nested comments in WP2.7 Settings
Thanks for the answer, Vladimir! I already do use "Amazing Grace for 2.7", but it doesn't seem to show the feature in the frontend. Do I have to change something via PHP/CSS?
Threaded comments is supported, but you need to download amazing grace for WP 2.7
Well, I was thinking about the "threaded comments"-issue in the first place - is this feature going to be implemented in upcoming versions?
I'm using 2.7 and the only thing I see as an issue is a slight problem with the footer. No big deal.
Best,
Dainis
Hey Vladimir!
Is there going to be 2.7-support? I really love this theme and would like to use it on my blog.
Best regards,
Tobias
this theme is perfect you must change the other colours
Vladimir,
I just found that it, that is caused my another plugin. :)
Nothing happens now.
Great theme I like it.
Sincerely,
Don
Hello Vladimir,
Thanks for this great theme, I use it with my new blog.
I have a question need to your help.
After I added the 'wp number pages' plugin and modefied orginal codes becoming to
but the theme also show the function:
Pages:Prev 1 2 3 4 Next <-- How can I modify the code and remove it?
below is the orginal codes:(index.php,archives.php,search.php)
Best Regards,
Don
Thanks for your work on this theme. It's pretty clean and easy to use. I changed the pics in the top corner following your directions and it worked like a charm.
-josey
I'm just wondering if this theme is compatible with the WP e-commerce plugin. I really like the look of Amazing Grace and hope it will work with the WP shopping cart.
Thanks for any help you can give me on this,
Christina
Hello, again, thank you very much.
your template is a great for look and feel and for seo resources. really is wonderful. thks thks.
if you want know my url, please ask of e.mail.
i don want put the url, because, you will be thinks this post is a spam, publicity, or seo post. and really not!!!!
only tellyou, thanks for all.
chris.
Ha! Found it. In the CSS-File there is a section that defines the max image width:
#sidebar img {
max-width:140px;
change to:
#sidebar img {
max-width:200px;
Hi, thanks for the theme, but can you help me with a small problem? I want to add an image to the sidebar. It is 200 pix wide, but when i add it to a textwidget, it will be shrinked to 140 pix. Could you help me?
Good on you. I added the Aamzing Grace plugin. I did a preview of it to see how my cuurent site would look. Now when i go to Yahhoo Site Explorer you have 32 LINKS from my site and i do not have one. I hope you can explain this to me.
Hi Vladimir,
I just download your theme, then how up upload into the web/blog. Thanks n regards-wayan (bali island, indonesia)
thanks!
i just posted the same there
sometimes i really feel like an idiot about this stuff
luckily your theme is pretty easy to use...even for newbies like me!
-rachel
Css to change is within btitle (unluckily called for Blog Title).
Its best when you ask these kind of questions in the forum, more likely to get a good answer too.
i'm really hoping that someone who's reading these comments can help me...apparently i am not as smooth as i thought ;)
i really want to change the font in the header of my page (which uses the amazing grace theme that we all love so much!) to fortuna dot
i know i need to do the change within the css but i can't make it work and i may lose my mind in the process....
anyone?
my page is http://www.parkcitywire.com
vladimir - you've come up with a terrific theme...now if only the idiots like me could figure this stuff out ;)
best,
rachel
Awesome theme, I really love it and have customized it to my purposes.
One question though....
Is it Wordpress 2.7 compatible?
I know little of computers so I can't really edit the theme much without getting into trouble.
All I can say is I have more than one blog. Using BlueGrace, on my sites, that way when I change something on one, I can use the adjusted theme for all.
One of if not the best themes I have found. I do wish bluegrace had the digg and delicious line in it after the post like amazing grace.
Seems way to nice a theme to be "free"
Thank you very much for sharing!
Vlado, I know you're busy - but if you get a chance, could you tell me if there's any way I can remove the date from my posts?
I've used Amazing Grace for content management rather than a blog and I think it works really well - the multi-page widget is very helpful in setting up the navigation. However several people have commented that the date looks unnecessary and out of place on my posts. I haven't really minded because the date format is quite pretty, but I guess I see what they mean!
Hi Vladimir
I'm using your theme on my blog, but I've got a problem with a password protected page: visitors are redirected to the backoffice login page instead of the correct page after they entered the password. Only 1 friend of mine (out of 5) was able to see the protected page.
Any idea where it comes from? Your theme? WP bug? Contact me by email, i'll give you the link to the page+password if you want to try.
Seems like a great theme. I think it is time for me to change my theme.
Vladimir what a great theme
I used your theme for my own SEO and Online Marketing blog taking on a red feel to it. Hope you get a chance to stop by sometime.
http://www.kasumiseo.co.uk/
It has some great features and is well worth promoting
I feel privileged to by using "Amazing Grace"
Thanks once again
Kasumi
@joss: I really don't, the theme should not interfere on MU in any way.
@hackadelic: Thanks for the useful tip!
And thanks everyone for compliments!
This is a beautiful theme Vladimir, exactly what I've been looking for...thank you very much.
Hello Vladimir,
thanks for that great theme, I will use it with my new blog.
Best regards
Thomas
I will try. and change my theme...
thanks for your effort..
Hello,
Thank you for this theme. I'm using it on a WordPressMU installation and find that it breaks the Visual Editor. I can only use the HTML editor when using this theme. I've also tested it on my development WPMU site and get the same problem, with no plugins installed.
Do you have any ideas about why this is happening?
Thank you
Joss
Hey! I love the theme and am getting complements on it all the time...I'd really like to change the font on the header and can't figure it out. Maybe if you're too busy to respond to this, someone else who's reading your comments can throw me a bone. Thanks again for your great theme!
Best,
Rachel Peterman
Vladimir,
Thanks so much for this awesome theme! Thanks to your detailed help, it was easy to customize, and I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Everything was working perfectly fine until about a month ago, I noticed that my sidebars were no longer on the SIDE... they were on the bottom... but ONLY on the main page!! On a single post, they were still working beautifully.
I recently added several plug-ins, which I know can affect templates at times, but after deactivating them all, it still didn't go back to normal. (I since reactivated them all again). I have not messed with the css or any of the pages in the theme editor, except to add a line or two of javascript to go along with one of my plugins. (But this was after the sidebars started acting up)
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Heather Marshall
http://TheStrivingWife.com
Hi Vlad,
Love this Theme, and so does my readers. I think I found where I need to edit the lines in order to show just and exert and then a link to the rest of the story, as your postings on your home page.
"
<?php the_tags( 'Tags: ', ', ', ''); ?>
"
What do I need to change to get it to do that?
Best Regards
Dennis
Hello...I do like your theme very much, although I've created a slightly different color scheme. My question regard WP 2.7 ... will your theme still be working with the new version?
Vladimir:
One more question. On the Amazing Grace theme, on the home page, I am getting the full text of every post. I was thinking about changing it to work like your home page in that the home page just shows the excerpt of the page. If I make that change (and I assume it would be a maatter of replacing the “the_content” with “the_excerpt” on the proper file), will I have a problem with the search engines indexing the entire post? In other words, if I make that change, how will the index engines then get to each full post? I am running the All-in-one SEO plugin as well as the xml sitemap plugin.
Thanks
Hi Vladimir, I just wanted to let you know there's a small glitch that breaks the tagline link to wp-admin when blog and site URL's differ. To fix it, URL composition on line #51 of header.php should read
get_settings('siteurl').'/wp-admin/"instead of
get_settings('home').'/wp-admin/"Thanks a lot for this theme! It is truly amazing!
I love the way you've customized the theme on your site! I recently downloaded and customized this theme for my own site, and thought I'd let you know in case you like to see how others customize your stuff.
Great job, and thanks for making it available!
@debatingref - I found a solution. I ended up using a png file and used the Wp-UnitPNGfix plugin to allow the transparency even on ie6.
Vladimir:
I am one of the many who apparently are using your theme. Thanks for everything you have provided us. I noticed the post above about a logo. I too want to add a logo, but ran into a different problem. At http://debatingvoices.com, I added a logo as a png file for its variable alpha capabilities, but realized that those who use ie6 don't see it correctly. But if I change it to a GIF, the logo shows up very ugly. Do you suggest a fix to make png's work correctly in IE6?
Thanks so much.
Thank you very much Vladamir for your very nice looking theme. Your blog is so pleasant to read and see.
A quick question: On our page with the amazing grace theme, clicking on "Archives" leads to a "oops" page. Can you help me to correct this?
Thank you thank you thank you,
K
Love the theme, although I do have one question.
Is there an easy way for me to have both sidebars on the left hand side of the screen as opposed to the right hand side?
Hi there - lovely theme. I've today launched a new version of my cats' site using it.
However, I cannot get it to display the blogroll in either column - is there an issue with that?
Wow, Vladimir, you really have an eye for wonderful pictures. You know, I can't see how "widgets" are working in this theme, and I can't see how the Recent Posts, Categories, Archive, Blogroll, then the Search, Calendar, Tags ad Meta umm "Items" are organized.
Here's what I mean:
1) If I wanted to change the order of Recent Posts and Categories, how would I do that? I mean "Categories" goes on top of Recent Posts.
2) If I wanted to limit the number of posts displayed in Recent Posts, how would I do that?
3) If I wanted to remove the calendar ad move Tags and Meta one column to the left, how would I do that?
4) If I wanted to put a "Widget" the width of the "Recent Posts" and Search columns together, on top of those columns, how would I do that and place the widget correctly?
5) Are these columns widgets, because when I go to widgets in my Admin CP, there is "nothing" there.
6) How can I make both the Page Text Links (Top Nav Bar), and the Category Top-Level Headings into dynamic pull-down menus?
That ought to do for now, and I recognize that I've posted a healthy list of questions!
Best and thanks again!
Oh, and if you know anyone with tinnitus, you can point them to http://blog.curetinnitus.org/, because you can join for free (the whole thing is based on my model of "conscious commerce," which is explained there as well).
Peace,
Dainis
@BStrong - I would put the log top left corner. One of the blogs mentioned in the forum tweaks thread (African foudnation has a great example of this)
@Dainis W. Michel - Thanks! I just happen to like pretty pictures :)
@Charlie - Good work there!
I failed to mention that I love the layout of your theme and don't want to mess it up -- that is why I was asking for your advice on where you would put a logo.
Thanks.
Great theme, Vladimir! Thanks for providing it. I plan to use this theme for a new blog I am starting.
Do you have any suggestions where the best place would be to place my own custom logo on the page?
Thanks!
Hi there,
I'm using this beautiful theme at blog.curetinnitus.org, which, for some reason, sometimes hangs, but I suspect it's not the theme, but the mix of plugins. I removed all other unused themes from the server, but here's my main question:
Do widgets work in this theme, because I went to widgets, and according to my admin panel, there are no widgets being used in either the left or right sidebar. Is that because I'm using the latest version of WP?
I'd like to be able to customize the sidebars, and I'd like to use widgets. How can I do that?
Best and thanks a million, I can't wait to add my own pics to your wonderful collection of peaceful header images. Did you take those pictures? Seriously, you either have a great eye for great pictures, or you are a GREAT photographer (or both!).
Best,
Dainis
I wanted to ad a social bookmark to my site, and goofed up the functions.php I now get a fatal error and cannot get into the admin part of wordpress to correct it. Any suggestions?
This is what I'm looking for.
Thanks for your hard work.
Great job!
Thank you so much for this and another Themes !
I have converted Amazing Grace Theme to Postnuke/Zikula Theme.
Look
Thanks
Greetings Charlie
HELP!!!
I so love this theme and I have already started to customize it. However, the RSS link buttons are not working and I can not figure out how to get them to work correctly.
My RSS widget is working, but is kinda buried on the page and I love the large RSS button in the header and would love for it to work.
I am not super technical, could you please let me know the 'dummy' version of how to fix this?
Otherwise thanks for an awesome theme!
Hi Vladimir,
I have to say, I love this WordPress theme! I haven't uploaded it yet, to be honest I am a bit scared as this will be the first "real" time that I upload a different theme since I have started my blog, and I am not sure how it is going to work, but this is definitely the theme for me to go for.
I think I will do the Theme Test Drive first... Thanks again for a great theme!
Vlad,
I need some advice to fix the RSS feed button link on our WordPress pages. We had to move our WordPress from one url to another production url. We were able to move all the pages and links BUT the RSS button. Could you help me correct that so it will link to feedburner and our users will be able to set up a feed? Please take a look at our site and the the fact the link goes to the XML score. I would hate to have to rebuild the entire template.... Help us please!
Lee
Hey Vladimir this is one cool theme! Can't wait to use it on my next blog. Thanks too for the psd files - this is great as I can really customize it the way I want.
Nice share..i love the theme
It works now. Thank you.
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/forum/amazing-grace/sites-using-amazing-grace-post-your-link ????
sorry, but I get this message every attempt.
I have opened a sticky post in the forum to post a link to your site using Amazing Grace. You can find it here http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/forum/amazing-grace/sites-using-amazing-grace-post-your-link
This is really a very good theme... I am using it on one of my new Indian travel related blog. Thanks Vladimir. Its just prefect for travel related websites :)
Thanks for the awesome theme Vladimir! I love it. Could you give more guidance on how to add edit the adsense side bar? I can't seem to get that up and running yet!
Thanks,
Julie
Thanks you Vladimir, i just build my first Wordpress blog, and i use this Amazing Grace theme! I still experiment with this stuff to fit my need. Still using original header and footer.
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I just want to say thank you for this theme. I'm still a bit new to this and am still in the process of tweaking it, but I think if I had designed it myself, I would have pretty much chosen the same colors and elements :-)
Thank you again. It's beautiful.
I just checked the package and it contains those files. How did you miss them?
hey vladimir,
thanks for creating this theme. I've use this for my blog :)
But, the dowload package on wordpress.org "amazing grace 2.6" doesn't include some image. The bg.jpg for header, search.jpg for search box and date.png for date accesories. I notice this when I upload that archieve for my blog here.
Plz update the package! Thanks
thank you for visiting my blog, it's for me the honor, very thank you for an Amazing Grace, is the best on the world :-)
will i have any problems not using the functions.php file, i cant convert my categorys to tags, so i have to add rel="category tag" to category-template.php. and i needed the no follow to be gone as i want my links to be followed, so i just renamed it.
Very nice done!
This is a great theme...
Congratulations !
See my blog: blog.berlotto.com !
I´ll update the theme to latest version...
Tks !
I am still in the modification process of this theme but like it very much. Just my opinion, but I did not find the Adsense optimization to be user friendly and this could because I know not what I am doing. Overall it is a great theme and I appreciate it very much!
Hi Vladimir,
Thank you so much for this theme! It's the best I've found so far that fits my blog.
Kristjan
great theme!
Hi Vladimir,
Really great site you have here! It has been so helpful to me. Anyway I appreciate that you have coded gravitar stuff into comment.php.
However it seems there is an intermittent problem with it cutting off the image. (On your sites comments and mine as well).
Any ideas on how to fix that?
Can believe its free! Ran away to set up to my blog:şarkı sözleri
Thanks for the amazing theme!
I'm using it with my new World of Warcraft blog:
http://www.lfmwow.com
Best regards.
Great theme! Thanks for sharing. I've recently implemented Amazing Grace on my new family blog. I'm implementing modifications as I have time, and find the theme very open. Thanks again.
this post have 313 comments but i only see 20 comment. where is the others?
Thanks for an amazing theme - I tried quite a few (including writing one of my own...) but I could have saved my time.
Amazing Grace is just perfect for me - Many Thanks, Alan
( cmelody.co.uk )
Can believe its free! Ran away to set up to my blog:elektrik
why google adsense dosnt appear on the main page in side bar? on other pages appear....help!
http://blog.turkeytravelinfo.net
Great Stuff Vladimir- just incorporated this as an extension of the website- Maati.com Natural products website- on the blog: http://www.maati.com/blog
Had some issues on the header text size and some other modifications- but finally resorted to changing the title text. Still looks good and fits the solar, organic and natural theme of the site.
Maati.com
oops code didnt appear...I hope you understand what I mean...tried to change categories in header...
Tried to put this in header
but cotegories dosnt appear...why? where is my mistake please help
http://blog.turkeytravelinfo.net
I need to change categories in upper menu...
Ok Thanks For Your Attention and some Coorporate
And I like For Amazing Grace Theme
And Please send ( submit )your comment in my blog hi because for i m prestige
Please coment in your language or english language
Thank You
Your Faitfuly and Best Regard
Sugiharto.ST
Hello,
This theme is excellent, I use him for my blog. I come to translate him into French language. Thank you for your work.
i am so new to wordpress, i am not sure where to start...i am pretty computer illerate so i need something very simple to work with.
i want to start a page for my art work...this theme caught my eye and i would like your opinion of if this would be a good theme for artwork and simple for me to handle.
if you could give some advice would be appreciated.
thank you
rita
Wow wow! Can believe its free! Ran away to set up to my blog:
http://blog.turkeytravelinfo.net
Thanks!
... br tag, sorry
Hi, a great theme indeed, Thank You! I had the same issue as raphael, I just added a tag at the end of header.php - works fine now. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Slovenia ;)
Thanks, I'll check that when the final version is released.
The image link was removed, here it is again:
http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wpnv4.jpg
Hi,
your theme has issues with Firefox 3.1b1pre:
Are you aware of this? Thanks for a great theme anyway!
you can see my blog at http://www.saintmaurien.fr and you will see that i use it well !
hi, i'm french and i just wanted to translate in french the comments part : ex : "1 Comment, join up » | Edit" and "No comments yet, be the first »
Can you tell me where it's and so i can change the text.
The theme is fantastic i love it !
Hi,
I just wanted to add my name to the list of satisfied Amazing Grace theme users.
I recently migrated from MovableType to WordPress, and am using the AG theme.
You can view it in action, along with some notes about the theme and the migration, at my site All the Pages Are My Days.
Thanks for the very stylish, pleasing to the eyes design and theme!
Thanks Jogjakarta! And Mrinmay !
Really very very wonderful and superb theme.
10/10
Thanks and Hats Off to you :)
Hi
I am from Jogjakarta Indonesia.
Just wanna say thanks for your themes, i like it, and use it on my blog. Thanks For You
Best Regard
Rafa I think IE sometimes cuts them, I am not sure :)
Hi,
I use this theme in my blog, but my home page display only full posts and not just one, like yours. Why?
I hope you can help me.
Best Regards
Peter
Amazing Grace 2.6 up for download! This may be the last release in a while.
Hi, nice theme. I have a question, why the avatars are cut? That can be fix? Thanks!!!!
How lovely that you provided the PSD, i was actually going to ask for it so I could change the colors.
I changed things up a tiny bit and I would love to make it more with my own feel, but it is a great starting point! Thank you for a wonderful theme!
Amazing Grace theme is true amazing, fantastic !
Very goog theme. I like this theme so much :) Thanks
Hi Vladimir, Please ignore my last post - I think I figured it out (increased top padding in body from 40 to 140). Thx again for a great theme. TOm
Hi, I really like this theme, but the layout is a bit messed up. I am new to Wordpress, but even I can tell something is wrong. This is a new install of WP2.6, which I just upgraded to 2.6.1, which did not change the layout issues. It looks like there needs some padding (?) inserted at the top between the header and body... Thx Tom
Thanks for the wonderful theme bro!
Vladimir:
I just uploaded your theme and we are already using Amazing Grace in our website's church!
We made a couple changes. You can visit us and check it out.
Have a great week, Alfredo
Hi Vladimir,
Very good theme, so I decided to use it.
I have some tips to share for the Linux users (as I am), using ImageMagick to make a lot of postcards (in the upper-right corner of the interface), simply : http://www.kozan.fr/2008/08/22/theme-wordpress-amazing-grace-et-imagemagick/
I've also translated the theme in french, so if someone's interested...
Thanks for this theme
Alexis
I have added "plugins I use" page on my blog so you can get an idea how some of the functionalities of my installation of amazing grace are achieved. Go here http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins-i-use
hi I am from Indonesia and I've already use your amazing graze theme.. n u know what??
its really amazing!!! I really love it..
thanks a lot!!!
hi i', from inonesia, i have use your beautifull themes for my site. I just wanna ask, how to change permalink in this theme, because it still use default permalink and it is not SEO Friedly permalink. Thx.
Just wanted to say thanks for a high quality wordpress theme!
I've done some slight modifications and I'm currently using the theme on my blog, Moongrabber - http://www.moongrabber.com
Hi Alex,
Sounds like a support question... I will answer it for you in the forum as Vladimir has asked us to do.
James
Hey Vladimir, Great Blog you have going on! I am wondering, how can I add code, preferably adsense, to the right side bar where it says meta,categories, and archives. Thanks a lot for the help!!! Please Respond!!
Alex
Hi there,
I am from Indonesia.
Just wanna say thanks for your themes, i like it, and use it on my blog. I am not expert on programming, soon i will try do modified your themes so can suit with my blog.
Once again, thanks for great themes.
Just a reminder for everyone to use forums for all support related questions.
Vladimir, Excellent theme. I'm using a modified version of it on my website with great success. I tried many themes but this was the most straightforward with tight code and simple CSS. I'm also using a couple of your plugins and love the plugin-central plugin. Thanks much.
Hi James,
Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.
That did the trick.
Best regards,
Robert
Hi Vladimir,
Thanks for the tip/confirmation. I wrestled with this and had no success, now I know why. A sort of bug that converted my pages to categories (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/157157?replies=13).
Anyway, now that the logic is fixed the format still sucks. I cannot override the text color and the "cell" seems to grow to the left. I will get back to this later maybe, unless you have some ideas.
Thanks,
James
Hi Robert,
I'm a newbie too, but I figured this one out.
Just locate the style.css file and within it locate the "btitle" class. The size is "4.5em" by default. Start lowering and testing until it fits.
Good Luck!
James
Hi Vladimir,
What a very nice theme!
Hopefully I won't get laughed off of here because of a "newbie" question, But when I try to use your theme with a blog I'm experimenting with to just learn blogging and setting up a website, my blog title gets cut off. Apparently it's too long. I looked into the theme editor to maybe change the font size or header size, but decided it was beyond me at this point in time.
Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks,
Robert
Very good theme, thank you!
I+enjoy+your+site+very+much%21+THANK+YOUo
Move all support related questions to the Forum area please.
James: You can write the links to pages manually in the template (I do that) and then add code like if (is_page('reviews')) ... to add certain CSS class
Vladimir, HELP! My site is not displaying my home page properly - on Internet Explorer. If I click on a category, everything's ok. But the 2 columns on the right are missing completely on the home page... ??? Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer. (Everything is fine with Firefox, however!) Kevin
Vladimir, HELP! My site is not displaying my home page properly - on Internet Explorer. If I click on a category, everything's ok. But the 2 columns on the right are missing completely on the home page... ??? Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer. Kevin
Hi Vladimir,
I am a newbie to WordPress, but not so much to web programming (although my strength is in databases). Your theme caught my eye first and after an exhaustive search for a better theme I discovered that the first one I found was actually the best. Many Thanks. I am using your theme as a CMS for my website and I have tweaked it a bit here and there to function as so. However, one tweak continues to elude me: dynamically and properly highlighting the pages listed in the #menu DIV tags.
I tried everything I could think of as a programmer and I could not get the the menu items to dynamically highlight. Also when pretty much hard-coded the highlighting the format of the menu item behaved strangely: widening the containing "cell", repositioning the text, and retaining the "white" color of the text (despite my hard-coded change to a complimentary dark brown).
Please advise if you have the time. I think including this kind of dynamic highlighting in your theme would be a nice enhancement.
Many Thanks,
James Christian
If you look here: [http://frugalware.dk] you’ll see the Amazing Grace Danish version.
./ Carl Andersen
http://frugalware.dk | http://danish-wordpress.dk/
Thanks a lot from Germany!
Amazing Grace is a really great theme and i am proud to have it as a new design for my blog. If you're planning to localize your theme ask me for the german language.
Greets
Hi Vladimir
I have been searching for days for a theme for my website and yours is certainly THE best. One thing, though, is there ANY chance that you can make a blue-ish version of Amazing Grace. I looked through all the comments and I cannot get the right instructions to change the header to a blue tone. Can you perhaps give instructions what to do with the amazing grace psd file?
Thanks a lot from South Africa :-)
Vladimir, thanks.
If you look here: [http://impia.halloweb.eu] you’ll see the Amazing Grace italian version. :))
I can't seem to get the gravatars working with this theme. Could someone please tell me how to do so?
Thanks!
Vladimir,
I've looked in the sidebar.php file and can't figure this out - how do I remove the # of posts in each category in the category listing in the sidebar?
Many thanks!
Kevin
I cannot have alternating comments and gravatars with WordPress 2.6 The Gravatars only show up on every other comment. Now that I've removed the alternate comment code, the font won't change to black.
Also, I don't use Adobe whatever that opens the .psd files.
I want to change the colors of the background on the header but cannot locate where that is.
Thanks!
Vladimir, or anyone...how do I get content on the right sidebar to not mirror the left sidebar. This must be very easy to do, since I don't see much in the way of comments about this "out of the box" issue. I know how to add widgets in either sidebar...but the stuff in the right sidebar and left sidebar arent widgets when first using the theme. THANKS!
Hi again Vladimir. Now I have found when it happens. Look at a view like this one: http://www.videren.net/2008/05/ There you can see the "Continue reading". Any way to show full posts even in "month view"?
Vladimir, Can I add tags at the bottom of post?
I am using ver 2.3, it's the only version I have tried. Hmm, weird, now when I am looking again, it looks OK.
Janne: download the latest version !
Let's take Amazing Grace support questions to the support forums from now shall we. http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/forum
Vladimir, thank you!
I've taken the latest version and applied my previous updates. Works nicely. A few changes and the look is very different from stock. I used a full width rotating background in the header and that works well. Welcome to have a look.
thanks for the code.
Thanks Vladimir! Another question: Every post ends with "Continue reading about *blog post title*". But the only thing not visible is the tags associated with the post. Can the tag info be visible in the default view so the "Continue reading" link is removed?
Janne: To change to full posts in tags and archives, edit archive.php and change the_excerpt with the_content
Mrs. Mecomber: make sure you named the pictures in ascending row not missing any numbers. You need to also change the maximum number of pictures in header.php ( rand() % 10 - change 10 to number of pictures you have)
John: Easiest way to insert ads into sidebar is to create a text widget, paste the adsense code into it and place it anywhere on your sidebar
Kevin: edit sidebar.php find this this text and replace it
ArontT: I used wp=print before and I cant recall any problems eventually I removed it (how many people wants to print a copy of your page?
Martin: What, broken space bar? :)
Oh+o+ho%21+very+nice+site%21i
Vladamir
What a beautiful theme. I am converting over to wordpress and saw yours on the wordpress.org site and knew right away its the one that I want. I gave it five stars- definitely the nicest I've seen. It is relatively easy to modify as well.
A few questions/comments:
1. I installed the wp-print plugin, and the print icon worked like a charm, but when the /print/ gets added to the URL I get sent to the 404 page. On the bb for wp-print they say it should just work :) and the only modification I made from the out of the box install is your theme. So I was wondering if you or anyone else have had problems with this plugin in your theme (I notice you don't have print on...)
2. I presume to get the google ads to work, I just add the google code to your blank php files depending on where I want the add placed, correct?
3. My daughter is a photographer so I am going to have her place her photos in the rotating images and link through it to her site. Just an idea for other to use who want to help promote photographer friends and family.
Vladimir, How would I change the "Search..." to "Search this site..."? Would appreciate your help. Thanks.
Kevin
It's a great theme. My photos are not so great and I needed the space to extend the cats in the header so I cut the photo display. But I have a question about the sidebar ad. I didn't have it running when I had the "classic" version up but I thought I recalled seeing instructions here or perhaps in the sidebar.php. Now I can't find anything anywhere that enables this. I put a test ad in the ad-sidebar but it did not show up on the site. A test ad in the middle worked fine. Any help you can give me would be appreciated.
Could someone help me figure out what I need to change in the code so that a photo and caption in post is flush right?
If you look here: http://katsturtz.com/katblog/?p=18 you'll see what I mean. I'd like the text to the left of the giraffe photo to be wider and the photo to move farther right. I'm new to blogging so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Also, blog still has lots of work to be done on it, so please excuse my dust. :)
Here's the current code (I haven't made any theme design changes yet).
Giraffe Portrait - Woburn Safari Park - Monday August 27th 2007
Originally uploaded by law_keven
Thanks.
I seem to be having some newb problems. First, upon extracting the files, they were not being extracted to a folder. So I moved them to an 'Amazing Grace' folder which I created. Secondly, there was no 'images' folder in the 'Amazing Grace' folder. So I made that and put all the image files in. Thirdly, everything seems to work ok, except that the rotating picture in the top right isn't present.
Why aren't there already folders made? What am I missing? Am I making sense at all?
Thanks for your time.
Just serfed in. Great site, guys!y
You guys do a wonderful job! Keep up the good work!!!
Vladimir, I do love this theme very much, and I share your love for Amazing Grace, too-- the movie, the song, and of course, the real grace! :D
I have a question that I have not yet seen in the comments-- I have placed my own pictures in the header, to rotate. They do rotate, but sometimes the header does not appear. I have 33 different photos... is this too many? I cannot understand why the header does not always show.
Thanks for any help! God bless!
Hi. I am trying your great WP theme. I wonder how I can change so that in tag or archive view, I can see the full posts, not just the first three rows?
Thanks
Janne
Great theme, Vladimir! After countless hours searching for just the right theme, I decided to use Amazing Grace for my business coaching blog at http://stressfreesuccessnow.com
I made a few tweaks, like switching to a top & bottom sidebar rather than the three column layout. Looking forward to further improvements!
thanks nice theme like it
keep them more to come :p
Melain thank you for your feedback and has been most useful to pinpoint some of the remaining validation problems. I have fixed those now.
I have also fixed the trackback/pingback problem and all is available in version 2.3 of the theme now.
Hello Vladimir
first of all thanks for the css tips you gave us - very useful !
I am playing with your great theme (local installation running with Xampp) before applying it to my blog because it must be first fully xhtml1.1 compliant.
And during the process I have found two little annoying things :
1)the link beyond the posts land to the wrong place. When hovering over it you will notice that it point either to an #respond or an #comments (that's normal). But those id's are not define correctly in the template comments.php (problem exist on your own blog in fact).
The solution is rather simple :
#comments must be apply to the first h3 (round line 20 in comments.php)
#respond must be apply to the third h3 (round line 96 always in comments.php)
2)you declare twice an (#rss) in your code (in single.php and in footer.php).
That's not allowed following the specs html/xhtml. Just declare a class instead of an id (don't forget to also make the change in the css file to).
Et voilà c'est tout.
PS: apologize for my poor english writing wish is far then good.
Svein: The css code to makes theme compatible with 2.6 is
img.centered {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
img.alignright {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 0 2px 7px;
display: inline;
}
img.alignleft {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 7px 2px 0;
display: inline;
}
.alignright {
float: right;
}
.alignleft {
float: left;
}
.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}
.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}
.wp-caption-dd {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}
thanks for create this theme..
Hey!
I really like this theme. Just translated the latetst Version (2.1) tp German. Feel free to link to my page http://www.bluesalamand.de/wp-stuff/
Für alle die daran interessiert sind: Auf meiner Homepage steht die aktuelle deutsche Version für WordPress 2.6 bereit.
Thank you very much, André
Sirena - I simply pasted the code in a text widget and it worked. I haven't experimented with the ad.php files, but I imagine that's what they're for. You could always try it - you can't harm anything. If it doesn't work, just delete the code. Good luck.
I've just converted my blog to this theme - love it! My site is more of a CMS than a blog, but it still works.
However, I'm struggling with a few things, since I'm still a novice. It would be a big help if you had explanations in the files - for instance:
1. You say the theme is Adsense ready, but how do I add ads (LOL)? I can see there are two files marked "ad middle" etc - do I just paste the code in there? How do I know what size they should be?
2. I can also see the social bookmarking stuff but don't know how to activate that feature.
I struggled with the images in the header but finally discovered I could cut and paste in Microsoft Photo Editor - might be worth explaining that in your instructions here.
I'd love to play with the colour scheme as I'd like something richer, but first I have to find an inexpensive program that can edit a .psd file!
My site is http://bellydanceoz.com if you want to have a look.
Never mind regarding the wp_list_categories question. For the uninitiated, if you go to Manage/Categories in the admin panel and hover over a category, its category ID is shown at the bottom of the screen. DUH!
The question about a popular posts or top posts widget stands, though... anyone - Vladimir? - know of a good one? Can't get Popularity Contest to work. Thanks.
Kevin
Anyone know how to add a "top posts" widget? I tried "Popularity Contest" but it won't work - I get some sort of "fatal exception" error message (or something to that effect) when I activate it.
Also... if there's a "wp_list_categories for Dummies" somewhere, I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. I can't figure out how to display the categories I want. Thanks!
I like it as my current theme this summer. Thanks!
Hi Vladimir,
Please disregard my last comment. I figured it out :)
Thanks,
Robyn
Vladimir,
I love the update. One quick question (and I apologize if you've already answered it--I can only access your most recent 20 comments):
If I want more than 10 bg-portraits, where do I alter that?
I replace bg-portrait0 through bg-portrait9, and they all work, but my bg-portrait10 doesn't. I'm just unclear where I would fix this in this new version of the theme.
Thanks!
Robyn
I have a couple of other blogs that use a different theme. And after upgrading to WP2.6, the align tag does not work there either (as I understand, they removed it because it did not fit with the webstandard).
Can you share with us what you did to fix this (I assume you added something in the CSS file)? That way we can all update our themes...
Thanks for this great Theme from Germany! I really like your site and this funny cup of café as your favicon. Have a good Day =)
Hi
I am having a small problem when installing your theme. If I view a category and I click on the read more link nothing happens. Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Regards
Michele.
Yes, I know you can create a static page and select to display it instead of the list of articles. And your golfwebsite looks beautiful! Wish you would release that as a theme. Very nice looking.
Anyway - Your theme is running fine now on http://www.datahverdag.com . I changed all the pictures to my own pictures. Now I only need to translate it into Norwegian. Do I need to go through all the files in the theme and search for strings to translate?
I am also thinking about using a little flash script to make a slideshow of the pictures instead of just stills.
What happened to the comments. It says there are 215 but it's only showing about 20. I want to read the other comments.
I love this theme, thanks for sharing.
I am using Amazing Grace for a photography resource gathering website. http://www.exposelight.com I cannot get the theme to work with AJAX inline comments. I have experience editing AJAZ installed setups before and just wanted to find out if it (the theme) is fully compatible with insile commenting?
Any help setting it up would be heavily appreciated.
-Tim
you can create your static front page and then select in wordpress settings to display it instead of the main post index. that is what I have done with for example http://golfirelandmcg.com
and amazing grace would work well with it too.
Installed the latest version and picture alignment works now!
The theme is very nice and works well. Thank you for a great job.
Here is an idea for you:
I have not seen too much templates that would work to present a company. I think WP would work well, but there are no themes that I think work well. Some magazine style themes might work with a little change, but that is all I have found.
Also, a company would in most cases need a few static pages and then a news section that is updated infrequently. So the frontpage should be a static page or rather a combination of "teasers" for static pages and one section with headlines from the latest news posts.
Would be interesting to see what you can come up with.
I just applied your theme to my blog and it rocks. I just wanted to give you one suggestion.
Can you add comments to the CSS file so that users can customize your theme more easily. I know it can be done with a firefox plugin like Web developer but it would just be easy with simple comments embedded in the CSS file itself. Lemme know what you think about this.
I also think it would be very great if you can actually release a PSD file that has exact same dimensions of the rotating header image. It would easily help in the customization.
robert: take the example images provided with the theme and replace the new images over them
brett: weird and a first one :)
I love the look and the theme. thanks. however, I want to go into the admin panel and change widgets and I am not able to click on anything? I can in other themes just not this one? Help?
Brett
I'm able to upload an image to the proper folder so it shows up in the header, its a jpg, and I believe the header php reflects that I can upload a jpg instead of a png file, but when I view the uploadded photo its too large (even though I edited it to be same pixels as (319x221) which is stated in the style sheet....and I don't see the nice background thats supposed to be around the photo. Can someone tell me some clear instructions on how to fix this? Is it the dimensions of the photo I have wrong...is there some sort of coding I need to fix? I do have the new version of Amzing Grace....THANKS! My site is http://www.SantaClaritaRealEstateVideos.com in case you want to check it out to help me with this issue. Love the theme!
I love this theme very much. It's just wonderful. I'm looking fwd to use it with my new blog. Thank you. Sir, Is it 'My Recommend' section is an affiliate program?
Love this theme! Thank you!
V2.1 Available. Theme Updated with WP 2.6 tweaks.
Also the copyright notice in the footer now automatically sets the date according to the present year :)
I am looking forward to get the new version going!
When do you think you will be able to get it out?
There has been some mention of changing the pictures into rotating pictures from a group etc. from Flickr. It might be an idea to add this as an option. If it is possible, I would love to see a slideshow that pick the pictures from a Flickr group.
The problem is with WP 2.6 they removed align attribute from the images. You can add manually to your images align="right" tag for example until I made modifications to the theme to work with the new system.
I just upgraded one of my websites to WP 2.6 and found that there is a problem when you insert a picture. The align command does not work and I am not sure what the problem is. I love the new functions with caption and in the visual editor in WP everything looks great. But it seems your theme strips the formatting from the picture (or rather overrides it).
If I use Windows Live Writer to post my articles, aligning works fine. So it might be WP 2.6 that messes up... Any way, it needs some investigation.
You can check out the About page on http://www.datahverdag.com/ . I ended up setting the picture to centered to get something that did not look too weird. But I really prefer to have it right aligned with text flowing around it.
Vladimir,
Excellent work on this theme. Love the incremental upgrades and your tutorials.
Sincerely,
Bryan
Moon - You will find the answers to your question in the "Customization" section of this Post. You will need Photoshop or a similar program to paste in your own images.... It may seem complicated but is really not.
I love this design, but as a newbie to wordpress and all that, can anyone tell me where i may be able to get images from to insert into header? Thanks
Les,
I've got a newer computer (less than year old) but reading your post reminded me how I have my display settings. That indeed may be why I need to scroll and others may not.
Thanks for the mental nudge!
I really do like this one, it really does look very clean and neat. I would love to use this one.
Kat - You should not have to scroll "left & right". The theme is sized properly for today's widescreen monitors. Is it possible that you have an older computer and are viewing this theme improperly?
Thanks for creating such a beautiful theme. I'm rather new to coding. Following the instructions above I understand (I think!) how to make changes regarding categories and pages.
Could you please tell me how/where I could change the width of the displayed theme. It's inconvenient for me and visitors to have to scroll right and left.
Thanks!
Kat
Hello vladimir
waste my blog themes :)
Very nice theme thanks man..
Im using this. Thanks.
Hello vladimir
i'll try for my blog, very nice theme
Thanks
After the EXIF and possibly IPTC tags now should end up as extra fields, can this be used in the template to put photocredit and caption in the right places? Has anyone tried this?
Hello Vladimir ---- With respect to the site header images. Can you give me the exact pixel size of the header images? I want to be very precise when I paste our images with Photoshop.
Thanks!
Les
You download the latest version of the theme which does that automatically.
The trick is to edit index.php (this is the file for the main page) and change the_excerpt() (wich gives post excerpts) to the_content() (which gives full posts)
Does anyone know how to have all the posts on the front page show their accompanying image, as opposed to just the first post?
Okay great - Thanks Vladimir ----- The site is coming along quite well.
Yes the procedure is to load one basic image (with frame..) and then paste over your image which matches the dimensions of the inner picture and then save it all together as new image.
Hello Vladimir,
I am now at the point of implementing the rotating header images. I took a look at the default images you have in the Amazing Grace Theme. They are not simply images. They also have some design work (framing etc...). So (for me) it is not just a matter replacing the image files with my own images of the same dimensions. Is this assumption correct? Or am I missing something here?
Many interesting information on your site - keep up good worki
Great theme, Vladmir! I just got it and I'm using it in my blog. I was having a hard time choosing among thousands of themes but yours make me stop searching and start blogging! Thanks!
Nice site its very interesting site! your site is fantastic.
Hello!
I'm having some trouble with the XHTML Validator. If there is no trackback/pingback the page doesn't pass the validation. If I add an empty then an empty item appears but the page is XHTML valid.
Do you have any solutions? Something like do not display trackback section if not trackback is available
Best regards!
theme is cool, I've try on my localhost. I'll try for my blog
Thanks
Dear Vladimir,
Hope you won't be irritated by my message but I need more help downloading your beautiful Amazing Grace. Don't know what I am doing, but trying to learn...
After I click your download button, do I then click on "extract files"?
Can you give me the step by step. My head is going to explode!
Sure appreciate your help,
Jenny Lynn
I have edited the FAQ on the page to better describe how to handle display categories and pages and also I have uploaded version 2.0.1 of the theme which does a better job at it by default.
Image dimensions most certainly :) I am sorry these things come naturally for me I can only imagine your effort. What do you do in life Andrew?
I really like this theme, however, I could not get it to work right. All my tags came across the blog and covered up everything. They were all in neat boxes over the whole page and I can't remove them from the theme. Can you help me?
Thanks. When you say size -- do you mean file size, or image dimensions?
The images should replace existing images with both the same filename and size. You may of course change the extension but then you need to modify header.php with new extension
I also have the same question - and are we limited to .png format or can we use .jpg?
Vladimir-
Is there a maximum size allowed on the images for the header? I uploaded them into the /images folder on my server, but they're not displaying. I have v2.0, so do I need to make any changes to header.php?
One thing I just noticed: the header still loads the original image files that came with the theme, but not mine. Any ideas?
Thanks -- a very nice theme.
Andrew
Nice theme, i like it!
Upgrade should be straight forward.. Backup old files and the copy the new archive. What kind of problems you have?
Your description of how to edit the number of categories displayed is not correct. My theme shows every category by default and I have 15 so it overflows to three lines. How do I make it 5 or 6?
Nice site! Big thanx to webmaster!i
Cool guestbook, interesting information... Keep it UP. excellent site i really like your stuff.
Vladimir,
You had previously posted on how you did the links at the top of your site. I did look at the Source code. Did you create HTML pages outside of Wordpress for things such as "Wordpress Services"? It seems that you did as there is no page reference in the code.
Wow!!! Good job. Could I take some of yours triks to build my own site?"
Hi, good morning to all of you... Nice Guestbook ;-) !!!.
Your work is marvelous!!
I really like the theme, but I really don't get why one sidebar is smaller than the other. Maybe the main content area can be trimmed a bit, because the differently sized sidebars makes it difficult to distribute widgets there (as can be seen on my test blog).
I am trying to make edits to get rid of the social bookmarking buttons, as well as delete the links at the top.
You say to delete the "//" from //wp_list_pages and //return, but in this new update they aren't there. How do we modify with this new update?
- Tommy
Vladimir, excuse me for the previus comment, i have resolved. in my blog i can see my gravatar, in your blog no. i dont know.
Hi Vladimir,
i have a problem with gravatar. i am a account gravatar but in my comment i can see only the default image.
can you help me?
thanks
A trailing thought --- I think it would be neat if you did a post on all of the great plugins and widgets you use (including your own).
Okay I got it - live and learn!
Very nice updates. I'll keep on playing with the theme and let you know when we go live.
Thanks (so much) again!
L
Oh oh ---- I uploaded the zip into my themes folder and unzipped it over the old directory. My error. I have never upgraded a WP theme. I am used to Joomla!. So...... backup current theme directory and then unzip newer version?
Upgrade should be straight forward.. Backup old files and the copy the new archive. What kind of problems you have?
Hi Vladimir ---- I downloaded V2 but am I having trouble upgrading..... Is there a special procedure?
Vladimir: Thank you for your very fast answer! So I've a hint to solve the problem. Indeed in the moment there is no image lager than 580px (largest are 380px) at my blog frontpage but I'll look forwared. So I know it is not the sidebar thing ...
Herbert: the problem is in content (mostly images). If they are larger then 580, IE will break the sidebars. IE does not understand max-width CSS paramater. You can resize the sidebars as much as you want but an image large enough will still break it.
Vladimir,
thanks for this theme, it is very nice.
Fantastic theme! Thank you! But one problem: in some browsers the right sidebar is not side by side with the left sidebar, it is _under_ the left sidebar.
So I did the trick in CSS and changed
#sidebar-left{
...
width:194px;
This helped in the most browsers but not in IE 6 (about 20 % of my readers are still using IE 6). I tested with http://browsershots.org/
Any idea?
Thank you a lot!
Great news Vladamir -- Is the upgrade as simple as uploading the theme to my themes folder?
Today, version 2.0 is released with many enhancements including Gravatar support.
Just wrote an article about interesting modifications using Amazing grace theme. Here: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/users-of-amazing-grace-theme
Mark, go to view source in your browser on this page and check how does that code looks on my page and compare to your ok?
Muito legal este blog o templast lindo vou fazer o download do mesmo
Vladimir,
Really like the theme (and the name). I'm not much of a techie guy but I tried to customize the pictures on the front page. I can't make it work. Basically, I've lost the pictures altogether from the front page. I can't even seem to restore the original language of the stylesheet to make the picture holder come back. Here's what I've done.
1. I have removed the "background reference" from the stylesheet as you instuct us to do in step #2 above. Here's what that looks like now...
#portrait-bg {
position:absolute;
width:319px;
height:221px;
right:0;
top:0;
2. I have inserted the code you list in step #3 above in the header.php sheet. Here's what that looks like now...
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress " />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="" type="text/css" media="screen" />
#portrait-bg { background: url(/images/bg-portrait.jpg); }
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title=" RSS Feed" href="" />
<link rel="pingback" href="" />
3. Finally, I have no idea if there is any problem here, but the path directory to my images is as follows:
/ public_html / wp-content / themes / images /
The images are renamed according to the instructions you provide above. Any help to make this work would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the template and I hope I can get it to work to it's full potential.
Mark Doebler
I love this theme so much. Thanks a lot for your contribution.
Vladimir:
Thanks for this great TP,it's beautiful! I just have some problems while i use it. the one brother me the most is that people can not post a comment. I just do not know why. I have set everyone can post a comment, the problem still there.
pls help!
thanks
Vladimir:
The farther I get into the web development process, the more I've come to appreciate the Amazing Grace theme.
Can anybody recommend a good plugin(s) that enable the visitor/commenter to share the post via email and also to print the post? Those are 2 capabilities I think my readers will appreciate.
Thanks Again for a great theme and for your patient support!
May God Bless You Richly!
Good theme good design.download this theme for new my blog.thank you
Thanks for a great theme. I have added it to our site.
I'm not following how to edit the top of page links - home, about, contact, etc. Could you explain more?
very nice theme; clean, highly customizable and uncluttered. thanks for this. ;-)
Very, very, very nice templates.
Maybe i’ll use one.
thxalot
hello how can i apply the amazing grace theme to my wordpress.com pls help me.. i really like this themes pls help me.. God bless!!!
Vlamidir,
Is it possible to move one of the side bars in right to left.
great package and easy to use!
Hi
First - great theme. Its EXACTLY what I've been looking for my church website - many thanks!
I'd like to create a few 'blank' pages so I can add a contact form, a gallery page and an about us page (details of the elders and church members etc) how do I do that? I don't need a comments section on those pages. Any help would be fabulous
Thanks
ps tahnks once again for such a great theme
Beautiful theme, thanks
Super ti je stranica
Quick question regarding categories:
I had set my cats in the backend and then decided to delete them and start over:
I put my new cats into the backend.....loaded a post and assigned them to a couple of categories (parent and child).....in the nav bar, one of the child cats shows up as a number (ie: "15") and the parent cat shows up as a word......any idea on how to fix this? ~ I want the parent cat to show in the nav bar, but not the child
Thank you so much for releasing this as a free theme ;) I have already added this theme to my church's site and will be adding it to several of my other sites as well.
God Bless.
I wondered how to exclude children Categories??
in this line???
how to use the exclude option?
I love this blog theme and have now implemented it at three of my sites. It works so well and is so easy to use.
forgett my last post, I just fixed it!
great work!
Hi!
first of all, great theme you have create, its fantastic!
Im trying to fix this rotate image and have some small problem an I really hope you or anyone else can be kind to help me.
First of all I created 7 images named "bg-portait1.png" and so on up to "bg-portait7.png". I have put them in the image-folder.
But when I come to the other things I need to do I have little more problem. first: Should I remove the whole "background: url(/images/bg-portrait.jpg);" line? or what exactly should I remove from this code?
"#portrait-bg {
position:absolute;
>> background: url(/images/bg-portrait.jpg);<< (?)
width:319px;
height:221px;
right:0;
top:0;"
the second: in the code; "style type="text/css">
#portrait-bg { background: url(/images/bg-portrait.jpg); }
</style
" should´t be ".png" when I saved my images as "bg-portait7.png"? and in the "%69" i wrote just "%7" becouse I have 7 pictures.
It would really be kind of you if you could help me with this.
Best regards Tommy
I love it, I have used it on my blog, I hope you don't mind that I've customised it.
Thanks for your hard work.
Dawn
Mark, thanks for your compliments and stop by if you have some questions regarding the theme.
Dear Vladimir,
Thanks for a really nice and functional theme. I am a complete newby to WordPress and blogging in general. Your theme was very easy to set up and your instructions very helpful. Congratulations for an excellent contribution.
Samulli: Happy to help!
Thank you, Matt, that solved the problem.
And thanks for the link to that plugin. It is such a relief to not having to look into phpMyAdmin anymore each time I needed to find out a category- or page-ID. :-)
Samulli:
First, download and install the pluging Reveal IDS for WP 2.5 Admin, available here:http://www.schloebe.de/wordpress/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25-plugin/#english
This will make life a lot easier because it will reveal the ID numbers you need to make include= and exclude= work.
Once the plugin is installed and activated, go to Manage Pages. You will now see the ID numbers of each page. Simple list the numbers of the pages you want included after include= (but before the &) to show the ones you want. For example, to include the pages with ID numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8, you would have "include=1,2,3,5,8".
Hope that helps.
Vladimir,
thank you for this amazing theme. I think it is one of the best free themes I have found so far and I will soon implement it on my blog.
For the moment I am still customizing it on my testblog - thanks also for your customization tips, they have helped me a great deal. :-)
I only ran into two little problems so far:
1. I have implemented the rotating images and while it works fine most of the time, sometimes no image at all appears when I load the page. Do you have any idea what could be the reason for that? It's not really a big deal, since the header works just as well without an image (it just looks a bit empty), I'm just curious as to how that could happen.
2. I have several pages on my blog, but I want only 6 of them to appear in the top row of the header. At the moment I have managed to hide the others by assigning them a lower rank (they are all nested under my About page). And while that works for the header, it looks kind of strange when I list all of the pages in the sidebar. How exactly do I have to edit the "include=" section to list only the ones I want to see? (Sorry if that is a dumb question, but I have no clue about PHP) ;-)
Thanks for the kind words, they are the best donation to me.
I am glad that this theme still has so many followers.
Take care!
Vladimir,
I REALLY like your theme. Even the name (Amazing Grace) fits in PERFECTLY with my blog mission.
While the theme looks nice, has great features, and a good flow; what I really appreciate is the time you spend assisting others with your expertise so that they can take full advantage of its benefits.
At this time, my blog is still under development. Occasionally, I visit in order to get advice from you or others in the comment section regarding a coding difficulty. It's a great resource that adds great value to your theme.
Perhaps you might want to consider putting a donate button on this page so that others can tangibly express their appreciation. You deserve it!
God Bless You Abundantly!
I have a small problem with your theme. Actually it's a request rather than a problem. I want to use excerpt only in the homepage. I mean, the last post(so the first post in them homepage) will be shown fully and the rest will be shown as an excerpt. But in your theme when I go to second page again the first post is shown fully. I dont want it to be. So is there a way to show only the last post in homepage "full" and the rest are as excerpt.
Johnathan, I was about to answer you but that way I would deprive you of sensation of discovering, so I waited a little more ;)
Doh! , sorry guess i should have read better huh lol
I am finding one problem..
When I create new pages, they do not show up in the very top nav.. I havent edited anything, what could the problem be?
Hi Vladimir,
I'm sure it is obvious, but there isn't an "header.jpg" in the image file. I just would like to make a few minor changes to the header graphic itself (I think I understand the photo part). Would I upload my own "header.jpg" in the image file and then make changes in the css stylesheet?
I apologize if you've answered this already. Thank you for your help, and again, really great theme.
Robyn
@Vladimir I tried using that highlight author's comments plugins, but either it was ignored or the alternating formatting trumps it somehow. That link you provided looks like just the ticket, though. Thanks.
I would like to see a matching theme for bbpress (bbress.org)
@Matt : Why don't you try using that plugin? If it doesn't not work you can surely find useful information on modifying the comment code. Out of top of my head, you will have to put a different class id for author comment and then have it described in CSS. Here is one good tutorial http://5thirtyone.com/archives/774.
I will probably be doing that for Amazing Grace when time permits, so if you have patience..
@Robyn: Images should be replaced in images/ folder. As for second you can kindly ask Ryan or follow the instructions I provided for predefined images like on my site.
Hi Vladimir,
This is a fantastic theme! I love the combination header with photos. I am just really happy to have found it.
I have two questions (not very good with coding, so bear with me):
1. Once you change the psd file, where do you load it?
2. Ryan at Theme Playground hasn't described how he uses his flickr feed for his images. Do you know how he did that? Would that information go in header php?
Thanks!
Robyn
Vladimir, thanks for your response and the link to the plugins you use. There are a couple there I wasn't using but am now.
I have another question: How do I modify the comments.php code so instead of alternating comments changing appearance, user comments have one appearance and author comments have another (highlighted) appearance? I'm looking for an effect similar to that created with the Highlight Author Comments plugin (http://rmarsh.com/plugins/highlight-comments/).
Thanks!
Cool! Thank you so much. Btw, everyone liked your theme, great work.
By the power of css! You can do that too if you find in theme stylesheet .entry img and replace margin-bottom line with
margin: 0pt 10px;
Thank you. But how other themes handle this? I never add horizontal space to my images before.
Vladimir, the theme looks very good. I am going to give it a try as well as the Theme Test Drive plugin. Thanks for sharing.
You have to set horizontal space attribute for your image in wordpress write post.
Wow, great theme, I love it and started to use. I am digging it right now but here is a small question: When i use an image in my posts and make it left-sided, the text is so closed the images. Is this related with theme or WP itself?
Keep up the good work.
I will be more specific...I did add the code to the header as well -
#portrait-bg { background: url(/images/bg-portrait.jpg); }
Yes, I did follow the customization section of the header changing the code in the style sheet also...I just think I goofed somewhere...any watchouts?
It's a little more complicated than that. The tutorial can be found on this page, look under the "Customization" header.
Vladimir,
Thanks again for the Amazing Grace Theme. I'm having fun with it....however I couldn't find your tutorial on rotating images and I'm having trouble. Am I to completely remove the background:url(images/bg-portrait.jpg); from the style sheet? a little confused. thanks again.
Yes, you need to "cut" the images in Photoshop to match those in the images/ folder by size (width&height). After that you just replace them.
Hey Vladimir,
I download AG and really like it. I noticed you made a few suggestions about the Photoshop files. I have edited them and wondering how to get them back into wordpress. you mentioned the /images/ file, uploading them there. but I'm confused, since the files in the images/ folder don't look like what I have in photoshop. Any suggestions?
thanks,
Monica
Hi Matt,
Changing the design preferences of the theme including link colors and fonts is done in the theme css file. Basic knowledge of css is needed for this.
The comment notification feature is a work of one of the plugins I use. You can find a list of all of them here http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugin-recommendations
Cheers
I hope this doesn't post twice. I think I goofed up.
Thanks for a really excellent theme. I've changed the colors some and am using it now. I have a couple of questions:
Right now the description and all links appear the same color. How can we make the description a different color?
All text uses the same font. How can we make it so the title and headers (post titles, specifically) uses a different font then the content?
What is the code to enable "Notify me of followup comments via e-mail" to work?
Thanks. This theme is a terrific resource, and it's very generous of you to share it.
nice theme.. thanks for sharing...
i really like it...
thanks..
regards
Nakbali.com
Welcome Monica, make yourself at home ;)
Wow, Vladimir!! I just discovered your site while looking for something to cure my RSS youtube feeds. Thanks so much. I found so much more here. You've also given me the courage to reconsider SKYDIVING!!! I appreciate it and will spread the word!
Monica
Where do the pages appear for this theme? I have three pages published, but I dont see them anywhere on my site.
Cool, it works. Thanks Vladimir.
There seems to be a problem with older IE implementations. You can easily fix this if you open the style.css file and change these two things.
1. In #sidebar-left change 200px to 199px
2. Find 45em further below, and change it to 44em
I have re-uploded the theme files with those issues fixed so you may wish to download again.
Thanks Vladimir for this great theme.
I am facing one problem. The second sidebar (the right most, containing "Search" box) wraps down to the first sidebar, when viewed with IE. I am using IE6. The sidebars render perfectly side by side in Firefox.
I checked some sites running this theme, including yours. Every site exhibits the same problem. How to fix this? Thanks.
I love this theme and would like to ask a few questions before using it. What should be the size of the photos to be used for the rotating images at the header?
BTW, I like to put the email in the comment box because I reply to the comments when I get notification by email. I hope it's not too difficult to bring the email text box back.
I followed your directions because I want the first post on my main page to display in its entirety. The problem is that after I did what you described, nobody can leave a comment on that post.
Help!
Hi Vladimir,
Newbie here...
The sidebar listings are repeated twice - one in the white area, the other to the right of that.
How can I get rid of one of them? For instance, in the white area I want to put a field to collect email addresses, plus also a Paypal donation button, plus google ads.
Recommendations for how to do this? Thanks!
The tagline is this "we live in a beautiful..." part - inside the header. If if isnt there, things will look a bit too stuffed. Test it @ Firefox!
JKE, what do you mean by tagline?
Nice theme, been testing it on my blog. One further "bug" is that you'll need to have a tagline (which I didnt have before) in order for the theme to display corretly in Firefox 2.0.12. Within MSIE 7.x this works fine though.
You need to delete the whole line including
< ?phpat the beginning and?>at the end.I can do some customization for you, you can contact me via the contact form with your request ( I removed your email so you do not get spammed)
Beautiful theme, but I tried something and messed it up.
I don't want any of my 20 categories to appear in the header, so I changed "5" to "0". Then all of my categories showed up. So I deleted the "wp_list_categories" line, and got a parse error.
Can you give me the line of code needed to keep my categories off the top?
Thank you!
(And would you consider doing a little customization for a fee?)
Thanks for that one, justification of title was not intended. I fixed it now in the theme.
Bryan, the size of title font is set in entrytitle css tags.
Bryan:
I had the same issue and realized that Vladimir has coded the text to block justify which I do not like. So I went into the stylesheet and changed it to left justify. That solved the problem with the titles spreading across the top of the post in a weird, oddly spaced manner.
You can see what I mean at On the Horizon.
Hope this helps.
Vlad,
Which line do you edit to decrease the font size of the title for each post?
If your title is wordy, like most of mine are, the words are spaced oddly.
Thanks,
Bryan
Love the theme! Thank you :)
Thanks :) Yep the files are meant just to be populated, and they are already called where needed.
Excellent theme! One of the best free themes out there in my opinion.
I was looking through the files and noticed two ad_middle, and ad_side that are blank? I'm assuming we're just supposed to paste our ad code in there and call them from another page?
Hello vladimir.
I just downloaded your recent update, thank you very much. But something bothers me, for some unapparent reason, the portrait image just doesn't appear on my site. I wonder if I have done something wrong? I have checked the stylesheet and the header.php and even copying the default, but it's still strangely not shown.
Also, I just recently bothered by minor problem because conflict of your themes with All in one SEO pack. If user add "Additional Post Meta Tags", the appearance of the theme will be somehow altered. I don't recommend anyone to use that feature since it will ruin the theme.
Hello Vladimir.
Is there a possibility to change the color or the place from te categories , because I used also child-categories and the different between the two is not well seen.
See a example on my site , the head-categorie is "Linux" and the sub-categories are "Pardus-Linux" and "Ubuntu"
Many thanks for you answer.
All the best.
Vladimir
I installed the script to add rotating images in the header and it worked like a charm. Thanks so much for the update.
Warm regards
Corky
wow this is a really cooooool theme for wp :)
thanks for making public.
Hopeful Spirit:
Something like this should work:
< ?php the_content(’Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>Raintrader:
Curious issue, specially since I am using firefox on windows and everything works just fine. It may be the problem with sidebar column sizes you might want to try to reduce it. Unfortunately I can not try it (not having a Mac, yet ;)
Vladimir.
Well done great looking Theme. Im in love at frist glance.
I really would like to use it on my Page but it seems like something strange is goin on.
When go to my Homepage using Safari everything is fine.
But, if im using Firefox the Sidebars are displayed on top of each other rather than beside each other.
Is there anything i can do against that behaveior.
Same happens on your side viewed with Firefox (Vers2.0.0.12 on Mac)
What can i do ??
Thanx
its ok!
i did the download for the theme here
http://wordpresstemplates.name/category/3-column-free-wordpress-theme/
end in this version, it was not possible to change the footer...
i rplaced the footer.php with your download
regards frederik
I edited this code in the index dot php file:
"<?php if ($postCount==1) the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); else { the_excerpt(); _e('Continue Reading...'); } ?>
"
So that it looked like this:
"< ?php if ($postCount==1) the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); else { the_content(); } ?>
"
And got an error that prevented my page from loading.
Please advise what I did wrong. I need the PRECISE code required in order to have full posts on my front page -- I want to control the excerpt size, length and option.
THANKS.
really a great theme
Frederik,
those are all general programming related questions for which I am afraid I do not have time for and are not connected with the theme. I hope you will find someone to help you with that (anyone want to help Frederik?)
hallo vladimir,
- how can i get rss for my static sites?
- change footer into e.g. home impressum sitemap (no mp3links!)
- one bg-portrait.jpg assigned to one site (bg1=site1, bg2=site2 ...)
best regards
frederik
Frederik, leave the url to your site so that I can see what are you trying to do.
hello everybody, hello vladimir
im just working with sites (no categorys). how can i put the content of all site into rss? just the big rss sign is left on my page.
and how can i change the footer. i prefere e.g. "home contact ..."
thank you.
frederik
Merci beaucoup Vladimir !
Thank's very much for your tutorial!
Best regards
me again! ;-)
random bg works!
is it know possible to show e.g. bg-portrait2.jpg on a special site id?
thx
frederik
hi, its not easy to write on my new small apple keyboard ... ;-)
tabs!
im not working with categorys so i like to put 3-4 site titels in "your" tabs.
how does it work?
thanks and best regards
frederik
I decided to add a tutorial on a quick and easy way to have rotating images in header - the way I did it. You can read it in the main post now ;)
hello vladimir,
very nice work! sorry for my english...
two questions:
the pic in the right corner changes with each topc is that right, who does ist work?
did niot find an answer in "theme playground"
second:
i need adsense in the 2nd column (white bg)
thank you very much for an detaild answer, because i m an newcomer!
greetings from hamburg, germany
Okay, that makes sense then. Thanks!
Thanks, my ego sends greetings ;)
The graphics changes are very easy. All the themes graphics are in images folder and you should only replace them with any graphics of equal dimensions. I have provided psd files so that you can edit the graphics more easily. Tutorial on how to edit graphics is photoshop is little out of my scope but changing colors should be fairly easy to accomplish. Remember I am not a designer I am more of a usability freak so for design help you should really ask elsewhere.
Diogenes,
Beautiful modifications!
Vladimir,
Just wanted to inflate your ego at bit : ) I've tried over 25 themes and only two, yours and "elegant blue" made the final cut. And of the two, Amazing Grace won out, mostly because it is "prettier" and the fact that your theme allows for a banner. You can use one in Elegant Blue, but it just doesn't look right....
One thing a lot of the designers could learn from you is your perfect columns. With a lot of themes, if an ad, for instance is too large, it overlaps into the next column. With your setup, one can put the the oversized "stuff" into the outermost column where it causes no harm and looks natural.
For the non-designers among us, would you care, if you have the time, to write a small tutorial on how to use the photoshop file to change the color scheme? What do you do with it, where does it go? Do you have to change code : ) Or should I just give up all hope of modifying the color scheme : )
Anyway, thanks again for the great theme and keep up the great work.
Bryan
Hi Vladimir! I just have one question for you...
The image in the top right corner seems to randomly change when updating your page - how does it work, and how can I implement it on my blog(which uses your great theme)?
Anders
Diogenes that is a beautiful work in my opinion :) Specially like the Blog title font.
Hi, I´ve made the modifications I talked about. If you wish you can visit http://www.pretorium.blog.br and see AmazingGrace in a blue dress. ;-) I´d like your opinion about the BG and Links colors, if you have any suggestions please let me know. ThankYou!
Hi,
Thank's for your nice theme
I use the french version made by "Libretto"
I don't know how to use amazing grace psd file ?
Can your help me please ?
Best regards
Yann
Lovely theme! Great job!
I may try to implement it on my blog
( http://www.blog-jerome-kerviel.easy-2-love.com )
Regards,
Sylvia
Sure, I have added the psd as an available download in Customization section. Good luck!
Hi, I liked very much your theme, but I´d want to change its colors, is there any way to do it without have to edit the already compressed .jpg files ?? Maybe a .psd file for donwload or something ?
Congrats for the beautiful theme.
It's not that hard to do, you can look at the ThemePlayground (link at the end of theme review) they have done it with the theme the proper way (using a flickr feed) and were willing to write about it.
I also did it on my blog but in a slightly more rudimentary way. What I did was to create about sixthy backgrounds and then at the top of my header.php I was changing the style to load one by random.
Thanks for this theme, simple and neat but how would I be able to use my own images (rotating?) on my header up on the right side?
Cheers!
Hi Vladimir,
Thanks for the link. The Amazing Grace got a two thumbs up and if I had ten thumbs, I'd make it ten! Hehe
All the best! :)
You can use feedburner.com service to add email subscription very easily to your blog. See how it is done in my blog, under the first post there is option for both rss and email subscription. Email subscription is a link you get from feedburner and that's all you have to worry about :)
Beautifully done, Vlad! A very relaxing theme.
Question: Most of my readers do NOT understand or use RSS, so I'd like to add an email sign-up box.
What should I do?
Thanks
It is similar to it as Magnus did design for me, but not quite like it ;)
is it like PortraitPress theme?
http://wordpress.jepson.no/wordpress-themes/portraitpress/
Hi, very nice theme.. This is what I am searching for ...:)
that's excellent theme....
I am using it :D
Hello, for first thanks you for this fantastic theme.
i have a question, is possible to have bookmark buttons for all post with the first?
Thanks for all and excuse me for my english.
bye Lino
Rosina, I am not sure what you are trying to do so why do not you drop me a detailed comment via the contact form and I'll see what I can do.
This is an excellent theme, and much thx to Vladimir for the professionalism, and of course, the sharing. Also appreciate your recent promptness in giving me the help I needed for a mod. ;-)
Vladimir -- This is a very nice theme with a great layout. The columns are just right.
If you have a look at my weblog you'll see that I simplified the style somewhat, stripping out almost all colors and images from the header. That just works better, given the very busy nature of my weblog.
I do have a question/request. Would it be possible to put the postmeta stuff in a div of its own? That way it would be easier to add/remove things. For example, I'd like to have a "subscribe to comments" link and also tags instead of categories, but I'm not comfortable enough with the loop to go in there and change those things with very specific directions. Do you do custom changes, for a fee? I'd like to know it was being done correctly.
Thanks again
Thanks, cheers. Indeed I forgot we are in 2008 now :)
Hey, nice theme indeed, I am considering recommending it to someone I know.
I just wanted to mention that your "update" dates for the versions listed here say 2007... I was under the impression that this was a new release, so I suspect you've forgotten that it's a new year! (I'm still getting used to it myself, I'll admit!)
Cheers~!
I am now using this theme with rotating header images! LOVE IT!
Great work, Vladimir. And thanks for making it available to everyone free of charge.
Hi Robert,find the number of categories you want excluded from your admin panel.
then use
wp_list_categories('number=5&exclude=num1,num2,num3&orderby=name...
Hi Vladimir.
Everythings working fine now. Thanks for helping me.
I’ve made a dutch translation of your theme. If someone wants it , they can send me a mail.
All the best.
Excellent work. As some sort of a colleague I congratulate you on a job well done!
great theme!!!
I am a rookie at blogging and was wondering how to change the top photo on every page on this theme?
help?
thx
dw
This is an excellent design which i may use for the blogging part of my Seo Directory, excellent job =)
Hi Robert,
find the number of categories you want excluded from your admin panel.
then use
wp_list_categories('number=5&exclude=num1,num2,num3&orderby=name...Hello Vladimir.
Thanks for this very nice theme , I love it from the first moment I saw it.
But, you can play with argument exclude to wp_list_categories and exclude categories you do not want. Example wp_list_catageories(’exclude=2,4,14&..This wont work for me , nothings happens. What ever I put in 2,7,12 the same default categories display's in the header.
What have I do wrong ?
Can you give me the all code for changing this.
All the best.
I use the excerpt to control the meta description as I don't like the way WordPress handles that. Still I write the excerpt as a part of the post and therefore it would be nice to be able to show both content and excerpt in the first post on the front page. But I do love the fact that only excepts are shown on the rest of the posts on the front page.
I've tweaked the template for the single file to match my requirements - see example here.
Does It make more sense now? :-)
Show both content and the excerpt? How and why would you want to do that? :)
Hi Vladimir,
I'd really like to show both exerpt and content on the first post on the front page. I see the excerpt/content is controlled in the same php string - alas I'm not that much of a php'ist.
Is it possible to tweak in order to show both exerpt and content?
btw I'm getting good response on your theme on my blog.
I left it out by mistake. Re-download the theme archive, and remove comments around ad_side in sidebar.php to enable the ads.
One more question. In the theme editor, there are two options, ad_side, ad_middle
I can get ads to show up using the ad_middle, but not the ad_side?
Any ideas?
vladimir, thank you very much for the theme and the bug fixes. I think I will use this theme for quite time :D. Just wait till I review this theme on my site!
have a good day!
I have been looking for a theme for my new Blog for the past couple of weeks. Going through over a thousand different themes really got my head spinning. Some were nice but weren't practical. Others were practical but looked too plain. And then there were others that looked great but had bugs and other niggling issues with them.
I almost gave up hope until I came across your wordpress template by accident. In my opinion this is the most outstanding wordpress template I have come across and will be using it on my new Blog later this month when it is up and running. My new Blog will rely heavily on pictures, and your theme makes photos look amazing. Then there are the colours which are calming yet professional in appeal.
Thank you for releasing this theme and making it available to others. You have most certainly lifted a great burden off my shoulders.
Thanks again.
Pål: The issue occurs because of styles added to entry image posts (big ones :) So you might play with removing padding, margin and border commands from .entry img section of style.css to get results you want.
Bryan: Thanks so much for feedback. I have carefully designed columns to best fit two most used resolutions people use today - 1024 and 1280 pixels wide. As for category tabs, yes I have only 4 so it kind of fits. But, you can play with argument exclude to wp_list_categories and exclude categories you do not want. Example wp_list_catageories('exclude=2,4,14&..
Bryan, I had the same issue - sorted it by replacing the wp_list_cats-string with the wp_list_pages-string (in the header).
You can see the result on my blog.
Absolutely love this theme. I've been looking for a new theme, but most have issues. You fix one thing, then something else goes wrong...
Here are a couple of thoughts.
- Your columns are perfect. Themes that don't take into account that some ads/gizmos are larger than 160 pixes is annoying. Some nice themes look horrible as your ad bleeds over the template. And the most annoying thing, when you try to change the column size, it hoses the theme. (At least for the non-programmers among us).
- I did the change to show full posts. My preference : ) You might want to mention that you also need to delete the "Continue reading" or it still shows up on your complete post.
- as for the category tabs, this might be the one problem with your theme. I have about 15 categories so far and as a result, tabs were created well into the posts themselves. Finally, I deleted some code and made the category tabs go away.
You might want to look into that.
But, without the tabs there, the header looks a little plan. Anyway to modify it so that top menu tabs are brought down to where the category tabs were?
Once again, great theme!
Thanks,
Bryan
Vladimir,
thanx for the quick response - all sorted now.
Btw - there is a minor issue with icons/smilies getting a grey border. Looks cool on large images - but less cool with the smilies... Still love the theme, though.
Pål: to change position of description text open the stylesheet file (style.css) and find margin-left:250px; in #header p section. Change this to 50px and you will get results you want.
libretto: thanks for the translation!
When working with changes in the theme I heartly recommend using Firebug plugin for firefox, it makes it so much easier. Check this article to find more http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/webmaster-essentials-checklist
Very goog word. I found the way to acces to the admin pannel very clever.
I've made a french translation of your work here : http://wordpress-tuto.fr/theme-wordpress-3-colonnes-321
Hi,
cool theme - I'm using it on my blog already :-)
I just have an issue with my description being too long. I'd like to move it to the side, but I can't find the right way to do it in the CMS.
I bet you have the solution for that :-)
Glad you like it guys !
Thank you for adding your beautiful new theme to wpthemez. As soon as the thumbnail gets indexed in thumbshots.org, I will definitely add a comment and give it a vote.
Hi Vladimir,
Lovely theme! Yes I like it very much :). Keep up the good work!!!
Kudos
Thanks for the feedback. I've added instructions on how to show full posts in the customization section.
Hi Vlad, thanks for visiting my site. This theme looks amazing! It's a 1024x768 screen size friendly theme too, so that's a big plus for me. I did "test drive" it and my content looks nice in it. With a little bit customization, I would use this in a heartbeat.
There is one thing though, is there a way to disable "read more" feature in the front page? I don't like to tease my readers that way. :-)