Blue Grace is a lightweight, super-optimized free blog theme packed with features. It uses 3 column layout for maximum accessibility and small digital footprint for minimum bandwidth usage and loading times.
Download Latest Blue Grace (with Amazing Grace, for WordPress 2.7+)
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
This is a new and fresh version of the popular Amazing Grace theme. You can read more about the history of Amazing Grace on the theme page.
Installation & Usage
- Unpack this archive in your wp-content/themes/ directory.
- Go to Admin WordPress and select presentation.
- Select Blue 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 Blue Grace, and also part 2
- Change the colors - You can download Blue Grace psd file and change the graphics to your liking
Read the rest on Amazing Grace page.
Change log
- 06th October, 2008 v1.0: Initial release
License
Blue Grace theme is released under GPL License.
You may freely remove footer links if they bother you.
Services
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89 Comments
great theme, The bluish color is really appreciable.
Really nice theme. I notice the page navigation is missing. Is that by design. I don't see a previous post or next post link on anything and the next page tag just cuts off all content without displaying a next page link.
Is this a bug or by design. I have a next page tag at the end of this page with the text blog.patyuen.com and as you can see, it does not display.
http://blog.patyuen.com/about/privacy-policy/
This is nice one. I like it
Does anyone know of a reason that this theme would suddenly drop the third column and put it under the second one after running well for a very long time? I can't even delete and install a new version, it still doesn't show the third column.
I have a similar problem but with both columns dropping down and to the left, under the comment field. I have searched high and low for the cause, a solution oe any mention of it occuring to another blog, but NOTHING. I will keep an eye open for this issue also, and if I hear, see or find anything, I'll post it here.
Regards,
Jason Brown
DalliGold Directory Webmaster and Consultant
http://www.dalligold.com/blog/
Take a look at the mods I made for one of my associates on his blog... I call it "Royal Grace"
http://dalligold.com/blog/
I'd like to hear what you think, and so would Lou Dalli!
Thanks for the great design and sharing... we left your link on the template because we like the layout so much... but we needed the color to be purple and gold for out theme.
Regards,
Jason Brown
DalliGold Directory Webmaster and Consultant
http://www.dalligold.com/blog/
Sorry,
Turns out I thought I was using "page order" numerals in the argument 'include=x,y,z'.
After reviewing my code for about the 100th time, I figured out that the numbers being referenced in this argument are actually for page "id"s and have nothing to do with page order numbers as designated in the WP UI on a "create page" segment.
Geeezzz!
Thanks for all of your efforts though.
Live and learn,
by the Codex!
Dick
Has anyone had any problems with the wp_list_pages usage in header.php with this theme in WP 2.8.6.
When using the wp_list_pages tag along with its various parameters, I get no love.
Often times, the pages displayed don't even correlate to what their true page order is (designated in the page order field) in those pages.
Just checking as a WP moderator said it could be the theme and/or plugins.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer with this issue.
Sincerely,
Dick