Blue Grace

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.

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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

  1. Unpack this archive in your wp-content/themes/ directory.
  2. Go to Admin WordPress and select presentation.
  3. Select Blue Grace
  4. 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.

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

Looking for a WordPress SEO  expert? I offer WordPress related services, like for example theme SEO optimization or custom plugin development. See my WordPress Consulting Services page for more information and rates.

83 Comments

  1. Dick Kirkland
    3 days ago

    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

  2. Dick Kirkland
    5 days ago

    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

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