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
  • 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.

Images

Images used in the themes are provided as example only and have been obtained through Internet wallpaper sites without any known copyright information. They may be copyrighted by their respectful owners.

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

See my WordPress Consulting Services page for more information.

Comments:

116 Comments

  1. NFA Trust Texas
    Oct 8th, 2012

    Thank you so much for posting the updated theme and source files – fantastic, fantastic work! Do you have any specific requests for how you want to be credited in the footer?

  2. iplaytheme
    May 24th, 2012

    Hi everyone, this is my site ~ http://iplaytheme.com
    There are many wordpress themes for you download~
    Thank you~

  3. Lotus
    May 3rd, 2012

    Hello. First, thank you for this free theme. I enjoy it and I am currently using it on my blog Simplu.

    One question or request. I would very much appreciate a drop-down functionality for menus, since I want to add sub-categories to my blog. How can this be done? Or, can you make a small upgrade to the theme? :)

    Thank you.

    • John Dragits
      May 14th, 2012

      I fully agree with you! This theme is gorgeous and it would be great if there was a tutorial about creating dropdown submenus. I think this is its only disadvantage.

  4. hiroshi
    Feb 11th, 2012

    "SEO Super Comments" is not working with the theme "Blue Grace". SEO Super Comments has an option of 'Template file in use' with "single.php" in it but "Blue Grace" has only "index.php" page. Please help. Regards.

    • hiroshi
      Feb 12th, 2012

      Alright, I got it working. Have to comment three lines
      // if ($comcountstrip_nofollow($link);
      in file seo-super-comments.php
      and the problem solved.

  5. removals
    Jan 13th, 2012

    great theme thanks i will use in my site thanks

  6. Justin
    Jul 25th, 2011

    Hey guys, on my site the header pictures are gone. I haven't changed any of code for the pictures. Any ideas?

    The disappeared as soon as I loaded posts with pictures.

  7. Justin
    Jul 25th, 2011

    Hey guys, I am using the theme but the header pictures Have disaapeared. I haven't changed any of code for the pictures. Any ideas?

    The disappeared as soon as I loaded posts with pictures.

  8. Navin
    Jun 1st, 2011

    Awesome Theme, i think it need some cool design to make it Perfect.

  9. Zsolt
    May 23rd, 2011

    Hi Vladimir!

    How can i change the button "Home" to my own language? I cant find it. :(

    Regards,
    Zsolt

    • Zsolt
      May 23rd, 2011

      I have found it in functions.php.
      I like this theme!

  10. Brian Crowley
    Apr 11th, 2011

    Hi again,

    not sure if my first comment came through. Can I change out the pics for custom pics.

  11. Comunitatea Ro
    Feb 5th, 2011

    Your stuff is very interesting, well done! We've just built our site on WP platform and I found WP easier to work with than Joomla or Drupal

  12. Kevin
    Jan 24th, 2011

    Any chance submenus can be fixed to work with WP 3.x menu system? :) I can see the parent menus, but no subs.

    • John Dragits
      May 14th, 2012

      I have exactly the same problem. Can you please fix it Vladimir?

  13. Pamela
    Dec 3rd, 2010

    How do I change the font style for the Blog Title only?

    Thanks. Love the theme. Clean design.
    Pamela

  14. profesor
    Nov 11th, 2010

    you make plugin according requirements??? of course i will pay. it's easy but i am not a programmer.

  15. roy
    Oct 30th, 2010

    Hi,

    Is there an Hebrew template for this theme?

    Also can i add a picture to the header instead of the blue area?

    Thanks

  16. Jakob S
    Oct 28th, 2010

    Hi Vladimir

    Is there any posibility to make a drop down menu in the categories?
    So you have Parent categori and then child categories as drop down menu.

    Regards Jakob

  17. Vladimir
    Oct 15th, 2010

    Blue Grace theme has been approved, you can download the new version now.

    • Graham
      Oct 26th, 2010

      Hi Vladimir,

      Thank you for this great theme. I am very impressed with it.
      Kindest regards

    • Brian Crowley
      Apr 11th, 2011

      Hey there,

      Great looking theme. I'm wondering if I can exchange the pictures in the header for custom pics I want to use.

      Thanks.

      Brian

  18. thierry schoutheer
    Oct 7th, 2010

    I was interested by checking ‘blue grace’ theme as it looks good and I was thinking that you made a good job there.
    So I installed it. As you said it is based on ‘amazing grace’, so it does install it.
    The version of the embedded ‘amazing grace’ theme installed is 3.1 and it is installed in '/themes/amazinggrace'
    Looking at the 'amazing grace' theme it appears that the version is 3.6 and path is '/themes/amazing-grace'
    How can I have only one version of 'amazing grace' and let 'blue grace' point to the latest version ? so to '/themes/amazing-grace' ?
    Best Regards

    • Vladimir
      Oct 7th, 2010

      I have submitted Blue grace for approval on WordPress.org. Current situation is a bit of a mess.

  19. Alex
    Aug 28th, 2010

    great theme, The bluish color is really appreciable.

  20. Pat Yuen
    Jul 8th, 2010

    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/

  21. Piseth
    Jun 4th, 2010

    This is nice one. I like it

  22. Kelly
    Jan 5th, 2010

    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.

    • Jason
      Aug 31st, 2010

      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/

  23. Jason Brown
    Dec 6th, 2009

    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/

  24. Dick Kirkland
    Nov 18th, 2009

    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

  25. Dick Kirkland
    Nov 16th, 2009

    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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