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
- 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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Hi! My name is Vladimir Prelovac. I am a computer engineer by profession and an adventurer by state of mind.
83 Comments
Hi, Theme function with plugin "All in One SEO Pack"
Thanks
Thank you for your great theme!
Hi,
I want a RTL version, can you help me ?
This theme is damn cool
Thanks for your theme, I just download it and have a test. Great work and a nice theme.
Thanks again and best regards
Bazen
Thank you for this theme - will start testing this weekend on a new project.
I'm loving the theme.
The code was really clean. The structure was a little different then most the other themes I have played in, but once I figured out the basics everything was in chronological order making it easy to find each area. Seemed like half the calls and half the code size but with twice the functionality.
After playing in it as much as I did, I'd like you to make sure the credits are appropriate and any other suggestions. My css is still messy in the footer area due the two lines being on different css - but I haven't had the time to hunt them down yet. I haven't tested it in any other browsers or window sizes yet either.
I should go do that .. thanks again for the release. It's refreshing.
Hi! It's very pretty theme, just love it, but when I using it on my WP2.7, it seems that the title of my home page are missing, although other posts are fine.
Hallo Vladimir,
Congratulations to your theme!
I like and use it on my own web page.
Unfortunally the sidebars are cutted off by the pictures in the header of you theme.
Do you have a clou to fix this situation?
Best regards,
Olaf
I love clean templates, nice colors pickup, it looks effective. I hope to see more themes like this one. Thanks you.
Great template! Once question...I noticed that the headings for the sidebars are different on your site (blue background, white text) than on the actual Blue Grace template (no bgcolor, dark text). What did you do?
Hi, new to wordpress and learning slowly. I am doing something wrong with this template, I can't seem to get the spacing quite right. Categories and Search end up under the images and when I click on a category I don't see the entire post, just a small snip it without the image.
Oddly the spacing is just fine in WPMU, but my regular old WP 2.7.1 is a little off.
Because I'm giving away clothing and toys it's important that people see the images and some details. I have been using WPMU so I think I'm just missing a setting somewhere.
Here is an example: http://stuckathomemom.com/freestuff/?cat=5
Any hints would be appreciated. Dummie instructions would be a God send.
Thank you,
~e
Good themes
Vladimir,
I love the Amazing Grace and Blue Grace themes, but have a small problem. I have to display my About page (static) in order to keep the fonts on the Home page from going bonkers! As soon as I activate the latest post as home page, I get Bold text in Firefox. Unfortunately stupid IE underlines ALL the text!
Please help, as most of the users use IE
I know this is a late answer but the latest version of Blue Grace is a "child theme" that only includes a style.css file for "Blue Grace" and it's own "images" directory. The actual operation on the theme is dependent on "Amazing Grace"
The advantage of using a child theme (WordPress 2.7 is required for use of child themes by the way) is that if you use "Blue Grace" for WP 2.7 and substitute your own images for the ones in the default Blue Grace "images" directory or modify the Blue Grace style.css" file to your own liking, a future update to the main theme ("Amazing Grace")will not cause you to lose all your modifications and require you to make them all over again.
In short, in the case of Blue Grace for WP 2.7, you can modify the header images and styling to your hearts content and never have to worry about a future upgrade wiping out all your modifications. It's not perfect since any modification to main file themes besides "style.css" has to be done to "Amazing Grace" but for the most part makes customizations a lot easier
Thanks for the compliments!
Vladimir,
I just wanted to say thanks for the great theme! It's head and shoulders above any of the other themes I looked at for my new blog, and is working great right out of the box.
Wery nice theme. my tech blog add in theme.
I was going to use Blue Grace on my site, but I noticed that I can't use Blue Grace without having to install Amazing Grace. Is there a reason for this?? I tried using the Sven Niemetz download on the Amazing Grace page making the appropriate color changes, however when I plugged the changes into Blue Grace it wanted to access the Amazing Grace theme?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is great theme.I have the problem of the width of blue tape for pages on the top of blog.It has no properly widht.You can see that in
this screenshot.
What I should change into theme to solve this problem?
Thanks.
Alex&David: Blue Grace is not meant to be uploaded on it's own as it shares files with Amazing Grace theme. You need the unpack the whole content of the downloaded package.
It appears that the archive behind the link "Download Latest Blue Grace (WP2.7+)" does not contain the php files for the theme.
This explains the error message above.
Thanks for the Theme. Using it at newsslots.com
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to stop and say Thanks! Awesome Theme once I got it setup the way I liked it. Love it!
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