“Elegant Grunge” is an unwashed yet crisp WordPress theme inspired by wefunction.com. It features:
- Layouts options
- Support for custom background and header
- Widget-ready footer
- Optional full-width page template that removes the sidebar
If you like Elegant Grunge, please consider buying one of my products.
Version 1.1 has been updated to the WordPress.com version.
This version no longer contains automatic image framing, or a photoblog template, so if you wish to continue using these features, please use version 1.0.3.
Changes:
- Layout updates and fixes
- Fixed deprecated function calls and PHP errors
- Code cleanup to match WordPress theme style guide: spacing, syntax, comments, package description
- Added author comment highlighting
- Added support for empty post title and styles for all heading sizes
- Fixed bugs with theme options menus
- Simplified custom functions and removed unneeded theme options
- Remove custom header image support and use default WP header image functionality instead
- Added image.php template
- Added RTL language support
- Changed post timestamp to use the WordPress global date format
- Remove unused template files
- Implement WordPress 3.0 features: Custom Menu, comment_form()
- Added default WP style support: body_class(), post_class(), comment_class() and remove unneeded definition for EG_BODY_CLASS
- Removed unneeded function_exists() calls
- Simplified image display: no frames or photoblog page
- Nicer typography and updated grunge images for sticky posts, trackbacks, and new date format
- Styles for sticky posts
- Added newer/older single post navigation links
- Better class attributes to avoid collision with WP default classes (author, post, date, etc)
- Remove sidebar logic check in every template (once in sidebar.php instead)
Note: If you have problems with this theme, please post your question at the WordPress forums. Please don’t contact me directly, as I don’t have the resources to help you.
Language Packs
Many thanks to contributors!
Casual German/Deutsch – by Markus Bischof
Formal/polite German/Deutsch – by André Heil
Italian/Italiano – by Paolo Lucciola
French/Français – by Arnaud Ball
Romanian – by Adrian Nitescu
Arabic/العربية – by Mena
Finnish/Suomi – by Antti
Turkish/Türkçe – by Mehmet
Brazilian Portuguese – by Jandeilson S. Barbosa
Spanish/Español – by José Vergara
Norwegian/Norsk – by Vipblogg
Russian/русский язык – by Sergey aka Cepxuo
Lithuanian – by Valentinas Bakaitis
Belorussian – by Marcis G./Galina Miklosic
Polish – by Grzegorz ‘ixcesal’ Lasecki
Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia – by Kelayang
Filipino – by Mikael Riec
Danish/Dansk – by Morten Elm
To use these language packs, you must download the WordPress language pack first, copy it into wp-content/languages, then edit wp-config.php and set the WPLANG value to the appropriate language abbreviation (eg ‘fr_FR’). Then unzip the Elegant Grunge language pack into the wp-content/themes/elegant-grunge folder, and you’re set.
Community
WordPress Theme Elegant Grunge Template Addon for built-in WordPress Gallery – Sebastian Graß
Paul Kaiser has written a great article on how to add navigation menus to older WordPress themes, using Elegant Grunge as an example.
349 Comments
Hi! I gotta say this theme is beautiful but I can’t seem to figure out how to get my thumbnails back on posts. :o Or is it just not possible?
And what about the footer I NEED the footer to stick in the bottom! :(
hi,
banners with the effect wordpress.com e.g: nalesera.wordpress.com but no effect my wordpress site, e.g: meksikasiniri.com
thanks.
ok, i did. problem is theme version. thx.
Hi
I wondered if the images are copyright? Can I use the heart shaped Love God in the sand on my church webpage for free if possible please?
I’m afraid I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about, David =) Are you sure you’re commenting on the right website?
Nice theme look like Portal. I prefer wordpress theme from themeforest community
Really clean website , thankyou for this post.
Looks really neat. Nice to know you come out with such outstanding works. Keep up the good work.
Hi Michael, I’m not sure if you’re still checking these, but I thought it was worth a try. First of all, thanks for the great theme – we really love it. I’ve searched high and low for this answer, but somehow it still is alluding me. We just want to display comments on the home page vs the “4 Comments” link. Basically, remove the link and show comments by default. Any thoughts as to how to do this? Thanks so much and I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks, Katie
Hi there. =3 I was wondering if you had a cPanel and/or phpMyAdmin? There’s something I wanted to do with the template, but I can’t do it without a cPanel. =(
Is there anything special I have to do to create a child theme of elegant grunge? I am trying to create one, but if I don’t include a copy of /inc/theme-options.php in my child theme directory I get a 500 Internal Server error, and the CSS @import won’t work to include the theme stylesheet within my own.
I am trying this both on my live site and my local machine. Previously I had just changed the theme CSS and that worked but I wanted to do it the correct way.
Any tips would be a big help!
Don’t want to be a bother, but when you try to create a child theme based on this theme, it shows a blank white screen and spits out PHP errors. Could you advise on the proper way to create a child theme?
Thanks!
HOW do you add images? if i want to leave comments, how can i post images?
is there a way to move the nav bar under the custom header, instead of it being on top?
Hi Michael, I really like the Elegant Grunge theme I’m using; however, the forms do not work in IE9. You cannot enter text into comments or search or register fields, for example. So I have to recommend to my users that Chrome or Firefox or Opera, etc. has to be used. Any idea?
Cheers, ej
Hmm, no, no ideas I’m afraid EJ. I think you have the right approach though – ward users off IE, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
We love the Elegant Grunge theme, but we can’t get the subheadings to show in drop-down menu. Is that not part of Elegant Grunge? If not, do you ever plan on adding that to your headings? Thanks for information.
Hello Michael,
I just wanted to stop by and say thank you for this theme – its absolutely perfect for me needs!
Cheers!
J.J.
Whats up this is kinda of off topic but I was wondering if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML. I’m starting a blog soon but have no coding know-how so I wanted to get guidance from someone with experience. Any help would be enormously appreciated!
Hi, Michael:
Is the theme still supported and compatible with the latest version of WordPress, also is it found in the WP.org repository?
Let me know.
Kindly, Missy
I just wanted to let you know that the “Elegant Grunge” theme is one of the best designs ever. And I mean of ANYTHING ever! It’s mystically good. Thanks so much.
This layout looks great! Good job.
Any chance of two sidebars for those of us not so good with code :-).
Hi, is there a way to stop so much text coming up when you hover over a photoblog thumbnail? I would much prefer if just the page title came up (for example) rather than a bunch of code and the first few lines of each post. I did try looking at the code myself but I’m not very experienced with html. Thanks :)
I forgot to click the notify me of followup comments box… :)
Thanks so much for such a great theme. I have noticedthat the “Top Posts & Pages” widget shows a broken link if there is no image in the body of the post. For example, when the post has a video, or a page has no image, the image returned in the “Top Posts & Pages” widget shows a broken link. Previously it showed the blavatar for the blog when there was no specific image for the post or page–which was great. Just wondered if you could fix it (assuming it’s not a WordPress problem).
Thanks again!
The problem is a version of the theme. thanks for the tutorial.
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