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“Elegant Grunge” WordPress theme

“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

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Get Elegant Grunge

If you like Elegant Grunge, please consider buying one of my products, or using the donation link to the right.

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

Czech – by Bengo

Lithuanian – by Valentinas Bakaitis

Belorussian – by Marcis G./Galina Miklosic

Polish – by Grzegorz ‘ixcesal’ Lasecki

Dutch – by Rene (WPwebshop)

Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia – by Kelayang

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.

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334 Comments

  1. Posted January 18, 2012 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

    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?

  2. Posted January 18, 2012 at 11:33 pm | Permalink

    And what about the footer I NEED the footer to stick in the bottom! :(

  3. Posted February 3, 2012 at 12:21 am | Permalink

    hi,

    banners with the effect wordpress.com e.g: nalesera.wordpress.com but no effect my wordpress site, e.g: meksikasiniri.com

    thanks.

    • Posted February 3, 2012 at 12:42 am | Permalink

      ok, i did. problem is theme version. thx.

  4. David Savile
    Posted February 11, 2012 at 8:53 pm | Permalink

    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?

    • Posted February 11, 2012 at 8:54 pm | Permalink

      I’m afraid I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about, David =) Are you sure you’re commenting on the right website?

  5. Posted March 1, 2012 at 6:22 pm | Permalink

    Nice theme look like Portal. I prefer wordpress theme from themeforest community

  6. Posted March 3, 2012 at 7:26 am | Permalink

    Really clean website , thankyou for this post.

  7. Posted March 12, 2012 at 12:12 pm | Permalink

    Looks really neat. Nice to know you come out with such outstanding works. Keep up the good work.

  8. Posted April 4, 2012 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

    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

  9. Posted April 28, 2012 at 3:16 am | Permalink

    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. =(

  10. Posted April 28, 2012 at 10:58 pm | Permalink

    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!

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