Full Wordpress 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4 and 3.4.1 Compatibility!
Grounded is a highly-customizable premium WordPress theme that can be used for just about any type of website. The theme’s extensive custom admin panel and over 40 shortcodes provide you with a wide range of possibilities when tailoring the site’s appearance and function to your needs.
Two custom post types are available to help you create a work portfolio and a collection of customer testimonials. Nine custom widgets include (but are not limited to) a banner ad display, contact form, Flickr feed and Twitter stream. The homepage has three slider options and several layout choices including message boxes and a featured posts area.
Theme Features
- Homepage featuring a slider, message box and featured posts area
- Three slider options: content with either video or images, content with a full-width image display, Nivo jQuery slider with full-width images only
- Three message box styles and three message types (testimonials, Twitter feed, custom message)
- Featured posts area with four layout options, including an option for a custom layout
- Uses TimThumb script to automatically resize images in the homepage slider
- 12 page templates:
- Default template
- Blog page
- Blog page with full-width images and content
- Blog page with small featured images
- Contact us page with contact form and custom sidebar
- Portfolio page with the choice of one, two, three or four columns (separate templates)
- Redirect to External URL page
- Testimonial page with images
- Testimonial page without images
- Custom post options:
- My Portfolio: features text, images or video as portfolio items that can be organized and filtered by user-created skill categories
- Testimonials: features testimonial quotes and images on testimonial pages or in the homepage message box
- Custom theme options that help you easily set up:
- A custom logo
- The navigation menu style
- Foreground and background colors
- The border style of all the images on the website
- Breadcrumbs
- Google Analytics
- The homepage’s slider, message box and featured posts area
- The footer
- Social links
- Cufon font replacement with 24 fonts to choose from
- Custom Meta Box for pages that support slider data images and video
- Nine custom widgets:
- Contact form
- Search box
- Banner ads
- Flickr feed
- Newsletter subscription form
- Popular posts
- Recent posts
- Twitter stream
- Contact info with Google map
- Supports WordPress 3 menus
- Four navigation menus: top links, main navigation, and two footer links menus
- Fly-out menus for multi-level navigation
- Breadcrumbs navigation
- Over 40 shortcodes:
- Three-column feature lists
- Pricing grids: four styles with the choice of two, three, four or five columns
- Columns: full width, half, third, fourth
- Bullets and lists (three color varieties for each): big/small checkmark, big/small arrow, big/small square, big/small circle, big/small pointer
- Buttons (twelve color varieties for each): rounded, square, “grounded style” rounded or square
- Image/video options use pretty photo to display the image/video in a modal box: grounded-style square, curved shadow, no border, squared with no inner shadow, squared with inner shadow, subtle rounded corners, rounded corners with no inner shadow, rounded corners with inner shadow
- Gallery: two Galleria gallery options
- Boxes: beveled, plain or black
- Cufon font replacement with 24 fonts to choose from
- Color selector on demo site
- Background design resources:
- About Author box on posts
- Includes PSD files
- Extensive documentation with screenshots
Release History
Version 1.7 – 2011/07/18 – adds compatibility for WordPress 3.2
Version 1.6 – 2011/03/03 – adds compatibility for WordPress 3.1
Version 1.5 – 2010/1/24 – adds new template for default pages with a sidebar.
Version 1.4 – 2010/12/22 – fixes jquery issue with contact 7 form plugin, and other plugins.
Version 1.3 – 2010/12/13 – fixes issue with banner ad url, adds option to increase the length of the bullets and lists shortcodes.
Version 1.2– 2010/12/10 – fixes logo appearance, fixes initial install error, fixes header and link in testimonials.
Version 1.1 – 2010/12/05- fixes contact us, fixes timthumb with a multisite, removes js error in the header.
Version 1.0.1 – 2010/12/05 – fixes the labels on the contact form not clearing when there is an error. Fixes main nav naming issue.
Version 1.0 – 2010/10/25 – inception!
