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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:
  • http://webtreats.mysitemyway.com/8-tileable-metal-textures/
  • http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns
  • http://www.noqta.it/dromoscopio/
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/3345597659
  • Free icons from http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/07/50-free-and-exclusive-twitter-icons/
  • Vegur free font: http://www.fontspace.com/arro/vegur
• 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!