Grounded – Professional WordPress Theme

• 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 1.5 – 1/24/2010 – adds new template for default pages to have a sidebar. new template name Default With Sidebar
• version 1.4 – 12/22/2010- fixes jquery issue with contact 7 form plugin, and other plugins. Please see change log in the main files for specific files that have changed.
• version 1.3 -12/13/2010 – fixes issue with banner ad url, adds option to increase the length of the bullets and lists shortcodes. Updated documentation
• version 1.2 – 12/10/2010 – fixes issue wit the logo not appearing, fixes issue with initial in stall throwing an error. Fixes Testimonials, header and link were not appearing.
• version 1.1 – 12/5/2010 – fixes contact us, fixes timthumb with a multisite. Removes a js error in the header.
• version 1.0.1 – 12/5/2010 – fixes the labels on the contact form not clearing when there is an error. Fixes the Main Navagation naming issue.