WordPress Theme - Gridblog
Written by Jai on June 8, 2008 – 7:00 am - 9,893 viewsFor the past few weeks, I have been experimenting with different grid-based CSS frameworks available on the Internet. YAML and Blueprint are two of the CSS frameworks that I might be using for my future theme development work. These nifty frameworks can be used for rapid development of clean CSS/XHTML layouts. I am not sure if any theme designers are already using these, but I like them a lot because they can save you a lot of time.
Based on the Blueprint framework, I am releasing a minimalistic WordPress theme called the “Gridblog“. This is a fast loading theme (only 36Kb in size) that has very little design elements but compensates with its functionality. It lets you display your front page blog entries uniquely by dividing them into two columns. The theme has different layout for pages, single entries and the archives section. Gridblog is fully CSS & XHTML compliant and has been tested with both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Please leave comments and let me know if you like it!
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thank you 
on Jun 8, 2008
Wow. another great theme from you Jai. I’m sure amny blogger will use it. a minimalistic theme is a trend now because it is fast-loading
on Jun 8, 2008
Great theme! I can assure you, working with CSS to make those floats, would help any blogger! Thanks for providing this great theme!
on Jun 8, 2008
coool theme jai i liked the layout and style.
But there is lot of white space .
on Jun 8, 2008
It’s great theme but i miss images… great anyway
on Jun 8, 2008
Great design.
You may want to add a “TITLE” tag though :X
on Jun 8, 2008
FYI, Thad Allender already using Blueprint CSS from several months ago…. So you’re not the first theme designer
on Jun 9, 2008
I like that it’s kind of like a sandbox theme, where you could make it into anything with a little work, but I think that you should add some images and more color to just make it a little more easier. Great Job!
on Jun 9, 2008
How on Earth did you manage to get it to come in at just 36kb?
on Jun 10, 2008
This theme looks really cool, thanks for the great work.
on Jun 10, 2008
It”s a very attractive theme
on Jun 10, 2008
excellent theme….
on Jun 11, 2008
a very nice neat and minimalistic theme.
another great work jay. thx
on Jun 11, 2008
wogh another great theme thanks
on Jun 11, 2008
Hello Jai,
Love the functionality, i’ve been 10 days around the net looking for this kind of great functionality. The only Iam questioning is the possibility of change the header, is it changeable with jeopardizing the whole code.
Thanks for the great work. I’ve downloaded it but waiting for your reply to install it.
All the best.
on Jun 11, 2008
@Edwin : What exactly do you want to do with the header? You can read the style.css and header.php files for a better understanding.
on Jun 12, 2008
I am a huge minamalist blog design fan - I completely stripped down bobv2 and am loving it though I really like this one also!
on Jun 14, 2008
Awesome minimalistic theme.
Has great potential and modding opportunities.
on Jun 14, 2008
very nice
on Jun 14, 2008
Hi Jai, congratulations. The theme is really awesome. I am having some trouble inserting images into posts. They look strange… (sorry about my english!) But anyway, I like it very much. Thanks!
Besos,
F.
on Jun 14, 2008
Hi …. Iam a Indonesian blogger.
I just say …. very nice blog Bob
This theme like Black n White themes. I Love it. I hope you make a cool themes again.
Happy blogging
on Jun 14, 2008
Awesome. I love it. Thanks!
on Jun 15, 2008
Jai, this theme is a winner!. Superb themes.
on Jun 17, 2008
wow……x-(
another good themes launched by wordpress. it’s a little more easier. and grate feature.. i like this themes because it is fast loading themes…….
on Jun 18, 2008
Hi ,
I just created a blog on blogger
And i sawed good templates of wordpress
Can i get it for my blogger ?
What should i do to get it on my blog
on Jun 18, 2008
@rajeelkp : You will only find WordPress themes here. No themes for blogger. Sorry.
on Jun 18, 2008
Speaking frankly, this theme is just so so, no better than the last theme your did.
Jai, bring out your great imagination!
on Jun 18, 2008
@365hope.com : Its not about the design. Its about dividing the blog posts in two columns and also to demonstrate the power of CSS Grid frameworks. They are lovely
on Jun 19, 2008
Nice Theme. I am using it at one of my blogs. I found a small bug though. If you add Widgets to Sidebar1, it doesn’t work. The problem is in Sidebar1.php
Change the following line:
To:
Cheers.
on Jun 19, 2008
Ahh.. no code allowed in my comment… well… in Sidebar1.php, there is an if statement which says
dynamic_sidebar(2)
Make it,
dynamic_sidebar(1)
Thats all… once again, great theme… i am busy modding it
on Jun 20, 2008
I really like it . .
Have a dbt about how I can make the topcontent.php as the content above the sibebars.
As in the posts should be on the top and the topcontent should be in the middle..
help!!!
on Jun 20, 2008
@Lildisnie : Open the index.php file from the gridblog theme folder. Cut this
< ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/topcontent.php"); ?>and paste above this :-
< ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/bottomcontent.php"); ?>This should do what you ask for.
on Jun 21, 2008
What that does is moves the sidebars to the top along with the bottom content.
I want the posts which is hanlded by page.php to be first and then the topcontent.php and then the bottom content.php.
???
on Jun 21, 2008
@Lildisnie : No, it cannot move the sidebars to the top because the sidebars are in the bottomcontent.php. You must have done some changes yourself before. So, I suggest you install the vanilla gridblog before doing any changes.
on Jun 23, 2008
Yup, just noticed, not title either… Here’s how to fix that for all those who are looking to fix it…
Open header.php, and find
and replace by something like this:
on Jun 24, 2008
I like it, it is very nice, cool
on Jun 28, 2008
very beauty and thank you for free.
on Jul 15, 2008
Great theme!
Is it possible to add support for subpages?
on Jul 16, 2008
The screenshot.png file seems to be missing from the ZIP file.
on Jul 21, 2008
Thanks jai for your kindness, and i’m sure you’ll be publish great pluginin the future
on Jul 26, 2008
Really your words are fantastic thanx
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on Jul 30, 2008
nice themes. it’s very simply.
on Aug 4, 2008
I am fan of minimal and fast loading themes - this looks nice with its grid arrangement. Is it possible to change the font at a central place? (Say Arial throughtout?) Thanks and Cheers!!
on Aug 9, 2008
good themes. thank you
on Aug 17, 2008
Very-2 great theme, TQ
on Aug 23, 2008
Hi Jai, gorgeous layout, love the clean minimalism of the design. Awesome possibilities for customization. excellent work!
on Aug 24, 2008
Great theme! Good work.
on Aug 24, 2008
Hello! I use your theme, all wonderful. But never was able to align text on the left side. Do not tell?
on Sep 2, 2008
I love your fantastic work!
on Sep 2, 2008
I’m having problems with pictures and text. I have a lot of thumbs in my posts and when I make a new paragraph or just line brake it simply doesn’t obey it. The text goes right of the picture when it should go below the picture. I’m not talking about captions (although that is another problem), I’m talking about a normal thumbnail with text continuing below the thumbnail.
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
Text text text text text text
Like the example above, where the brackets are thumbs.
The problem with captions is that on the first page it leaves out the img src tags but leaves the caption tags and it looks ugly as … when you have a lot of pics with captions in a post or even just one pic.
It’s a great theme and I’m working on customizing it a bit to my needs … it just needs some polishing.
Thanks.
on Sep 2, 2008
Figured it out. It’s in a separate CSS file (screen.css).
on Sep 3, 2008
interesting and clear theme
on Sep 4, 2008
Thanks great theme, nice and clean loads super fast. Does anyone know how to split the main index section into 3 or 4 columns instead of 2? I assume it’s in index .php here :
php if($count % 2 == 0) echo ”; else echo ”
on Sep 29, 2008
Nice theme and so damn small. Always wanted to play with YAML on my own. Thanks for your work!