New Golden Gray 1.8
Written by samuel_trassare on July 29th, 2008New Golden Gray is now hosted at Wordpress! Download NGG from Wordpress.
New Golden Gray is based on William Pramana’s Golden Grey theme. Golden Gray was originally written for Alex King’s 2005 Wordpress theme competition. In the last few years Wordpress has undergone many changes and the coding requirements for themes has also changed. New Golden Gray is a rewrite of Golden Grey to meet those requirements and to exploit the new functionality of today’s Wordpress, version 2.6, while preserving the aesthetic quality of the original theme.
Features
New Golden Gray has been written to include:
- Support for widgets!
- Accessibility features: access keys and friendly text browser support.
- A 404 page.
- An archive page.
- Support for GaMerZ’ WP-Print plugin.
- Gravatars.
Screen shot
Download
Download New Golden Gray 1.8 (81K).
Download William Pramana’s original Golden Grey (29K).
Support
Use the comments section for all requests for support or to recommend improvements to NGG.
What’s Next
- Improved navigation bar.
- Improved support for mobile devices.
Known Issues
- If your blog contains more than about eight page links, they will not all fit in the navigation bar and they page layout will distort.
- Some CSS3 code is used in the style sheet which won’t validate against W3C’s current CSS validation.
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Hey Samuel,
I’m a low-level, mostly-newb WordPress template hacker, and I’m helping a friend implement New Golden Gray at a planned page for her design work. If one wanted to remove the graphical post-markers and separators (called post-icon and entry-separate in the images folder), what’s the best way to accomplish that?
Thanks for the theme, which is great and accessible.
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Kevin,
To remove the post markers, open style.css and comment out the following two lines in h3:
background: url(images/post-icon.gif) no-repeat 0 50%;padding-left: 25px;
To remove the post separation image, in the entry section comment out:
background: url(images/entry-separate.gif) no-repeat center bottom;You may have to clear your browser cache to see the changes. You can see the effect of your changes at this test site.
I’m glad you like the theme. I’d be interested in seeing your final product.
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Hi there,
I’m tampering around with this theme, because I adore the colorscheme. I’ve added and changed it quite a lot, though I think I stayed loyal to the idea, just did some finetuning to my personal liking.
Anyway, I’d like the footer to be a copy of the header (upside down offcourse) only I can’t seem to find the goldish background colour of the header in the css?? Any idea where it is hiding?
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janoda,
The goldish color in the header comes from bg-main.gif which is referenced from the body segment of the css. Your site looks good and interesting. As I have the time I’ll read some of your content.
31
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Any idea on how making it show up again in the footer?
This is the design phase link, the eventual website will reside elswhere on the net.
Thanks for the quick reply, I should’ve seen it myself! (I also love reCAPTCHA, will probably use it too!)
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Any Pages that I create do not show the content. Posts work fine. I’m not sure where to look for offending code…
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Another plug-in may be interfering. I experienced something similar with other themese but never saw it with this one.