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
o Three slider options: content with either video or images, content with a full-width image display, Nivo jQuery slider with full-width images only
o Three message box styles and three message types (testimonials, Twitter feed, custom message)
o 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:
o Default template
o Blog page
o Blog page with full-width images and content
o Blog page with small featured images
o Contact us page with contact form and custom sidebar
o Portfolio page with the choice of one, two, three or four columns (separate templates)
o Redirect to External URL page
o Testimonial page with images
o Testimonial page without images
* Custom post options:
o My Portfolio: features text, images or video as portfolio items that can be organized and filtered by user-created skill categories
o Testimonials: features testimonial quotes and images on testimonial pages or in the homepage message box
* Custom theme options that help you easily set up:
o A custom logo
o The navigation menu style
o Foreground and background colors
o The border style of all the images on the website
o Breadcrumbs
o Google Analytics
o The homepage’s slider, message box and featured posts area
o The footer
o Social links
o Cufon font replacement with 24 fonts to choose from
* Custom Meta Box for pages that support slider data images and video
* Nine custom widgets:
o Contact form
o Search box
o Banner ads
o Flickr feed
o Newsletter subscription form
o Popular posts
o Recent posts
o Twitter stream
o Contact info with Google map
* Supports WordPress 3 menus
o Four navigation menus: top links, main navigation, and two footer links menus
* Fly-out menus for multi-level navigation
* Breadcrumbs navigation
* Over 40 shortcodes:
o Three-column feature lists
o Pricing grids: four styles with the choice of two, three, four or five columns
o Columns: full width, half, third, fourth
o Bullets and lists (three color varieties for each): big/small checkmark, big/small arrow, big/small square, big/small circle, big/small pointer
o Buttons (twelve color varieties for each): rounded, square, “grounded style†rounded or square
o 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
o Gallery: two Galleria gallery options
o Boxes: beveled, plain or black
* Cufon font replacement with 24 fonts to choose from
* Color selector on demo site
* Background design resources:
o http://webtreats.mysitemyway.com/8-tileable-metal-textures/
o http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns
o http://www.noqta.it/dromoscopio/
o http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/3345597659
o Free icons from http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/07/50-free-and-exclusive-twitter-icons/
o Vegur free font: http://www.fontspace.com/arro/vegur
* About Author box on posts
* Includes PSD files
* Extensive documentation with screenshots
*Release History
* version 1.2 – 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.