by Thad Allender | 304 Comments

Gridline Lite

Gridline Lite is a free minimalist theme for WordPress 2.8 and up with full sidebar and bottombar widget support that utilizes a CSS framework to help streamline development and customization. Gridline pulls in the most recent post, with five recently posted stories listed in offset backgrounds below to keep your readers attention.

Installation

  1. Unzip the downloaded file
  2. Upload the entire “Gridline Lite″ folder to your “/wp-content/themes/” folder
  3. Log in into your WordPress control panel
  4. Click the Presentation tab
  5. Select the “Gridline Lite” screenshot

Configuration

  1. GETTING STARTED: To change the number of main entries listed on your homepage, click Options > Reading in your WordPress interface.
  2. Photos posted within each entry’s post will should not exceed 590px wide, otherwise, the images will bleed into the sidebar and make you site look icky.
  3. YOUR AUTHORS PAGE: Gridline Lite comes packaged with an author archive (authors.php), which will display some author specific info pulled from the Users page in your WordPress installation. In order for the author’s image to show up, you’ll need to place a jpg of the author titled by the author’s last name in the wp-content/themes/gridline/images/authors/ folder. For instance, mine is Allender.jpg, sized at 75px X 75px. Here is an example author page.
  4. STYLES.CSS: Unlike most WordPress themes which plug all the css in one file called styles.css, Gridline utilizes the Blueprint CSS framework to help separate positioning, typography, forms and what I’ll refer to as custom or gridline specific styles. To edit all custom gridline specific styles, you’ll need to edit the file style.css in your wp/wp-content/themes/gridline/ directory.
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Posted by Thad Allender, at Graph Paper Press

Thad is a photographer, designer and developer who embraces the evolution of storytelling on the web. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Abby.

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  • stas.nerd.ro/ Stas S.

    Great theme. I love it!!!

  • www.wangkai.org kevin

    呵呵 我又同样的问题解决了 ：）

    heh i had same question bu it’s done

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    cool theme…

  • stas.nerd.ro/ Stas S.

    I would like to ask you, next time if you have some time, could you please convert endline character from mac style to unix, please.
    Wordpress doensn’t understand mac endlines…

  • admin

    @Stan S.

    Just did it. Thanks for posting!

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    great theme! thanks a lot.
    I’m having a problem – what do I need to change to make the images stand above the text and not to wrapped in the text?
    thanks spacer

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    Great Theme,

    How do I modify the rss so that it only display the content and not the title?

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    very interesting.
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  • www.foreword.ca Curtis

    Hi,

    Great them! Just wondering if you have instructions for working with the wide page theme. The one at gridline.thadallender.com/page-2/ looks great — how do I set it up to add boxes and other sections?

    Thanks so much!

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  • 3th.be Michael

    Gridline Light – another error: When you click the “comments” on the main index page, nothing happens, because the links points to “#comments”. Shouldn’t there be <a class="#comments"> instead?

  • 3th.be Michael

    Ooops. I meant: NOT just the #comments, but a link to the individual article’s page instead?

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  • Question

    Where do I edit the text for the “About ” Box on the upper right of the screen?

  • 3th.be Michael

    Runs perfectly fine after some adjustments in German on my website.

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    Hey, I just cranked up your awesome theme. How I also have the same problem where images do not clear a line after. I have tried changing the style.css to clear the floats on img tags, but it is not working. I hate to ask you since I know this has to be an easy thing to fix. Can you help me on this? Thanks!

  • www.rawberryjams.com Jesse

    Also, the “Previously” section displays the same stories that are displayed on the front page, not the true previous stories.

  • Question

    Anyone know how to change the code so that you actually come to the comment, when clicking on “Comment” from a post on the start page?

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    @all:
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    with

    |

    It does the same, but now the link to the comments does his job…

    greetings from Germany

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    I’m sorry. Go to gfnblog.de/gridline.html – there is the correct code…

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