Grunge London

Latest Version: 3.00
Added on: 2010/08/08

Wordpress ver. 3+ allows the use of custom menu where you have full control over the links you want to put in the header. Starting from the Grunge London theme onwards, I’ll be adding this feature to all my future themes. For the old themes, an ongoing upgrading will be in place and themes with the custom menu feature will be revised to ver 3+.

Important note: To avoid compatibility issues, please ensure you are using WP 3+ when you install the Grunge London theme.

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Grunge London PSD File Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage.

Self customization tutorial

Theme Customization
Do you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog’s topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page.

Main Features
- Free forum support at Grunge London forum
- User-friendly Options page
- Drop-Down Custom Menu
- Automatic Thumbnails
- Different design for sticky post feature
- Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
- W3C XHTML and CSS compliant
- SEO ready
- Gravatar enable

Automatic Thumbnails
Please refer to this page for the details of how the automatic thumbnails work.

Drop-down Menu
The Grunge London theme has a multi-level drop-down menu. There are two ways to create the drop-down menu.
1) When you create hierarchical pages, the drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation.

2) You can manually define the header links using the custom menu. To do it, first, click on the “Menus” link found under the “Appearance” tab in WP admin. Then follow the instruction on the page to add your custom menu. This feature only works with WP 3+.

This is another feature that will be added to all my future themes.

Blog Title and Description
The demo is showing a special font as below:

By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Arial font.

You can change the font style by following this instruction:
Part 1: Modifying Font Style
- Download this PSD zip file (also include the font for this theme)
- Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/Gimp/PaintShop program
- Change the title and description using your desired font (you are free to modify the header image if you want)
- Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg
- Upload the image to your server in the “/styles/default/” folder

Part 2: Activating the Style
- Login to your WP admin
- Go to the options page of the Grunge London theme under “Appearance -> Grunge London”
- Find “Theme Style” under “Layout Setting”
- In the pull-down menu, select “default.css”
- Save the setting and go to your site to see the changes.

Ad Widget
An ad widget can be found under the “Available Widgets” section. You can drag the widget to Sidebar 1. This widget allows you to add your advertisement while keeping the sidebar design. Please limit the width of your ad to 250px.

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Change log
2010-08-08 v3.00 – Released