Grunge is a responsive WordPress blog theme designed to help you stand out with a unique grungy design. It offers live preview customization, a responsive layout, built-in widgets, a shortcode manager, and broad plugin and editor compatibility.
Feature highlights
- Customize with live preview: Choose dark or light layout, sidebar position, fonts, colors etc.
- Responsive design. Optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
- Included widgets: Flickr, Social Links, Posts with Thumbnails, Post-it Note.
- Shortcode manager. Add buttons, alerts, and columns easily.
- Compatible with Contact Form 7.
- Compatible with Yummy Recipes.
- Custom archive page template.
- Translation ready.
- RTL language ready.
- Supports Gutenberg editor.
Compatibility and extensions
- Compatible with Contact Form 7.
- Compatible with Yummy Recipes.
- Translation ready.
- RTL language ready.
- Supports Gutenberg editor.
Support and setup
If you need help with customizing or setting up this theme, I will be glad to help you. Just contact me via my profile page’s contact form.
Testimonials
- Loving this theme!
- Wanted to say I love the theme! It’s been extremely simple and easy to use.
- Love this theme sooo much. Simple and neat.
- Hi – this is a wonderful theme, thanks for all of your hard work on it.
Changelog
2.3.0 (November 17th, 2023)
- Grunge Plugin was updated to 1.2.0. Please update the plugin.
- Envato Market Plugin was updated to 2.0.10. Please update the plugin.
- Added Customizer option to show related posts on single posts.
- Replaced Twitter icon with X icon.
- Accessibility improvements.
- Minor code fixes.
2.2.0 (May 17th, 2022)
- Grunge Plugin was updated to 1.1.0. Please update the plugin.
- Added 'wp_body_open' action after the opening body tag.
- Improved the lazy loading of images.
- Replaced jQuery plugins with vanilla JavaScript for better performance and accessibility.
- Improvements for Core Web Vitals.
- Performance improvements.
- Accessibility improvements.
- Minor code fixes.
2.1.0 (July 10th, 2020)
- Added support for Gutenberg.
- Added support for RTL languages.
- Added Customizer setting to set a color for the post meta icons.
- Added Customizer setting to set a color for the current menu item.
- Customizer settings for the comments bubble color and tags color can now be also light. The text color will change accordingly.
- Improved accessibility.
- Fixed a bug in author template causing author bio wrapping in paragraph tags.
2.0.0 (May 14th, 2019)
- Lots of changes to the codebase. Better code formatting, better security, speed optimizations etc.
- Added Grunge Plugin. You must install and activate the Grunge Plugin which comes with the theme.
- Moved plugin territory functionality from the theme to the plugin.
- Moved style related options to the Customizer. Please check your settings at Appearance > Customize.
- Added more options to widgets. Now you can for example sort the posts with comment count, and have content before the social icons.
- Added lazyloading for images.
- Added higher pixel density images. You must use the 'Force Regenerate Thumbnails' plugin to regenerate your thumbnails.
- Added category and tag descriptions on the archive template.
- Added author template.
- Added social links options for users.
- Added option to halve logo dimensions to allow using a high pixel density logo.
- Added option to display the logo and navigation centered.
- Icons are now served as SVGs.
- Removed contact page template and added styling for the Contact Form 7 plugin. Use the Contact Form 7 plugin to add forms.
- Updated JavaScript libraries.
- Minor code fixes.
1.1.1 (October 27th, 2015)
- Updated custom widgets to be compatible with WordPress 4.3 requirements
- Site icon (favicon) should now be uploaded from Customizer
- Minor code fixes
1.1.0 (March 20th, 2014)
- Refreshed design
- Updated jQuery and JavaScript plugins
- Updated Theme Options Framework
- More font options
- More styling options
- Numeric pagination
- Latest Posts widget now displays comments count
- Added VK icon for Social Widget
- CSS improvements
- Page speed optimization
- New screenshot
- Updated documentation
1.0.3 (January 6th, 2014)
- Option to disable featured image display at the beginning of the posts
1.0.2 (July 29th, 2013)
- Removed the Twitter Widget
- Fixed a bug in the dropdown menu
- Loosened validation of textareas in the Theme Options
1.0.1 (February 18th, 2013)
- Changed the widths of the main section and sidebar
- Fixed background issue on large displays
1.0.0 (February 15th, 2013)
