Shades
*** UNDER RENOVATION ***
The current version of Shades is 1.6 uploaded on Sept 13, 2010.
Version 1.6 is available at WordPress.org as of Sept 14, 2010.
A simple clean theme framework to work from, designed ideally for light colored backgrounds and easily adapted to darker layouts. Now with Threaded Comments and sticky post support!Please read the included changelog.txt file for the latest change details. The child theme Shades of Darkness is no longer included but is available for download at the theme homepage.

Big Screenshot of Shades
Changelog as of Sept 9, 2010:
– Version 1.6
– released: Sept 13, 2010
– added license slug and URI to style.css header block
– added unique prefix to themes functions where appropriate
– added full wp_nav_menu support
– added additional WordPress 3.0 core functionality features i.e.: post thumbnails
– added full drop-down menu functionality with credits to http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/centered-dropdown-menus
– added ‘the_shortlink()’ based on this post: http://wpfirstaid.com/2010/07/add-the_shortlink/
– additional code clean-up
– CSS: adjusted background and font size on allowed tags for comments
– CSS: minor clean up
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– Version 1.5.1
– released: June 19, 2010
– published on WordPress.org: June 22, 2010
– corrections to sidebar.php to remove “second” id=searchform
– WP: changed `the_time( ‘M j, Y’ )` to `the_time( get_option( ‘date_format’ ) );`
– Version 1.5
– released: June 15, 2010
– cleaned up code in functions.php
– clean up code to meet WP Standards
– WP: updated comments.php to use comment_form() function; old comment form will be removed with next theme revision (post WordPress v3.0)
- Child-Themes:
- Shades of Darkness
- Shades of Turq!






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i want to download Shades 1.3.1 theme,plz help me
@rhythm – All of my free WordPress themes (with the exception of Pinup Meets Grunge) are stored at WordPress.org; and, I expect the latest version of Shades (1.3.1) to be available very soon.
If for whatever reason it becomes an issue in the future I will most definitely make any theme suitably available for download.
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Nice work ..great look
@Kishore – Thank you, I’ll glad you like the theme.
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What’s the license?
ok, i’ve got it
I was having trouble getting youtube video to embed in my post – but then I figured it out. I have jetpack for wordpress installed, so instead of using the youtube embed code, all I had to do was cut/paste the url to the video in the text of my post. It’s working great now!
The post in question is here: http://www.oneforfive.com/mea-copa-1986-semi-finalists-brazil/
Thank you for the quick reply to my question, though!
Paul Dylan´s last post … Mea Copa – 1986 Semi-Finalists: Brazil
@Paul – Thanks for that tip; I’ll add this to the review queue for Shades. I did not realize there was a conflict with JetPack and the YouTube embed code … you might want to drop the JetPack author(s) a note on this, too.