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After letting Grayplicity simmer for a few months, I’ve packaged and released the latest update tonight.  There’s several under the hood changes, some new plugin support, and added support for Gravatars (by request, with thanks to Brad) and Wordpress 2.6’s image captions.  Feel free to download a copy and play around with it.

A look at some of the new features

Here’s the short list of changes:

• Added style support for Increase Sociability Plugin (wrap with classes gp_ISDigg and gp_ISStmbl)
• Added style support for Wordpress Related Posts Plugin
• Fixed bug with wp_title() that cause a » to appear before a post title in the header
• Added style support for wp-caption and wp-caption-text classes on images
• Hid the “Search for:” label in the search sidebar widget
• Gravatar support enabled in comments
• Trackback/Pingback detection in comments

You can grab the latest revision at the Grayplicity home.  As always, I’m taking suggestions for improvements or changes.  I’m still interested in building in AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) commenting sometime soon, and I’d like to add in some more plugins at some point.  Unless there are some issues I’ve missed in the release, however, it’ll probably be a few months before another update comes down the pipes.

Hot on the heals of the initial release of my Grayplicity Wordpress theme, I’m presenting you with v1.1. I wanted to get this one out quickly to address a couple small issues, and improve the usability of the theme. 1.2 will be a little further out probably, as I’d like to do some more AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) work with it, which will take more time to build in (commenting, integrated ThickBox, search, etc).

Full details and a download link can be found on the Grayplicity project page. You can find it by clicking that link, or by hitting the button at the top of the sidebar, or by going through the Projects page link in the header. Some of the changes for this version include:

• Added styling for Wordpress default calendar and search widgets
• Added search.php results template for is_search()
• Added 404.php template for is_404()
• Improvements to post styles
• Improved author comment style
• Corrected nested blockquotes
• Corrected font size issue with nested lists
• Removed default post image margins
• Dropcap First Letter plugin built in.
• Replaced transparent PNG background images with gifs for improved IE (Internet Explorer) 6 appearance

If you are using 1.0, I recommend upgrading to this version. You shouldn’t notice any breakage, and will find several things have been improved. If you have questions related to this release, feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me (though comments can benefit everyone and are encouraged). Also, I will try to answer questions regarding the theme as they come in. If something looks out of whack, or you want to know why something won’t display properly, I will attempt to help. Some tweaks were made for 1.1 based on these kinds of questions.

Okay, the time has come. I am ready to release the first version of Grayplicity out into the wild. I even managed to release it right on time when I said I would, too! Grayplicity is the public release version of the theme that I am using on my blog here. I decided that I wanted to try my hand at making it into something everyone could use, if so inclined. This theme should have no problem working between Wordpress 2.3.3 and 2.5.

Feel free to leave me comments and feedback on it. Also please point out bugs. I will use all the feedback to improve and build a better theme. I’m sure a lot of you will be trying things I won’t have even thought of. I plan on adding support for a lot more of the more popular plugins, as well as building in some neat new features.

Also, if you download it and decide that it is something you’ll stick with, let me know. I’m curious how people will put it to use, and I’ll be sure to showcase the best ones on the theme’s page. You can get to it by clicking that big button on top of my sidebar or by going through the “Projects” page.

If you want to test it out, you might like to give it a run with my Wordpress Content Framework, which is designed to serve as a test bed for theme and site development.  You can also use the WPCF when designing your own themes.