The current version is 2.3.0. Released on November 17th, 2023.

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Grunge is a responsive blog theme for WordPress. Grunge suits for everyone who wants to stand out with an unique design. Whether you’re an artist or band, travel, food, or fashion blogger — or just want to blog with a grungy theme, you’ll surely appreciate the design and features of Grunge. Here are the main features:

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.
Custom archive page template.
Translation ready.
RTL language ready.
Supports Gutenberg editor.

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)

- Initial release

Grunge WordPress Theme