Grand Blog WordPress

Grand Blog is a clean and minimal Wordpress theme for Blog and Magazine web site. Built with the latest Wordpress technology. Grand Blog support responsive layout so it looks great on all devices. It has predefined styling for blog posts which can be imported with one click.

Features

• Theme built especially for Blog and Magazine website
• Responsive Design which adapts to mobile devices (iPhone, iPad)
• Deactivate responsive features with one click in your backend
• Fully integrated with Wordpress Customizer. Customise every elements of theme and see preview instantly
• 2 Blog Post Slider layouts “Fullwidth” and “3 Columns Layout”
• One Click Demo Import
• Over 20+ slider and blog combinations
• Infinite Scroll support
• Blog post support various content including photo, gallery, video, souncloud etc.
• Mega Menu Support
• Footer support sidebar & widgets
• Optimise for Google Mobile Friendly Check
• Instant AJAX Search
• Retina Ready, Ultra-sharp High Resolution Graphics
• Sticky Main Menu Navigation
• Off-Canvas Side Menu Navigation
• Unlimited Categorires and Posts Pages
• Reading Indicator Bar for Single Post
• WP Review plugin support for review post
• Video content support Vimeo, Youtube
• Custom Background Header Image
• Translation Ready with mo/po files
• WPML plugin support for Multi-language
• Extensive photo gallery admin. Support multiple images upload
• Social media Profiles Support
• Instagram & Flickr photostream integration
• Ready to use Google Web Fonts
• Custom typography. You can change font size, style, colour using without touching code
• CSS and javascript compression support
• Easily customise elements colors using color picker
• Styled typography and flexible page columns
• Built-in Many Shortcodes
• Column shortcodes ex. 2, 3, 4, 5 columns
• Built-in Shortcode Generator plugin
• Wordpress custom menu support
• Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ integration
• Unlimited sidebar. Create and select sidebar for each of your page
• Contact us page with validation support
• Extensive Theme Documentation
• Free Updates and Support
• Child Theme support for advanced customisation which is not affected by theme future updates
• WP Supercache plugin support
• W3 Total Cache plugin support
• Yoast SEO plugin support

Changelog

= V3.1.4 – 06.06.2025 =
* Add WordPress 6.8.1

= V3.1.3 – 04.084.2025 =
* Add support PHP8.3+

= V3.1.2– 04.01.2024 =
* Update Envato Market plugin v2.0.11

= V3.1.1 – 01.09.2023 =
* Fix PHP warning message for GrandBlog gallery plugin
* Update Envato Market plugin v2.0.7
* Add support WordPress 6.1 and PHP8.1

= V3.1 – 06.08.2021 =
* Fix PHP8 error
* Fix styling issue when using WordPress 5.8 widget block editor

= V3.0 – 25.10.2020 =
* Fix Instagram API issue
* Fix footer menu link color issue with theme customizer

= V2.9.2 – 09.09.2020 =
* Update Envato Market plugin v2.0.5
* Fix Instagram API issue with Instagram business account

= V2.9.1 – 13.08.2020 =
* Fix theme customiser's color picker input issue with WordPress 5.5

= V2.9 - 12.08.2020 =
* Fix javascript error with WordPress 5.5
* Add support for WordPress 5.5

= V2.8 - 07.07.2020 =
* Fix Instagram photostream & widget issue and change to the new API method

= V2.7 - 07.06.2020 =
* Test and add support for PHP 7.3+

= V2.6 - 04.06.2019 =
* Add option to select method of display/hide post excerpt

= V2.5 - 08.05.2019 =
* Fix Youtube and Vimeo shortcodes issue

= V2.4 - 28.02.2019 =
* Fix recent & popular posts widget issue with WPML plugin
* Add LocoTranslate plugin support for translation option

= V2.3 - 21.11.2018 =
* Fix security risk related to all admin functionality
* Fix featured image alt tag issue on single post page

= V2.2 - 14.10.2018 =
* Fix wrong link to how to get Instagram access token in theme setting
* Fix theme translation domain issue

= V2.1 - 06.04.2018 =
* Add Envato Market plugin v2.0 support
* Fix Instagram issue due to recent API change

= V2.0 - 15.01.2018 =
* Fix Instagram photo stream and widget issue

= V1.9 - 06.12.2017 =
* Fix import demo issue on some server setting

= V1.8.2 - 17.11.2017 =
* Fix author info display p tags issue in WordPress 4.9

= V1.8.1 - 17.11.2017 =
* Fix Instagram widget issue in WordPress 4.9

= V1.8 - 17.11.2017 =
* Fix theme customizer issue in WordPress 4.9
* Fix theme setting import styling issue in WordPress 4.9

= V1.7 * 21.09.2017 =
* Improve import demo feature

= V1.6 * 29.06.2017 =
* Improve SEO on single post page title

= V1.5.1 * 04.04.2017 =
* Update import demo URLs

= V1.4 * 07.11.2016 =
* Fix LinkedIn social profile issue on footer
* Fix clicking on search icon and close, scroll bar disappear
* Fix 2, 3 columns grid layout issue for some customers

= V1.3.3 * 27.09.2016 =
* Fix theme setting layout issue on WordPress 4.6+

= V1.3.2 - 02.06.2016 =
* Add retina ready support for Instagram photostream
* Fix Instagram API error from new Instagram API

= V1.3.1 * 26.05.2016 =
* Add auto play post slider option

* Fix comment layout issue on iPad
* Fix video lightbox issue
* Fix Page Title Background Image Height (in %) should be in px

= V1.3 - 08.05.2016 =
* Add an option to change sidebar background color
* Fix Instagram widget and photo stream issue for some account
* Fix input button line height display issue

= V1.2 - 07.04.2016 =
* Update theme customizer script for better loading speed & performance
* Fix post slider title width 100% issue
* Fix post indicator issue when not using sticky menu

= V1.1.8 - 04.03.2016 =
* Fix relative captcha script path issue for some customer
* Fix PHP error for site using old version of PHP
* Fix image blur on iPad, iPhone when using WordPress 4.4.1

= V1.1.7 - 13.01.2016 =
* Fix pagination issue when set page as static homepage in WordPress 4.4.1

= V1.1.6 - 08.01.2016 =
* Fix google+ social profile issue when using shortcode and widget

= V1.1.5 - 05.01.2016 =
* Fix post reading indicator display issue when boxed layout enabled

= V1.1.4 - 30.12.2015 =
* Fix comment’s date translation issue

= V1.1.3 - 23.12.2015 =
* Fix duplicated posts issue in infinite scroll feature

= V1.1.2 - 10.12.2015 =
* Fix comment string translation issue

= V1.1.1 - 20.11.2015 =
* Fix contact form issue when using child theme
* Fix category post widget issue
* Fix Google font error for some customer server setting

= V1.1 - 18.11.2015 =
* Fix Instagram issue for some account

= V1.0 - 08.11.2015 =
* Initial Release