Gridlock WordPress Theme
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Theme information
- Author: Eston Bond
- Description: A two to three columns hybrid theme, not widget-ready.
- License: Creative Commons Attribution
Theme Comments by Small Potato
Why this awesome, stylish, magazine-like theme isn’t widget-ready is beyond me. Also, I almost skipped over Gridlock because it doesn’t look right, out of the box. It’s side-by-side, magazine like display format for the entries doesn’t work by default. You need to configure your blog (via Gridlock’s theme option page) to work with Gridlock.
I think the next step for this theme should be making the entries display side-by-side, without configuration.
Drawbacks aside, I like Gridlock because it doesn’t look like a blog, also because an HTML help page (sort of like a theme guide) is included with Gridlock’s download file, which is very rare because most WordPress theme developers don’t put in the extra time to create a guide for their themes (including me).
Well you seem to be reviewing Themes from my “Top ten best Wordpress themes” Article One by one.
Widget-ready should be a minimum standard in Wordpress themes, I think.
@Jacob - I’m using the Smashing Magazine’s list and many other list to find top themes. Aren’t you doing the same?
I tried this theme. And I didn’t really like it. Too confusing. But for people who know how this kinda theme works I’m sure it’s no problem. It’s nifty tho.
With screens getting larger, and thus web browser windows, a theme scheme such as this may get a lot more popular as time goes by. Say 4 or 5 column layouts with a multi-column main content area. The last would cut down on scrolling.
SP, you have anything in that line coming up?
Alan Kellogg:
I can’t speak for SP, but I do.
Also, I’ll agree that Gridlock is in need of a few modifications. I had never expected the theme to get as big as it has and there are quite a few features in its developmental pipeline right now, including widgetisation as well as some more user-friendliness.
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No I am not.
Even before Smashing magazine could list those wordpress themes I had bookmarked those themes months ago. They posted it before I could manage to do my post and get my site up 
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Very very cool theme,
Congrats
hi,i want to translate the theme to chinese.
but i don’t know how to do it.
can you help me?
I haven’t tried translating themes so I can’t help you there.
@Alan Kellogg - Regardless of future resolution, there’s only so much information you can put on one page before the reader doesn’t know what to focus on first.
4 or 5 column themes are suited for gallery / game / news-article sites, not for blogs.
I haven’t seen a pure 5-column theme yet and am not interested in creating one right now. However, if I get bored…
One of my favorite bloggers/designers. I think this theme looks great. SP puts forth a great eval.
I would like to see this theme, as it is, with 2- or 3-columns (I prefer three), but widget-ready. Being widget-ready is, as Amy said, pretty much “standards compliant” for themes anymore.
I like the work you do, and I’ve been working on creating a theme for a non-profit site, as I haven’t found one (as-is) that the organization really likes, so I’ve been looking at a lot of your designs for ideas.
Keep up the great work.
I really like this one, I may end up using it in the future… thanks!
Amy I completely agree with you. There are so many of them out there with so many useful features, why would anyone not widgetize their themes?
tnx again you really have a nice collection of themes…