Overall Grade: B
Theme URI: http://www.gfxedit.com
Description: A 2 Column Dark Grey Theme from GFXedit.com
Version: 1.1
Author: Sreejith
Author URI: http://www.sr-ultimate.com
Widget-aware: No
Shows tagline: No
Shows counts: Yes
Hierarchical categories: No
Things I like:
  • Very clean look.
  • Good contrast.
  • Posts are separated from one another by horizontal lines so the eye is naturally drawn to the boundaries of each post.
  • Block quotes are displayed with a shaded background.  It doesn’t shade internal block quotes differently, but it does display a border on the left-hand side.
  • Category and archive counts are displayed by default.
  • Lists are displayed with markers properly.
  • Blogroll links in subcategories are displayed in a separate list.
Problems:
  • A MySQL error is displayed where links should be shown.
    • WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1]
      SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM
    • There is a post on their web site to fix a similar problem in another of their themes.  When I applied it to this theme, I no longer get the error, but there is an extra line after each entry with a 0 (zero) displayed on that line.
Things I don’t like:
  • No tagline is displayed, and there isn’t any room for it.
    • The tagline could be displayed on the left, or the site name could be displayed on the left and the tagline displayed on the right, but there is potential for overlap that might not look very good.
  • No widget support.
  • Too much meta information is displayed.  This is easily changed, however.
  • Categories are not displayed hierarchically.
    • I was able to modify the display of categories, but too much space was added between a subcategory and the next non-child category.  This used the very outdated list_cats() function.  I changed it to use wp_get_categories().

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