Title: Shades
Author: Edward Caissie
Published: June 26, 2009
Last modified: June 19, 2015

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# Shades

![Edward Caissie Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/40a68e4a59a5940fba1f32425af26da08cd699a7c907ba095c30e35898d02c95?
s=24&d=mm&r=g)

[Edward Caissie](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/author/cais/)

This theme **hasn’t been updated in over 2 years**. It may no longer be maintained
or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions
of WordPress.

![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/shades/2.4.1/screenshot.png?w=post-
thumbnail&strip=all)

[Preview](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/shades/preview/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/shades.2.4.1.zip)

 *  Version 2.4.1
 *  Last updated June 19, 2015
 *  Active installations 20+
 *  [Theme homepage](http://buynowshop.com/themes/shades/)

A simple clean theme framework to work from, designed ideally for light colored 
backgrounds and easily adapted to darker layouts. Shades has threaded comments, 
sticky post support, custom background and menus as well as built-in support for
the quotes, asides, and status post-formats. Enjoy! Have you found its Easter egg?

## Features

[Black](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/black/), [Custom background](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-background/),
[Custom menu](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/), [Fixed Layout](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/fixed-layout/),
[Light](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/light/), [Red](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/red/),
[Right sidebar](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/right-sidebar/), [Silver](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/silver/),
[Sticky post](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/sticky-post/), [Threaded comments](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/threaded-comments/),
[Translation ready](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/), [Two columns](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/),
[White](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/white/)

## Downloads per day

Active Installations: **20+**

## Ratings

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## Support

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## Report

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## Translations

This theme is available in the following languages: [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/shades/)
and [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/themes/shades/).

[Translate this theme](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/shades)

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