A transmission from the deep south.
Our new theme, Rubber Cement, has arrived in the Theme Garden! Enjoy this demonstration. While it lacks the extensive customization of our previous release, this petite theme is still flexible in all the right places. It even has support for pages and answer posts! Nice, neat, and a touch retro, Rubber Cement will catch the eye of discerning young moderns everywhere.
Lovely! My next theme, which is almost done, makes liberal use of the League of Moveable Type’s League Gothic typeface also.
I’ve made some updates to my Esquire Theme:
Tonight I submitted a major update to Tumblr for approval, it should appear in the next little while in the Theme Garden. Version 1.5 includes much better support for the Disqus plugin (just enter your shortname in the Appearance settings), album art display for audio posts, and an alternative style for quotes (Pete’s zigzag JavaScript wizardry has proven somewhat temperamental).
Just when I thought the scrapbook design meme was played out, MetaLab’s Sara White produces what may be the definitive theme of its type for Tumblr, Vintage Scrapbook. It’s a paid theme via Envato’s Theme Forest, but at $12 — and with MetaLab’s customary attention to every single detail — it’s a steal. I’d love to see an option in Tumblr’s Theme Garden for designers to offer paid themes, perhaps with a revenue split akin to the App Store.
Jarred Bishop’s new project is a song-a-day Tumblr utilising recent support for extracting album art from uploaded tracks. Simply brilliant, from the jewel case design to the single-character unicode URL.
Jarred Bishop has released Cargo, a Tumblr theme inspired by Cargo Collective’s stripped-back portfolio interfaces. Its in-page jQuery navigation is hot.
Public service announcement: now with support for photosets.
Jarred Bishop’s Light Boner gets some theme love with an early version of his next theme, based on Cargo. Does some crazy nifty things with the Tumblr URL format in order to display posts on the index page. Niiice.
Jarred Bishop has made his new Tumblr theme available for use. It’s partially inspired by the theme Wilson Miner built for his wife’s site, and includes nice touches such as lightboxing for oversized images, keyboard navigation and Twitter integration. Smoking hot.
Here’s a few tips for anyone who’s installed my recently released Esquire Theme for Tumblr, inspired by the typography and design in the US edition of Esquire magazine:
To enable Tim Van Damme’s lovely social media icons you’ll need to edit the theme’s HTML code. If you installed the theme from the Tumblr Garden, go to the Customize page and under Theme select Use Custom HTML to reveal the theme code. Find the commented block that begins with check the box to “Show social media links” in the Appearance settings, then enter the relevant usernames for the sites you’d like to display.<!-- and ends with -->. Remove the first and last lines (plus the two lines of description at the start), then remove all of the services you don’t want to include on your tumblelog by deleting those lines. Edit the URLs of the services you retain so they point to your respective profile pages. Save changes.
To highlight your own notes on a permalink page, find both occurrences of enter your Tumblr username in the Appearance settings for the theme (new in version 1.5)..tumblelog_matthewb in the theme code and change my username to yours (leaving .tumblelog_ in place)
If you’d prefer the sidebar to scroll along with the rest of the page, change the CSS positioning parameter for #sidebar from fixed to absolute. You’ll find this declaration near the top of the CSS block in the theme code.
The best place to add Disqus comments is immediately before (or after) the Disqus comments are natively supported as of version 1.5. Enter your Disqus shortname in the Appearance settings for the theme.{block:PostNotes} code block. You only need to add it once to the theme, not individually for each post type.
Most of the theme’s colours may be customised in the Appearance menu within the Customize section of the Tumblr Dashboard (for example, Jess in Hot Pink).
Thanks to everyone who’s promoted the theme or sent feedback.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
