The latest version of Compatriot has been pushed to the Theme Garden. I’m finally eating my own dog food with this release. What you see on this blog is identical to what you’ll get upon installing the theme. I’ve got some font-embedding action going on this time around. The header is set in League Gothic and the body text is in Gentium.
Tell me if you’d like any functionality added. I still have a few ideas in the works, but I figured I’d at least make this update available in the mean time.
Apparently someone at Tumblr HQ thinks the theme is an aberration, which is fine by me. I’ll make a pretty one someday, I promise.
Version 3 of the Compatriot theme is now available with infinite scrolling, keyboard navigation, and music posts with album artwork. Enjoy.
Woohoo. Compatriot is currently featured on Tumblr’s Theme Garden page.
I’ve been making a few tweaks to this blog recently, namely: infinite scrolling and keyboard navigation (try pressing j and k). Hopefully I’ll be able to get around to incorporating some of them into compatriot in the near future.
Edit: Turns out the featured section is apparently now just a random list of 8 themes. I do not regret making this post.
compatriot:
Some major updates this time around:
- Added notes support
- Changed names for custom colors to make what attributes they change more obvious
- Made layout colors generally more customizable
- Fixed some formatting issues
- Altered reblog mention style to better align with tags in a post
Enjoy! As always, contact me if you see any bugs. The updated theme should be in the Theme Garden soon enough.
This update better reflects the current layout of my own personal tumblelog.
“The Theme Garden is about a week away from being rolled into the Customize page (along with a bunch of other fixes to the theme submission/approval process), where your themes will wind up getting a lot more love from users.”
Straight from the mouth of the tumblr manhorse.
Sounds excellent.
This is the theme I created for Band Names. Hopefully someone will find it useful. The permalink pages are pretty awesome.
Features:
- Automatic post coloring based on Muxtape’s color scheme.
- Random post coloring or post coloring by tag (eg: tag a post with “Turquoise” and it’ll appear turquoise) if you know how to comment out some of the javascript.
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Keyboard shortcuts for pagination, as always.
- Ridiculous jQuery abound. Centering the images was kind of difficult.
- Support for groups, day pages, permalink pages, and search are built in. I might add tag support somewhere down the line.
Feel free to email me if you’ve got any suggestions for improvements or if you’re just having technical difficulties.
I was working on a new theme to be named Herald. I’ve decided it doesn’t quite work. Here’s what it looks like currently:
I don’t know. Maybe I’ll get back to it later. Sorry for the lack of updates.
Edit: Link removed.
compatriot:
To install this theme:
- Download the file here.
- Copy all of its contents.
- Login to tumblr. From your Dashboard go to Customize > “Use Custom Theme”
- Paste the theme into the text box and Save Changes.
That’s it. High five, well done, nice choice. Tell me if you run across any design quirks, and I’ll get right to fixing them. Email’s a nice way to get in touch.
What does this mean? New design time wooooh.
Sorry I couldn’t manage to get the avatar in the header.
