Little Town Themes

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Welcome to the new Little Town Themes! This revamp was a long time coming, with a complete redesign and a brand new domain name. You can now access my themes through littletownthemes.com, and this blog is now located at blog.littletownthemes.com!

Redesign

For the folks seeing this post on their Dashboard, here's what it looks like:

Click any of the themes on the grid, and you'll be taken to its page listing out all the features and customization options!

Custom Design

A Custom Design page is now available for inquiries and price quotes. If you'd like to have a tailor-made theme for your blog, I happily offer web development services. Let me know what your budget is, and we can discuss pricing. I work as a front-end developer for my day job so I promise you will be in good, professional hands. :)

Blog

As part of this site's redesign, I'm planning on writing more posts pertaining to web development. Resources, tutorials, and links to other themes are just a few of what you can expect in the future. I know I said that I'm no longer able to answer individual coding questions before, so I hope that these posts will address your issues!

More Themes in the Works

Stay tuned for more free themes coming your way! The next theme will be masonry-style, for all you grid lovers. I'm also open to other ideas. Please don't hesitate to shoot me a message if there's a feature you'd like to see.

I hope you all like this revamp, and I'm looking forward to being around more in the future!

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Some Changes Ahead

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday.

First off, I'd like to apologize for the radio silence on this blog. I've been busy dealing with my webdev career in real life the last few months. Happy to report that I landed a job as a front-end developer! I couldn't have done it without Tumblr and all of you who tried out my themes. Thank you so much.

And now for some changes I'd like to announce:

I will no longer be able to answer coding questions individually on a regular basis. I was happy to help when I can, but the amount of questions have been overwhelming and I no longer have the time to address them all personally.

If you need help, Google is your friend. If you're interested in learning coding yourself, Codecademy is a great place to start. Stack Overflow is also great for questions.

Any serious issues about my themes should still be reported to me. So if you spot a bug or something broken, then please don't hesitate to message me about that. I will try my best to support down to IE8 (with some visual compromises). 

Also, I'm working on revamping my theme site. I haven't been satisfied with it for a while now. I'm thinking of pulling it out of Tumblr, but still keeping the update blog here. I will keep you all posted.

Thanks for your patience, everyone. Have a great 2015!

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New Theme: Mint Chip

A fresh and serene theme to invigorate your blog.

View demo | Install

Mint Chip features a reversible sidebar, three custom text boxes, a links list, and the usual customizable colors and fonts. Make it as simple or as bold as you want.

Enjoy the random facts too!

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Hi Raisa, you say to enable twitter feed you go into the blog settings on the dashboard . . . however under the twitter section settings it says 'share on twitter'. I don't want my blog posts on my twitter. I just want it the other way around – twitter feed on blog. Can I do this? Thanks in advance! P.S. Orange Pop is amazing (:

Yes, you can! After you authorize Twitter, go back to your settings page and turn off "Share posts on your Twitter." It won't post on your timeline, but you should still be able to have a feed on your blog.

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on Orange Pop, how do you make the title/links not all-caps?

Paste this on your Custom CSS and it'll turn your blog and post titles back to normal. 

#site-title, .article-title {

text-transform: none;

}

For the sidebar titles, you'll have to override some other class so it'll be this.

aside h4 {

text-transform: none !important;

}

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I feel really silly asking this but, even after I turn on the option to show my tweets, I don't see them on my blog. Can you help me out?

Check to see if you're logged in Twitter under "Blog Settings" on your dashboard. 

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Old theme versions are now on Github!

If you need an older version of my themes for whatever reason, you can now get them on my Github page. :D

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Longshot!

To the person who messaged me about speech bubble asks before, could you message me again please? Sorry, I lost your username. ><  I know this is a longshot, but I hope you see this!

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You're awesome and an amazing person!

Wow, this bot is pretty awesome! XD

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I'm using Orange Pop (beautifully well-done theme, by the way), and I was wondering how I'd go about putting a small border around images in posts automatically?

Hello, thank you for using my theme! 

To place a border around images, go to Customize > Advanced Options and paste this code under Custom CSS:

.text p img, .post-caption img, .answer img, .photo img {     border: 1 px #000;}

This will place a solid black border around the images. You can change the values into other styles to get the look you want.  Refer to W3School’s border properties page for a quick reference.

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Hello, Orange Pop is a beautiful theme, thank you! My question is: I want Ask and Submit to show up under Links instead of under the banner, but the banner links seem to be enabled by virtue of the feature being enabled. Is there a way to hide the top links?

Hi there! The top navigation isn't a toggled feature so you can't disable it under Customize. You can always remove the code if you want it gone. Go to Edit HTML and delete the highlighted lines starting on line 657:

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Orange Pop Updated - Tags

You can now show your tags on the index page (main blog) on Orange Pop! Simply enable "Show Tags on Index Page" and you should be able to see them after every entry. :)

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hi, i'm using your Orange Pop theme because it is so beautiful. how can I make the post/content width smaller? and how do i change the font size to make it a bit smaller? i'm not very good with codes... thanks!!!

This isn’t a perfect solution since Orange Pop isn’t meant to be scalable, but here we go:

1. Go to Customize > Edit HTML

On line 704, change {PhotoURL-HighRes} to {PhotoURL-500}

On line 723, change {Photoset-700} to {Photoset-500}

On line 807, change {Video-700} to {Video-500}

2. Click back (the left arrow), go to the bottom of the customize panel, and click Advanced Options. Paste the following code on Add Custom CSS:

main { max-width: 880px; }

div#site-content { max-width: 620px; }

h3.article-title { max-width: 510px; }

article > div { max-width: 500px; }

header * { font-size: 14px; }

main * { font-size: 12px; }

You can change the font-size to any number you want. You should be able to see it in the previews. Again, this isn’t a perfect solution but it should work. Feel free to fiddle with the numbers as you see fit. 

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hi again, yeah I mean on the main page. thanks again.

I was making the tutorial when I realized it's more complicated than I thought. :'D If you don't mind, I'm filing this as a Feature Request and updating my theme with tags on the index page. Sorry about the delay!

There *is* kind of a simple way to do it now, but Orange Pop isn't optimized for showing the tags on the index page so it's not gonna look the best.

Around line 852, you should see this: 

Just delete {block:PermalinkPage} and {/block:PermalinkPage} (the first and last lines, including the brackets). It'll show up on the index page, but it's not gonna look optimized. :'D Stick around for a real update!

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hi, I've just started using your Orange Pop theme, and was wondering how to make it show tags. I'm basically useless with tech/computer/internet stuff, I haven't seen an option on the Edit Theme part. If you could help that would be epic because I really like your theme and want to keep using it but I want to show my tags. anyhow thanks, sorry for being an idiot and bugging you

Hi, don't worry about it!

The tags are on the permalink page by default. Did you mean you want them on the index page? That'll take some messing with the HTML. I'll have to make a tutorial for that because it takes a number of steps.

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Hi, I'm using your Orange Pop theme (I love it!) and there's one thing I would like to customise, but I can't figure out how to do it. I've added in some links to my external sites (like instagram) and instead of having the header in the sidebar say 'link' I'd like it to say something else. Is there a way to do this?

Hi, thanks for using my theme! Right now, the way to change the sidebar title is by editing the HTML directly.

On your dashboard, go to Customize > Edit HTML. Go to line 904 (or somewhere around there), and you should see this code.

Replace {lang:Link} with your own title.

Click Update Preview > Save, and you're done!

You can replace all the other sidebar titles this way too. It'll just take some looking. Let me know if you need help finding them too.

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I blogged about the process of making my latest theme, Robco Terminal. If you'd like to try your hand at making gaming themes or just themes in general, I hope this helps!