a project for free palestine movement (the title is a link to the preview)
by @tanaka-drew
Hello everyone! This theme that I will be releasing right now is a project that I've been working on for a couple of weeks now. My friend, @terastallized, suggested that this wonderful idea be brought into life to show support to our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
Through making a donation to any vetted Palestinian donation drives, you will get access to the code of this theme. Send the proof of your donation through my email ([email protected]) and I will reply with the txt file of the theme's code.
I hope with this project, I could help the movement. Thank you for considering donating to the cause.
10,000 active installs!! I owe so much of my early coding knowledge to tumblr, and designing themes for the past 12 years has been one of the greatest passions of my life. thanks to all of you forever ❤️
honey wake up new magnusthemes layout just dropped
New MagnusThemes layout
That's right y'all, after like 5+++ years of using the previous theme haha. Honestly, the old one was lovely and I really liked it, but after 5 years of Tumblr changes, it just wasn't keeping up with the times anymore. Therefore, I decided to make this new one while pretending that midterms and research responsibilities don't exist bc priorities ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The new layout also uses zero jQuery throughout the entire blog (yes, I redid the Isotope filtering to get rid of it too!) in an effort to reduce loading times.
heya! good news — Ocular version 3 just got approved in the Tumblr theme garden. if you previously installed Ocular using the theme garden's one-click install, check out your customization settings to make sure everything looks the way you want it to!
your favorite sidebar theme just got an upgrade, babeyyy
I went to update Ocular to make it NPF post-compliant and then my hand slipped and I redesigned the whole thing lmao. here's a brief update about Ocular 3; if you're looking for a full list of changes between versions 2 and 3, click the "Read More" below)
Ocular comes with the following features:
Colors: easily change the color scheme of your sidebar and posts using any colors you want
Post sizes: 400px, 500px, 540px, 600px, 700px
Sidebar: can be on the left, right, or above the posts. pick from a list of sidebar sizes, header image heights, and avatar shapes
Fonts: 20 different fonts, sizes 13px to 18px
Background: solid, gradient, full-size image or repeating image
Links: choose either regular navigation or drop-down navigation. unlimited custom links (visit the help desk FAQ for a tutorial) and ability to rename home, ask, submit, and archive links
Endless scroll, custom ask box text, Tumblr's full-width controls and search bar, optional header, avatar, and favicon images
if you already have Ocular installed, version 3 should be coming at you as soon as the update passes the theme garden. if you installed this theme with GitHub, you'll have to re-install manually.
now let's get to the fun stuff. what's new in version 3?
wow, do I have some updates for you!
1. goodbye color schemes, hello post background and text colors
you can now directly control the color of the posts rather than relying on color schemes to do it. want your posts to be a very specific shade of navy? all yours, buddy. go wild (make sure it's readable tho)
2. hello, color schemes! wait I thought we got rid of that guy
a lot of the color schemes I made became redundant now that the new post background/text color options exist. if you were married to the old color schemes, all of them can be recreated using those options. so the new color scheme options are as follows:
"My colors" — uses the colors you picked for post background/text
"Light preset" and "dark preset" — sets the posts to white with black text, or off-black with white text
"Translucent" — uses the colors you choose for post background/text, but makes the post backgrounds semi-transparent. there are NINE different translucent color schemes, ranging from 90% (only slightly see-through) to 10% (VERY see through)
3. navigation dropdown option
you can either use the sidebar links like they were before, or you can turn them into a cute little dropdown (helpful if you have lots of links or links with long titles!) you can enable this using the "use dropdown navigation" setting. you can also customize the label for the dropdown using the "dropdown menu label" setting. for instance, the dropdown on my blog currently says "oooh you wanna click me"
4. RIP google fonts I always hated your load times
decided to stop using Google Fonts and instead I'm providing the font files directly in the code. this will help speed up load times drastically when using custom fonts, plus I don't have to use Google. win-win! there's quite a bit of coverage overlap with the old fonts, but some of them that were too similar to each other got the ax. I also added all of the system fonts as options (hit classics like Arial, Georgia, and Comic Sans MS are now available TO YOU!)
5. more layout, sizing, and spacing options
the sidebar used to be either on the center-left, center-right, or above the posts; now it can go in the top-left or top-right! you can now control the border radius on the posts and sidebar. the header height, sidebar width, and post spacing all have additional options.
6. some options have been renamed for additional clarity
"background color 1" -> "background color"
"background color 2" -> "gradient background color"
"background" -> "background style"
"font override" -> "use body font everywhere"
"title" -> "sidebar title"
"description" -> "sidebar description"
"ask box text" -> "custom HTML above ask box"
7. removed some options
you win some, you lose some. I removed the uppercase sidebar links, theme credit, and inline media spacing options, mostly for redundancy reasons or because they produced unclear results.
8. as previously stated, now NPF-compliant
Ocular was ALMOST compliant with Tumblr's new post format, but had a few tweaks that needed to be ironed out. they're now ironed.
9: now user-friendly right out of the box
I updated the default color and content options, so new users installing this theme will have a much easier time using and customizing it immediately. no more ugly ass green background!
10. and finally, new JS
I had to rewrite some of the javascript for this theme, which turned into me rewriting ALL of the javascript. doing so meant that I could eliminate dependencies on third-party JS libraries and run the whole thing on plain JS. that should improve load times!!
bonus: custom CSS can do some nifty stuff now
want to change the size of your avatar? you can do that now! just do this to your Advanced > Add custom CSS section
super helpful if you're using the Avatar shape: Uncropped setting and you need your image to be a specific size (like a pixelated GIF)
for more info, check out the Ocular user guide. thanks for reading my updates!! hope you all have a fantastic start to your 2024 ❤️
Attention: Theme developers and blog customizers on web
We’ve made some big updates to our Custom Theme documentation to help you create themes that support our Neue Post Format (NPF) and un-nested reblog UI.
What’s New:
Example theme markup – which includes our un-nested reblog UI.
Updated “Reblogs” section with explanations and examples of how to use the un-nested reblog UI in your themes in favor of the old blockquote representation.
Clarification on how to support NPF with existing theme variables.
In case you missed it, we’ve updated the Theme Garden to feature a collection of NPF-compatible themes (marked with a red star).
Want to learn more about how to customize your blog theme on web? Have a look at our Help Center article.
Learn more about how to submit your own themes to the Theme Garden for other people to use or purchase. Be sure to review our Theme Submission Guidelines beforehand! We’re looking forward to seeing your creations.
For bug reports and feature requests, please submit a ticket using our Support Form.
Ensured NPF compatibility for all photos, photosets, and videos
If you installed Chirp via the Theme Garden, your blog should update with these updates automatically. If you're a manual installer, you can update your theme by re-pasting the code via GitHub. Thank you!
happy April Fools! this theme is a joke. and by "joke" I mean, unfortunately, I spent time making this Tumblr theme that you can now use. consider it a late Ides of March gift or something.
What does GPOY mean?
oh, my little Tumblr baby. I'm so glad you asked!
GPOY is short for "Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself," and is usually accompanied by a picture of yourself or something that you do. It was a very common reply and tag on Tumblr in the early 2010s, essentially meaning the same thing as "me" or "same".
GPOY comes with the following features:
I spent a ridiculously long time making sure this looked as close to the Tumblr dashboard from 2011-2012 as I could, so it includes absurd, long-obsolete features such as...
Reblogged post commentary is nested in blockquotes, that can and will be unreadable and break when there are too many (don't worry, if you don't like this you can disable it).
Like and reblog buttons are at the top of posts (so convenient!)
This theme supports all post types! That being said, some of them look like absolute shit (as David Karp originally intended)
3 font sizes (original 14px - for ants, 15px, and 16px)
5 post sizes and 5 sidebar widths
9 built-in color schemes (Default, Modern, Dark, Galaxy 1-3, Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Supernatural) plus a custom scheme for your own uploaded background image (the most low-res, high-contrast, over-saturated image you can find would be great)
"Followed tags" section to host your favorite blog tags
"Suggested blogs" section to recommend your favorite blogs
An optional fake "create a post" section at the top of the blog
Unlimited custom links (visit the help desk FAQ for a tutorial)
Custom titles for Home, Ask, Submit, and Archive links
Pagination or endless scroll
you can install GPOY here! as always, thank you so much for using my themes, even the hellishly ugly themes like this one. it means a lot! my themes are free to use, and always will be — but if you love my work, I'd be so happy if you bought me a coffee. thank you!
A simple theme based on WordArt. Even though this is an April Fools theme, it's fully functional so you can use it any time of the year!
Header, sidebar, post links, tags, and post titles all have unique WordArt styles made with CSS. I originally wanted to make it actually look like Microsoft Word, but I was running out of time, so the styles and options are pretty limited.
Fixed an issue where the "Accounts separated by commas" block wouldn't close, so the "Who to follow" section needed to have content in order for the rest of the sidebar to work properly
I've pushed this update to the Theme Garden, so quick installers should see the update automatically as soon as it's approved.
If you're a manual installer, you can update your theme by re-pasting the code via GitHub. Thank you!
(who me, jumping the gun? even though I still had other updates?)
Chirp: version 2.0.2 update
Fixed an issue with sidebar tags that would break numbers greater than 10,000 (shoutout @1shimaru for discovering this issue!)
Added Twitter's latest iteration of the Chirp font as an option (listed in the customizer as "Chirp 2023 Version")
Added CSS styling for new Tumblr polls
This update got pushed to the Theme Garden before 2.0.1 was approved so you'll likely get all of the updates at once.
Again, if you're a manual installer and I'm sorry I've done this to you twice in one day, you can update your theme by re-pasting the code via GitHub. Thank you!
Fixed an issue where the "Accounts separated by commas" block wouldn't close, so the "Who to follow" section needed to have content in order for the rest of the sidebar to work properly
I've pushed this update to the Theme Garden, so quick installers should see the update automatically as soon as it's approved.
If you're a manual installer, you can update your theme by re-pasting the code via GitHub. Thank you!
