Themes by raiidens

Theme blog for free and custom Tumblr themes created by jaebirds

[jaebirds]

I'm gonna be at Dashcon 2!! Table 56. I feel like I'm a part of history in the making rn lool. Come say hi if you're there!

[raiidens]

Hi, not theme related but this is me lol. Though I thought for funsies, if you tell me you've used one of my themes for a while, maybe I can give you a free sticker with purchase or something?? Doesn't have to be this one.

[raiidens]

Hi! Some time ago I used one of your page themes for my tag page and i decided to use it again for another blog. and when i was saving it, i've got a red banner saying that Java is not allowed. Is there something I can do so the theme works again?

Hi, at some point Tumblr made it so you have to ask for permission to use Javascript in your themes. It's relatively easy and there's a guide on how to do it here.

[raiidens]

Yo!! Sorry to bother, but I've encountered a slight issue w/ theme 7 (ur MGS theme; its so cool omg). The codec numbers have defaulted to a different font than the DS-Digital font its supposed to be; i tried to adjust some things to attempt to fix it (with my non-existent html coding knowledge lmao), and checked if it was just a browser problem, but it seems to be truly broken. I wanted to DM you and ask if this could be fixed/how I might be able to fix it! TY sm!!!

It's no problem! Fonts can be difficult on Tumblr since they don't allow you to upload them so I have to use a janky workaround with this theme.

I fixed it and included some other things while I was at it like an option to not have the posts in a small container. You can update it here!

[raiidens]

I've been spending more time on Tumblr since the whole Twitter rate limit happened and just realized we have poll posts now lol.

If you want options to customize the colours of your poll posts embedded in your theme, let me know which theme number you're using! Preferably by ask or DM so I get notified.

[raiidens]

Hi! I'm using your theme13 and i love it, its just that I cant get inifinte scroll to work at all. It says optional but i see no option to turn it on at all. Could you help me?

Hi, I actually removed infinite scroll from a lot of my themes including that one. It was crazy buggy and didn't work most of the time. Unless something changed recently, Tumblr just doesn't have a good set up for infinite scrolling on blogs. Sorry about that!

[raiidens]

hiii sorry if this is vague lol but i was wondering if you could offer any tips or resources for making theme of an old gameboy similar to how you did the ds? (which is super cool btw <3) ive been trying to teach myself w just the basics from diff sites but I'm really struggling to find any resources to really show how to make the actual shapes and everything 😢

The way I think of it when building it is what shapes go within each shapes. So for the DS, I have the whole DS in a whole, which has the top screen, the middle bar, and the lower screen in it. The top screen has the rows of dots on each side and the actual screen part itself. Etc.

This thing is super old now so I don’t even know if I coded it this way, but I recommend using CSS Flexbox. It helps you position all your elements and space them out properly. Also learn about CSS positions also, it’s how I got the buttons in the places they are.

Feel free to learn from the code also! You can also go to the preview page, right click something you’re not sure how to do, click “Inspect element” and it shows you the HTML and CSS used. It’s especially nice because you can edit the CSS right there and it shows the difference right away.

I hope this helps! If you’re a super beginner btw, I recommend Codecademy to learn HTML & CSS. The free version is fine!

[raiidens]

Hello! I've been looking around everywhere for an answer but haven't found any yet. I'm using theme #19 (love it btw) and want to do two things: #1, make the "content" tab lead to the homepage of the blog only; #2, add another tab that, like the "content" tab, opens in the blog itself rather than opening in a new window (I want to use this to add an "art" tab so people can browse my art in the same window). Are these things possible? Especially interested in #2. Thank you!

Hi!

For the first thing, I'm guessing you want the content link to do what the home link does? I suppose you can just rename them. Look for these two lines:

<a href="/"><div class="link" id="home-link">home</div></a>

<div class="link link-selected" id="content-link" data-id="content">content</div>

The first line is the home link and the second line is the content link. You can rename them by changing the word before the </div> (and right after the >) on both lines. You can also just remove the whole second line if you don't like how that content link works.

And for the second thing, that'd be a pretty difficult thing to code unfortunately, no easy fix for that. You can use these to add a link to the navigation:

and then put /tagged/ARTTAGHERE in the URL, but there's not an easy way to have it come up like the content link does it unfortunately.

[raiidens]

Hey, it's been a while.

I may or may not have to go back into the web dev field again and my Tumblr themes are some of the only publically available code I can show. If you still are using any of my themes and have noticed any issues, let me know and I can try to get to them!

[raiidens]

hi! question regarding page 2, if you dont mind: im trying to add more than 4 character blocks, but it wont let me. ive tried spacing them out, but for whatever reason the code just won't let me add more than 4- it doesn't show up in preview at all, nor does it when i save and check the page proper.

Hi, there is a recent thing Tumblr implemented where you have to ask permission to use Javascript in your pages. Pretty lame stuff. I haven't played around with this too much yet so I don't know all the details but I'm assuming unless there was some improper copying and pasting, this is probably the issue. Glenthemes has a post about it here.

Otherwise, send me the URL and I can take a look at the code.

[raiidens]

No Twitter Crop for Desktop

Twitter's been slacking on removing their awful image crop so I made a Chrome/Firefox extension to make images display at their full height.

Chrome link / Firefox link

[raiidens]

Imagine an elf is given a job to do at a human institution. The humans think elves don’t need bathroom breaks, since they know they can hold it for days, but this elf has been traveling to reach their job, and has already been holding it to the point they are in pain. They ask for a break, but their job is important and time sensitive, so they admit they can still hold it when asked. After a full day of work, the elf tries to reach the bathroom in time, but they were never told where it is.

This is literally so sad why are you sending this to a theme blog loll

[raiidens]

Made a quick fix in Theme 19.

Added colour options for the mobile nav links and fixed the positioning on the mobile nav.

[raiidens]

so i use your princess jellyfish theme (which i absolutely love) but the corner image i upload always ends up too big, no matter how much i scale down the image size. is there any way to make it smaller???

Thanks, anon!

This is some old garbo code that I should probably fix, but in the meantime, you can fix this by going into the code, press ctrl + f, and find this line:

#cornerpicture {

In that block, you’ll find:

height:100%;

width:100%;

Change the % to px and change the numbers to whatever the image dimensions are in pixels. That will make it the same size of the image instead of scaling it.

[raiidens]

hello! i just switched my blog to theme 17. i love it a lot!! it has so many customizable options!! i'm having trouble with a video bug though -- some videos don't format correctly and pile at the top of the page (see my blog's /tagged/vid). i don't know if it's something with me or with the theme. i understand you aren't super active on here/aren't working a lot on themes, so i understand if this ends up being a bigger fix than the time you want to put in! thanks for your hard work!

Hi, I put out a fix for this, should help!

[raiidens]

Hi I was jw if it's possible to change the comics tag list so the categories are closed at first so you have to manually open the one you wanna see?

Yup, that’s possible!

Just gotta look for this line for each category:

And replace it with this:

[raiidens]

Hi guys, another quick update.

I know I’ve been absolutely terrible at replying to messages, if you sent me something and I haven’t answered it, feel free to send it again. I don’t spend time on Tumblr anymore unless its to do something for this blog basically so it might’ve just gotten lost.

I removed all the click-through ad links to get to the code. Since I’ve been bad with replies, some people who can’t get to the code don’t really get to the themes, so that’s just been removed now.

I’m going to keep commissions open, but because I don’t have much time at all, I might have to be super picky about what I choose, or charge a lot more than I usually do. Sorry about this!

If you’re interested in finding me elsewhere, I’m trying to become a full-time streamer on Twitch, and my Twitter is basically a meme mine at this point. Or if you’d rather keep spending your time on Tumblr, I have blogs for my art and stream clips that I try to keep updated from time to time.

Hope you all have a happy holidays and a merry new year! 

[jaebirds]

Hi guys, I made a blog for my Twitch clips. I’m gonna start queuing up a bunch so make sure you follow! Oh, and follow my Twitch too. [^: