I pulled out the dusty old file folder for the Tumble-hybrid Theme for WordPress 2.3.3+ and I made a few changes and cleaned things up a bit. The result is Tumble-hybrid Deuce. There a few changes. Most notably I changed a few category names to better fit the media designated. So, rather than categorizing “photos” as “slices,” as was done in my first Tumble-hybrid theme, the category is simply called “photos.” Likewise, the “thoughts” category is now “thoughts” rather than “lifestream.” These changes make things much more intuitive, I think. There are also more than a few aesthetic changes. I really had no intention of releasing the first version of Tumble-hybrid, as it was a personal project born in the boredom of one late night. So, the first time around, I just packaged it up, just as it was, as I used it myself, and made it available for download. Deuce is cleaned up and much more suited for public consumption.
INSTALLING TUMBLE-HYBRID DEUCE
Please follow the directions outlined in the original Tumble-hybrid post to install and use this theme. Note: Be sure to correct the categories names for this version of Tumble-hybrid! The original instructions call for the creation of the following categories: slices, quotes, lifestream, links, video, conversations. These categories will not work in Deuce! Be sure to create the following categories instead: photos, quotes, thoughts, links, video, conversations.
The rest of the original directions should still be followed.
This theme [Tumble-Hybrid Deuce] is licensed: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. This means you can modify it and re-distribute it freely. You are not obligated to display the design credit located in the footer, but it would be nice if people could find the download site for this WP theme. So, please consider showing the design credit and link.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
1. The original Tumble-hybrid theme is no longer available for download.
2. CaveMonkey50’s Tumblefeed plugin, if you plan on posting multiple time per day!
TUMBLE-HYBRID DEUCE CHANGELOG:
1.0. (02.08.2008): Original release.
1.1. (02.10.2008): Fixed the templates that included the orphaned hard-coded “img src url” pointing back to tribe. Thanks, Brandon!
Related posts:
BUG
A number of the templates have perm.gif hard coded to http://www.lofitribe.com/ instead of
Thanks for the theme.
Thanks for the heads up, Brandon! I thought I cleared all of that sort of stuff, but …
Thanks for your theme. I am using it with some minor modifications for a brand-new tumbleblog. You can see what I’ve done with it at my website link.
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I love this theme – I just found it today and I plan to use it until my custom is finished. :)
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I want to find good pop music. Help me please.
Anyone have the download link for Deuce? The link up there leads to a dead link :(
yeah, the link is broken :(
@jay and @oscar – The download link is now fixed.
is there a way to add more categories to the default? I think it would be nice to have an “excerpts” category for my longer posts (and display the post excerpt on the homepage) and maybe a “music” or “video” category for multimedia posts
Danielle: Yes. You can add as many as you’d like to add. Just be sure to look at the css for categories and duplicate it for each new category you add by using the same procedures. You’ll have to then add your own css styles for each new category. So, yeah, you can add as many new categories as you wish.