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A bunch of new/updated themes have already shown up sporting Tumblr’s new customization features. Check them out!

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• Field Notes by manasto
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Thanks, everyone!

There are a bunch of new updates and customizations in new theme file:

• New, easier way of installing a Flickr photo widget
• Support for up to five custom links added to the header
• Upload your own background image
• Change the the font (default is still Futura)
• Choose whether or not to display your followers
• Automatic disqus support is coming soon, too.

I’ll be adding some “How To” docs later, and updating some of the older ones. Stay tuned!

My way of displaying your Twitter updates worked fine unless you had a private account. If you had one, it would display an annoying sign in message on every page. Tumblr’s example of pulling in your Twitter updates doesn’t do this, so I switched to using it. The update is available in the Theme Garden (two weeks after it was submitted).

If you’ve customized a recent update to the theme and don’t want to install the update and re-customize, all you have to do is go down to the end of the theme code, find the {block:Twitter} tag, and replace it with the code below:

{block:Twitter}
<script type="text/javascript">
function recent_tweets(data) {
	for (i=0; i<data.length; i++) {
		document.getElementById("tweets").innerHTML =
		document.getElementById("tweets").innerHTML + '<li>' + data[i].text +
		' <a href="http://twitter.com/{TwitterUsername}" title="{TwitterUsername} on Twitter">follow me &rarr;</a></li>';
	}
	document.getElementById("twitter").style.display = 'block';
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/tweets.js"></script>
{/block:Twitter}

I just realized that I forgot to upload the most current javascript file when I last updated the theme. This means that if you tried to embed your Flickr photos the way the How To explains, your photos wouldn’t show up on your blog.

I fixed this and updated the theme file in the theme garden, but it could take a few days to go through (they are almost as bad as Apple up there).

Anyway, if you don’t want to wait, replace the second javascript source with this:

http://static.tumblr.com/h3aw40n/Lhpkmxpx8/functions.js

That should do the trick. If you have any problems, you can always try and get in touch with me.

I just added updated the theme code to inculde Photosets. Until the changes are approved, all you have to do for now is add this line of code inside the {block:Posts}{/block:Posts} tags:

{block:Photoset}
	<p class="object">{Photoset-500}</p>
	{block:Caption}<div class="caption">{Caption}</div>{/block:Caption}
{/block:Photoset}

That is the exact code I added to the theme file, and the Theme Garden should reflect the update in a couple of days (maybe fewer since the Tumblr staff just released a new post format and might get on their horse for this one).

The new update just made it through. Here are the changes:

• Added automatic support for Twitter
• Made it even easier to embed your Flickr photos
• Added tags to posts
• Conditionally add/remove “About” link based on whether or not you have filled in your blog description
• Added a search pop-up
• Made the Title Text customizable
• Reduced the size of the background image so it loads a bit faster

I think that’s it. Enjoy!

Also, for those who offered to test the theme out, thank you. I  actually only got the theme to one person, but since you offered, I’ll still customize a version of Field Notes or Photorific (when I finally finish it) for you if you want. Just contact me. You can find my email here.

• I changed the backup font to Georgia because, sometimes, Helvetica just looks terrible.

The font-cycle now looks like this: “Futura, Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”. All this means is that, if the person browsing to your blog doesn’t have Futura, then the next font the browser is going to use is Georgia. Most Mac users will have Futura, and most Windows users will have Georgia, which just looks better than Helvetica.

You have a couple of options if this update is something you are interested in.

1. If you downloaded the theme as “hosted by me” (Option 1), than you don’t have do anything.
2. If you downloaded the theme as “hosted by you” (Option 2), than you’re going to have to download the style.css file and upload it to your server. You can find it here.
3. If you installed this theme via the Theme Garden and want to keep your widgets, you need to find the link to the stylesheet and replace it with this:

   http://static.tumblr.com/h3aw40n/Rw8kka05u/style.css 

4. If you installed it as is and you don’t have any widgets, or don’t care, then just re-install the theme.

If you installed this theme after the date of this post, then you don’t have to worry about a thing.

Later, Braden