To get started, just throw your posts into one of the categories below. That’s it. Be sure to read the rest of this to get the most out of the T1 theme.
NOTE: If you can’t find what you need here, head over to the forum to get help.
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The Basic Idea
The main goal of the T1 theme is to style your blog like a Tumblelog. Each category you post to will have a different look. Check out Projectionist and Tumblr for good examples.
Simply put your posts into one of the following categories, and your posts will take on individual styles:
- Journal
- Photo
- Url
- Cell
- Thought
- Video
- Quote
- Conversation
Add one of the above categories to you post, and you’re set. More details below on each category’s default style.
Customization
The T1 theme allows for very easy customizations. You don’t even have to touch the original Stylesheet. Simply make your changes and customizations to the custom.css Stylesheet as described in its notes.
The Custom Stylesheet also includes an example for styling your own categories. Say you want a style for a “Podcast” category, just follow the example in the Custom Stylesheet.
The Sidebar
There are two sidebars with the T1 theme. They are side-by-side at the bottom of the page. You have to adjust the height of the sidebar manually if you have too much content. Here is how to do it.
Place the following code in the custom.css stylesheet, and change the “XXX” to the desired height:
.custom #primary, #secondary { height: XXXpx; }
Random Header Images
All the header images are in the /images/headers/ folder of the theme. Replace or add more images to this folder, and they will automatically be include in the random selection. Be sure to leave the rotate.php file alone—this is what performs the random selection.
By default all the images are 550px X 113px. If you want to use different size images, just add the following to the custom.css file with the appropriate dimensions.
.custom #masthead { height: 113px; } /* Change to the height of the pictures */
.custom #nav-menu { top: 94px; } /* Change to lower or raise the nav-menu with the new image height */
Blog Title Image
T1 displays the blog title and description as an image. Just upload your own image 334px X 61px to the images folder and call it title.jpg.
If you don’t want to use an image as the title, you can play around with these lines by adding them to the custom.css file.
.custom #blog-description { display: none; }
.custom #header h1 a { display: block; width: 334px; height: 61px; background: url('images/title.jpg') no-repeat; border: none; text-indent: -9999px; }
Navigation Menu
The navigation menu is all contained within the nav-menu.php file. By default, this menu lists “Home” and then all pages by their respective page order. Make any changes to the nav-menu.php file (See Template Tags/WP List Pages for help).
To change the page order displayed in the navigation menu, under write or edit a page, you can change the page order from the options in the right hand column. This will automatically change the page position in the navigation menu.
Custom FavIcon
The FavIcon is stored and referenced by the T1 theme. You can replace the favicon.ico in the /images/ folder with your FavIcon.
The Tags
If you use tags, they are displayed on the Journal posts within the blog. All other posts display the tags on their individual post page.
If you don’t use tags, nothing changes.
Now for Each Category
URL
The Url category displays your links with brief description. Just put the link on one line and the description on the next.
Quote
The Quote category displays a quote with the cite. Be sure to include the <cite></cite> tags under the “Code” tab when writing your quote.
Video
Put text above or below your video embed, and your set. You can put the embed code for the video under the “Code” tab when writing your video posts.
Thought
Simply write, and place it in the Thought category.
Photo
Like the video, place your text before or after your photos. Your large images won’t even break the page layout.
Journal
The Journal category is for any of your normal writings. It displays the title of the post with minimal styling.
Cell
The Cell category displays your content while you’re on the go. Writing at your computer or importing from anywhere else, the Cell category display has a little cell phone in the corner.
Conversation
The Conversation category is for logging your chats and conversations. Include a title to your post because it will be displayed. Either put your content on individual lines or in individual paragraphs.
Go Tumble
You’re all set to start using T1 theme for your WordPress Tumblelog. If you want more, you can always check out the blog or visit the T1 Forum for help and suggestions.
Enjoy.
