Now 200 is not a massive amount, but it still amazes me when I see it being used. It was my first attempt at designing a public theme and seems to have worked surprisingly well.

I have been meaning to update it since late last year, but never seemed to find the time. Now it has reached the 200 mark makes me want to do it as soon as possible, so stay tuned for an update soon.

Tumbled is a single column, no nonsense theme loosely based on the popular Block style on Tumblr, and can be found/downloaded here Tumbled – A Wordpress Theme.

I logged in to check it out, but soon realised it was only spam — strange I thought, why hadn’t Akismet caught it. Then I realised the Akismet Spam Tab was missing and then I realised I must have accidentally turned it off — but wait a minute I thought — why have I only received 1 spam comment in the last week when Akismet is turned off?

My brain is still trying to work this out, but I appear to have received more spam while Akismet was turned on. That can’t be right? Can it? I am going to turn it back on and see what happens — but I must confess I don’t have it running some of my other sites, and interestingly they hardly ever get any spam.

A question I’d like to ask is — has anybody else noticed anything weird with Akismet? Do you use it? Or perhaps some other spam catching method?

In the middle of moving house, I received an email from my hosting company saying my account was in violation of their Terms and Conditions.

It took ten days to get connected to the net at my new house, and by then my host had suspended my account and nothing was working.

Fortunately a good friend of mine allowed me to lug my iMac up to his house and use his internet for a day so I could sort out the mess – in short… I was using old versions of Wordpress that had vulnerabilities. A very bad idea as these vulnerabilities were being abused by someone or something which caused my T&C violation.

I had plained to return davinian to its previous state ASAP, but what with all the DIY and sorting out my new house I just haven’t had the time.

Anyway, I’m back and I think everything is sorted. I have sucessfuly moved house, and I’m now living in Dorset, not far from the coast and to be honest, enjoying having my own place again.

So here goes, I would like to introduce you to Tumbled, a single column, no nonsense theme loosely based on the popular Block style on Tumblr.

Yep, that’s right, you can now have that Tumblr look on your Wordpress blog.

I must warn that Tumbled is still a Beta, but rest assured I have tested it in Safari and Firefox on the Mac, and Internet Explore 6 and 7 plus Firefox on the PC. Everything seems to work fine, although there is a slight discrepancy with the navigation in IE 6 – there always something wrong in IE 6 though isn’t there!

NOTE: A problem was found where Smiley Faces inherited the default image styling! It is recommended that everybody downloads the latest version to avoid the visual unpleasantness – sorry about that!

Installation:

• Unzip the downloaded file. You’ll get a folder named ‘tumbled’
• Upload the entire ‘tumbled’ folder to your ‘wp-content/themes/’ folder
• Login into WordPress administration
• Click on the ‘Presentation’ tab
• Click on the “tumbled” theme thumbnail/screenshot or title
• That’s it. Go to your blog and hit refresh to see your newly installed theme.

Custom Archives Page:

• Login into WordPress administration
• Click on the ‘Write’ tab and then the ‘Write Page’ tab
• Enter a Page Title i.e. ‘Archives’
• Leave the Page Content blank < important!
• Select the ‘Archives’ template from the Page Template list on the right hand side
• Click ‘Publish’
• That’s it. Go to your blog and click on the new Archive button

Image Tags:

• You can use alignleft or alignright to make your images float left or right on the page.
• For example, after adding an image to a post, check the code and add in class="alignleft" or class="alignright".
  e.g. <img src="yourimage.gif" class="alignleft">

Download:
The latest version is: Tumbled 0.2 beta released 23rd August 2007

The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php

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Version History:
Version 0.2 Beta
Fixed problem where Smiley Faces inherited image border styling

Version 0.1 Beta
Realised 22nd August 2007

If you have any problems i.e bugs, please let let me know and I will try to fix them.

Also, if you have any comments or suggestion, please let me know – the more feedback I get the better!