The theme builder is ready to be used! Since this is the beta version, there are still a lot of options that are going to be added in the future.
Here are some examples of themes made with the current version:
And here are some of the current options:
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or run into issues making or using a theme!
it's like a jump scare every time i see a blog theme that still has like 10px or less font sizes
finally started coding for not work reasons for the first time in over a week! work project got pushed back (which... thank goodness) but also means i'm not off the hook for the stress yet asldgkhds but i'm at least getting back into it
Will be resuming NPF theme stuff this weekend now that the work project is wrapping up. I needed lay down and do nothing after work every day this week and it has helped
thanks for being patient!
so we have a really big project at work that is set to be finished next week so I have been more away than usual. It's taking up a lot of my energy for coding so I may not have many updates until after that :/
Deadline is tomorrow and I have one more ticket !! This might actually happen
so we have a really big project at work that is set to be finished next week so I have been more away than usual. It's taking up a lot of my energy for coding so I may not have many updates until after that :/
i dont know if its just me but it wont let me put a background on theme builder unless its just a really small one uh
I'm not having any issues with uploading background images, what image are you trying to use? I'm thinking it might be a file type thing but I can't know for sure.
Hello! I'm trying to use your theme builder because I'd like to have a theme that shows the new-editor posts properly too! When I use a theme from there, though, an audio that I uploaded with the new editor still looks only like a bland play-bar, without showing the icon or title that I can set for the audio. Which is how it looks with the theme I was using before (which is an old one that certainly was not made including the new editor), too.
Am I doing something wrong?
@nonspace I think this is something you've brought up before (correct if I'm wrong). But I'm almost positive this is a somewhat known issue with audio posts right now.
It's something I can work around with the NPF variable, though! But NPF audio doesn't seem to do anything with the legacy blocks like
{block:Artist} {Artist} {/block:Artist} or any of the other blocks and variables for audio posts. So you're not doing anything wrong. I just might not be able to rely on {AudioEmbed} anymore. Which is fine, I just need to take some time to update it.
hello! apologies in advance if youre already aware of this! on your npf template post (/post/714973321015574528) the code you have isn't modifying npf photosets to look like legacy photosets (like the example pictures on that post). the reblog-header is still situated at the top of the post (before the photoset rather than before text). you can see this on ur blog npftemplate (second page-last post, and third page). this is also the same on my own blog with reblogged npf photosets.
Just fixed! Was a simple mistake that I should've caught.
All of my Shinee based themes from oldest to newest (2016, 2018, 2022, 2023)
Only the first one was ever fully finished/released. I'm thinking I can try to fully release/revamp all of these in time for the anniversary next month
side note, when should i consider the theme builder out of beta. I'm a very "nothing ever feels finished" person so it feels like I'm lying if I "fully release" it :/
What are the big things that are still missing?
Font sizes
NPF post compatibility
Code reformatting
Please let me know if there are any issues with themes created after this update, or if you have any suggestions on new features I should focus on next!
Theme builder update is going to make all themes made with it (going forward) have consistent legacy and NPF posts (as closely as possible). It's going to do the opposite of the current base where legacy posts will look like NPF posts.
I'm also going to release a version of the base that does this too!
I would say it's about 2/3 of the way done right now.
is there any possibility of keeping the legacy editor as an option? for content creators, the new editor completely ruins the quality of our gifs/edits/art and it's really frustrated to be forced into using an editor that's going to kill the quality of the creations that we spend time perfecting.
Answer: Hello, @junghaesin!
Thanks for writing in. And thank you to everyone else who has shared similar feedback.
So, tl;dr—this is actually a blog theme issue. Your theme is not showing images in posts created by the new editor as you expect.
GIFs uploaded via the legacy editor or the new editor are actually processed the same way. There is no difference in bit depth or in resolution. You can see this by looking at your posts inside the Tumblr dashboard instead (e.g. instead of yourblog.tumblr.com/post/id, go to tumblr.com/yourblog/id).
The reason why you see a quality difference is because posts created by the new editor are treated as text posts by older blog themes. Themes often add padding around all the content of a text post—including any images that appear in it. If your theme presents posts as 540px wide, then in a text post, with that additional padding, the available space for your images is actually less than 540px. As a result, the browser will scale your images down to fit, and when this happens, image quality takes a hit.
The solution—update to a more modern, up-to-date theme, like Vision or Stereo. Theme developer @eggdesign also built a theme template that works with new posts, that you can build on top of! These modern themes apply padding only to text blocks rather than the whole post, so image blocks receive no padding and are served at their full 540px width, just like the Dashboard. From what we’ve seen, this fixes all of the issues about perceived GIF quality on blogs.
We know. Changing your theme is a lot of work. In the near future, we’re looking into ways to make this transition easier—for example, helping you identify themes that work well with new posts in the Theme Garden. But working with new posts is the way forward—the new posts use a format that opens up a lot of opportunities in the future.
Why can’t you add post types to posts from the new editor? Why not serve new posts as photo posts instead of text posts?
The new editor uses a new post format, called Neue Post Format (NPF). NPF has given us a huge boost in flexibility when it comes to what content can be in posts—remember the time when you couldn’t even upload images to reblogs? Or how old chat and quote posts magically change authors? NPF helped us fix both of these things. It removed constraints—including post types, which limit each post to one specific type of content.
But existing blog themes still need to be able to display these posts. Because NPF posts can include media anywhere (while most of the old post types have a rigid structure for media), it was safest for us to categorize NPF posts as the least constrained post type—text posts. It’s the best we can do to make these posts backward-compatible with existing blog themes.
In lieu of post types, we’ve added an {NPF} theme variable per post that custom themes can leverage. Theme developers must update their themes to take advantage of this new data to retain full control of the HTML output of posts.
Thanks for your feedback, and keep it coming!
With love,
—The Tumblr WIP Team
i would like to have a side picture exactly where my avatar is. but I can only add my avatar or my header pictures, not new ones with your theme builder :( I also cannot change font sizes and if the post is a photo, the post container borders disappear :(
The header and avatar thing is intentional! It uses the global appearance options and is not meant to be different/separate from those. But I can add more image options.
I'm working on an additional text input field for font sizes right now! I am also setting a minimum and maximum font size to keep everything readable. I'm doing this so it won't be possible to add like 8px font size unless you remove that part of the code (which I hope no one does that).
I'm going to need an example of the photo posts as I haven't been able to recreate it (yet). I'll try to reblog a wide variety of photo posts, though.
It's so weird to remember that I'm a developer at a pretty large company because of clopin from the hunchback of notre dame and the riddler (reasons I found and joined tumblr in 2012)
why do i always have like 100 different ideas in my head instead of the things I want to be working on
