Best Bloq - A Blocky Portfolio Theme for Tumblr

BLOQ is an stylish, blocky portfolio theme for designers and creatives. It features two different layout modes, a filterable portfolio grid, a touch optimized image slider, dark and light preset skins to get you started, and much more!

Check the online documentation for a list of all the options.

• Responsive layout—your portfolio looks great on phones, tablets and desktops.
• Retina ready—BLOQ uses a combination of HTML5 canvas drawings and webfont icons, looking great on any device and specially on high density displays.
• Custom image logo—optionally with hover state and high resolution variations.
• Touch optimized homepage slider—BLOQ uses swipe.js, the most accurate touch slider. You can upload up to five images with their own caption and URL.
• Unique portfolio grid with two different layout modes: Masonry and Segmented Rows. The last one is similar to the way Tumblr displays photosets natively
• Dynamically load the next set of portfolio projects on the homepage with Ajax.
• Ajaxified portfolio filter.
• Ajaxified permalinks—load your project’s description without leaving the homepage.
• Homepage Hero and Call-to-Action, to display a welcome message for your visitors and grab your users attention.
• Collapsible widget area: the widget area on top can be toggled and re-positions to the right side on smaller screens.
• Twitter, Flickr, Dribbble and Instagram feeds.
• Support for the following Tumblr post types: text, photo, photoset, quote, link, chat, audio, and video.
• Google Web Fonts for site-wide headings.
• Social icons: Behance, deviantArt, Dribbble, Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, LastFM, LinkedIn, MySpace, Picasa, Pinterest, SoundCloud, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube.
• Support for Disqus commenting system.
• Easy Google Analytics implementation.
• Support for user created pages.
• Ask and Submit enabled.
• Chock-full of options—all colors can be changed from the customization sidebar
• Comprehensive documentation.

v1.2.0 September 12, 2013

• New: Option to set layout for permalink pages (project details) globally (left, right, or fullwidth media).
• New: Built-in Google Fonts options for main body text.
• New: Ability to visually hide individual posts from the portfolio grid.

v1.1.1 September 10, 2013

• Fix: Fixed loading more post with Ajax on ‘tagged’ pages.
• Fix: Better behaviour of portfolio filter on ‘tagged’ pages.
• New: Google Web Font option for ‘Call-to-Action’ and ‘Homepage Hero’ blocks.
• New: Options to specify Google Web Font script subset (like Cyrillic and Greek, for example).
• New: Options to hide the Slider, ‘Call-to-Action’ and ‘Homepage Hero’ blocks on ‘tagged’ pages.
• Fix: fixes Twitter Widget timestamp on Internet Explorer.

v1.1.0 July 09, 2013

• New: “Previous” and “Next” arrows to navigate between projects.
• New: “Previous post” and “Next post” buttons on project permalinks.
• New: “Like” button on project details Share box.
• New: Option to show text based toggle for searchform instead of icon.
• New: Typography helper classes (“align-left”, “align-right”, etc.)
• Minor CSS improvements.

v1.0.4 June 22, 2013

• Added “Use Wide Thumbnails On Mobile” option.
• Fixes for a rendering bug in webkit browsers.
• Fix for off-canvas sidebar not showing when changing orientation on the iPad.
• Major and minor JavaScript and CSS fixes.

v1.0.3 May 11, 2013

• Fixes some glitches when scrolling the site on Mobile Safari (iPhone/iPad).
• Improved smooth scrolling when opening/closing project details.
• Better handling of “retina” logo images. CSS rewrite to fix some logo display glitches on Mobile Safari.
• Fixes an issue when embedding videos from certain sources, such as CNN.

v1.0.2 May 06, 2013

• Fixes and improvements for the Ajax portfolio filter.
• Correct color coding of thumbnails overlays when using categories containing more than a single word.
• Add optional jQuery fallback for the filter for blogs displayed in non-western languages.

v1.0.1 April 18, 2013

• Fix a JavaScript error when embedding videos from Vimeo using non-standard embed code.
• Fix an issue when the Ajax portfolio filter wouldn’t work when using a custom domain name for the tumblog.
• Add option to hide the top widget area entirely.
• Add missing sections to the documentation.

v1.0 April 16, 2013

• Initial release

Click here for a list of the resources used in the making of this theme.

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Best Neat Tumblr Theme

Neat Theme for Tumblr

Neat is a Tumblr theme which provides a classy and clean experience especially for pictures blogs. It features an unique and original scroll experience for your visitor. Indeed, I have written a jQuery plugin especially for this theme which allows to use the size of you window for each post and obviously the layout is fully responsive.

You can use your keyboard to navigate or better, if you click on the first half of your browser you scroll to the top and… if you click of the second half of your browser, you scroll to the bottom.

But that’s not all, you can enabled a amazing effect when you scroll. Take a look to the demo to see it in live.

Demo

• Check a live preview here: http://neat.victorcoulon.fr/
• With an horizontal layout : http://neat-horizontal.tumblr.com/

Features

• An original scroll experience for your visitors
• Responsive layout
• Choose between a vertical layout (default) or horizontal layout
• Custom Colors / Custom logo (Image Upload or Text)
• Well documented
• Extensive options
• Google Analytics integrated
• Infinite Scroll
• Clean javascripts and css
• Supports all 7 post types (include photoset)
• Easy to setup and use

Note: Neat isn’t designed for long post. And please be aware the hide effect on scroll is disabled for compatibility reasons on iPad and iPhone.

Theme contents

The following files are included in this theme:

• Text File (Neat-TumblrTheme.txt) – includes all HTML for the theme
• Documentation (Help.pdf)

CSS and JS files are hosted by Tumblr.

Credits

• neat.js by Victor Coulon
• jquery-mousewheel by Brandon Aaron

Support

Please post any questions that you have or send me any bugs you find (or any feature that you would like to see added). I will be happy to help and would be very useful to keep this theme updated, improved and bug-free.

Changelog

28th April 2012

• Bug fixes
• Support Tumblr Photoset
• Add easing during scroll

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Best Royalis

Royalis is a feature rich highly customizable Tumblr theme and it will give your visitors a distraction free reading pleasure.Royalis is packed with lots of customizable features.You can change almost all elements to suit your style.

Credits

• fitvidsJS
• tweetJS
• Google Fonts
• Pictos from Woothemes

Images used in the posts of theme demo are from Flickr under the license Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2 .0)

• Marco Bellucci
• Sigfrid Lundberg

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Best Boxxed Tumblr Theme

Boxxed is a clean, bright tumblr theme with transparency.

Features:

• Twitter sidebar
• FlickR sidebar
• Transparent Background mean you can easily change the color!
• Easy to install & modify
• Supports all post types

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Best Casey

A clean, highly customisable theme for tumblr.

Features include:

• Custom colours for text, links and footer sections.
• Use your own logo or background image.
• Integrated twitter, flickr & last fm widgets – show recent tweets, photos and music in the sidebar.
• Custom titles for widget sections.
• Include sponsors/ads.
• Show recent likes.
• Support for google analytics and disqus comments.
• Clean, semantic HTML5 and CSS3 markup.
• Many more customisable options.
• Full documentation.

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Best Planet Play

Planet Play is a colorful Blogger XML template which offers a striking and memorable design, while being very easy to use and install.

It is a wide, two column theme with a playful theme which is repeated throughout the design in the form of background images and icons. Be sure to check out the “Subscribe” section in the sidebar, which includes a stylized email subscription box to encourage new blog readers to subscribe to your future updates!

Features of this theme include:

• Image-heavy, highly stylized graphics throughout
• PSD for header background and logo included
• Memorable “Subscribe” area in the sidebar, with integrated email subscription box which requires minimal configuration
• Icons for list items in the sidebar and footer, which are configured to match the widget type (ie: folder for Archives, page for Recent Posts, etc)
• Integrated recent posts widget (to display 10 latest items) and recent comments (which includes details of post author)
• Post information appears below each title, supplemented by appropriate icons
• Very easy to set up and begin using right away!

This design makes use of selected FamFamFam Silk Icons. All other icons and images are my own work and are unique to this Blogger template design.

I have included the PSD source files for the header-background and the logo in the template files.

Also, I have included the RSS Spaceship as a stand-alone icon (PNG format) in the Images folder in case you would like to use this for other elements of the layout.

A comprehensive help file is included in the download which explains exactly how to upload and configure the Planet Play template for your own Blogger blog.

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