We’ve been speaking about tumblogs for quite a while now, so it’s exciting to finally be able to release the two beautiful tumblog themes that are the fruits of our labour. Without keeping you waiting any longer, we’d like to introduce you to the awesomeness of Cinch & Slanted.
Tumblogging Powered by WordPress
Microblogging has seen it’s popularity rise considerably in the last couple of months; probably as a result of information overload and the fact that most people struggle to keep full-on blogs updated regularly. In addition, platforms such as Tumblr & Posterous have made massive strides in making micro-blogging (also tumblogging) more accessible to a more mainstream audience.
So it’s with this in mind that we set out to replicate the extremely easy-to-use functionality of Tumblr & Posterous, and incorporate it into a WordPress-powered theme. Now you can have the benefits of easy & efficient micro-blogging, right on your own server & WordPress installation, with the benefit being that you own & control your own data (i.e. you don’t need to share that on some cloud platform somewhere else).
QuickPress’ing
QuickPress Widget
The most important thing for micro-blogging, is that the process of adding new content needs to be “micro” to save you time (and increase efficiency) when adding new content.
To accomplish this, we have developed a new QuickPress widget (that sits on your WordPress dashboard as you log-in), which is exclusive to WooThemes and our microblogging themes. The AJAX-powered interface allows you to quickly add a variety of different content (videos, audio, images, notes, links & quotes) without having to leave the dashboard or go the default publishing route (Posts > Add New). Also, there is no need to worry about custom fields when using the QuickPress widget, as everything is handled for you. It’s a Cinch to use! 
More Exclusive Goodies
In addition to the awesome QuickPress functionality, both Cinch & Slanted include the following features:
- The themes supports a variety of text & multimedia content. At the moment the following post types are supported: Notes / Articles, Images, Videos, Audio Clips, Links & Quotes. These are all handled uniquely & automatically once you have setup the theme & categorization of the posts accordingly.
- We’ve included a bunch of unique jQuery wizardry to allow for cool scrolling / navigation between posts, as well as including hot-keys for frequently-used navigation (Home, Search & navigation), which allows you to use keyboard strokes, instead of the mouse.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Go Micro!
We know you want to; it’s the trendy thing to do!
Have a look at the demo’s of Cinch and Slanted to truly get a feel of how amazing that front-end & jQuery wizardry feels when you use it. And if you want to experiment with QuickPress & the rest of the backend, jump over to our Playground and play with the micro-blogging themes there.
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