Looking for a Unicorn Tumblr Theme

October 10, 2013 5:10 AM

Tumblr Themes: I am looking for a theme with specific features - one photo post at a time, with prev/next buttons. Would also like: rare layout. Help!

I have a Tumblr blog that I would like to retheme to be more in line with how users would actually use the site.

Right now, it's the traditional "scroll down for more posts". I would like instead to have the following:

- one clear main post (the most recent)
- photo on the left, description on the right (every post is a photo post with descriptive text)
- prev/next nav arrows
- "Random post" button

Nice to have:
- small images at the bottom that link to the previous posts.

Here is a crudely-done Paint mockup of what I'm looking for - the extra at the bottom is optional. I have been looking for hours in the Tumblr theme directory and nothing is coming up that close to what I want.

Is there a mod I could do on a regular theme to make this happen, or close to it?

I'm not a designer but have had experience customizing HTML. I am very partial to Tumblr because I have other sites on it, but would consider Wordpress or another platform if it had exactly what I wanted. I would pay for a theme if it fit my criteria.

Thanks!!

posted by amicamentis to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

You should check out http://themesrec.tumblr.com/ and http://theme-hunter.tumblr.com/. I think checking those blogs for themes with horizontal scrolling/navigation will probably come closest to finding what you want. I did find this theme, that might work for you with a bit of customization. The first step would be to set your blog to only have one post on the main page. Just go to settings>customize and under the part where it says advanced, set posts per page to 1.
posted by katyggls at 1:44 PM on October 10, 2013 [1 favorite]