New Theme: Writr
Happy Halloween! It’s Theme Thursday and we are excited to announce Writr, a free content-oriented tumblelog theme.
Writr‘s modern look and attention to crisp typography let your readers focus on the content. As a responsive theme, Writr will adapt itself to any screen without sacrificing usability or design integrity.
Writr comes packed with 6 different color schemes: turquoise (default), blue, green, grey, purple, and red.
Read more about Writr on the Theme Showcase or preview it on your blog from Appearance → Themes.
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- October 31, 2013
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I like the way Writr display the image and text. Clear, easy to navigate, and focus on content. It’s easier to read the long paragraphs.
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Pretty awesome! Looks like this would be great on tablets.
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great theme
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Love it!
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oh goodness … what an inspiration 4 a nublog …. lol giggls
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I like it. 😉 Might have to make some changes to my theme soon.
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Love this. Very clean and fresh design! Despite it being called Writr I can imagine it working well for a photo blog too.
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I like it. I only wish the text column could be wider.
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There is a theme option 🙂
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Very slick looking theme. Think I might try it on for size.
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Not bad execution in featuring photos of articles too. Good Job!
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Definitely a great tumblelog theme, but the font looks terrible in my Firefox 25.0.
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I love this! Oh My I frigging love WordPress.
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Love it! Using it now on 13thstreetpromotions.com !
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Is this available also for wordpress.org? Very nice! Thanks!
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You can download the WordPress.org version of Writr if you go to the Theme Showcase. You will find the download link underneath “Stats & Info”.
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Love it.
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I would give serious consideration to changing to this if the main column was wider.
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There is a theme option 🙂
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I like this theme but would need a PINK color option!
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You can always use Custom Colors, which is part of the Custom Design upgrade.
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cool theme
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This theme looks so neat!
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I see an unused right space though. Can we put something to it? Or is that a bug? Would be better to just make the content part wider if there’s nothing on the right side.
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It’s intentional but we’ve added a theme option to make the content area wider.
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This might just be the theme of my dreams! One little complaint though, the text column seems to be a bit too narrow, otherwise it’s excellent.
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There is a theme option 🙂
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I like it !
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I like! 🙂
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^^ It’s awesome so far.
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I really like this one. I might have to change my web page!
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After all the work I’ve done to retrofit the layout of each post when Chateau came out, this new theme is so beautiful and suitable for my content that it might just be worth it to switch again and re-do the work. (I’m OC that way, no fault on your part. Hee!)
Thank you for this lovely thing and I might launch it on my next blog anniversary! ♥ Keep it up.
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Switched! Congrats, it is beautiful. Thank you!
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Really like and it looks great.
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Excellent design. I like it.
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Love the new theme, “writr.” Changed to it right away. Uploaded an image to appear on the right side, and everything ties together very nicely. Kept the turquoise. Only thing: logo’s ear and part of head is cut off because of the circle. It’s supposed to be a square.
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Gravatars are displayed as a circle instead of a square in Writr. If you have the Custom Design upgrade you will have access to the Custom CSS panel and will be able to overwrite the gravatar rule like this:
Another solution: Upload your logo form Appearance → Header.
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Thank you for the help. I re-sized my logo in Photoshop, uploaded it and it looks great! Even stayed a square this time!
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Switching themes for the first time in years to give Writr a try. The layout of the sidebar and text area are great, especially the wider text area option. My only (little) complaints are the text size (seems a bit large) and the way tweets are showing up in the sidebar. They’re a little jumbled together.
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Thank you for your feedbacks.
We slightly modified the way tweets are displayed: no more bullet points and a margin underneath each tweet.
Regarding the font size it’s easy to reduce it via the Custom Design upgrade.
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I tried to get it last night and Word Press plugins search cannot find Writr ?????? Wanted to use it for my new blog
Larry C.Bobbert http://www.taichivillage.org
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Writr will be available soon on WordPress.org via http://wordpress.org/themes/
In the meantime you can download it directly from the Theme Showcase, underneath “Stats & Info”.
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I have just started on WordPress, but I am already in love with this theme. tried using one before, and it confused me, but when I tried this, it became so much easier to use and get around.
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Lovin’ this one. Decided to take it for a spin! http://chaoticwhitespace.wordpress.com/
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Nice, clean design. I need to check it more to see how much customization is available without going too much into programming.
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Awesome! I used this on my blog. Check it out at sophieszone.wordpress.com
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cool theme, i’m using Writr on my photo blog
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Love this new theme!
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Hello – I really love this theme, but there is an issue with it. When you insert pagination code it does not work well. Basically, from page 2 onwards of a post, the navigation is obscured by the like and tweet buttons. You can see that in the live demo, the post ‘Around the World in 80 days’ page 2 onwards. Is there any chance that could be fixed?
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Hi, thanks for noticing the issue. It should be fixed now.
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Thomas – thank you for your promptness. And it is a gorgeous design. Thank you for your hard work. Cannot wait to get my site up and running!
Joanne
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Great Theme!
Would be great to be able to turn the dark background into white. That creates a cleaner and lighter look.
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This is a great theme, and Thomas has fixed the bugs 😉
Any chance to show the post categories (like the tags)?
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You can’t show the post categories, unless you use the Categories Widget.
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Now I do not need a Tumblr. The best theme this year!!!!!!!!!!!
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ISSUE::
First, let me say that I love this theme! It is absolutely perfect, except for 1 huge, glaring issue…it doesn’t play nice with internet explorer. Has anyone else had this issue? On chrome, safari, and firefox my site is beautiful (mcdonoughmusic.wordpress.com), but on internet explorer, it’s all over the place. Gravatar doesn’t show in correct spot, content area is not the right size, etc. I know ie is a mess, but as it is the most popular browser in the world, I was hoping for some better cross-compatibility. Is this a known issue?
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Which version of Internet Explorer are you using? We only support IE9+
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Thanks for the quick reply. Tried it on 2 different computers, each with ie8. Good to know it supports 9+. Apparently ie is no longer the most popular browser (down to ~20% market share). And according to this ( http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-trends-may-2013/ ), ie8 users are down to ~10%. I guess being able to reach 90% of all browsers is good enough for me. Thanks again for the beautiful theme!
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Your are welcome 🙂
IE8 users on WordPress.com are down to 3-4%
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great theme, but I’m sticking to Chateau for now
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Is it possible to translate the Search widget placeholder for my default locale (pt-br)?
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Absolutely. You can read more about this here: https://wordpress.com/support/translation-faq/
In your case, here is the string you want to translate: http://translate.wordpress.com/projects/wpcom/pt-br/default?filters%5Bterm%5D=Search+%26hellip%3B&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filters%5Bstatus%5D=untranslated&filter=Filter&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc
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This is weird. I’ve found the “Search &heelip;” string and it is translated indeed. Check it out: http://translate.wordpress.com/projects/wpcom/pt-br/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=34197&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=1857221
But it’s not being translated in my blog: http://taschetto.wordpress.com/ (scroll down).
Any ideas?
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It has to be approved first then it might take some time before being deployed on every sites.
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Perfect blog for a writer, thus the name. If you don’t like how narrow it is, you can customize the size of post space.
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Like it, can you please let me know if there is an ABOUT feature that could be placed at top of blog?
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At the very top of the blog, no but you can always hide the header text and add a text widget underneath your header.
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Thanks Thomas, I must be dumb, can’t find what you mean. ;P
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I think he means that you can add an About.me widget or a text widget to your sidebar. If you need further help with Writr, feel free to post in the support forums: https://wordpress.com/forums/
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its awesome Thomas… cheers from Indonesia
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I really like this theme and I used it for a little while. However, like a previous poster mentioned, I noticed a huge issue when rendering on Internet Explorer. My issue appears to be with IE 10. In that browser, on Windows 7, the navigation pane and the post icons do not show up correctly. IE 9 on Win7 and IE 11 on Win8 do not have this issue. I tried to correct this with using Compatibility View, but it didn’t change anything.
I wrote a support request for this as well, but I have not received any replies or notifications, so I though I’d try here.
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Thanks for reporting the issue. We will have a look at it as soon as possible.
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Also the fonts are looking ugly on Chrome (Win7). Perfectly on IE10 (Win7). Do you know why?
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Some Google fonts don’t render correctly in certain Windows browsers, unfortunately. We’re aware of the bug and investigating possibilities. If you have other issues with Writr, please post them in our support forum: https://wordpress.com/forums/ Tips on getting help in the support forum: https://wordpress.com/support/getting-help-in-the-forums/
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