New Theme: Writr

October 31, 2013

Thomas

Happy Halloween! It’s Theme Thursday and we are excited to announce Writr, a free content-oriented tumblelog theme.

Writr: Blog Page

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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  1. munggur Oct 31st at 5:19 pm

    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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  2. letterperfect1 Oct 31st at 5:37 pm

    Pretty awesome! Looks like this would be great on tablets.

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  3. Azrizam Mansor Oct 31st at 5:42 pm

    great theme

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  4. Mel Choyce Oct 31st at 5:54 pm

    Love it!

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  5. Nikohl Vandel Oct 31st at 6:32 pm

    oh goodness … what an inspiration 4 a nublog …. lol giggls

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  6. Carol B Sessums Oct 31st at 6:36 pm

    I like it. 😉 Might have to make some changes to my theme soon.

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  7. Carl Oct 31st at 7:10 pm

    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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  8. Runnerica Oct 31st at 7:27 pm

    I like it. I only wish the text column could be wider.

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  9. dhippensteel Oct 31st at 7:52 pm

    Very slick looking theme. Think I might try it on for size.

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  10. Cheese Chomp Dad Oct 31st at 8:07 pm

    Not bad execution in featuring photos of articles too. Good Job!

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  11. Michael Meiser Oct 31st at 8:17 pm

    Definitely a great tumblelog theme, but the font looks terrible in my Firefox 25.0.

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  12. robertanicole1 Oct 31st at 9:15 pm

    I love this! Oh My I frigging love WordPress.

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  13. swadedavillain Oct 31st at 9:24 pm

    Love it! Using it now on 13thstreetpromotions.com !

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  14. Yem Li Oct 31st at 9:29 pm

    Is this available also for wordpress.org? Very nice! Thanks!

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  15. coopersexposed Oct 31st at 9:40 pm

    Love it.

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  16. Isaac Yuen Oct 31st at 10:55 pm

    I would give serious consideration to changing to this if the main column was wider.

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  17. pink-briefcase Nov 1st at 1:08 am

    I like this theme but would need a PINK color option!

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  18. msholeh980 Nov 1st at 1:16 am

    cool theme

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  19. Jenn Besonia Nov 1st at 2:58 am

    This theme looks so neat!

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  20. Jenn Besonia Nov 1st at 3:03 am

    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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  21. Devina a Lemon flavoured Jellybean Nov 1st at 3:28 am

    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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  22. Flore Leng Nov 1st at 3:58 am

    I like it !

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  23. TheUnextreme Nov 1st at 10:11 am

    I like! 🙂

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  24. smurfette92 Nov 1st at 11:57 am

    ^^ It’s awesome so far.

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  25. Karol Nov 1st at 12:19 pm

    I really like this one. I might have to change my web page!

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  26. irisoniris Nov 1st at 1:24 pm

    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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  27. noonobservations Nov 1st at 1:58 pm

    Switched! Congrats, it is beautiful. Thank you!

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  28. Phil Harrison Nov 1st at 2:32 pm

    Really like and it looks great.

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  29. Akhil K A Nov 1st at 2:34 pm

    Excellent design. I like it.

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  30. kraftycatcreations Nov 1st at 4:16 pm

    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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    • Thomas Guillot Nov 4th at 9:44 am

      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:

      .site-logo img[src*="gravatar"] {
	-webkit-border-radius: 0;
	-moz-border-radius:    0;
	border-radius:         0;
}

      Another solution: Upload your logo form Appearance → Header.

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      • kraftycatcreations Nov 4th at 3:30 pm

        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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  31. K Nov 1st at 4:16 pm

    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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    • Thomas Guillot Nov 4th at 10:29 am

      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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  32. grandadsavitar Nov 1st at 8:44 pm

    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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  33. Sockmnkey Nov 2nd at 7:48 am

    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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  34. mary Nov 2nd at 2:04 pm

    Lovin’ this one. Decided to take it for a spin! http://chaoticwhitespace.wordpress.com/

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  35. Olena Loun Nov 2nd at 3:27 pm

    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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  36. sbar94 Nov 2nd at 3:47 pm

    Awesome! I used this on my blog. Check it out at sophieszone.wordpress.com

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  37. dodig Nov 2nd at 9:08 pm

    cool theme, i’m using Writr on my photo blog

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  38. sundowntherapy Nov 3rd at 4:37 pm

    Love this new theme!

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  39. jvkrawec Nov 3rd at 7:14 pm

    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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  40. jvkrawec Nov 4th at 11:54 am

    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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  41. eff.weh Nov 4th at 5:52 pm

    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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  42. Thiago Nov 4th at 6:51 pm

    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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  43. Nox Nov 4th at 11:03 pm

    Now I do not need a Tumblr. The best theme this year!!!!!!!!!!!

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  44. McDonough Rams Nov 5th at 12:24 pm

    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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  45. McDonough Rams Nov 5th at 3:19 pm

    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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  46. debra hall Nov 6th at 11:49 am

    great theme, but I’m sticking to Chateau for now

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  47. Guilherme Taschetto Nov 6th at 5:42 pm

    Is it possible to translate the Search widget placeholder for my default locale (pt-br)?

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  48. stormwrites Nov 7th at 1:01 am

    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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  49. justinbrownbooks Nov 7th at 3:02 am

    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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  50. winnymarch Nov 7th at 4:27 am

    its awesome Thomas… cheers from Indonesia

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  51. Brian R. Luedtke Nov 7th at 4:28 am

    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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  52. Guilherme Taschetto Nov 7th at 3:41 pm

    Also the fonts are looking ugly on Chrome (Win7). Perfectly on IE10 (Win7). Do you know why?

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