Over the past few weeks along with developing our VisualNews theme we have also been hard at work developing a robust wordpress tumblr like theme that uses the wordpress post formats function. The theme is now at a stage where we could give you all a little preview of TumblBlog.

Tumblblog is a wordpress tumblr like theme that allows you to post content to your wordpress blog using the wordpress post format function, tumblog does not use plugins to achieve tumblr link functionality.

One of the main goals with TumblBlog was that we wanted your posted content to remain visible on your site if you ever decided to move away from the TumblBlog theme. After studying other available implementations of tumblr style themes for wordpress this isnt always the case.

Some of the available tumblr themes / plugins use a lot of wordpress custom fields to store you content like Quotes, Links, Images, Audio etc if you then decided to change themes in the future this would require a fair amount of wordpress knowledge and custom coding to get your old content to display in your new theme.

By using wordpress post formats this situation shouldnt arise with TumblBlog and you content will still be displayed with a different theme.

We will go into more details with the theme features when it is closer to release so for now here is a little sneak peek at the theme running the default theme with some custom widgets enabled.

TumblBlog Homepage Screenshot

As always all feedback is welcomed in the comments section.