The WooThemes Blog

Many of you have asked us about the inner workings of the WooTeam & WooHQ and whilst we have blogged about this every now and again, we’ve maintained most of our secrets.

Today we reveal one of our biggest secrets yet.

Since posting our initial thoughts on tumblog (Tumblr-like) themes back in August, we’ve gotten a little busy with releasing all the new themes we had in the backlog. This is compounded by our #woobs charity & marketing campaign, which means that our lack of development capacity (this is why we’re hiring a new developer soon) results in us having to focus on the more important & time-sensitive things.

The good news is however that tumblog themes have not dropped off the radar and the future (which includes a very early, very sneaky preview of an upcoming tumblog design) is looking very good indeed (there are even rumours of an iPhone app to support our themes).

I’ve personally goofed around with some potential functionality for our first tumblog theme, whilst working away on my own site. So I intend on getting a little technical now, but here are some of my thoughts on functionality…

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Feeling rather inspired this morning, I decided to present myself with a new challenge: to develop a new tumblelog framework built onto our favourite platform – WordPress. A few hours later and I’ve got the basic ideas in place for where I want to go with this. But nothing around here at Woo would ever be complete if we didn’t throw this out there for your feedback first…

So… Recently I’ve been very impressed with Tumblr and have been surprised by their popularity and adoption rates. Looking at myself however (and the difficulty in posting on my own (full-on) blog, I can understand why micro-blogging is becoming the publishing medium of choice (Twitter probably being the ultimate proof in the pudding). With that in mind then, I’m definitely keen to develop a framework (and subsequently a set of tumblelog themes) for WordPress, but I’m also intrigued by the prospect of possibly porting these designs over to Tumblr.

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