30 Best Tumblr-Style WordPress Themes 2013
What will you take to share something you find or create on the internet? Tumblr? Yes, Tumblr makes it much easier to do photo-based posts, smoothly embed audio and video. Tumblr is well-known as a popular Tumblelog platform now. With the new feature called “Post Formats” from WordPress 3.1, we can easily use some Tumblelog WordPress themes to creat a microblog like Tumblr.
A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumbleblogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author’s creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary. – Wikipedia
In this collection, we will showcase the best Tumblr-style WordPress themes for those, who are looking to create a fun and lively blog without spending too much time. Hope you will love it!
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1. Milli
Milli is a super cool WordPress Theme designed with personal blogs in mind, but can also do as another kind of blog site or even as a simple portfolio to show off your work!
2. Flag
Flag is a professional WordPress Blog Theme, which is designed to facilitate the lives of hundreds of people who have, or just want to create a blog.
3. Grido
Grido is a new Tumblr-like theme. It is colorful, trendy, and stylish. The theme comes with 9 gradient backgrounds for you to style the post individually. You can choose a color scheme to reflect the mood of the post or select a different color for each post to make your blog look like a wall of sticky notes. The posts are automatically stacked on top of each other and automatically loaded when you hit to the bottom of the page.
4. Wumblr
Say hi to the first ever Tumblr-esc WordPress theme. Make your WordPress installation look and feel like a Tumblr blog. 9 different post formats including 15 different color presets that help customize the look of each post.
5. Tumble
The Tumble Theme is a fully responsive “Tumblr” style blogging theme for WordPress. The theme takes advantage of WordPress post formats, providing a variety of post styles such as image and video posts, quotes, galleries and more. The Tumble Theme is more than a simple blog — it boasts multiple custom page templates, a featured slideshow, WooCommerce compatibility, color change options and much more. The design is clean, minimal and versatile. The Tumble Theme is the perfect solution to getting started with a blog immediately.
6. Postline
Inspired by Facebook’s Timeline, Postline is a responsive WordPress theme designed to capture different types of post formats like quotes, videos, images, galleries, and many more, allowing you to tell your story on any resolution, whether desktop or mobile device.
7. CoolStuff
Cool Stuff is a Responsive WordPress Theme with modern, flat, minimalist design. It comprises the latest features and a powerful framework to help you personalize and expose your content in a cool way.
8. Dulce
Dulce is a tasty, premium WordPress theme solution designed & developed for personal and professional microbloggers. With Dulce, it’s all about versatility. The theme supports seven post formats, offers four color variations, boasts three options for gallery posts, provides an easy to use theme options, features a custom designed audio player and more. If you’re interested in offering your readers a smart-looking, user-friendly, stylish, intuitive and creative driven blog, look no further.
9. Notebook
Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.
10. Memo
Memo is a super-awesome tumblog style WordPress theme with a clean, minimal design. If you’re looking to get started with microblogging then Memo will be right up your street. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
11. OldCar
OldCar theme, it’s a creative HTML5 WordPress Theme that is suitable for personal blog or show the portfolios.
12. Mindstream
Life is speeding by. Capture and share all your passions instantly (and on a platform you own) with the brilliant, streamlined style of Mindstream theme. With 9 unique post formats, from “asides” to “videos” and everything between, you can easily display your most inspired content with the mobile responsive, tumblelog layout of Mindstream.
13. Shift
Shift is a tumblog style WordPress theme with all post formats support, based on a responsive and eye popping design optimised for viewing on high resolution displays too.
14. Scopic
Scopic is a personal timeline tumblog WordPress theme perfect for creatives. With built-in rich media post formats you can share your images, photos, videos, music and more.
15. Clipboard
Clipboard is an awesome tumblog style WordPress theme that comes chock full of style and customisation options. If you’re looking to get started with microblogging then Clipboard is the way to go!
16. Finch
Finch is a tumblog style WordPress theme with all post formats support. This theme have uniqueness in flexible background image.
17. Origin
Origin is a simple, clean and ultra-readable WordPress theme for bloggers, designers, creative people or anyone else. If you need a beautiful theme which really makes visitors focus on the content, Origin is your right choice.
18. PixelPower
PixelPower is a clean, modern, powerful WordPress tumblog-style theme designed for a wide variety of uses from bloggers to design portfolios.
19. Serendipity
Serendipity is a fully responsive one column blog theme for WordPress. With its 8 post formats (standard, image, gallery, video, audio, chat, quote, link) it is convenient for not only photographers but everyone with love of blogging. With Serendipity, minimal design, great color and typography use on your blog will provide high readability to your visitors. They also will be able to reach your posts via various devices and read them comfortably.
20. Gordon – Free
Gordon is a free tumblog theme. This is a very minimalistic and light weight theme maintaining a professional and well balanced layout and typography. The icons used in the theme are not images but fonts using the iconic fonts by Font Awesome. It is embedded in the theme and theme users can extend its usage. There are about 220 icons in that iconic font. Theme also has features like, featured images, meta boxes, theme options, custom menu etc.
21. Fast Blog
Fast Blog is a WordPress theme with some extra tumblr-like features. It’s perfect for easy blogging and thanks to the WooTumblog plugin (included) you can add posts quickly even from a mobile phone. There are 6 types of posts: article, image, link, audio, video and qoute. Or you can create regular WordPress posts and pages too.
22. Starling
Starling is a clean, elegant and responsive WordPress tumblog-style theme designed for a personal blogging. It comes with support for WordPress post formats and allows you to share quotes, images, videos, etc. alongside regular posts.
23. DailyNotes
The goal with DailyNotes was to make the simplest and most elegant medium possible through which you could share your daily life. The theme is very minimal in its design, and has been trimmed down to the bare essentials. For anyone looking to create a fun and inviting personal blog, it’s confident that DailyNotes will serve you well!
24. Journal
Journal is a simple, yet fully-featured WordPress theme geared towards the avid blogger and Internet content collector. It allows you to express your thoughts, images, and other media in a pleasant and easy to navigate way.
25. LightBright
LightBright makes it easy to share your daily life through it’s tumblr-style post types. Using the custom post types/taxonomies added in WordPress 3.0, the theme adds special integration options for photos, video, audio, quotes, notes and links. If you love the format of tumblr but don’t want to give up the versatility of WordPress, this is the theme for you.
26. Tetris – Free
Tetris is a responsive Tumblog style WordPress theme. The theme features a masonry style homepage and archive pages to showcase your posts in a modern fashion and makes use of WordPress post formats so sharing different media types is extremely easy. Included are standard, gallery, audio, video, link and image post formats so whether you are a photographer or a video producer the theme will cater to your needs.
27. Memoir
Memoir is a Tumblog style WordPress Theme which makes use of WordPress’s Post Formats feature and boasts awesome typography. Let’s face it, it’s time to get back to blogging and Memoir is ready to do that.
28. Casual – Free
Casual is a free WordPress tumblog theme with infinite color options and a friendly, personal layout.
29. tinyBlog
tinyBlog is a Premium WordPress theme which uses the Wootumblog plugin to make your WordPress site behave like a Tumblr site.
30. NYC
NYC is the perfect WordPress theme for bloggers who share any type of content. Audio, videos, links, images, image galleries and more!
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