The ball got rolling when Shawn’s blog took a radical shift. With other’s joining in there is now another way to turn a WordPress blog into a tumble-hybrid. Ben’s method uses conditional statements instead of Matt’s Asides technique. If you decide to go tumbling and post frequently, then check out Ron’s feed plugin, too.
Tumble-Hybrid Tutorial for WordPress
Shawn has graciously posted instructions on transforming your WordPress into a Tumble-Hybrid, which I happen to be working on right now.
More Simpler, More Better
If things look different around here, you may remember that I mentioned several days ago that Transformatum was undergoing a live update. During this time I have also been following Shawn of Lo-Fi Tribe and Ben of openswitch as they recreate their blogs into tumble-hybrids (a cross between a blog and a tumblelog). This style of blogging is more like a controlled stream-of-consciousness and less like publishing a magazine. It did not take long for me to realize that I was already moving down this very path (blogging half the time and twittering constantly).
After asking some questions, I decided that I wanted to follow in Ben and Shawn’s footsteps (albeit a little more slowly). Starting a couple days ago I began digging into the guts of this somewhat unfamiliar blog theme. There is still much work to be done to make this a tumble-hybrid, but I am pretty happy with the results that you see now. Gone is the sidebar. Gone is all the extemporaneous and distracting stuff (reading, listening, del.icio.us links, etc.). Center stage are the entries. Not only does it draw your eye to what is important, but it is also in keeping with the spirit of the Arts & Crafts design theme — form following function.
So welcome to the new blog digs (a far cry from the 3-columns of last year). If this works, then I may have to change my tag line to “putting the log back in weblog.”
Still Here
After a rapid decline in monthly articles, followed by that fateful post in June, I think I may have dealt a death blow to much of Transformatum’s readership. I apologize for disappearing. File this under ‘how not to blog.’
What’s been going on with Transformatum?
- Life is hard (but God is good)
- Lost K2 (high maintenance)
- Layout (sporting some new CSS)
- Live redesign (still tweaking things)
- Laboring (eight posts in July)
So stick around and save those bookmarks.