Premium Theme Origin West
Style Hatch is proud to introduce Origin West, a fierce theme laced with color, lots of personality, and a bit of shine to show off a collection of noteworthy posts. This premium Tumblr theme featuring unique layout with a central and contrasting edge as it alternates your posts.
Highlighted Features
Fully responsive layout that adapts from the largest screens down to an iPhone, infinite scrolling, display recent tweets and shots from Instagram, sharing buttons for Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Google Plus, comments powered by Disqus, built in Google Analytics and Clicky tracking, color options and Typekit for custom fonts.
Latest Version - Origin West 1.0.3 | February 20, 2013
Updated the video embed feature to address Tumblr’s recent changes.
Social Features
Origin West has built in support for group blogs, sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest, and Google Plus, comments powered by Disqus, Instagram feed, and posts you like. Also in the appearances options you’ll find nearly 30 social profile icon links.
Customization Options
Colors
- Header - Sets the accent color for the header links. This color will need to work with the black background.
- Text, Photo, Photoset, Quote, Link, Chat, Audio, Video, Ask - Set the accent color used for the side borders, post elements and links for each of the post types. The colors selected need to work with both white and black post backgrounds.
- Footer - Sets the accent color for the footer links. This color will need to work with the black background.
Images
- Logo - Upload an image to replace the site title with a logo.
Options
- Enable infinite scrolling - With infinite scrolling turned on pages will continually load as you scroll down the page.
- Show portrait in description - Display your blog icon inside the site description.
- Show group blog details - If your site is setup as a secondary blog, and you invite others to be authors check this option to show the author list as well as author names below each post.
Custom Text
Origin West give you the ability to change up various titles and bits of text throughout the theme. These options include: description title, authors title, and footer copyright.
Extensions and 3rd Party Addons
- Disqus ID - Add your Disqus Site Shortname to enable comments for your site. Click here to register for a Disqus site account.
- Google Analytics ID - Ascender has asynchronous Google Analytics tracking built into the theme, all you need to do is add your site ID to this option.
- Clicky ID - For realtime tracking of who is on your site right now, goals, campaigns and Twitter monitoring add your Click ID. Clicky does charge for their analytics and tracking, but I highly recommend it for people who are stats junkies. Sign up for an account with Clicky.
- Instagram Access Token - To add your recent Instagram shots head over to stylehatch.co/instagram and follow the easy steps to authorize the theme with Instagram and get your access token.
- Typekit ID - Add your Typekit site ID enable custom typography and font-face fonts for your site. For detailed directions check out our help article on adding Typekit to your Tumblr blog.
- Body Font Family, Title Font Family - Add a standard CSS font stack or Typekit CSS font name to control the body and title fonts.
Social Links
Add URLs to display the following social site icons below your site description. Note: Make sure you add the full URL, including “http://”.
Behance, Cargo Collective, Delicious, Deviant Art, Digg, Dribbble, Ember, Etsy, Facebook, FFFFound, Flickr, Formspring, Forrst, Foursquare, Gowalla, Last.fm, Linked In, Myspace, Pinterest, Rdio, Skype, Spotify, Slideshare, Soundcloud, Stumbled Upon, Twitter, Vimeo, generic website link, Youtube, and your email address.