Auld is a non-traditional Tumblr style blog premium WordPress Theme from WooThemes, designed by James McDonald. The Auld theme was a perfect fit to use with the jQuery Masonry plugin, which allows the post blocks to align perfectly on the homepage in a two column fashion. This theme includes features like a boxed layout, post alignment via jQuery for a uniform look, custom typography with Google Fonts, 10 beautiful color schemes, custom coded widgets, theme backend options and more. For a more closer look check out the screenshots of the home page and timeline page below :
Auld, Tumblr style WordPress theme from WooThemes - front page
Auld, Tumblr style WordPress theme from WooThemes - timeline page
Features
Check out the features of the Auld theme :
- jQuery Post Alignment: Uses the jQuery Masonry plugin to align the post blocks nicely below each other in a two column fashion.
- Custom Widgets: The Auld theme has a widgetized sidebar, and comes with custom Woo Widgets.
- Custom Typography: You can customize the theme typography, and there is full support for Google Fonts in the font selector.
- Alternative Styles: 10 alternative color styles, and also styling options for background color/image and setting link and button color.
Tumblog Functionality :
- Works like Tumblr: Tumblr is an impressive & very popular platform and now you can replicate that functionality & awesomeness on your WordPress-powered tumblogging site.
- Advanced QuickPress: Post to your tumblog from your dashboard, using the amazing new AJAX-powered & WooThemes-exclusive QuickPress functionality.
- Extensive Multimedia Support: Posting a variety of multimedia elements (images, video, audio, quotes, notes & links) is easy to do and Auld handles all of the different “post types” auto-magically.
- Publish from your iPhone with Express App: Auld supports the Express App for iPhone, which lets you post images, notes, links and quotes while on the go!
Other features :
- Sidebar Manager: Allows you to replace all widgetized sidebars and footers in the theme with a unique custom sidebar.
- Woo Custom Navigation: Allows you full customization over how your navigation should be structured in the theme
- Custom Shortcodes: Allows you to easily add buttons, boxes, social buttons, columns and more to your posts, pages and widgets.
- Backend Theme Options: Making simple changes without editing code, like adding your own logo, changing to an alternate colour style, adding Google Analytics code etc.
- Auto-sizing Thumbnails: An image resizer script built into the Woo framework automatically scales your post images for pixel perfect display in our templates.
- Localized for Translations: WooThemes come packaged with a .po file for easy WordPress theme translations into your desired language
- Custom Page Templates
- Built-in SEO options: Helps to boost your website’s search engine rankings
- WooFramework2: Framework with updated options panel, modifications are a breeze, whilst all is neatly coded for search engine readiness and further theme development
Pricing
Standard pricing of the Auld theme from WooThemes is as follows :
- Auld Theme: $70 (buy one, get 2 themes free)
- Auld Theme (developers version): $150 (buy one, get 3 themes free, including PSD’s)
- Standard Club Membership: $85 (+$15 month recurring, gives access to all existing + to be released themes incl. updates)
- Developer Club Membership: $140 (+$20 month recurring, gives access to all existing + to be released themes incl. updates & PSD’s)
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