PSA to anyone who uses the Tumblr “Effector” theme!
If anyone else uses it, BE AWARE:
Tumblr no longer lists the theme as selectable in the themes list or directory.
Although the theme still works, if you’re playing about with your themes and you install another, you won’t be able to change back (unless, I guess, you save the Effector theme locally in notepad or something).
This happened to me tonight - I tried a few other themes, expecting to just switch back if I didn’t like the ones I was trying (which I’ve done a dozen times before), but I wasn’t able to. I had to revert to the Tumblr default and quickly fix my blog so it at least works again.
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Hi, me again! I'm SO sorry to keep bothering you but I just have one more question. How can I keep the dashboard sizes for photosets in the Effector theme in the 600/700 content widths? Otherwise they expand and blurry captions galore. Thank you so much for your reply and taking the time to write such clear instructions and screenshots. I really, really appreciate it and thank you! :)
Hi there. You’re welcome :-).Â
About the photoset posts in the Effector theme - could you elaborate more on what you mean as I’m not seeing anything blurry on the photoset post?
This is how the photoset post looks like on my dashboard (using the Quote Archives blog with the Effector theme installed):
If I click on one of the images, it looks like this:
On the Quote Archives blog, the photoset post looks like this:
If I click on the magnifying glass icon, this is what happens:Â
The blurry pics you’re seeing might have been caused by the images themselves. If they’re of a smaller size, they can appear pixelated and blurry.Â
Hi! I'm using PixelUnion's 'Effector' theme. I'm useless at coding. I want to make all font sizes larger, as it looks small: post titles, headings, inside text, description box & header. Even 15px will do. I've tried for hours to add custom CSS using steps from PixelUnion's 'Add Custom CSS for Beginners' but to no avail. The one success was your code for hyperlinking post titles. If possible, I'd also like content width to be 540px instead of 500/600/700px. Couldn't do that either! Help please!
Hi there. Sorry for the late response.
Unfortunately, it’s not going to be easy to change the font sizes in the Effector Theme. You’ll have to do it manually. I’ll use Quote Archives as an example since looks like am still using the Effector Theme on that blog.
So, first, access the theme options page of your blog. Click on “Edit HTML”.
Look for the class name that corresponds with what you want to change.Â
For example, to change the font size of the blog heading or blog title, look for the “blog-title” class. Add the code: style=“font-size:23px;” within the h1 tag. Just change the size to the number you want. See the pic below for reference:
Here, I’ve changed the blog title’s font size from 23px to 33px:
Click the “update preview” button to see the changes you’ve made. If you’re satisfied with how the changes look on your blog, just click the “save” button.
To change the font size of the description in the sidebar, use the “description” class.
Find {CustomCSS} in your blog’s theme and add this code above it:
.description{ font-size:18px;}
Just change the number to the size you want.
To change the font sizes of your posts, you’ll need to do this for each individual post type. Let’s take a look at the Quote Post as an example.
The default size of this quoted text is 20px. To change this, we need to look for the class that corresponds to this quote post’s blockquote. In this case it’s the class “type-quote” and “quote-text”.
Find {CustomCSS} again and add this code above it:
.type-quote .quote-text{font-size:35px;}
For the description or the source part of the quote post, the class is “quote-description”. You can add the font size above the{CustomCSS}  or you can add it inline like this:Â
This one shows 15px font size:
This one shows 20px font size:
Just do the same for the other post types. Look for the blocks (like {block:Text}) to find the classes that correspond to each post type.
About changing the content width - that’s going to be really complicated since a lot of the codes will have to be changed. I suggest sticking to the available widths.
Okay, so I’ve been playing around with inserting a playlist onto my Tumblr page - either through wikplayer or SCM Music player (both are pretty much the same thing) - but I can’t work out where to paste the code.Â
All the instructions say to paste it after < body >, but since the only < body I can find is < body class=" nothing seems to work. I’m using Effector Theme; if anyone else is using this theme and has worked out where to insert the dratted code, some pointers would be much appreciated.Â
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Don’t get me wrong. I love, and I mean love, the Effector theme by Pixel Union. It looks so awesome plus it’s free. What more can you ask for, right? Of course, I did modify the template a bit lot to my liking and I do like the way it currently looks.
But I still think it’s time for a theme change anyway. It’s just that all of my Tumblr blogs are using the modified version of the Effector theme and, well, I’m thinking that I wanna use different themes for different blogs now, just to have more variety and stuff.
I’m currently working on a Tumblr theme right now and I can’t wait to finish it and install it on one of my Tumblr blogs. I’m not exactly sure yet which blog and I’m still thinking of making more templates for my other blogs and I’m also considering keeping the Effector theme on at least one blog. Eh, I dunno yet. We’ll see, I guess. I’m just really looking forward to it.
So, what about you? What’s your favorite theme here on Tumblr? Do you prefer the free ones or the paid ones?
Not as many as I made to Brutal Simplicity, but I still changed a few things like the background color on images, and making my blog's title all caps. Might make a few more minor changes in the future.
