Custom Posterous Themes

October 23, 2010 By 12 Comments
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Posterous have recently brought out functionality for developers to create buttons that will allow Posterous users to install custom themes without having to delve into the copy and paste of the current system. With any luck, this will encourage theme designers to start considering Posterous and offer free or paid for theme designs.

I thought I’d give the new system a go, and to start with I’ve updated one of my own themes to use global elements rather than any hard coded links to my own stuff. I’ve also uploaded theme graphics to Amazon S3 to ensure the images will always be available and not dependent on my own domain or the Fish Media servers.

For example, the path to the theme images will now follow this route:

s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mackney/theme/black/rss-button.png

When you click the new ‘Install Theme’ button you will be taken to a Posterous page as shown in the image above. If you do decide to apply the theme you will still have full control to revert back to any of your previous themes – the new theme will simply appear in your theme library.

So if anyone fancies giving the new theme a spin around the {block}, feel free to let me know about any issues or enhancements. I’ll use any feedback to ensure future themes that I put together will have what people ask for.

Anyway, I’ve created a Custom Posterous Themes Landing Page that should grow with future themes. Please check it out and let me know.

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Custom Posterous Themes Posterous Design (@andybull):
25/10/2010 09:11
@richardmackney Brilliant Posterous theme, and brilliantly simple to install. Why can’t all themes be one-click?

 

Custom Posterous Themes Posterous Design (@michaeljameson):
24/10/2010 21:11
@richardmackney got the theme just working through your other posterous tips – very useful thanks. Cant quite work out webmaster tools yet

 

Custom Posterous Themes Posterous Design (@greighenderson):
24/10/2010 18:56
My posterous has been given a revamp by using a custom theme created by @richardmackney (Cheers dude!) http://greighenderson.posterous.com/
https://twitter.com/greighenderson/status/28615458392

 

Custom Posterous Themes Posterous Design Andy Bull (@andybull):
24/10/2010 09:32
RT @richardmackney: If anyone fancies a play with a @posterous custom theme … kick this about http://post.ly/16a3j

 

Custom Posterous Themes Posterous Design Adam Singer (@adamsingy):
24/10/2010 06:28
RT @richardmackney: If anyone fancies a play with a @posterous custom theme … kick this about http://post.ly/16a3j

 

Custom Posterous Themes Posterous Design Rich Pearson (@richiepear):
24/10/2010 06:01
RT @richardmackney: If anyone fancies a play with a @posterous custom theme … kick this about http://post.ly/16a3j

 

Custom Posterous Themes Posterous Design Gary Austin (@photo_gaz):
23/10/2010 22:01
RT @richardmackney: If anyone fancies a play with a @posterous custom theme … kick this about http://post.ly/16a3j

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Sharer of thoughts and Photography from an iPhone while touring the UK in a Caravan and drinking Beer. Co-creator of @fishmedia and two small fry.

  • Brian Sharland

    applied it – works just fine and looks great

  • Richard Mackney

    @sharland Brilliant Brian. I’ve spoken to @Posterous and they confirmed an early bug with the ‘my profile’ section. You may need to either change theme, delete the old one then re-click my install button to add it again – or just edit the theme and click save which will auto update the Posterous code.A pain I know.

  • Gary Austin

    Works fine thank’s, nice theme too and I am using it

  • Sarah Green

    Will you be adding the ability to have links on the page as well as just in the navigation (eg. what posterous calls ‘sites I like’ on their pages & links section of the mangement)?

  • Richard Mackney

    Yes, good point. Will definitely have a links section.

  • Limbs Andthings

    i’m giving a try. p.s. your share button doesn’t boomerang back to your page either.

  • Limbs Andthings
  • Limbs Andthings

    i just installed and like it, but unfortunately your share button kicks me right off the screen after posting to facebook too. just wondering if anyone else has that problem. i’m on firefox beta with windows xp

  • Richard Mackney

    .@limbsandthings I see what you mean about the fb share. I’ve changed it to open in a new window. I don’t think fb want us to use ‘share’ anymore and are pushing for the ‘like’ – which is a shame as the ‘share’ gives the thumbnail option etc.Some interesting stuff about ‘share vs. ‘like’ here: http://daggle.com/facebook-button-facebook-share-keeping-1792

  • Limbs Andthings

    i appreciate it and what a pain in the ass their particular encoding is on this function, and despite what they ‘say’ everyone of course, uses share for the exact reasons you mention and always will if given the choice for more potent stats and return. i visited Guy whatshisname’s posterous (one of the founders?) and saw his share function opened as it should in a popup, but figured that since he has his own domain that was how he swung that. i asked him about it, nevertheless and will let you know if there are any tricks he shared. besides what you’ve already done, i assume with the ‘target’ tag, i think it’s as good as can be gotten currently. Although I reckon Posterous said something about including one themselves in the near future, but i’m not holding my breath. Do you have any suggestions with your code as to how to associate my app for my posterous blog with the Facebook share and like? or is that also still impossible without JS? and one more:how in the hell are we supposed to search for our ‘draft’ or private posts from within dashboard since Po has disabled the link? I’ve written and posted about it, but i still can’t figure it. Love your template. Not crazy about the background, but that’s small potatoes which hopefully i can graduate from on your next. Thanks for your response. m

  • Limbs Andthings

    did you forget to pay the electricity bill again? no theme.

  • Kimberly Simpson

    Your theme is one of the best! I’d like to have the custom header inserted into the header, is there somewhere in the code I could put it? I’m new to reading it all, and it didnt seem similar to other posterous themes. Is this possible?