Catching Elephant Theme

Catching Elephant is a theme for Tumblr.

Please look through all the answers here before asking a question. The same questions keep coming up.

A lot of customisation can be done with custom css. Try googling css background for example.

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

sinisajagarinec asked
your theme is awesome! thank you very much for sharing! :-)

No worries.

dogukan asked
I wrote a short paragraph telling how cool you are and your theme in my blog.

http://tumblr.com/xubgs3qe2

Thanks bro

cyprusmusings asked
Hi Andy,

I'd like to add Google ads, how can I do that between posts and on the side bar after twitter?

Thank you!

Don’t bother. You won’t even start to make any money until you have thousands of visits a day.

To put things (ads) between posts you use {block:Post[1-15]} {/block:Post[1-15]}. You can read about it here.

justincox asked
Will you be updating Catching Elephant with Tumblr's new attribution code?

According to this, the awesome staff at Tumblr are going to do it themselves to all the Featured themes.

I don’t have heaps of time at the moment. But I’ll see what they do and maybe update it a bit depending on what they do.

It’s an excellent solution for a big problem on Tumblr. Will be interesting to see how it all pans out.

helenledao asked
Hello Andy!
I've looked at a bunch of other themes and I must say, I like yours the best!

One thing that is odd though. I noticed that the first time I tried your theme, there was a "Twitter" bar on the left side bar with my twitter messages and whatnot. But after experimenting and trying other themes, (only to end up picking yours again,) the Twitter thing and the Twitter messages won’t show up anymore. I don’t know how to make it show again. :<
Would you happen to know what might be the problem?
As far as I can tell, my Twitter is public.

Go to Customise > Appearance and check you’ve put your Twitter username in there.

imtehwinrar asked
Is there a way to change the colour of highlighted text and the glow around the boxes?

Shadow/glow here

Highlighted text:

::-moz-selection {
background: rgb(0,235,0);
}

::selection {
background: rgb(0,235,0);
}

code::-moz-selection {
background: rgb(0,235,0);
}

code::selection {
background: rgb(0,235,0);
}

imtehwinrar asked
Just informing: the high-res 'zoom' isn't working anymore.

I just did a test and it’s working fine. Remember the feature will only be available if there is actually a high res version. And you need to click on the magnifying glass, not just the photo.

Or you may have broken it with all the customisation you’ve done.

Test post.

Test post.