Flat Pack

Precrafted Support

Here’s a full breakdown of all the theme options included with Flat Pack. You can access these via your Customize page to change the appearance and functionality of your blog.

Appearance Options

These options let you change some basic settings on your blog. These also affect how your blog looks on mobile apps, the Dashboard and search results. You can also edit these from your main blog settings page – check out Tumblr’s help section for more details.

Title – this is where you set the Title of your blog, which is displayed in the intro post and in the title of the page in your browser.

Description – this is for some basic information about your blog. It is displayed in the intro post, below your blog title.

Header image – this is the image for your header, which appears all across Tumblr. On your theme, it’s displayed at the top of your intro post.

Avatar – this is the image for your avatar, which appears all across Tumblr. On your theme, it’s displayed above your blog title.

Avatar Shape – this let’s you choose either a square or circle avatar shape.

Title font – choose a font for your title, which appears all across Tumblr. You can also choose to use the regular or bold version of the font.

Background color – set the main background color for your blog.

Title color – set the color for your blog title.

Accent color – set the accent color your blog, this controls links and buttons too.

Show header image – choose whether to show your header image.

Show avatar – choose whether to show your avatar.

Show title – choose whether to show your blog title.

Show description – choose whether to show your blog description.

Image Options

Background – you can upload a custom background image for your whole page.

Logo – you can upload a Logo image, which will replace the title and avatar in the intro post.

Avatar – you can upload a custom Avatar image, which over-rides your default avatar.

Color Options

Menu Icon Background – this sets the background color of your menu icon.

Menu Icon – this sets the icon color of your menu icon.

Menu Icon Hover Background – this sets the background color of your menu icon when it’s hovered.

Menu Icon Hover – this sets the icon color of your menu icon when it’s hovered.

Menu Background – this sets the background color of your dropdown menu.

Menu Text – this sets the text color of your dropdown menu.

Menu Hover Background – this sets the background color of your dropdown menu, when a link is hovered.

Menu Hover Text – this sets the text color of your dropdown menu, when a link is hovered.

Social Background – this sets a background color of your social media links.

Social Icon – this sets a icon color of your social media links.

Social Hover Background – this sets a background color of your social media links when they are hovered.

Social Hover Icon – this sets a icon color of your social media links when they are hovered.

Post Background – this sets the background color for the Posts on your blog.

Post Titles – this sets the text color for the the titles and quotes in your posts.

Text – this sets the main text color for your blog and posts.

Link – this sets the color for links in your posts.

Link Hover – this sets the hover color for links in your posts.

Dropdown Options

Pagination – choose which pagination method to use: load more adds a simple button you hit to load more posts, infinite scroll loads posts as you scroll, and standard adds basic previous/next page buttons.

Photo Links– the six Link options allow you to choose what happens when you click on a photo:

  • Photo Link – choose what happens when you click the image in a regular photo post
  • Photo Link Permalink – same as above, but for the permalink of that post
  • Panorama Link – choose what happens when you click the image in a Panorama photo post
  • Panorama Link Permalink – same as above, but for the permalink
  • Photoset Link – choose what happens when you click an image in a photo set grid post
  • Photoset Link Permalink – same as above, but for the permalink

And the available options are:

  • Post – links to the permalink URL of the post
  • Image – links to the permalink URL of the image
  • Lightbox – opens the image in a lightbox view
  • None – just shows the photo, no link

Toggle Options

Photoset Cover – using this option shows the first image from a Photoset post on the home page, and then shows the full grid of images when you click through. Perfect for portfolios where you want to show more images on the permalink post.

Tile Background – sets the background image (if you uploaded one) to tile/repeat, instead of filling the screen.

Show Search – choose whether to show the search field in your dropdown menu.

Show Archive Link – shows a link to your archive in the main menu.

Focus Mode – turns on ‘focus mode’, where the other posts fade down when you’re hovering your mouse over the posts grid.

White Icons – changes the icons at the bottom of posts to white, in case you are using a dark background color.

Show Meta On Home – shows extra information at the bottom of your posts on the home page.

Show Group Author – if you’re using a group blog, this shows the avatar and name of who created the post on permalink pages.

Sharer – choose whether to show the ‘share’ function at the bottom of posts.

Sharer Twitter – choose whether to include Twitter sharing in the sharer popup.

Sharer Facebook – choose whether to include Facebook sharing in the sharer popup.

Sharer Google – choose whether to include Google+ sharing in the sharer popup.

Sharer Pinterest – choose whether to include Pinterest sharing in the sharer popup.

Text Options

Load More – sets the text inside the ‘load more’ button.

Load More Loading – sets the text inside the ‘load more’ button while posts are loading.

Load More End – sets the text inside the ‘load more’ button when there are no more posts to load.

Footer Text – sets the text in the footer of the page, next to the copyright statement.

Grid Spacing – control the amount of space between posts in the grid.

Post Spacing – control the amount of padding/border inside the post.

Photoset Spacing – control the amount of space between photos in a Photoset grid post.

Title Font Size – control the font size used in your blog title.

Title Letter Spacing – control the spacing between characters in your blog title.

Google Analaytics Code – enter your Profile ID for Google Analytics tracking – see full details here.

Disqus Shortname – simply add your Disqus Shortname here to enable Disqus comments on your blog.

Font Embed and Family – let’s you set up custom fonts, see full details here.

URL icons – let’s you link to your other websites/social media, see full details here.

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