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MetaLab and Pixel Union are proud to announce the highly anticipated sequel to our immensely popular tumblr theme, Fluid. With over 250,000 installs, Fluid has rapidly became one of Tumblr’s most popular themes. Fluid 2 incorporates the same aesthetic and functionality of Fluid, but with an inexhaustible list of custom features.
Fluid 2 is going to change the way people think about Tumblr themes. We’ve designed it to be the most innovative theme offered for the Tumblr platform. We’ve created a custom video player and we’ve unified it with the photo viewer. We’ve taken the photo viewer out of Flash and put it into javascript for iPhone and iPad compatibility. We’ve even designed a custom scroll bar. The best part is that we’ve done it all to Pixel Union standards: the code is simple, debugged to excess, and clean. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a MetaLab and 45royale production and it’s all backed by our Pixel Union support team.
Fluid 2 is jam-packed with incredible features:
- Fully customizable: use any background image or color, tile the background, left or center align your content or turn off certain sections of the navigation bar.
- Incredible custom video player: works seamlessly with YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, and Collegehumor and in HD where available. Video player automatically “turns down the lights” by fading out the background, focusing attention on your content.
- Custom photo viewer: lightbox for high-res images, custom photo set viewer that uses javascript (no more flash) and smart optional scaling for images (images under 400px never scale up).
- Make the best of social media: quickly link to your Facebook and Twitter, display recent tweets and recent Tumblr likes.
And much more:
- Keyboard controls for post navigation (Next: J / Previous: K / Top of the page: H).
- Pages
- Ask and Submit
- Content attribution
- Background attribution
- View the archive through a frame
- iPhone and iPad Compatible
- Endless scrolling that will remember your position if you go to a permalink page or any link within a post.
Unlike the original Fluid, Fluid 2 is $19. A small price to pay for the amount of time our team has put into it. Find out why we think this is the most exciting theme for the tumblr platform: http://www.tumblr.com/theme/15063
