Alchemist
Alchemist is a photo gallery on steroids. It’s designed for blogs with lots of content, it’s highly customisable to match your style.
Getting started
If you need help installing the theme you can check out our section on that. How to install theme to Tumblr.
A few other things you may want to do are:
Customization
To start making edits to your theme you’ll need to go on to your blog page and click Edit Theme at the top right.
Colours
We’ve kept the colour options for the theme minimal. The few options let you take control of the look and feel of your blog.
Logo
You can choose a photo to upload as a logo which will be resized to fit the header.
Menu Links
Alchemist uses Tumblr Archive, RSS & Random links which can be turned off easily. There are options to add Custom links which you can choose to link to any page. e.g.
Header Image
Alchemist allows you to add a full width header image. First you’ll need to go to your customisation settings and turn on Banner Background. Then you will need to upload your image to Banner Background.
Google Analytics
Alchemist has built-in support for Google Analytics tracking. On Google Analytics create a new property for your Tumblr blog address and paste that tracking ID in to the Google Analytics ID field in your blog’s Customization settings.
Social Links
To link to your social media paste your profile link in the relevant URL box. By default it will display on the navigation as text e.g. Vimeo, If you would like to switch to icons turn on the Social Links Icon option.
Extended
Sidebar
Alchemist’s sidebar has a few widgets that you can edit to make your own. You can add an avatar, text widget, search widget, social links and other social widgets to display your feeds.
To use the sidebar enable the Sidebar option in the Tumblr customize screen.
Instagram & Twitter Feeds
Alchemist supports Instagram and Twitter widgets. To display your most recent Instagram photos you’ll need your Access Token and User ID which you can get here. Once you’ve got them you’ll need to put them in the Dual options.
Instructions on linking your Twitter.
Sidebar Description
The sidebar uses a different Description than the main Tumblr description. To add text to the sidebar find the Sidebar Text Widget box and enter your description here. You can also paste HTML/JS inside.
Avatar
You will need to upload an avatar and toggle the Avatar option.
Typekit Fonts
You can add custom fonts from Typekit. You will need to enter your Typekit ID and Typekit font which will then change your blogs font. You can get more help with this here.
Bigger posts
You can make posts double the size by adding the tag double-width.
Soundcloud Player Widget
To enable this find the Soundcloud Widget URL box in the customize screen and paste your Soundcloud Playlist in this format. fuseplaylist/sets/smooth
You can also further customize it by selecting whether to Autoplay or Shuffle.
