TumblrThemr

decodering:

Creating themes for Tumblr sucks.

It’s a testament to the passion developers and designers feel for Tumblr that so many great themes exist – despite the complete lack of tools. No matter how you tackle it, developing a theme involves a time-consuming mess of manual copying and pasting, saving, testing, and copying and pasting again.

TumblrThemr solves this problem, letting you develop navigable themes locally using real data from your Tumblr blog.

How it works

1. You install our special Tumblr theme that outputs your blog’s data into machine-friendly XML.
2. We have a web service which converts and escapes that XML into a JSON data source for client-side templating.
3. We interpret your custom tumblr file and render it using your data.
4. Then we hijack your theme’s links to reload different pages locally.
5. Voila, local Tumblr theme development!

I can’t wait to try this out!