Fast Blog

What Fast Blog is?

Fast Blog is a WordPress theme with some extra tumblr-like features. It’s perfect for easy blogging and thanks to the WooTumblog plugin (included) you can add posts quickly even from a mobile phone. There are 6 types of posts:

• article
• image
• link
• audio
• video
• qoute

or you can create regular WordPress posts and pages too.

Fast Blog can also work as a regular website.
There is also no need to install WooTumblog plugin, theme works without it with no problem at all.

More features

• 4 widgets
• 73 social media icons
• 4 shortcodes with over 100 variations
• full width page template
• Cufón font replacement
• AJAX contact form (with validiation) working out of the box
• fast, clear, CSS -only, multi-level menu
• full translations support
• threaded comments
• nice Twitter and Flickr implementation (with very important buffering system to avoid exceeding the requests limit and to speed up page loading)
• Google Analytics support (or another tracking system)
• free updates + update notifier
• not bad free suport

I recommend RTL (right to left) layout extention by aplus.co.il (paid).

Changelog

Fast Blog 1.5

• added optional pagination inside posts
• added meta description tag of the site
• added YouTube links Fancybox support
• added bit.ly API key changing option
• updated social media icons set (33 new added)
• improved WooTumblog plugin support
• WordPress 3.3 ready
• new, extended documentation
• many other minor improvements

Fast Blog 1.4

• added post archive template
• added author information below posts
• added new meta element – categories
• added option to hide post/page titles
• added option to display image’s title in Fancybox
• added support for the following plugins: Livefyre Realtime Comments, Newsletter Sign-Up
• fixed [box] shortcode without any icon
• WordPress 3.2 ready
• other small improvements and fixes

Fast Blog 1.3

• added more control over typography (Cufón) on a site
• added option to switch Cufón off
• added new shortcode [cufon]
• added option to open sidebar images by Fancyfox
• updated included WooTumblog plugin to version 2.0.3
• added alternative (JavaScript) method for Twitter
• replaced Flowplayer with JWPlayer for self-hosted videos
• added support for Disqus and Intense Debate plugins
• fixed Facebook content reading issue while status publishing
• improved the look of a form of password protected posts
• improved the look of columns (shortcode) if used as a first element in the content
• fixed error with not displaying tumblog audio/video in posts
• fixed error causing page work slowly in IE8 browser
• other small improvements and fixes

Complete changelog can be found in the theme’s documentation.