Screenshot Tour

This is a quick screenshot tour of Thoth’s interface. Although this is just the boring default theme, Thoth is incredibly easy to customize, and you’re encouraged to make your blog look unique. For an example of a custom Thoth theme that also uses several plugins, check out wonko.com.

Many of the images on this page are only thumbnails. Click on an image to view it at full size.

Welcome to Thoth

A bare, completely uncustomized Thoth blog. This is the first thing you’ll see when you browse to your new Thoth installation.

Out of the box, Thoth is clean and uncluttered. You’re more than welcome to add your own clutter in the form of plugins, theme elements, and other customizations, but we’ll leave that entirely up to you.

Logging In

When you’re ready to log in and check out Thoth’s admin features, press Ctrl+Alt+A to bring down the login toolbar.

That’s right, the login form was sitting right there under your nose and you didn’t even realize it. No need to remember a special admin URL; you’ve got the admin interface at your fingertips no matter where you are on your blog.

All you have to do is hit Ctrl+Alt+A, enter your username and password, and you’ll be presented with Thoth’s lovely context-sensitive admin toolbar, integrated right into whatever page you’re currently looking at:

Of course, we wouldn’t want to force you to use the keyboard shortcut to log in if you don’t want to. Keyboard shortcuts and fancy auto-expanding toolbars require JavaScript, and some people prefer to browse with JavaScript disabled. We’re cool with that, and so is Thoth. You can always browse to http://yourblog.com/admin and log in using a boring normal login form, just like in the old days.

Admin Interface

Once you’re logged in, you can create blog posts and static pages, upload media and files to use in your posts, and browse through existing posts, pages, and comments.

Thoth supports freeform tagging on blog posts to help you keep things organized and searchable. As you type a tag name, Thoth displays a list of existing tags matching what you’ve typed so far to help you find exactly the right tag.

Comments

Readers can comment on your blog posts via a friendly comment form that supports both Textile and sanitized XHTML for formatting and allows users to preview their comments before posting so they don’t embarrass themselves with silly formatting mistakes. Thoth automatically displays Gravatar avatars for commenters to make them easy to identify.

Thoth provides simple, painless protection against automated comment spam without resorting to frustrating Captchas. And for those rare occasions when something unwanted does end up getting through, deleting a comment is as easy as clicking the convenient “Delete” icon that’s displayed next to each comment when you’re logged in as the administrator.

Feeds and Microformats

Thoth provides RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds of recent blog posts and comments, as well as comment feeds for each individual post so you and your readers can easily follow interesting discussions and be notified of replies in a feed reader.

In addition to the RSS and Atom feeds, Thoth’s main page and individual blog posts are marked up using the hAtom microformat.

As if that’s not enough, Thoth also automatically generates an up-to-date sitemap that makes your blog posts and pages more easily indexable by search engines.

Search

Speaking of search engines: instead of using a half-assed weak sauce search implementation based on simple string matching like some other blog software, Thoth seamlessly integrates the full power of Yahoo! Search right into your blog.

And we don’t mean that we redirect searches to search.yahoo.com using a site-restricted query; Thoth actually calls the Y! Search API behind the scenes and displays the results right on your blog.

To see how powerful this is, try a few searches on wonko.com

And Much, Much More

These are just screenshots. To truly appreciate how simple and awesome Thoth is, visit one of the sites using Thoth or install it yourself and play around!