A Complete Guide To Tumblr
Think of Tumblr as micro-blogging on steroids (technically, it’s called “tumblelogging”). Whereas Twitter and similar services limit posts to 140 characters or less, Tumblr lets you post updates of any length, although it’s best suited to short-format posts. Tumblr bridges the gap between full-blown blog and micro-blog.
Tumblr is also an option for designers and creative people, because it gives you complete control over the look of your tumblelog. It also offers great opportunities for theme designers, especially with the recent launch of premium themes (which range in price from $9 to $49). Read on for your complete guide to using and designing for Tumblr.
Why Use Tumblr?
Quite simply because Tumblr makes setting up a blog very easy. It also makes it very simple for you to follow other tumbleloggers on the website and to share their content. Tumblr tries to combine the best parts of blogging and micro-blogging in one. It handles longer-form and multimedia posts, like regular blogs, while encouraging more interaction between tumbleloggers, like micro-blogs.
Post Formats
The fact that Tumblr has built-in formats for a variety of content types makes it stand out from other blogging and micro-blogging platforms. There are templates for text, photos, videos, audio, quotes, links and chat transcripts. Most themes take advantage of the differences between these post types and implement special formatting for each one. You can also add plain text to most of these post types, and you can add images to your text posts. It’s a quite flexible system.
Because of the unique post formats, Tumblr makes a perfect platform for vlogging and podcasting, as well as for photo blogging. For audio posts, you can even call in a post, requiring nothing more than a phone. You can also email in posts of all types (each type of post has a specific email format).
Tumblr API
The Tumblr API has spawned plenty of third-party apps that let you do all sorts of things with Tumblr. More than a dozen iPhone apps can be used with Tumblr, and at least as many Web services. Desktop and mobile apps are available, as well as widgets and plug-ins that you can use on other websites. You can set up Tumblr to automatically post to your Twitter or Facebook account, too.
For developers, the API opens a world of options for creating apps. The API itself is relatively straightforward and anyone with basic PHP and XML skills will have a short learning curve. While dozens of Tumblr apps are already out there, there’s still plenty of room for further expansion.
Other Unique Features
Like Twitter, Tumblr lets you follow other users and view their posts in your dashboard. Tumblr also gives you the option to reblog or “heart” (the equivalent to a “Like” on Facebook) posts from anyone, whether you follow them or not.
Following other users is simple: just click the “Follow” link in the upper-right corner of their tumblelog. That’s also where you’ll find the links to heart or reblog content.
Blog Options
Tumblr gives you fairly complete control over how you blog. You can set up group blogs with multiple authors. You can also set up numerous blogs under a single account (each with its own custom options), though only one username is able to follow other tumblelogs. Tumblr also lets you keep private Tumblelogs that are password-protected, so you can share them with those you know or keep them completely personal. Just make sure not to post to your public tumblelog by accident!
Getting Started
Starting out with Tumblr is easy. Just sign up on the site, enter your email address and a password and the URL you want to use (something.tumblr.com). You’ll have the option to set up a custom domain name after you’ve signed up. Once your account is set up, you can start posting right away.
Themes and Customization
Hundreds of themes are available for Tumblr, most of them for free. Take some time to go through the theme options when you sign up, either to find one for your tumblelog or to get ideas to create your own theme.
One thing you may notice with Tumblr themes is that a lot of them have very narrow content areas. While wider themes are available, the vast majority are narrower than 800 pixels (and some even narrower than that).
Most Tumblr themes come with some customization options that don’t require any HTML and CSS knowledge (if you plan to create some public themes, you’ll probably want to include some customization options). There’s also an area to enter custom CSS that will override existing styles.
You can customize the HTML in any theme, too. Click on the “Customize” link from your dashboard, and then click on “Theme” and “Custom HTML.” This is also how you would create a theme from scratch. You can link to an external style sheet, too (Tumblr has a static file uploader for uploading theme assets).
Editing an existing theme is a great way to start designing for Tumblr. It also gives you complete control over how your theme looks and works without having to start from scratch.
The Bookmarklet
The Tumblr bookmarklet makes it easy to post content from anywhere on the Web. Just drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and use it when you find something to blog about. Depending on the page’s content, a window will pop up suggesting a particular content format for your post. You can change the post type right there or accept its suggestion.
Most pages will default to the “Link” post format, but if you’re on Flickr, for example, it will default to the “Photo” format. Likewise, if you’re watching a YouTube video, it will default to the “Video” format.
Creating Custom Tumblr Themes
While Tumblr makes it easy to customize the HTML and CSS of almost any theme, you may want to start from scratch. If you’ve ever created a theme for another blogging platform or CMS, creating a Tumblr theme won’t be any more difficult. Even if you haven’t created a theme for another CMS, creating a Tumblr theme isn’t much more difficult than creating a standard HTML template.
Basic Structure
Tumblr themes include the same basic parts as any website. There’s usually a header and main content area, as well as an optional sidebar and footer. Beyond that, Tumblr themes are broken down into blocks. Each block on your tumblelog contains some piece of data. For example, there are blocks for each of the post types (text, photo, audio, video, etc.), as well as blocks for things like your tumblelog’s description and “Previous” and “Next” page links.
The Tumblr loop has a huge number of variables to take advantage of. You’ll need to define blocks for each post type in order to display them properly in your theme. Beyond that, you choose what to include in your theme.
A complete list of Tumblr variables can be found on the Creating a Custom HTML Theme page on Tumblr’s website. The page also includes more information on creating Tumblr themes in general.
More on Tumblr Theme Variables
Variables allow you to do various custom things with your Tumblr themes. There are basic variables for things like the theme title, portrait URLs and favicons. There are unique variables for each of the post formats, too. Some formats (like text posts) have only a handful of variables, while others have over a dozen.
Creating Public Themes
With the addition of premium themes, many designers are becoming more interested in creating their own Tumblr themes. You might want to do a few things to a public theme that you might not bother with for a personal theme, though. One of these is creating some customization options that allow users to change things like font colors and which parts of a page to show and hide. Look around at what other themes allow to be customized, and look at the variables that Tumblr uses.
Public themes do have a few requirements that may not apply to personal themes. These are:
- All the theme’s assets have to be hosted on Tumblr.
- Third-party widgets have to be commented out. This means that you can include the code and instructions on how to enable it, but it must be disabled by default.
- Your theme must support all of the different post types: text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio and video.
- It must support the standard tags (check the variables list to see what they are).
- It must be good-looking and fully functional. Tumblr themes are vetted for quality; unattractive ones won’t make the cut.
At the moment, when you submit a theme to Tumblr, it’s free by default. To be able to sell premium themes through the Tumblr directory, you’ll either need to ask or be invited. Overall, the premium themes program is pretty secretive.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t sell premium Tumblr themes elsewhere. Theme Forest has a number of Tumblr themes for sale. Other theme developers sell them directly through their own websites. Both are options if you want to get into the premium theme market.
Remember to include credit and a link in the footer of your theme, so that visitors can find your other themes and download them. Many users will leave this credit and link as is, giving you potential traffic for your blog.
Tumblr-Specific Memes
You may want to consider joining in on some Tumblr-specific trends, events and memes out there.
Tumblr Tuesdays and Recommended Blogs
Think of Tumblr Tuesdays as sort of like Twitter’s #FollowFriday hash tag. Tumblr has a built-in recommendation engine that feeds the directory listings of blogs that are recommended enough as well as the recommended tumblelogs that show up in your dashboard’s sidebar.
Bacon
I suspect that Tumblr has a higher proportion of bacon-related blogs than on any other blogging or micro-blogging service out there. Just a quick search turns up at least half a dozen tumblelogs focused exclusively on bacon.
Unfollow Friday
Playing on Twitter’s #FollowFriday hash tag, Unfollow Friday encourages you to post annoying or disgusting things to your tumblelog in an effort to get people to unfollow you. The goal is to see how many people you can get to stop following you.
Conclusion
Whether you’re looking for a quick and easy platform to post short-format or multimedia posts or you’re interested in developing custom Tumblr themes to give away or sell, this guide should get you on your way. If you have additional resources or tips to share, please do so in the comments below!
Further Resources
- 34 Amazing Tumblr Themes—Twitter Could Never Look This Good!
- Things to Know About Custom Tumblr Theme Design
- Getting Started With Tumblr and Custom Theme Design
- Theming Tumblr
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theGipper
July 22nd, 2010 6:10 amWhy is it that it is cool to start blogs with an expletive, and even more normal to review them like there’s nothing wrong. Crude and pottymouth is not cool, especially for a general web audience. Your review should not glorify a crass trend.
Vitaly Friedman
July 22nd, 2010 6:16 amI think you are right. The article was updated, thank you.
Damon
July 22nd, 2010 6:26 amAw did the name of the article change? It used to be Fuck Yeah Tumblr? That would have been quite appropriate, really.
It also is strange not to mention the FuckYeahTopic blogs in the Memes section.. it’s a pretty predominant one.
And if you’re put out about seeing swearing on the internet, you might want to start getting used to it, because there’s only going to be more and more.
Pete Morley
July 22nd, 2010 6:37 amIt was the FuckYeah topics that people were taking offense to. Shame really since they are popular memes. You’d think an adult would be able to handle the odd naughty word when used in context.
Josh Humble
January 6th, 2012 2:15 pmPete – adults have different values, some more liberal and some more conservative; it doesn’t mean one is wrong or right, but what it DOES mean is that you risk the alienation of many good prospects with titles like this. Many ACTUAL adults consider the title less than adult-like. They’re more aware of the broad picture, and who they’re eliminating from their demo. But then, that’s a part of appealing to your target audience. My years in both marketing and webdev have shown this. If you want broad appeal, knock off the shock crap and present the content with substance. If you want to focus on a much smaller demo, while strongly isolating the rest, go ahead, knock yourself out with the “hilarity.”
Bobby Adamson
July 22nd, 2010 7:07 amEDIT – So, I figured out that it was pretty much the title that changed and nothing really informative… you guys might want to do an edit on the post explaining that. I thought I was missing out.
Some Dude1
July 23rd, 2010 11:06 amI can’t stand f**ks like you – if you don’t like something, f**k off… nobody asked for your opinions and morals on blog post content, nobody wants to be ‘policed’ on the internet.
Great post – I apologize for some of the internet c*nt stains that wait for new blog posts so they can complain about them. I don’t apologize for my language ;)
Josh Humble
January 6th, 2012 2:01 pmI’d hate to have you represent my firm, Some Dude1. People like you complain about the stifling of free speech, when you clearly don’t believe in it – or dissent, that is. Free speech is only good if it’s in your favor. There’s a big push in the design and UX community to understand and actually “communicate” well with others – especially clients, prospects and team members. You certainly can’t be trusted around anyone. But your anonymity relieves you of any guilt or consequences. Good going.
Oh, and real policing is the act of deleting or banning posters (also appropriate at times, provided it’s from the author of the site or forum), not simply objecting to them.
Jake
July 27th, 2010 2:01 amFuckyeah blogs are a big part of tumblr, actually. And not everyone is scared of an ickle little swear word.
Brian Alexander
July 22nd, 2010 6:11 amI have not been using Tumblr that long, but the time that I have I love it!
Sławek
July 22nd, 2010 6:18 amIs the fact that some blogs start with a vague ‘FuckYeah’ or ‘HellYeah’ the first and most important thing to mention when writing about Tumbler’s trends?
First thing I thought when I saw that header: Someone hacked SM and replaced a header with ‘FuckYeah’.
( Edit: Nevermind, article updated – that’s better :) )
Mike Smedley
July 22nd, 2010 6:20 amSome really cool blogs on Tumblr – Quite hoping to start on my own theme soon, rather then mooching from those already there!!!
Chaim Chaikin
July 22nd, 2010 6:22 amIf sd cards that are not big enough to be sd cards and not small enough to be micro-sd cards are called mini-sd cards then tumblr should be called mini-blogging.
Pumpki
July 22nd, 2010 6:23 amEXACTLY WHAT I NEED RIGHT NOW!!!!
THANKS SOOO MUCH!!
kinda funny… :)
Always on the ball guys!
Share and like
July 22nd, 2010 6:27 amGreat post. I can do something with this.
Ted Goas
July 22nd, 2010 6:36 amHuh… never heard of unfollow friday before.
A nice followup might cover creating themes (including Tumblr hooks and shortcodes), using Tumblr on a custom domain, and extending Tumblr (if that’s possible).
This article is nice but PAINFULLY simple. You can get most of this info from Tumblr’s about & how-to pages.
jtd
July 22nd, 2010 1:48 pmagreed… it’s so simple it almost seems like an advertorial.
doesn’t feel like a ‘complete guide’ at all.
i’d much rather see a review of SquareSpace, or a comparison of blogging tools like Expression Engine vs. WordPress vs. SquareSpace, yadda yadda yadda… more of what he said above…
definitely a noob article.
tripdragon
July 22nd, 2010 6:36 amWusses if you can’t take a bit of cursing leave the internets :P . But besides the point there was to much missed for this to be remotely a complete guide.
How to promote, how to code, daily use, etc.
Garry Aylott
July 22nd, 2010 6:46 amI’ve been using Tumblr for a while and it’s the easiest blogging platform to get to grips with. I use it for my design blog garryaylottdesign.co.uk and suits all my needs for now.
Great article, thanks.
Cliff
July 22nd, 2010 6:46 amI gotta admit, I don’t see tumblr as professional at all. To me, tumblr is the new xanga – a blog used for high schoolers and other young folk who want to do a bit of creative writing, pass on interesting quotes and photos, and rant about their day. Honestly I would not take a blog seriously if it were a tumblr blog. Is anyone with me on that or am I just a biased asshole?
Damon
July 22nd, 2010 7:03 amI almost agree. I think of tumblr mostly as a scrapbook and don’t expect insightful discussion.. and I kind of assume that many but maybe not most of the people using it are highschoolers or wannabe trendy hipsters. At the same time, I use it, and a lot of really cool people use it. It may just be that the format is so easy to get into that many do and there’s no overall quality filter.. but luckily you only follow the blogs you want and can happily ignore the rest.
Pete Morley
July 22nd, 2010 7:13 amAgree with you. I’ve only just embraced WordPress as the backend for my own site, but that’s all it is, just a backend, I’ve tried to make it look as un-wordpressy as possible by using custom loops in a handbuilt template. A lot of these Tumblr sites seem like a great way of publishing content quickly and easily but that’s as far as it goes for me. It’s going to take some seriously skilled theme builders to show me the light with Tumblr. I’m sure as more designers embrace it, it’ll become more accepted, but right now it doesn’t feel as complete or as customisable as WordPress has become.
Damon
July 22nd, 2010 9:33 pmI don’t think Tumblr has much place as any sort of CMS if that’s what you’re getting at… it’s much closer to a multimedia twitter or facebook wall, with a bit of myspace thrown in (theme customizability). I don’t see it being useful for things that it isn’t.. That said, I’ve seen people use a tumblog as a resume, so who knows.
Juliann
July 22nd, 2010 6:49 amI love Tumblr, the simplicity and the design. Now I’ve quit Blogger for Tumblr. I’ve two blogs there, one dedicated for my lover and another about thoughts. Things I couldn’t say on twitter because it’s too long
Sergei Tatarinov
July 22nd, 2010 6:51 amDon’t know what to say.. I once argued to defend smashing article, this time I can’t help but say that this article is somewhat silly. What’s next? A complete guide to posterous?
Also, your link to unfollow friday wiki is taking me to a wrong domain, which is said to be for sale. The correct link is this: http://tumblepedia.wikidot.com/unfollow-friday .
And there’s a full website here: http://unfollowfriday.com/ .
Anant
July 22nd, 2010 6:59 amThanks! this is what i was searching for all day today…. ;)
Christophe
July 22nd, 2010 7:48 amwhat kind of moron would need a guide to use Tumbler ?? I mean, the UI is dead simple, if you manage to read and breathe by yourself you should be able to use it …
jr
July 22nd, 2010 8:06 amThanks for the article…did anyone else’s virus scanner go off when you clicked on the Cameron Chapman On Writing link?
Sergei Tatarinov
July 22nd, 2010 8:14 amIt really takes me to some shitty online scanner, which is in fact, scam. Just leave it, if you have already clicked cameron’s link.
Frazer Cox
July 22nd, 2010 8:26 amTumbler!!!
Exactly what I was looking for!
Another great article smashing
Karin
July 22nd, 2010 8:30 amI am not able to centralize their image and text in my tumblog. How to proceed?
zach
July 22nd, 2010 8:50 amYou guys totally missed Tumblr’s biggest meme which is GPOYW or “gratuitous picture of yourself wednesday” where tumblr members (in mass) post pictures of themselves.
David Horton
July 22nd, 2010 8:59 amThink this has persuaded me to open an Tumblr account! Thanks. Bookmarked and Tweeted!
Jon Raasch
July 22nd, 2010 9:24 amYeah I’ve been moving away from WordPress and using Tumblr for all my blogs. Just got too sick of updating WordPress once a month to avoid huge security flaws.
One thing to note about tumblr: You can tie multiple blogs to one account, BUT only the primary blog can follow other blogs, and there’s no way to make one of the secondary blogs into the primary.
Floris Fiedeldij Dop
July 23rd, 2010 12:14 amTumblr might have the same security issues, however, since the source code isn’t downloadable, you simply won’t know.
I rather use wordpress, which i can customize, have control over, can extend, and has auto upgrade and supported by thousands.
Then tumblr, which (while I use it), is just a tool with a theme, hosted elsewhere.
Eclipse
July 22nd, 2010 10:18 amTry http://posterous.com/ as an alternative, you don’t even need a registration! You might not be able to customize it that heavily, i guess.
Steven van Vessum
July 22nd, 2010 11:33 amAwesome article Cameron! Consider it bookmarked!
Unesm
July 22nd, 2010 4:33 pmUseful guide, Tumblr becomes my favourite micro-blogging platform.
Kyle Monk
July 22nd, 2010 6:37 pmIts about time you covered this fabulous site!
I think this topic does miss alot of the beauty of tumblr though while trying to explain the elements of it that are the most simple to work out!
What I love is how organic tumblr is, I originally started using it as just a blogging tool but it soon became much more, you randomly follow a few people and start to notice that they are interacting on your dash, so you join the discussion and soon you find yourself in a community you didn’t even realise you were joining.
I beg to differ and would say tumblr is a very viable blogging platform, you have complete control of themes, CSS, JS and HTML to build on existing themes.
Oh and did I mention the meetups? Amazing.
Once you filter through the 14 year olds and hipsters there are some beautiful people on there, if you take to find them you can build an extremely loyal fanbase in no time.
Check out its potential: Kylemonk.tumblr.com
Jonathan
July 22nd, 2010 8:48 pmI’m only here to brag. My buddy runs the baconbaconbacon.tumblr.com blog. Tumblr is pretty amazing.
Niraj Singh
July 22nd, 2010 10:22 pmI have been using tumblr for quite some time and do find it very very useful. It allows for a lot of straight forward customization. I think this article is right in informing others about an alternative that helps getting a personal site/blog/micro-blog up in no time. Also updating the site is a breeze. I hardly get much time to devote on my personal site because of so many business/life pressures. Tumblr helps me in maintaining my web-presence with minimum hassles and without making too many demands on my perseverance.
Niraj Singh
Kath
July 22nd, 2010 11:49 pmI always sticked to WordPress as I can install it on my server and run it there~ Was more reasonable, because my portfolio doesn’t have much content! Allthough Tumblr looks interesting… I think I’ll try it out :)
Floris Fiedeldij Dop
July 23rd, 2010 12:12 amI consider tumblr to be a tool, like twitter, etc, .. to help you viral your social juice, along side your real blog on your own domain, on your own host. With full control..
Abdel
July 23rd, 2010 12:32 amI’ve been using posterous so far, I find it simple and efficient, never tried tumblr but I would like to hear your opinions/experiences if it’s interesting to switch. thanks in advance!
neonWired
July 23rd, 2010 1:42 amLooks like wordpress for dummies
Jake
July 27th, 2010 1:59 amExcept that there is no inherent community between different wordpress blogs, where as you can follow other blogs on tumblr. Tumblr isn’t meant to be a CMS, so why would it need all of the pointless additives of wordpress?
Tumblr is better because of it’s community. A wordpress-run website can’t say that.
Richard Käll
July 23rd, 2010 5:12 amI’m running a private tumblr, but I can’t get tags or the search function to work. If I click one of the tags the page just shows “The URL you requested could not be found.”. The search engine can’t find anything either.
Any ideas?
Gamblino
July 23rd, 2010 5:38 amFuck yeah!
Speider
July 23rd, 2010 10:21 pmCan I hide here for a while, Cameron? They’re getting weird on my article comments.
LOVE this! :)
aarom
July 24th, 2010 7:46 amive used tumblr for years now and have a following of 5000+ and its amazing, but ive never heard of unfollow friday, theres such a thing as follow friday, like twitter
i asked on my blog and 100+ have never heard of unfollow friday and no one said they had heard of it, think you got that wrong SM :)
jjparé
August 1st, 2010 8:59 amAs a photographer, I’ve been using it as a quick and easy way to throw together mood boards for upcoming photoshoots. The fact that I can have one main Tumblr account, and then just keep adding new blogs to that account as needed is absolutely perfect.
Sarah K
August 4th, 2010 8:19 amThanks for this post. :)
Although it may not be the most “in-depth” guide on a topic, it covered the basics very well. For those who already use Tumblr, I’m sure it didn’t tell them much that is new — but for myself, who has only vaguely heard of it and seen sites with links to it, it was reall helpful. I didn’t really know what it was or that themes could be made for it. As a long-time MySpace, Xanga, and Twitter theme building I’m really looking forward to trying out a new medium. Might be a nice change from all of the WordPress building I’ve been doing lately!
P.S. I’m with those who would be offended by the F*** Yeah title. Although I understand that use of words like that are quite commonplace, it still limits an audience by a degree. There are always going to be some people who will not read something with a swear word in the title, whereas they might have without it. :)
Dan Demetriad
October 28th, 2010 11:18 pmIs there any way of integrating Tumblr on a page of my personal website? I appreciate any suggestions that will help me.
Thanks
Rico Chow
May 25th, 2011 1:03 pmI am wondering too… any ideas??
13thGeneral
October 29th, 2010 12:39 pmI just don’t get how people keep saying that tumblr is amazingly easy and has a simple to use customization. When I say customization, I speaking more about the personalization side. Although I’m a designer and can make changes to the HTML for editing purposes, or creating my own themes, what about people without these seemingly “basic” skills? Let us say, for instance, my mother wanted to start a blog; she cannot figure out how to make even the littlest changes that she wants. It is not simple at all to personalize your tumblr pages, without having some know-how. For example, adding a background image, change the header, or make her text blue instead of red, without importing a theme or knowing something about design and code. For that, she needs either a very (more like extremely) customizable theme, create her own theme, or edit the html code. All of those are pretty much beyond her ability, and therefore keeps her – or any other amateur – from being able to use tumblr for simple blogging purposes.
That doesn’t sound like a very useful and easy blogging service for the average (or below average) user to me. There is a difference between having complete control, and being exceedingly simple; one means the ability to change it is there if you know how, the other allows you to select options and it does the rest for you.
JP
December 3rd, 2010 5:30 pmNice article on the pros of the platform, Cameron. I recently switched my website over to Tumblr and have been very happy with the move. Very sleek. Very simple. Adding a new piece to my site couldn’t be easier. Though there are some tricks to better the SEO-aspect of Tumblr, I would like to see them improve this feature to compete with, say, WordPress. At least make custom excerpts available up front.
dlysen
January 1st, 2011 4:52 amIf I don’t know yet about tumblr, I will surely get the idea of tumblr inside and out by reading your post. I like tumblr how feed is imported and post to my facebook and twitter. I makes me save time to share my new blog post.
Kiki
January 7th, 2011 1:01 amIm trying to work out how to manage multiple authors. Making a wedding tumblr and asking wedding guests to contribute their msgs and photos from the day. I know I have to get them to sign up to tumblr but am unable to work out how they can contribute, help?
katelin
February 21st, 2011 1:35 pmwhen you click my ask button it says the url can not be found.. it might not be tumblr’s fault, it might just be the theme.. but i really want questions & i’ve been getting complaints.. PLEASE help me.
zierovi
February 24th, 2011 1:20 amit could be because you disabled the ask box in option. go to comunity and check the box that says ‘let people message you’
Jordan
February 25th, 2011 11:14 amI live in a foreign country. I changed my language to English, but it’s still all another language? How do i help that..
Emily
March 2nd, 2011 7:05 amWhen I make a tumblr, theres a box (along with Email and Password) that says URL. WHAT DO I PUT THERE?!?!?
Leona
March 3rd, 2011 3:09 pmI just joined Tumblr with the intention to blog. I am not a serious blogger, but I have a lot to say in the humor department and wanted to share the little bit of talent I believe I possess. Although, the content of my posts will not be consired as serious material by the tone and the topics of choice (women issues, family problems, relationship stories, etc.), I still want to expose my writing. Close friends find it very entertaining and wanted to see what the world thought of it! What other sites do you recommend that would allow me to receive the kind of exposure I am looking for and feedback for improvement?
Deborah
April 23rd, 2011 1:04 amIf i wanna sorta “tag” someone in the post who also has a tumblr account so she can see what I wrote, how do i do it? help pleassssse!
Ryan
September 7th, 2011 2:51 pmWhy is it so difficult to center a picture in a post?
Helpmeout
September 26th, 2011 7:24 amHello, does anyone know how to style individual pages so that they display extra information on the title and description tag? I wanted to append the image description on my photo pages to the title meta tag itself.
Francisco del Corral
November 8th, 2011 6:48 pmYou must update this post, tumblr is different right know…
Mia
February 20th, 2012 7:55 pmCan someone PLEASE help me ? All of the sudden a security warning came up on my tumblr. it refuses to go away. it says i have to reset my password. i sent the link to my email that goes along with my account then when i got the email and clicked on the link it said the link was invalid i no longer have access to my tumblr can someone help me ? I have a feeling it might be from downloading Missing-E yesterday ,, i un-installed after an hour or so. but if you know what i can do email me at miaxx11 @ hotmail. com PLEASEEE
Natalija
March 13th, 2012 4:20 amSame happened to me, so I don’t know what to do….try to email them and explain what happened to your tumblr
good luck :) x
gummy-123
March 3rd, 2012 8:01 pmIf i want to ask something on someones blog and it says “Sorry,but please don’t include links in questions”
What does it mean and what do i do?