In this sense, it is very much like Pinterest. You will see a menu where you can navigate through the home feed, the Explore page, inbox, direct messages, personal activity, and account settings. Again, all of these options are self-explanatory but are the basics of Tumblr layout that you should get familiar with. The broader your hashtag, the more likely your posts to be discovered.
You have to spend some time on Tumblr looking through feeds to get an understanding of the perfect broad hashtags, and ones that are just way too broad. Keep in mind that your content should speak for itself, and not require a million hashtags. Hashtags are a good way to stay organized.
If your page is quite thematic, users will be more likely to look through your whole feed and follow you based on common interests. Tagging posts is really easy. This is done by adding hashtags below your posts, in the post editor. You will also get suggestions of popular tags which makes your job that much easier. One of the differentiating features on Tumblr unlike other social networks is that you get to personalize your page by choosing either a custom theme or a premium one.
The latter is a paid option but gives you more room for customization. Here is where you will be taken next, and you can see what your current page looks like to other users. Here is what your page will look like when you change the header image, the avatar, and title:.
To change your theme, you will have to look through the different themes available. Changing this will change the appearance of your page not in the feed but with your domain name. The Tumblr themes are made by Tumblr or fellow blogging enthusiasts.
You also have the option of fine tuning the little details such as your username, language, timezone, visibility and other little tweaks. Click the Themes button at the bottom of the screen. You can choose from Categories either free or premium Tumblr layouts.
Choose a theme that works best with your type of content. For a photos-only type of blog, install a minimalistic theme that supports a grid, but for a blog with a lot of writing, choose a more advanced one- or two-column theme. The obvious starting place to explore Tumblr is your own dashboard. On there, you can reblog content, post your own and find blogs to follow.
One of the first things you should probably do is a little bit of research into similar blogs with your theme or your interests. You can also check the Recommended For You section to see if there are blogs that might be of interest. Once you decide you want to follow a blog, click Follow in the upper hand corner of the page. Staying active means liking other posts as well.
Be a good Tumblr citizen! Reblog other posts as well, especially if they are good memes;. You can reuse your content from your other social networks, or create your very own visuals to stay in line with the nature of Tumblr. See our post , and start creating your own content. Tumblr is, after all, another way to express yourself and get artistic. Much like Facebook and TweetDeck, Tumblr provides you with a way to schedule posts into the future.
It's a great way to make your blog appear active even if you're going to be unable to tend to it for a period of time. The schedule feature is split into two distinct parts: Queue and Schedule.
When you create a new post, you can use Schedule to specify the exact time and date you want it to go live. Queue is a list of posts that go live on a predefined timetable. You can change the number of queued posts that go live in a day and restrict the posts to certain hours. As you become more proficient at using the platform, you might start to regret some of your earlier posts. Not necessarily because the content is terrible, but because you made organizational errors.
Perhaps you didn't tag your posts correctly, or you posted a picture with a poor title. You can use the Mega Editor to resolve the problems without needing to delete anything. You can bulk select posts and edit lots of data at the same time.
To use the editor, navigate to the homepage of the blog you want to edit, then click on Mass Post Editor in the right-hand panel. The link is quite small, so it's easy to miss. You will find it below Edit Appearance. It's possible to use your phone to make an audio post directly onto your blog. And we don't mean using the Tumblr smartphone apps; you can make a telephone call to your blog to create the content.
This feature won't be for everyone, but for certain types of Tumblr blogs, it's a useful option. Another way to stand out from the crowd is to use a custom theme on your Tumblr blog. If your programming skills are a little rusty, you can use one of the hundreds of free themes available in the Tumblr store.
On the new page, click on Browse Themes to see what else is available. He holds a Bachelor of Science, postgraduate diplomas in journalism and website design and is studying for an MBA. By Adrian Grahams. References Tumblr Help Center. Tick "Truncate RSS feed" to include only snippets of each post in the feed -- this means viewers have to click through to your blog to view the whole post, rather than reading it in their RSS reader.
This feature enables you to route your Tumblr RSS through FeedBurner if you want access to advanced features such as feed analytics, embedded advertising or feed editing.
An information technology journalist since , David Nield writes about the Web, technology, hardware and software. Home Internet.
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