Category Archives: Tips

How to Show Code in a Tumblr Post


Ever tried to display a bunch of code snippet through a Tumblr Post, just to later see it just doesn’t show once it’s published?. Syntax Highlighting in Tumblr can be done using more than one method.

This Tumblr Code is useful mainly for those designers that have Tumblr blogs and, despite knowing a lot about HTML and CSS, don’t have that same expertise for JavaScript for instance. Bear in mind that this little trick could actually be used in any website.

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How to Add Custom Tumblr Log-In Backgrounds


We have already talked how to install custom dashboards, but since a new addons have been created recently that make it even easier to modify your tumblr, we though it was good to tell those new to the platform that the log-in screens can also be tweaked. Below you will find the instructions to install customized Tumblr Log-In Backgrounds for all major browsers, and also the sources to get the addons needed to make them work. All tumblr log in backgrounds can be found here.

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How to Find Post Links on Tumblr Dashboard

When surfing through your endless Tumblr Dashboard, there’s one thing that can be difficult to find if you are new to the platform, that is a direct link to a post (a.k.a. permalinks), independently from its type.  The feature is actually there, but not quite visible until you hover the cursor over it.
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How to Download Videos from Tumblr

When you follow a large group of people it is difficult to watch all posted videos at one time, and if you truly like one, you sure want to keep it and save it to enjoy it later.  Downloading videos from Tumblr is easy when you just have a YouTube or Vimeo video, since there are some many free online downloaders outhere, but when it comes to video clips or other type of media uploaded to Tumblr itself, it’s a bit more complicated. To get all the videos you want, you need to have Firefox installed along with an Addon called VideoDownloadHelper.
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Can’t Login to Tumblr with Firefox


If you are having trouble logging in to your Tumblr account when using Firefox (even when you know that password and username are correct), the problem is always related to two main things; Cookies and Firefox Version. What could also happen is that once you are inside Tumblr Dashboard, you get logged out to the loging screen again, or when trying to perform anything there you get the message “Please make sure you have cookies enabled in your browser”.  Read the tutorial below to fix the Tumblr Firefox loging Issue.
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How To Change Fonts on Tumblr


Changing Fonts on Tumblr is indeed easy, but it needs a bit of pacience and trial an error before it looks just the way you like it. In order to modify Tumblr Fonts you will need to edit the theme and the style.css file. Before you tell us that you’ve seen custom fonts on Tumblr that look awesome, we will write another post about them, since they need different steps to take in order to add them.
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Add a Twitter Button to your Tumblr Blog


We already gave you a tutorial to add a Facebook Like Button to Tumblr.  This time we’ll show you how to embed a twitter button to your Tumblr blog.  It’s fairly easy since it uses the official Twitter code to work, and you just need to paste it within your Tumblr theme html.
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