It sure sounds annoying that some people don’t know how to like posts on Tumblr, but there’s always a first time for everything and you might not see the like button at first sight.

How Do You Like Posts on Tumblr?.

First of all, make sure you are signed in to your Tumblr account.  Second, if you are following someone, you can also like their posts from your own dashboard yoursite.tumblr.com/dashboard .  The like button is usually a heart.  Third, if you want to like an article, photo or whatever post type it is, you need to be situated in the post itself most of the time, since like buttons are not installed in most themes to be shown in the homepage.  Each time you are located in a particular post, and you are signed in, you will see in the top right of your screen the heart shaped button to like the post.

This tutorial will show you how to display the number of Tumblr likes in each of your posts.  You just need to add a bit of code to your Tumblr theme html. Don’t get confused, this is not to display your own likes on other people’s tumblelogs.  It’s meant to show the likes on your own posts.  Somehow, many tumblr themes are missing the code so we need to add it.

Likes and Reblogs counters are better known as notes, and they have nothing to do with Like or Reblog buttons by the way

How To Show or Display The Number of Likes on Each of your Tumblr Posts.

1. Go to Customize >>> Theme >>> Custom HTML
2. To show the likes count (notes count to be more precise) you need to add the following code below and always within the closing tag of the next tags: {block:Text}, {block:Photo}, {block:Photoset}, {block:Quote}, {block:Link}, {block:Chat}, {block:Answer}, {block:Video}, {block:Audio}.  These are the tags that display each post type.


{block:NoteCount}
<strong>&hearts;</strong>{NoteCount}
{/block:NoteCount}


3. Save and Close.

NOTES: Showing the Likes counter on each of your Tumblr Posts is initially easy, but It end up being displayed in different parts of the posts depending on the theme’s html.  So leave a message with your theme  if you need to display your Tumblr likes  in some particular place.  If you also saw a different LIKE icon being displayed let me know so we can tell you how to add it.