First of all, this is not a Tumblr tag cloud, it’s just a manual Tag List that you can add to your Tumblr sidebar. It is convenient to clarify how Tag URLs are structured.

yoursite.tumblr.com/tagged/simpletag

yoursite.tumblr.com/tagged/double%20tag

Notice how the tags that are built with more than one word are separated with %20 , though you could actually leave just a space there and the browser would still know.

Adding a Tag List to your Tumblr Sidebar

1. If you want to make it fairly easy, just add the code in your description box
2. First identify the tags that you want to include in the list (as long as you have used them in some post already)
3. Paste the following code to make the tags show up in your description box as an ordered list


<ol>
<li><a href="http://yoursite.tumblr.com/tagged/double%20tag">Tag Example</a></li>
</ol>


4. If you ask me, there’s a better way of displaying your tags, that being using the Tag Cloud Generator, since it pulls all your tags, and you can set limits on both size and number, of that I’ll talk about in another post.

Though Tumblr does have an option to import feeds directly to your posts, it certainly becomes restrictive when you can’t place them anywhere else in your layout

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Moreover, I bet you have tried countless times to export your Facebook Status feed/rss to Tumblr without much success, being that finding a stable Facebook feed url is not possible.  With this tutorial, you will first learn how to create your own Facebook Status feed url and then export it and add it as a box in your Tumblr Sidebar.

You can think of this as a custom Facebook Widget for Tumblr (bear in mind that a status box is not a facebook like box, follow the link for that other tutorial).

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Another great Tumblr Tip. Though many people actually try to hide their Tumblelog, others are trying to figure out how to insert it into their themes to generate the list of people you follow using their avatars as links to their tumblelogs.

This small tutorial will show you how to have your own Tumbleroll. In other words, how to display who you are following in Tumblr, showing their picture profiles.

Warning: If the people you follow are counted in the hundreds, it will be more convenient to create a tumblr blogroll on a separate page, we a tutorial for that as well.

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I know, you installed the theme thinking that inserting a link in your Tumblr sidebar was just yet another option in the customize panel.

You might also want to create a page that actually gets you to where all the posts with a particular tag are located, in that case here is the tutorial: tagged pages on tumblr.
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