Ever wondered why you can easily reblog someone else’s tumblr but not being able to do it with your own?.  Fortunately someone managed to write some code so you can Reblog Yourself on Tumblr (and yes, your own NAME will appear on the post!!!). It’s quite simple, and just requires some simple Tumblr Codes to be added to the theme html.

How to Reblog Your Own Post on Tumblr

1. Right Click on the following bookmarklet link – REBLOG YOUR OWN POST ON TUMBLR – and choose “Bookmark this link” (I didn’t see that option in the Chrome Browser, so use Firefox or Explorer)
2. Now, once you are on one of the posts of yours that you want to reblog (not the dashboard, but the article itself ) Click on the Reblogging bookmark you just saved and you will be taken to the reblogging edition screen.

That’s it, remove the dust from your archives and reblog yourself on Tumblr !!.

Even when your Tumblr Theme has the following tag included in the html: {CustomCSS} you don’t have absolute control over your Tumblr Theme.

CSS file, despite being able to add your own touch to the theme through either Customize >> Advanced option or just dropping some inline CSS within the same html tumblr file (which is not advisable by today’s css standards). It turns out to be that there always is a .CSS file stored in Tumblr itself that belongs to any particular theme.

How to Find, Download and Edit your Tumblr Theme .CSS file

1. Go to Customize >>> Theme >>> Use Custom HTML
2. Once there, you will have to find the following line <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http: ……. that ends with /style.css” .  In this example it would be




<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://static.tumblr.com/h1xxjdl/CZ4Y1eqj/style.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen”>




3. Copy the whole .css url and then paste it in a new window (press enter ). You will now be able to see the full .css belonging to your tumblr theme.
4. You can download the .css file by right clicking and “Save Page As..” a Cascading Style Sheet document or just copying the entire code from the screen.
5. The Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox (check here for Firefox Tumblr login issues) is great way to test and preview the changes you want to make to the .css file in real time. Now Edit the Tumblr .CSS file with any web editor you know, such as Dreamweaver.   If you modify any of the images used, remember to save them because you will now have to upload them to tumblr.
6. Use the Tumblr static file uploader to save the images and js files FIRST.  Now paste the images url in the proper place within the .css file you are editing (remember to save it with the same name it had before).  Finally, upload your custom Tumblr .CSS file through this same place.  You now have the path to your new .CSS file !, copy it and replace the old .css url with the new one.  Click save in the top right corner of the screen and that’s it.  Just use this storage service for files related to your theme, nothing else unless you want your account to get banned.

UPDATE: This is how you edit fonts on Tumblr using the .css file.

Tired of making daily posts with nice pictures and quotes knowing that noone is following you?.  Here you will find the ultimate Guide to know How To Get Followers on Tumblr.  With all the other social media sites becoming popular on Tumblr has never been easier.

Just apply the following Tumblr Tips in a daily basis and you will see your followers base grow faster than anyone else.

A very popular term among Tumblrs, is “Tumblr Train”, which is basically a chain of users asking and giving follows for follows, if you make a quick search on tumblr you will find tons of them.

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Putting or changing a background image or picture in your Tumblr theme is actually easy. However, the coding and changes to the html Tumblr theme to make it look exactly the way you want can get extremely annoying, depending on the skin you are actually using for your Tumblr layout.

For example, it may not be enough just to insert the url of your image, but you will have to edit, change or delete other background colors that could be covering your image background.

You might also be interesting in adding a scroll to top button tumblr in addition to the background picture. Let’s get started

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In its third financing round, Tumblr managed to raise $5 million more from its current Venture Funders, Union Venture and Spark Capital.  Tumblr’s current funding is now around $10 million, and the microblogging platform is beginning to look for ways to start generating income after 3 years of growing both in users and impressions.

Now it seems about time for Tumblr to begin with some methods to generate income, and according to founder David Karp.  The company has started rolling out a series of paid services.

Basically after dropping the idea of a “Tumblr Plus” which would have been a premium Tumblr service with advanced features not available to free users (these new features are now available to everyone, for instance static pages).

The first of these paid services seem to be the premium themes, both created by Tumblr itself or the users (in this last case they take a %30 cut from the purchase and they go from from $9 to $49 each one).  Other income generating options include buying stickers and spots on a directory of recommended blogs.  Another potential revenue stream could be a feature that lets users order prints of images they see on tumblelogs, there has been a small experiment on this.

You can take a look at what one of  Tumblr’s investors has to say about this.

The graphic you can see below shows clearly how astonishing Tumblr’s traffic growth has been since its birth.  As with many other web 2.0 services it hast yet to be known if it can actually make money.

Source: MediaMemo.

We know that the option to add posts to the queue in Tumblr is quite useful, but we can certainly get one more functionality from it. Lets say we created a series of posts but we really don’t want to put an exact date on them and we don’t want to get them published yet either (why don’t creating a draft then you might think), just put the Tumblr queued posts on hold or Stand-By mode.

Though this requires you to enter your Tumblr before the time of the day you configured to get your queued posts published is still a good Tumblr tip in case you changed your mind and don’t want to edit post by post turning them into drafts or putting a date on them one by one.

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Among the several publishing options in Tumblr, one of them is called “add to queue”.  It basically allows you to keep your post frequency consistent over a period of time keeping your own tumblelog alive while your away, meaning is automatic (but notice this is different from tumblr publish on feature).  One of the advantages of this option is that if you are really busy during the week (or during the day) to enter your Tumblr account and post at a particular time you can just pile up several posts  or just enter daily at any time given time creating one post for the queue and then you are gone.  The important thing here is that you make sure you never run out of queued posts!.

The important thing here is that you make sure you configure one (or both) of the options in the Tumblr queue. And even though there’s the usual complaint tumblr queue is not working, or not posting, or doing it at the wrong time, it’s simply something not related to your account, but only to Tumblr’s own fault, it’s not like adding a scroll to top button to tumblr.

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