How To Perform Redirects on Tumblr Blogs and Pages

If you have abandoned secondary Tumblr Blogs that you no longer update and want those visitors to get redirected to an active Tumblelog you just need to apply some simple redirect code snippet to the theme html of that blog you no longer use.

You can also place a redirect loop in a specific Tumblr Page, that way only that page/post will get a redirection to another url, and not the entire website. Just need to add some Tumblr Codes.

How to Redirect a Tumblr Blog.

In Your Old Blog/Page Go to Customize Appereance >> Page
If you are redirecting a Tumblr Page, click on edit. From the dropdown menu choose Redirect and fill in the field “Redirect To” with the real page you want your visitors to be taken to.
If you are redirecting an entire Tumblr domain/blog to a new blog Go to Customize Appereance in your blog >> Edit HTML, and finally ERASE ALL THE CODE and replace it for the following chunk:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="#WAIT; url=BRANDNEWURL">

Replace BRANDNEWURL with your new domain URL.
Replace WAIT with the number of seconds before your visitors get redirected, I suggest just using 01 (e.g. #10).

Tumblr Redirect Menu for Pages

11 Responses to "How To Perform Redirects on Tumblr Blogs and Pages"

Apple
February 23, 2012 at 12:08 pm

Just a question, this used to work fine when I first did it on Chrome many months ago, but now when I do it when I changed my URL once again, the screen stays white instead of redirecting. But in Firefox it redirects. Am I the only one with this problem? :S How do I fix it so that it redirects on Chrome as well?

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Mr. Tumblr Reply:
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Why don’t you try clearing Chrome’s cache?. Have you tested the tumblr redirect on Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera as well?

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rorochu
February 25, 2012 at 5:22 pm

What do I do if the “redirect” option doesn’t show up? I only have standard and custom. I read that maybe new accounts don’t have the redirect option? Do they ever get it? Or do I have to make redirect pages differently?

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Mr. Tumblr Reply:
February 25th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Good point, maybe this only applies to old accounts.

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rorochu
February 27, 2012 at 12:38 am

Well, I managed to get the redirect option after emailing support.

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Gilad
March 1, 2012 at 11:21 am

I also don’t have redirect as an option. Did you get this solved? Thanks. Gilad

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Mr. Tumblr Reply:
March 1st, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Apparently, only old accounts have the redirect option.

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Hakamorra
March 14, 2012 at 10:30 pm

My old account does have the redirect option, my new one does not.
So exactly how do I go about redirecting with the no redirect option?

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Mr. Tumblr Reply:
March 24th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Well, you can simply avoid redirecting the page. Just create a link and paste it within your theme’s html. This is basically what you have to put into your layout >> LINK TITLE

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Nouna
March 26, 2012 at 2:22 pm

Hi !

So from what i understood, if i don’t have the redirection button, and i want to have my page redirects to all my tags names flyer

I should go into my HTML and add : http://myblog/tumbkr-redirects/tagged/flyer

??

Is that correct ?

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Katiee
November 21, 2012 at 7:45 am

What if we want it to where right when you click on the site like fakeurl.tumblr.com it redirects to newurl.tumblr.com instead of adding the slash whatever

is that impossible?

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