Theme designers! You can now include liked posts in your themes.
Get instructions in the Theme Docs.
See it in action on garyvaynerchuk.com and Newsweek.
Try it on your own blog with The Atlantic and Papercut themes.
Now testing: “Read More” breaks
Inserting a break will truncate your post so readers need to click “Read More” to view it in its entirety.
Themes can even style them using the new {block:More} tag!
386{block:More}
<a href="{Permalink}" class="big_ass_button">Read More</a>
{/block:More}
You can add a break with the plain text and Markdown editors with the simple tag: <!-- more -->
These are only available in Text Posts at the moment.
Now testing: Upload photos in Text posts
Take it for a spin! Let us know if you catch anything acting funny.
Since a few people asked recently, you can now search your followers for a specific user. Neat, huh?
HUGE Theme Upgrades!
We just enabled a massive list of new Appearance Options for theme designers including Custom Fonts, Booleans (useful for toggling options), Custom Text (useful for enabling widgets), and Custom Images!
Some of these features are already available in Jacob Bijani’s and Peter Vidani’s themes, so try them out.
Designers - here’s a quick preview of what’s now possible:
<html>
<head>
<meta name="image:Background" content="http://static.tumblr.com/..."/>
<meta name="image:Header" content=""/>
<meta name="font:Body" content="Arial"/>
<meta name="text:Flickr Username" content=""/>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background: #2D567C url('{image:Background}');
font: normal 14px {font:Body};
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
{block:IfHeaderImage} <img src="{image:Header}"/> {/block:IfHeaderImage}
{block:IfNotHeaderImage} <h1>{title}</h1> {/block:IfNotHeaderImage}
{block:IfFlickrUsername}
<div id="flickr_widget">
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://flickr.com/widget?user={text:Flickr Username}">
</script>
</div>
{/block:IfFlickrUsername}
</body>
</html>
Tomorrow morning we’ll be promoting all the themes with these new options enabled, so hurry!
Now testing support for multiple Twitter accounts across multiple blogs! Please let us know if you see anything acting funny.
This is addictive.
Welcome to the revamped Popular page, featuring Tumblr Wire.
Wire pulls posts in realtime from across Tumblr, and has already become the single biggest distraction at Tumblr HQ.
We’re also featuring Trending Tags that have seen increasing activity over the last 48 hours.
Enjoy!
Automatically publish to your Facebook News Feed
We’ve seen a bunch of junky Facebook integrations by publishing platforms, and we wanted to make sure we did you, your blogs, and your News Feeds justice.
So today we’re very excited to announce Facebook publishing, built into Tumblr, that makes your posts look hot.
Activate it here. Enjoy!
Track multiple tags from your Dashboard
We’re rolling out a big new development today:
Introducing Tag Channels.
Similar to Flickr’s tag pages or Twitter’s hashtags, Tumblr’s Tag Channels aggregate tagged posts from everyone on Tumblr in real time with a few special twists:
We’re still right in the middle of development. A few things might be acting funny, and we’re not done with the central tag directory yet. So please bear with us!
Now start tagging your posts. :)
For your inspiration: Tech, Politics, NYC, District 9, Healthcare, NFL, FAIL, Pizza, Baby Animals.
Two awesome new features for theme designers: Theme Permalinks and Theme Author Pages.
You can now link directly to your theme on Tumblr to promote it yourself. People can also browse all your themes on your Theme Author Page like: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/by/petervidani
