Now testing: Password protected blogs
It just got crazy easy to privately share posts with your family, friends, company, or classroom.
When you create a new blog, you’ll see a new option to make it “password protected”. Share this password with the people you want to see your posts, and lock out everyone else. Have fun!
You can password protect an existing public blog from its Customize screen. This feature is not available on your primary blog.
We now extract album art from uploaded music!
Developers can even add this art to Tumblr themes with:
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{block:AlbumArt}
<img src="{AlbumArtURL}" />
{/block:AlbumArt}
And access Artist, Album, and Track information like this:
{block:Artist}
Artist: {Artist}
{/block:Artist}
{block:Album}
Album: {Album}
{/block:Album}
{block:TrackName}
Track: {TrackName}
{/block:TrackName}
Hey, what’s that? Some really neat new features will be showing up in this menu shortly!
Just a reminder: You can share or hide your likes on the Settings page.
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!
{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.
