•  1095
    Dec 3rd, 2009

    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.

  •  858
    Nov 20th, 2009

    We now extract album art from uploaded music!

    Developers can even add this art to Tumblr themes with:

    {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}
  •  363
    Nov 19th, 2009

    Tracking tags just got a whole lot more useful!  You’ll now see new post counts in your Dashboard.

    Some tags you might want to check out: iPhone, NYC, politics, tech, Star Wars

  •  383
    Nov 19th, 2009

    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.

  •  421
    Oct 28th, 2009

    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.

  •  771
    Oct 22nd, 2009

    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.

  •  677
    Sep 30th, 2009

    Now testing: Upload photos in Text posts

    Take it for a spin!  Let us know if you catch anything acting funny.

  •  312
    Sep 25th, 2009

    Since a few people asked recently, you can now search your followers for a specific user. Neat, huh?

  •  730
    Sep 22nd, 2009

    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!

  •  285
    Sep 17th, 2009

    Now testing support for multiple Twitter accounts across multiple blogs! Please let us know if you see anything acting funny.

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