January 2008
7 posts
New tumblr changes
Something new just now! Channels are now Groups. It looks like they are public. A new icon in the Dashboard . Use it to change your template. (No more under Account). Tumblr Radar is Back. More features listed in Numblr!
No more need to add your own favicon
Now all the default tumblr theme add a favicon to the code. The icon comes directly from your profile picture. Potentially, there is no more the need to add your own favicon to Tumblr. However, the icon is not named favicon.ico and consequently it does not work with Internet Explorer. For your reference, the tag is: { Favicon }
iPhone Webclip Icons for your Tumblr
More on getting your Tumblr nice for the iPhones! From the original article: Create a 57x57 PNG. Name it “apple-touch-icon.png” Throw it in the root folder of your website. Because we are in Tumblr, and there is not FTP, you should throw it in another hosted space such as Google Pages. And here is the code: It needs to be tested anyway. I do not know if putting the icon in another...
The real search system for Tumblr
Most of us are using Google, Yahoo or MSN custom search engines to provide a search feature within our Tumblr. However, if the search engines have not fully indexed our site, the search will not work correctly. Jacob Dehart (via The Tumblers) has developed a search features based on Tumblr API. Ziked wrote a very easy-to-follow tutorial. If you want to host the required .js file by yourself, you...
Better pagination in Tumblr
This is a simple hack from Sid05: better pagination in Tumblr. You can have something like this in your Tumblr: page 1 of 50 by using a couple of simple tag. This is the code to be add to your theme. page { CurrentPage } of { TotalPages } Note: no spaces within the brackets! You can see it working at the bottom of this page!
Add comments to Tumblr with Disqus
It’s all going Disqus at The Tumblers! Adding comments to Tumblr was one of the first issues of the Tumblr users, as well as for this site. It was one of the very first topics that we covered: Enable comments in Tumblr. Disqus, like Buzzline, goes beyond commenting. In fact you can use it on multiple sites and give to your friends a central page with all your comments (ie....