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Coming soon: Money from your TumblrOn Thursday, we’re going to introduce ads on Tumblrs, so that later this year people can start making money from their blogs. Tumblr is a place where brilliant, creative, funny, impossible people shape culture. Some...

Coming soon: Money from your Tumblr

On Thursday, we’re going to introduce ads on Tumblrs, so that later this year people can start making money from their blogs.

Tumblr is a place where brilliant, creative, funny, impossible people shape culture. Some of you have even turned your passions into jobs: book deals, music careers, paid gigs with the Creatrs program. Now, (soon!) that opportunity will be available to any eligible Tumblr—poet, musician, fan artist, and misfit weirdo memelord alike.

Some things you’re probably wondering:

Do you have to? Good question. No, you can turn off on-blog advertising in settings if you’re not comfortable with it.

When? Who? How? How much? Also good questions! We’re still working out the details of the partner program but as soon as we have details to share, we’ll make announcements right here on trusty Staff. Just so you know: You won’t be able to make money until you register for the program—which is coming soon.

Okay, cool. Ta ta for now!

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There’s a new OS for the iPhone. It’s called iOS 8. Why? Apple won’t say. Regardless, we’ve got a new Tumblr app out today that takes advantage of iOS 8’s improved sharing features. Make a photo post right from your Photos app, for example. Or a link...

There’s a new OS for the iPhone. It’s called iOS 8. Why? Apple won’t say.

Regardless, we’ve got a new Tumblr app out today that takes advantage of iOS 8’s improved sharing features. Make a photo post right from your Photos app, for example. Or a link post right from Safari. Couldn’t be easier.

Also: Posts are now the full width of the screen. That means photos are 3% larger than before. Sounds like a little, feels like a lot.

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iPhone and Android updates are ready to download!

In our continued quest to make your mobile Tumblr experience sick as hell, we’ve updated our iOS and Android apps with a host of fixes, features, and improvements. Notable new things include:

  • Notifications get a slick new thingy.
  • Find blogs to follow through your contacts or Facebook.
  • Your friends can now sign up right inside the app.
  • Track tags that you find amazing. (Android already had this.)
  • Fast reblog when no words are needed. (Just click and hold the reblog icon.)
  • Hold down the Like button for some new sharing options.
  • Fan Mail! Message to your heart’s content.

The apps (and updates) are available in the App Store or Google Play. Enjoy!

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Theme designers: Notes are now available in tumblelogs

We’re about to start rolling out a bunch of features focused on interaction between tumblelog authors and their readers.  Post notes are going to be the glue for all of this interaction, so we’d like to ask all theme designers (and anyone with custom themes) to incorporate this new tag:

{PostNotes}

This will render the post’s notes (including reblogs and likes) on their permalink pages.  Check out an example on my tumblelog.

Unlike our other theme tags, this outputs generic HTML markup, so all you need to do is style it with CSS.  Here’s a basic stylesheet to get you started:

ol.notes {
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 25px 0px;
    list-style-type: none;
    border-bottom: solid 1px #ccc;
}

ol.notes li.note {
    border-top: solid 1px #ccc;
    padding: 10px;
}

ol.notes li.note img.avatar {
    vertical-align: -4px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    width: 16px;
    height: 16px;
}

ol.notes li.note span.action {
    font-weight: bold;
}

ol.notes li.note .answer_content {
    font-weight: normal;
}

ol.notes li.note blockquote {
    border-color: #eee;
    padding: 4px 10px;
    margin: 10px 0px 0px 25px;
}

ol.notes li.note blockquote a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

You can get the full documentation (including complementary tags like {NoteCount}) on the Custom Themes page.

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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...

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="https://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!

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Big huge update to the iOS app today. Almost too many new features to list. Let’s list them: • New version number: 4.0 • New icon: Feels good under your finger. • Create new secondary blogs: Whenever a blog idea strikes. • Submit to submission blogs:...

Big huge update to the iOS app today. Almost too many new features to list. Let’s list them:

  • New version number: 4.0
  • New icon: Feels good under your finger.
  • Create new secondary blogs: Whenever a blog idea strikes.
  • Submit to submission blogs: If they’re looking for posts, you can send ’em posts. 
  • Make video posts using a video URL: Your most-requested feature is now a reality. Copy, paste, and you’re done. 
  • Filter searches by post type: Just looking for photos? We’ll just show you photos. Just looking for chats? Sure. You can do that, too. 
  • Widget: One-finger access to what’s trending on Tumblr. (Some assembly required. It’s easy: 1. Swipe down from anywhere to open your widget screen; 2. Scroll down the bottom of the “Today” tab; 3. Tap “Edit,” then tap “Trending on Tumblr.” After that, you’re good. Good forever.)
  • More, more, more: Sticky search bar; Sticky avatars; Better iPad layout; Better GIF loading; Better errors, even. 

That’s not all, but that’s certainly enough for this space. Enjoy.

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Tumblr iPhone 2.0: Now available on the App Store

We’re excited about this one! The app has been recoded, rewired, and rethought from the ground up to offer you the very best Tumblr experience:

  • Brand new interface: Browsing your dashboard, creating a post, managing multiple blogs — the most important features are within reach so you can interact with Tumblr effortlessly while you’re on-the-go.
  • Creating a post: Now easier than ever! Sharing photos, videos, links, chats, text, quotes and audio is front and center. Advanced options like saving drafts and queuing posts are one swipe away.
  • Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.
  • Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.
  • New users: Signing up is now native inside the app. 

There are tons more features and details that are awesomely crafted.

Check it out on the App Store!

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Push notifications for Android! You pushed for it. It’s happened. Today’s Android update features push notifications, along with a newly-designed activity screen. Now you can get updates whenever someone follows your blog or interacts with your...

Push notifications for Android!

You pushed for it. It’s happened. Today’s Android update features push notifications, along with a newly-designed activity screen. Now you can get updates whenever someone follows your blog or interacts with your posts.

Because you’re so cool, your phone might start blowing up with notifications. To control which ones you see, go to the Account tab and tap Settings.

Download the update

iOS coming very soon!

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