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Oct 30

$staff: HUGE Theme Upgrades! We just enabled a massive list of new Appearance Options for theme designers including Custom Fonts, Booleans (useful for toggling options), Custom Text (useful for enabling widgets), and Custom Images! Some of these features are already available in Jacob Bijani’s and Peter Vidani’s themes, so try them out. Designers - here’s a quick preview of what’s now possible: <html> <head> <meta name="image:Background" content="http://static.tumblr.com/..."/> <meta name="image:Header" content=""/> <meta name="font:Body" content="Arial"/> <meta name="text:Flickr Username" content=""/> <style type="text/css"> body { background: #2D567C url('{image:Background}'); font: normal 14px {font:Body}; } </style> </head> <body> {block:IfHeaderImage} <img src="{image:Header}"/> {/block:IfHeaderImage} {block:IfNotHeaderImage} <h1>{title}</h1> {/block:IfNotHeaderImage} {block:IfFlickrUsername} <div id="flickr_widget"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://flickr.com/widget?user={text:Flickr Username}"> </script> </div> {/block:IfFlickrUsername} </body> </html> Tomorrow morning we’ll be promoting all the themes with these new options enabled, so hurry!$

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!

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.

Introducing your new Activity page (and “Tumblarity”)

Two big things:

We’ve added a new link on your Dashboard labeled Tumblarity. This will take you to your new Activity page where you can see cumulative and trending stats about your activity on Tumblr.

For the past few months we’ve been using an internal metric called “Tumblarity” to sort and filter content on the Search and Popular Content pages. Tumblarity is derived from every blog’s activity and popularity across our network. We’re getting ready to start using it to organize the boss new Tumblr directory (which should be done next week!).

For the first time, you can view your Tumblarity on the Dashboard and Activity page.

Please ignore the fact that I’m less popular than fuckyeahparamore.

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.