how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you canāt find any post on your own blog, itās impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if youāre on desktop/browser and you know what youāre doing:
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissantsĀ or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, itās just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest firstĀ
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isnāt as perfect at finding everything, but itās generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned itĀ ālook at my croissantā) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it wonāt necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find itās still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case youāre taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memesĀ
url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if youāre looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if youāre looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quicklyĀ
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I donāt know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)Ā
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!Ā
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (orĀ ācustom themeā) enabled. aĀ ācustom themeā is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. Iāve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.Ā
if the person doesnāt have aĀ ācustom themeā enabled, youāre beholden to the search bar. still, Iāve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if youāre on mobile, Iām sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if youāre able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, youāll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and itāll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if thereās no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)Ā
the archive/tagged trick is a lifesaver!!
a caveat on opās caveat is that if your blog/the blog you want to search is older than [whenever they forced everybody into the tumblr.com/user change], most of these tricks will still work whether or not they have enabled ācustom theme.ā
tumblr works itās just a closely guarded secret
Iāve tried using this to see the first dream posted by @one-time-i-dreamt
It did not disappoint.
Also SEVEN YEARS?
