Hi! I love your blog 😆 I have a question for you how can you change your theme for tumblr or customize it ???
Haha hi, thank you! I don’t really know to what extent you’re asking haha, if you just can’t find the option to change your theme or you don’t know how to install a theme. But I guess I’ll start from the beginning because it might be helpful to a few other users.
Finding the ‘edit theme’ option. You have an option to change your theme through settings if you go to your right-hand panel and find the ‘edit appearance’ option, click on it. If for some reason it isn’t there, then click the icon that looks like a person in the top right-hand corner of you Dashboard. Under the ‘blog’ panel in the dropdown menu, you should see all your blog stats and right at the bottom is ‘edit appearance’, click on that.
Once you’re in ‘edit appearance’ mode, scroll just a short ways till you find ‘website theme’ and next to the heading should be an ‘edit theme’ button, click on it and you’ll be redirected to your blog’s customisation workspace. You know you’re there when you see a large bouncing Tumblr logo in the centre of a dark grey background.
But seriously? That’s the long way through, I usually just enter this URL http://www.tumblr.com/customize/YOURUSERNAME and change ‘yourusername’ with whatever your current username is. It’ll lead you straight to the customisation workspace.
The customisation workspace. The customisation workspace generally has all your customisable options on a small grey panel to the left of your screen and has ‘custom theme’, ‘appearance options’, ‘theme options’, and your extra pages. If you currently have a theme installed, you use those customisation options to change its appearance such as colour attributes or the background picture, etc.
But if for example you can’t find a ‘change background picture’ option in the panel, then that usually means the coder of the theme hadn’t coded a command to allow you to change your background picture. So the customisation panel and options really depends on the coder of your theme.
Installing a theme. I usually browse @theme-hunter for themes, they have a really good selection. Pick a theme from there and follow instructions set out by the coder (like/reblog the post if you’re required to). Once you’ve followed their instructions, open the code they provided in a new tab and copy the whole code onto your clipboard.
Go back to your customisation workspace tab, and in your left panel click on ‘edit HTML’ which should be under ‘custom theme’. It should open up the HTML code for your current blog theme.
Click anywhere on the HTML code, then on your keyboard press Ctrl (Cmmd) + A to select the whole code. And then press Ctrl (Cmmd) + V to paste the code of your desired blog theme. What you’re trying to do is completely erase the code of your previous blog theme by replacing it.
Important: On the top right-hand corner, hit the ‘update preview’ button. Then the ‘save’ button next to it.
After you’ve saved the HTML code, click the arrow pointing left on the top left-hand corner of the panel and it will lead you back to your customisation options.
From there you just use your customisation options such as ‘appearance options’ and ‘theme options’ to change the overall look of your blog theme.
Once you’re done customising, hit the ‘save’ button at the top and you can exit once you’ve saved it.
And follow the same instructions if you ever want to change your blog theme again. If you’re curious, I used this theme by @pohroro and you can go ahead and look at the original blog theme to compare it to mine and look at the different changes that I made through the customisation options. I didn’t even do much changing, only the large header and the overall accent colour.
For people who understand a bit of the codes, they can customise through the ‘edit HTML’ and do a few changes to the font size and type, etc. But I don’t suggest you to touch anything in the code if you don’t know how to edit HTML.
