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LiveJournal-Tumblr Link

Just FYI:

If you also have a livejournal account, LJ now allows for a tumblr link-up. I just set mine so I’m not sure how well it works or anything. But I know a couple of my followers have some LJ interest, so I thought I’d share.

Go to Settings/Extensions to set it.

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Tumblr management advice:

If you make a “private” post, be sure that you record the URL of the post immediately, because there is no way to search for these posts. The only way to find them is to scroll down the dashboard view for your blog until you find the post. And beware: it be too, too easy to scroll on past it if you don’t quite recall when the post was made (so you can use the /chrono hack).

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Here’s something that just occurred to me:

I always see people finding the best tumblr-post gifs. But I never seem to find anything very awesome using it.

What search terms do you use to find the best gifs?

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Useful Tumblr Hack Packs

Just had a quick conversation with the amazing @fairiesmasquerade, so I thought I’d share a quick post with the links to the newest updated tumblr extensions that can really help to improve your tumblr experience.

The NEW X-Kit Extension: Thorough with lots of options. The original “X-Kit Guy” has moved on to other parts of its life, so the “NEW” team has been working with the code and keeping it updated.

Missing E: Another suite of functional extensions. I used it long ago, so I haven’t used any newer adjustment options they have come up with.

Tumbr Savior: If you want the absolute minimum adjustment, this extension will simply allow you to blacklist terms so you don’t have to pay attention to whatever is bugging you.

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A place to find your next favorite theme or learn to make themes yourself!

A really great place to find themes. Organized to sort themes by function or layout style.

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And that reminds me.

Hey tumblr @staff,

You know what tiny little feature I’d find helpful? How about a one-word notation that can be entered when you block someone so you can recall why you did it.

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A little musing on images in text posts

So, I know that in dashboard view, no matter what size a person makes an image it will be stretched to fit the 540px width. However, when a gif that is created at 540px is used in the text of a post it can lead to some problems if the post is reblogged.

Specifically, the image will overflow the width dimensions (typically 400px or 500px) of the typical tumblr blog template. As a result, the images will display “sticking out” from the normal post. Now, that’s not necessarily a big problem with the “new” way of stacking reblogs that tumblr introduced - because it no longer uses a set of layered <blockquote>s to track within the post. BUT, for posts that are still displaying with the old system, with even 1-2 reblogs the image can be pushed 100 - 200px past the dimension of post displays. This means that the image that is embedded within the text post can overlap things like a blog’s navigation and/or informative elements. Plus it just looks really unprofessional.

I know some people won’t care because they never actually visit their own blog and just hang out in dashboard all the time. But some people do. What it means for me is that I have to go back into posts that are creating this display interference and edit the post HTML. I have to reset the image display width to something that is reasonable - usually under 400px.

I guess what all this means is just that always making big img edits and gifts isn’t always the best idea. And embedding a whole string of gifs in a text post makes it less and less likely that I will reblog it. If I do, it probably means that I go back to the OP if possible to avoid the reblog stacking. It also means I’m more likely to reblog photo posts over text posts if the image content is central to the post meaning. If I create a post where I embed images in the text - like a reaction gif, I will always use a gif that was created at 267px (the new “two across” width) or 177px (the new “three across” width).

So, yeah. I guess I’m not trying to tell anyone how to do anything. Just explaining how I think about the interface with image content.

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Embedding an iTunes playlist display on tumblr.

So, I found this Apple Builder widget that is supposed to allow you to create playlists and embed them into websites. The little interface it creates is pretty nice. However, there is an error in the coding of its <iframe> that causes the scrollbar to malfunction - or really, not to function at all. I edited the embed code that the widget created, and the changes were css compliant. It should have fixed the problem. But. Nope.

Does anyone else have any experience with this? I’m wondering if it’s a tumblr interface problem.

***Edit: Actually, I figured this out. It is a Google Chrome interface problem. If viewed in Firefox, the embed code functions just fine. I don’t know enough about the browser/read protocols to figure out the problem. It may well be a Java Script issue, as Chrome doesn’t run it and Firefox does.