I post flowers on the day that I shoot them (or shortly there-after) And I really needed a record of when the pictures were taken. The bit of code that says ”Posted 58 minutes ago”,  ”Posted 6 months ago”, Wasn’t specific enough for me when showing the pics to people that are interested in what blooms when….

Hence the need for dated posts. 

I discovered this bit of code on one of my follower’s blogs.

 I quickly set up their theme on one of my test blogs, to have a look at what made it possible.

I don’t know what the coders were thinking when they created the new side code, I find it completely unusable.

Lucky for us coders, they left the back door open, we can still get somewhere that we can work with & see the source code. They call it “classic” in a seeming allusion to the “new coke”.

Anyway, after visiting the classic customize page, you’ll be adding the code (from the rectangle below), to the html section. I added it under “{block:Posts}<div class=”post”>” .

{block:Date}
 {Month} {DayOfMonthWithZero}, {Year}
  {/block:Date}

Found a nav bar…

I’ve been looking for one, and I hadn’t seen very many, but I really liked the looks of the ones that stretched across the top of the page. (those people who’ve visited my site might understand why)

So anyway, I was browsing themes, and the chrome theme caught my eye.

By setting up a test blog, and setting it to that theme, I could get in there and get the part that I wanted, and with a little bit of code tweaking, I got it to match my blog.

But the way that the links were set up as a list, made the navigation  unsuitable for a theme*. By deleting most of the code, and substituting the default page link code from the default sidebar, I’ve developed a nav bar that accepts new links when we add a page!

Have a page that doesn’t support links?

Here’s a solution.

I think the code is straight forward, add the css at the top of your page css, add the html code section just below your body tag.

Adjust the colours of .headermenu { 
background:#fff;

If you don’t like white.

 The links themselves will take on the background colour of your page without it being necessary to do a thing.

* I discovered that there is code that can be added to any nav style that makes new links automatically show up.

wendellina:

I am going to teach myself CSS and HTML so I can make my own theme.

Crazy, right?

Whatever.  I don’t like most of the themes.

Mer.

^ that’s my cat, btw.

Google is doing a very poor job of picking up my posts. Having a search bar comes with some expectation of being able to use it. In my post on search, I described adding a google search bar when I discovered that the tumblr search didn’t work.
Unfortunately getting google to pick up my posts seems to require that I link to them individually from elsewhere. It’s not as simple as posting and then seeing the post from google a short while later like using wordpress.

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From Tumblr Tip: Move To Wordpress

The tags I added to my posts and my content of hours of thoughts just optimized tumblr. It did not optimize my site.

You cannot easily create internal links to your post.

Making search engine optimization tweaks require dirty work.

I wasn’t aware of the fact that tags on some themes took us to Tumblr’s tagged pages, until I was looking at a friend’s theme yesterday trying to figure out why it wasn’t working in a user-friendly manner.

There are themes that you can’t add links into the template…
 a LOT OF PEOPLE want to link to pics of themselves! Usually the answer is to tag those pics “me” or something, and then paste the link into description:  
http://YOUR-BLOG.tumblr.com/tagged/me
And then add the link html so that people can get to those pics just by clicking “me” from your side bar, or about page, or where ever you place your description.
  I can only suggest a different theme if you find yourself unable to add these simple and desperately needed links. Or… find someone to add code to the theme. The themes aren’t hard to customize.

Click add a page

Name the page

Not the end of the world, create page anyway.

Go to the page by typing the name of the page into address bar as part of the address.

Paste into description, save.

Page link will display with everything posted to description (usually in sidebar below picture).

If you are willing to add a couple snippets of code to your theme, you can fix the theme. Turns out that fixing the theme to automatically add links is a lot simpler than adding the html to the theme every time you add a link.

If you attempt to fix the theme, remember that tumblr doesn’t like pasted quote marks, and if it doesn’t work the first time that you test the link, the prob may be as simple as erasing the quotation marks and typing them back in.

When I wrote Tumblr about search not working, they told me that they were “working on it”.

Ok.

Meanwhile, I deleted the tumblr search bar.

But, search is kind of important…

So just for sh*ts n grins, I tried adding the google adsense search.

This works, sort of.

I could add the search bar easily enough, but I ran into problems creating a page to display my results. Maybe your your results will be different, but I couldn’t get the search results code to work on a tumblr page.

The fix was to direct the the results to display in a page on another site that already had the code, pasted search page address in code at: <form action=”“

 Tumblr search results now show up.

I’ve added in my site, and my forum results, as well as the tumblr results, adding tumblr to the keywords is necessary to limit results to tumblr.

Unfortunately, google hasn’t done a very good job spidering my tumble page, yet. I still need to do something about that.

I still need to add tumblr results to all of the other search bars on the rest of my site.

When one of my posts was reblogged, I noticed that it was arbitrarily cut off…

When I reblogged a post it was cut off from the point I wanted to emphasize.

We don’t have to let some code dictate what part of the post we re-blog. The edit html button works, use that to paste in as much of the post as needed.

Getting the reblogged post to show up on the tracked threads, is a whole nother kettle of caviar,my reblog didn’t show up for any of the tags I gave it.

And I was trying to make a whole nuther point frum wat the original poster had made…

Specifically the need to avoid hysterics over a single individual, and avoid pushing the tumblr coders into making the site un-cool in their attempts to code stuff out.

Remember myspace circa 2004? used to be really cool!

 Myspace coders destroyed the site, by declaring war on everyone’s personal sites, and making it impossible to link to our own pages!

And when they murdered the groups, that was like banging home the final coffin nail.

Nobody wants that to happen here. k?

Some of the tumble themes aren’t set up to add an avatar.  That doesn’t mean we can’t have an avatar with the theme we choose…

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I just added the ask form to the sidebar…

Was ez.

The ask form is in an I-frame. I went to that page and copied it out of the source code, pasted it into the sidebar code on my theme… and voilà.

of course, adding it to the tagged posts box took wrapping everything between div tags to which I gave the content class… the same class that “peeps I follow” is already defined by in the default theme.

I didn’t even have to sandwich that div between <section> tags, as recommended on the tumblring post discussing adding images to the sidebar…

The article claims to be about seo… I just needed to permalink my post titles, and no amount of searching the “official” tumblring blog was turning up that tidbit…

When I copy / pasted the code, I did need to erase the quotation marks and re type them to make the code work… just like they tell us with that endless page script.

When we click “APPEARANCE” and upload a header image, it displays above the template…

I wanted my banner inside of the template.

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Hey Alexandra, thanks for the question…

This is the html link code

<a href="YOUR LINK HERE">YOUR ANCHOR TEXT HERE</a>

click account»customize»info, add your link to description…

If after copying the code from here, you find that it doesn’t work, try erasing the quotation marks, “” and typing them back in.

Quotation marks don’t work in our coding at tumblr when pasted.

Need more information about coding links?