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.

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…

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?