there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re 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 #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s 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 first
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s 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 it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s 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 you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes
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 you’re 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 you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly
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 don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve 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.
if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve 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 you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)
Just adding in:
If you wanna search a blog (like people do with mine) for a specific thing, but that blog is bad at tagging (like me) just Google the blogs name + various iterations of the subject you’re interested in.
So long as the blog is public facing, you’ll eventually find it. I search my own blog this way all the time in order to find answers to people’s questions.
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
Citrine is a simple and clean carousel-based all-in-one about page with the following sections: Profile (icon + name + bio), Navigation (tags list), Collections (projects / media / characters), and Contact (FAQ + guidelines + askbox).
Features: carousel navigation, long bio, tagslist, projects showcase, media trackers/reviews, character page, FAQ, askbox
I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship
Sometimes you just don’t wanna show some certain posts on your blog. Maybe it’s a giveaway post or something that ruins your aesthetic. I’m going to show you how to prevent them from appearing.
Beware: I would really recommend that you know a bit of HTML and CSS. You don’t necessarily need to be an expert, but you might accidentally screw everything up. Save a copy of your theme before trying this.
Learning time! So in addition to using standard HTML and CSS for blog themes, tumblr uses some things called BLOCKS and VARIABLES.
A block looks like this: {block:Condition} some HTML {/block:Condition}. If the condition is met, then the HTML works. If not, then the stuff in the middle is completely ignored. For example:
{block:IndexPage} Hello World! {/block:IndexPage}
“Hello World!” will only show up on your blog if you’re on an index page.
A variable looks like this {SomeVariable}. It stores data that is relevant to the tumblr user/post. For example:
{Title}
For me, {Title} outputs “Spacetchi”. But for you, it will be something different. And:
{Month}
This will output the month that a post was posted. It might be different for each post, depending on when you posted it. You can use variables in HTML just like regular text.
Here’s the important part: Tumblr has a {TagsAsClasses} variable. This variable outputs every single tag you’ve put on your post. How can we use this to our advantage?
Well, it’s important to know what classes are. CSS class selectors match a name to an element. So if your HTML looks like this:
<p class="greeting">Hello world!</p>
You can access it in the CSS using its class of “greeting” and give it whatever properties you want. So, if we can give each one of our posts the classes of its tags, we can give special posts a specific tag (maybe “special”) and put in something in the CSS to treat it differently.
To begin, we will locate the div that contains our post in the HTML. Here’s where previous knowledge of HTML can be very helpful in knowing what the hell you are looking at (if you are not adept, it might just look like a series of characters to you). Some hints:
The div we are looking for contains the HTML for just ONE post.
It’s INSIDE of {block:Posts} {/block:Posts}.
It is probably called <div class="post">, but the class might be different if your theme-maker is quirky.
Inside it, you will see many things that look similar to: {block:Photo}, {block:Text}, {block:Quote}, {block:Audio}, {block:Video}, etc.
Warning: Some theme-makers will have a div with a class of “posts”. Normally, this div contains ALL of the posts. Do not mistake this with the div we are looking for, which will be inside this div. Unless, of course, the div really is called “posts”. Then you are just unlucky.
After you have conquered this very tough feat, just change <div class="post"> to <div class="post {TagsAsClasses}"> (or whatever your theme-maker has instead of “post”), and we will be done with the HTML portion.
Thankfully, the CSS is much easier. First, pick a tag that you want to hide. Something like, “giveaway” or “NSFW”. Then just paste this code into the CSS:
.YOURTAGHERE {
display: none;
}
Replace YOURTAGHERE with whatever tag you have chosen. A few words of advice:
Try sticking to one-word tags.
If you absolutely must have two words, try putting a hyphen in-between.
If you must, MUST have a space in the tag, then you need an underscore in place of the space in the CSS.
Try to pick uncommon words. The theme-maker may have already used your word as a class in the theme and that would tremendously screw everything up.
If you want to keep your post from appearing on your main page, but still want it to be accessed via a permalink, then wrap everything in an IndexPage block:
This means that a display value of “none” only happens on index pages, and your post will still show on a permalink page.
Remember that we now have EVERY post classed with EVERY tag you put on it. This means that if you tag your posts with common things such as “post” or “text”, they may be affected by the CSS.
Example: Text posts are classed with “text” and are given a padding of 10px. You tag a post with “text”. Now the post is classed twice and it has a padding of 20px.
Try looking through the CSS to see which words you cannot use.
You’re not limited to just hiding your posts, either. Inside that CSS, you can do whatever you want. “Enhance” specific posts with rainbow Comic Sans, intentionally make entire personal posts black and unreadable… The possibilities are nearly limitless.
a simple tags/navigation page with a couple of customisable options, most notibly that you can either lay it out in a grid or masonry format depending on what looks best with the amount of tags listed. there is also the option of a search bar. this is my first code i’m releasing in six (!!!!!!!) years so if i’m way behind on what’s cool these days in coding that’s why.
note: icons and scripts (tooltips, masonry, search bar) are all ones that i stumbled upon 3-4 years ago from people that didn’t credit the original source or they’ve been lost to time - so please send me a msg if you know where they’re from.
Fluorine is the product of my indecisiveness turned into a strength — enjoy multiple ways of styling your header, blog navigation, sidebar, and posts (all post sizes + multi-column support).
Features: header (full-width, half-width, or none), sticky or fixed navigation, 6 custom google fonts, searchbar, avatar, sidebar image as icon or normal, 250/400/500/700px posts, up to 3 columns, styled search & tag pages
i strongly recommend that you reset defaults before using it, so the new settings won’t have conflict with your current theme, but it will work if you don’t do it anyway
sidebar settings in the appearance
as default, you can change: font type (you can pick any from google fonts. just type their name in the appearance. ex: Open Sans), color, size, font weight, font style, text transform, and position regarding the text mostly for posts and sidebar
6 sidebar links, option to use them or not also use icons or normal text
option to use title url or not. you can also edit font style, size, position, text transform for title
option to use sidebar icon (size 90x90), and the border separator
change background color, border, and box shadow of the sidebar
option to use or not the switch theme color *NEW
how to change the icons on sidebar!
in the appearance, you’ll see boxes with Icon on their names: Index Icon, Ask Icon, Sidebar Link 1 Icon, etc
enter here on feathericons and choose an icon. you’ll only need their name, then add that in the appearance. it’s done!
posts settings
540px, 500px, 400px
you have to use only one of the sizes of posts available. i recommend you to enable/disable all of them and then enable only the one you desire.
tumblr dashboard captions or regular captions (with blockquote). also have an option to use custom icon in front of the username
posts borders
box-shadow, and customize color and opacity
dark mode customization
in the appearance you’ll see the colors of the theme, light is default (the first ones). if you scroll down a bit, there will be the dark option for them, all with “Dark” in front of their name
other options
option to use underline on links
custom controls with hover or use tumblr’s default
option to use images black and white
add background image
anything else you need you can send me an ask or message
