Advanced customizing with Tumblr

Pt. 4 of 10 | 2:44 |

How to microblog with Tumblr

Thursday September 9, 2010

There are plenty of options at your disposal to

customize your Tumblr account

in more advanced ways. You can

import feeds to your Tumblr

from Twitter, Blogger and YouTube, and you can access

advanced account options

in order to

change your time zone

enable high-res photos

open links in new windows

and more.

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Show Notes

- You can import feeds to your Tumblr blog from the customize screen on your account.

- Not only can you import RSS feeds, but also import from feed URLs from Twitter, Blogger, YouTube and more.

- For Twitter, we entered our Twitter name so that Tumblr will display our tweets. This may take a little while to kick in.

- Under the Advanced tab, you have more options.

- You can change your time zone or the number of posts you choose to show.

- Under options, you can also opt to enable high-res photos, links in new windows, truncated RSS feeds and descriptive URLS, and you can choose to Promote Tumblr to non-Tumblr users who visit your page.

- Among other options are the ability to add descriptive URLs, and Promote Tumblr to new users.

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