Help Center / Posting
Viewing your posts on the Dashboard
To see all of your posts in the Dashboard, just click the name of your blog at the top and then click the Posts link in the right column.
To view posts and manage any additional blogs you've created, click the title of that blog at the top of the Dashboard or click the list icon on the top right and select the blog you want from the list.
Posting by email
Tumblr lets you post to your blog through email. It's one more easy way to blog from your desktop or mobile phone. Just grab your secret email address from the Settings page of your blog, and add it to your address book or phone book.
You can email just about anything to Tumblr. Check out some examples.
Emailed posts support Markdown for fancy text formatting.
Photo dimensions
You can upload photos of just about any size and Tumblr will scale them to fit your blog.
The largest that photos will appear in your blog posts are 500 pixels wide by 700 pixels tall. If a larger photo is uploaded, the high-res version will be available by clicking on the photo.
Animated GIFs
Since resizing animated GIFs is computationally intensive, large files (greater than 512K or wider than 500 pixels) may lose their animation if the upload server runs out of memory. Please avoid uploading unreasonably large animated GIFs.
Tagging your posts
Tags are an easy way to filter your blog. Most Tumblr Themes show tag links next to your posts that will automatically filter your blog. To link to a specific tag, you can use a URL like http://david.tumblr.com/tagged/GRAMMYs (or /tagged/GRAMMYs/chrono to show your tagged posts in chronological order).
To tag email posts, simply prefix a tag with a pound-sign (#) in your message. It will be removed from the text and added as a tag. To tag your email post “vacation”, you'd just add #vacation anywhere in your email.
Advanced Post Embeds and Styling Post Elements
You may need to use the Plain Text Editor to create advanced post embeds or to control the formatting of post text and media via HTML. You can switch to the Plain Text Editor on the Preferences page.
