How to Comment on Tumblr Wednesday, April 23, 2008

If you haven’t already sign up for Tumblr.

Tumblr Signup Form

Find an entry that you want to comment on and do one of the following:

If it’s not in your dashboard, click the ReBlog link in the upper right side of the screen:

How to Reblog a Tumblr post that\'s not in your dashboard

If it’s in your dashboard, click on the recycle icon:

How to reblog a Tumblr post from inside your dashboard.

Write your comments either above or below the existing text (or erase it entirely):

Adding a comment to a Tumblr post

Save it (see, Tumblr knows this is special content — it’s “ReBlog post” instead of “Create post”):

Tumblr ReBlog Post button

Go back to your Dashboard if you’re not already there. Click on the reblogs link:

Tumblr show ReBlogs button

Revel in the social nature of your online existence! Just use WordPress if you need more functionality than that!

Tumblr ReBlogs displayed

This is how I’d like to see comments work on regular blogs anyway. I guess that’s the point of trackback links.

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2 Responses to “How to Comment on Tumblr”

  1. Juhaliza Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Good post. Personally I prefer to have my comment below the initial post. This so anyone visiting my page can first read the starting thought and then my reply, not the other way around.

    I understand why people do it the other way around, I just prefer my way.

  2. kath Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    huh? I don’t get it. Mines isn’t showing anywhere >_<

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