How to make a theme
Hello beaut and welcome to my tutorial on how to make a tumblr theme. I warn you this won't be easy, but have no fear everything will be explained shortly, from those meta tags to dreaded blocks! Please be patient with me & my adding of content as a work alot.

IMPORTANT: Please please please do not distribute/copy any tutorials found here to any other tumblr sites. I have spent a very very long time making this for you and it would literally break my heart to see it's content splashed over any other tutorial blog. I know you wouldn't do that anyway, 'cos you're beauts. Please note that if you do decide to copy my tutorials you will be reported, there's not excuse for laziness.



1: css & html 2: theme structure 3: base code 4: grid themes
5: adding credit 6: post links 7: meta tags

What puzzles you about making a theme? What do you need help with?

  1. mncposadas answered: Hi! I want to know how to make links that has a background color and changes color on hover :)
  2. grandelegacy answered: how to make the text bigger on the theme and how to put the links on the side of the sidebar??:]
  3. distanceandarkness answered: how do i make pages or things that gets you to another page and you could see the tagged gif’s or typos or photography?
  4. thevamps-s answered: How to make buttons rotate on hover/animate on hover? Haha thanks :)
  5. m-inte answered: how do you make a two-column grid theme into a three-column grid?? thanks :)
  6. urpeasant answered: Not helping, sorry :(
  7. dmr-blueberrytheme answered: i tried making grid themes. i did what you told us to do but for some reason. it only appeared in one column, it did become smaller, though.
  8. midnightsnitch answered: I’d like to know how some people can do those transition things on their navigation buttons.
  9. vintagemist answered: On how to ease in and ease out the Reblog and Notes links. :O
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