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In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through adding links to your theme’s description that often displays in the header or sidebar.

Step one: Open the “edit theme” page

1. Log into Tumblr and click on the ’human’ cog icon and Select your blog from the right-hand column.

2. Click the Edit appearance option.

3. Click Edit theme

Step two: changing your description

I’ve highlighted the box where you can add your description.

To add to your description, simply type something in the box.

When you want to add links, copy and paste this into your box:

<a href="http://quickguide.tumblr.com/">Link to Quick Guide</a>

Replace “http://quickguide.tumblr.com/” with the website you want people to go to (make sure you include the http:// part, or the link won’t work), and replace “Link to Quick Guide” with words you want people to see.

For example, in my site description box, I’ve added two links to a Tumblr blog, and Instagram account:

Now, when I open my Tumblr blog, you can see the links:

Other tips

To make a line break (a “gap”) in your description, paste the following code in your description: