#featured tags

Until now, suggested tags were automatically generated when a user searched your blog via the new blog view, or from the blog archive. However, over time this list of tags may have diverged from your blog’s real interests. This isn’t always practical, especially for blogs that have been around for a while, with tags from deleted posts still showing up. Now, you can set your top tags to whatever you want them to be in your Popular Tags and Blog Archive Page. #Squop, #glongo, #plip? All acceptable.

Why this change?

This feature has been widely requested. We understand that you have all grown with Tumblr over the years, and your interests will have probably changed, too. Some of you find the presence of old tags in your top tags list uncomfortable; for some, they interfere with the sense of order on your blogs. Others are simply excited about new customization options.

Cool—how do I use featured tags?

On web: Head to the account icon in the top-right corner of your dash, and select “Edit Appearance” from the drop-down menu for the blog you want to add featured tags to. Click on the pen icon next to “Featured Tags” to add up to 10 tags of choice. These will now appear in your popular tags in the blog view and be listed in your archive.

Featured tags will be available to everyone on the web from today, April 19. We’re also currently working on a rollout to iOS and Android.

Hey there, thanks for the helping hand! :-)

I've gotten a few questions about this, so I'm going to explain how I'm putting together the featured tags section on my (still in progress/yet to be released) dashboard inspired theme.

This uses JS with v1 of the API, the HasPages block in the theme HTML, and some CSS.

Instead of relying on text options for tags, this theme is grabbing pages based on if it is a tag url or not.

While I technically have 4 links here, /About is not a link to a tag, so it gets removed.

This uses the API similar to how @fukuo did featured posts, but with vanilla JS instead of jQuery. How it works:

Select only the links in the featured tags container that include /tagged/ (using a CSS attribute selector for [href*="/tagged"])

Grab the tag name from the url

Add that tag name to the API url

Use the returned data to add the text, total posts, and any images from the most recent result of that tag

Style/formatting with CSS

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Can someone please tell me how the hell this works on mobile?