#mobile rping

You want to use your browser. This is important. Yes, you can use the app, but I find the app acts weird when coming to reading what's html text and what's not even when it's switched to the html setting. So do yourself a favor and use your browser (safari, chrome, or whatever other internet thing you use).

Log in. Find the reply you want on your dash. My phone doesn't let me copy and paste on people's blogs so I have to copy from the dash, but you might find that different. basically you just need to highlight and copy the last persons reply as shown below.

I write my replies in my notes because I find it easier. You can write them directly into a post if you wish. Pressing the reblog button will bring you to a page like this. You want this page regardless of where you type. Press it. You will get this page.

Go to your notes and write your reply below the other person’s.

Now, once you've written your reply, it's time for all the fun formatting!!

First place <p> at the beginning of every paragraph (including your partner's reply! If you like small text, insert <small> after the <p> of every paragraph as well.

Basic codes for text formatting are <b>text</b> for bold, <i>text</i> for italic, and <strike>text</strike> for a strike through. You can look up other basic html formats here.

Now you have to insert the link that takes you back to the last persons reply. To get the url for the last reply, press and hold the link and press copy (or copy link or copy link location, whatever comes up).

The code looks like this and it goes at the very very top of all the text.

<p><a href="LINK TO LAST URL GOES HERE">Thing you want linked here</a>

Next, select all and copy all the text you’ve written from your notes into the body of the reply page.

Now you need to insert the icons/gif.

The code for images looks like this:

<p><img src="IMAGE LINK HERE">

If you put the code proceeding the other person’s text, the image will appear before their reply an vice versa. To get the link for the past person's icon, you just press and hold over the image and hit copy.

It's a similar process to insert the icon/gif for your reply. Open your gif hunt in a new tab. Press and copy the url for the icon/gif you want.

place the code <p><img src="URL HERE"> before or after you reply depending on where you want your icon/gif.

Last coding thing you have to do is insert the blockquote line.

Place <blockquote> DIRECTLY after the <p><a href="LINK">url</a> code.

You place </blockquote> after the last persons reply. Be sure to include the code for their icon/gif between <blockquote> and </blockquote>.

Congrats you're done with coding!

Press the red x to get rid of the past replies.

Now, scroll down and hit the little down arrow. Insert the tags you want, and switch the "publish now" to "save as draft."

You don't have to save as draft and publish your post now, but I like to see how the formatting come out and make sure I didn't make any stupid mistakes.

Once you've saved the post as a draft, go look at it in your drafts.

If it doesn't look right, press the edit button. Some common mistakes would be not placing the entire person's reply between the <blockquote></blockquote> code and forgetting a "<" or "/". Don't be discouraged!

Note that italics don't show up on browsers. They do show up in the app, so if you're really worried about your italics you can look at it on the tumblr app.

Once everything looks awesome and like you want, switch "save as draft" to "publish now." Press save and congrats!! You're all done.

I know this seems like a lot, but once you do it a couple times it gets much easier!! Yes, it will take more time than if you were on your computer (esp. if you have edible reblogs installed), but I promise it's not impossible!!

**WARNING** ANDROID ONLY TUTORIAL

this does NOT work with ios. this tutorial was written by a samsung galaxy user so all screenshots are specific to that phone, but it should all look very similar for other android users.

Step 1. Install a Mobile Extension-Compatible Browser

this method hinges on using a mobile browser that allows for the usage of chrome or firefox extensions on mobile.

firefox on android allows for use of many of their extensions on mobile, including xkit rewritten. there are also other integrations between their web and mobile interface as well. the european browser kiwi browser allows for installation of many google chrome-based extensions on mobile. it does not integrate to google chrome in any other way. if you choose kiwi, make sure the icon is of kiwi the bird not the fruit (shown below). pick whichever you like. i've tried both on my phone and in terms of mobile tumblr browser and xkit rewritten they appear to function identically for purposes of cutting posts.

Step 2. Install & set up XKit Rewritten

for firefox...

click the kebob menu (three vertical dots) in the upper righthand corner. click "add-ons". scroll to the bottom of the page that pops up and click "find more add-ons." search for xkit rewritten and click add to firefox. (sidenote: i also recommend picking up ublock and privacy badger while you're here).

once xkit rewritten is installed, go to tumblr.com in firefox and log into your account. we will now set up xkit rewritten. click the kebob menu and click "add-ons" again. there should be an arrow next to "add-ons" this time. clicking it will open the list of extensions added to firefox. find xkit rewritten and select it. this will open the configuration menu for xkit rewritten. scroll until you see the trim reblogs option with the green scissors icon and toggle it on.

for kiwi (google chrome extension compatible)...

navigate to the chrome extension store (https://chromewebstore.google.com). you may have to type this in manually or head to google and search for it. in the extension store, search for xkit rewritten. you will be taken to the usual chrome extension installation page as you are on desktop browser. go ahead and click 'add to chrome'.

go to tumblr.com in the kiwi browser and log into your account. we will now set up xkit rewritten. look for the kebab menu (three vertical dots) in the upper right hand corner of your screen and click it.

you will now see the browser settings. scroll all the way to the bottom. find the xkit rewritten option and click it. if after clicking the menu, you only see options for a new tab, incognito mode, settings, etc, make sure you are actively in a tab, not on the page that allows you to navigate between tabs. clicking xkit rewritten will open a configuration menu similar to the one on desktop browser. scroll through the options and toggle on trim reblogs, the one with green scissors icon (as well as any other desired xkit rewritten settings).

for both browsers...

refresh your tumblr page and navigate to your original posts. at the bottom of your posts you should now see the trim reblogs' scissors icon.

Step 3. write and cut a post

the set up is now complete !! you should now be able to write, draft, and cut a post as you do on desktop browser. a refresher : write your reply, draft/queue/schedule your post, navigate to where you drafted/queued the post, click the scissors icon, make sure the first box is checked, and click "trim!" . if you would like a more in depth tutorial on how to step through the actual cutting process with xkit rewritten's trim reblogs, check out my other beta/xkit rewritten tutorial here. the same technique of scheduling a post for a few minutes in the future, scheduling it, and clicking the green popup at the bottom of the screen will still take you directly to where the post is in your queue as it does on desktop !! images of how things look on mobile are below. you are also able to paste in a gif with the image link and remove the hyperlink text as you do on desktop.

Additional Tips

i find typing my reply in my notes app and formatting it there ( bold, italic, etc ) is much easier than trying to format in tumblr on mobile browser itself. i am able to copy and paste a reply from notes into a tumblr post with all formatting intact ( as long as i use the paste function that shows up by long-pressing in the tumblr post editing space ). this is true for both browsers covered in this tutorial. the only formatting i do in tumblr post is making my reply all small text. if the automatic floating mobile dialogue box on your phone ( the one containing copy, paste, select all, etc ) is blocking the built-in tumblr post formatting controls ( bold, italic, small text, etc ), you should be able to drag the floating mobile dialogue box around to a less annoying place. you then should be able to select the small text button and other tumblr formatting without issue. this is at least the case with a samsung galaxy. this ends the tutorial portion !!

Notes on iOS

it appears this method will not currently work with ios as apple restricts things with third party extensions in its app store. ( sorry iphone users, we really tried to make it work. take up complaints with apple ). here are the things my friend i tried to get xkit rewritten installed/working on an ios mobile browser.

1. firefox is not able to provide their extensions in ios. the mozilla support page notes: "Apple has created a proprietary iOS extension system which is incompatible with Firefox add-ons and extensions for Android, Mac, Windows and Linux." 2. the kiwi browser that shows in the apple store is not the same one as the one in google play. it should be an icon of kiwi the bird, not kiwi the fruit. the fruit one does not work. 3. we tried the orion browser on iphone and were able to get pretty far but no dice. they were able to install xkit rewritten through orion's firefox extension library but while the configuration menu showed, the xkit rewritten changes did not take on tumblr mobile browser. orion does admit not all extensions work at this time and this may change in the future. 4. another potential method is to get access to xkit rewritten by using chrome's remote desktop access (a tutorial here), but we did not try this.

if anyone is able to figure out a way to install and execute xkit rewritten on ios please feel free to write your own tutorial and please let me know — i would be happy to link it with this one. kindly, please also consider linking this one as a tutorial for android users in it as well.