#xkit

XKit Rewritten v1.1.0: Classic Footer

A new feature arrives! Classic Footer rearranges the post footer into a more familiar shape, including showing each post's total notes.

This is the very first iteration of the feature, with more options and improvements planned for future versions. Please stay tuned!

If you're using Firefox, v1.1.0 is also the first version available to you with a fix for features being unable to insert menu options into posts.

Everyone should now be able to use PostBlock, Mirror Posts, and NotificationBlock unimpeded. Thanks for your patience on this!

This version was approved for distribution by Google on 2025-10-10, and by Mozilla on 2025-10-16. Please allow 24 hours for Firefox to pull the update, or see how to update add-ons manually.

Install XKit Rewritten: Get this extension for Firefox | View on the Chrome Web Store

Hi all, it's been a while!

tl;dr: You should use XKit Rewritten, it's new, shiny, and getting consistent updates. Get it from here: https://addons.tumblr.com/post/661324873572974592/xkit-rewritten. If you want to customize the appearance of Tumblr you should use the built-in settings or Palettes for Tumblr. You shouldn't rely on New XKit, it's old and busted.

Around four years ago, April, a core contributor to New XKit, started the XKit Rewritten and wider @addons projects to create a modern alternative to the already somewhat moldy New XKit. This was with our complete support, and many members of the New XKit team now also help out with XKit Rewritten and other addons.

Chrome and Firefox have both phased out support for older extensions, requiring challenging workarounds to install New XKit. It's become very clear that anyone who is still using New XKit would really have a better time using XKit Rewritten, Palettes and Outbox for Tumblr, and the couple XKit-inspired core Tumblr features.

If you continue to use New XKit for some key part of your Tumblr workflow be warned that it's past the end of its digital lifespan. Despite the name, New XKit is a crumbling old cathedral. You can still walk around in it if you really want to, but it has been fenced off for safety and a brick might fall on your head.

One key difference we'd like to highlight is that XKit Rewritten intentionally doesn't have a Blacklist feature, leaving it to Tumblr's native post filtering functionality. If you still need the specific functionality of New XKit's Blacklist, you can keep it installed alongside XKit Rewritten. Click here for a list of other frequently asked questions.

To summarize: Get XKit Rewritten here: https://addons.tumblr.com/post/661324873572974592/xkit-rewritten. It's like New XKit but designed for modern Tumblr and consistently updated. New XKit will still be around for anyone who really needs it but is a much buggier experience.

XNeko for Tumblr Super Premium Ultra Deluxe is now available for you to build the ultimate cat paradise on your dashboard!

This standalone extension takes New XKit's XNeko cat companion and turns it up to 11. Scroll down your dash and the blogs you see may become cats and visit you. Take the time to drag in props like water bowls, cat towers, and record players to make sure these cats are entertained! If you are particularly ambitious, you can design and import your own props using the editor and even share them with the magic of copy-paste. Please use the tag #xneko for any creations or funny cat behaviors, I'd love to see them all!

just install, hover over the reblog button, add your tags, and move on. in general, customising your internet experience cannot be recommended enough, and using a computer remains the absolute best way of doing so.

Update: It also lets you quick tag right now, which, while not the return of the "edit" button we'd all love and desperately need, is still a great improvement in letting you fast tag already-made posts.

Short post on how to re-enable New XKit after Firefox decided to enforce its new extension policy.

First, click on the hamburger menu in the top right to get a big dropdown. Second, click Add-ons and themes to go to the add-ons page.

On the Add-ons page (also known as about:addons) you can manually re-enable New XKit by clicking the toggle.

1. using tumblr on desktop 2. using xkit 3. seen a sudden drop in performance when opening tumblr within the last couple of days, check if you have any tag bundles at all

Rate them negatively in your app store. Leave a review there. Send in support tickets for feedback on this on tumblr. Comment under the original post on both app and desktop from the @tumblr account the @changes account and the @staff account. Do the same with reblogs. Send the accounts messages and asks. Spam ceo @photomatt and @automatticdata . Additional accounts @wordpress @humans @tumblrbot @support and whatever other language staff and support have blogs in.

Also sign the changedotorg petition!

Also (again) report the app to Google/apple/whatever store you use, because this update ruined the block function which is needed by law to have. @/tevruden has found their public phone number if you are able to call them (automattic and tumblr).

We must FIGHT BACK!!

Just don't be a jerk about it, you know?

If this hasn't been fixed by the 20th, we are going to log out of tumblr and not post on March 20th. A boycott if you will.