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“HEARTWORM”

ABOUT PAGE [19] BY GLENTHEMES

USER GUIDE — how to install and edit

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

SLIDE 3

How to install

SLIDE 4-5

Options list

SLIDE 6

Background image & color

SLIDE 8

Header image

SLIDE 9

Header icon

SLIDE 10

Header status

SLIDE 11

Header username

SLIDE 12

Icons guide

SLIDE 7

Boxes

SLIDE 15

Box headings

SLIDE 16

Box contents

SLIDE 17

Text formatting

SLIDE 18

Popup askbox

SLIDE 14

Need help?

SLIDE 19

Header links

SLIDE 13

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  • Heartworm 」 is an HTML about page.
  • Your Tumblr posts are not meant to show up.
  • Basic CSS & HTML knowledge are recommended to use this page.
  • The page has no JavaScript, so you don’t have to request permission for it.
  • The page is responsive, meaning that it is both desktop and mobile-friendly. Two columns will automatically shrink to single-column when the screen is narrow.
  • Remember to utilize the in-code searchbar provided by Tumblr. To bring it up, click anywhere in the code and Ctrl+F or CMD+F. This should appear:

INTRODUCTION

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HOW TO INSTALL

Step 1: Get the code.

Select All, and Copy.

Step 2: Go to your customize page.

Go to https://tumblr.com/customize/your-blog-name

Replace your-blog-name with your blog's name.

So e.g. my blog name is glen-px, I would go to:

https://tumblr.com/customize/glen-px

Step 3: Add a new page.

[1/2]

Click Standard Layout and change it to Custom Layout:

Click where url is and give it a url name, e.g.

about-me:

Scroll all the way to the bottom and click Custom Layout:

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HOW TO INSTALL

Step 4: Apply the code.

Click the huge blank space labelled Custom HTML:

Step 6: Check it out.

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Open a new tab and go to

https://your-blog-name.tumblr.com/about-me

And paste in the code you copied from Step 1.

Step 5: Save.

Click Update Preview, then Save.

In the above URL:

  • Change your-blog-name to your blog’s name.
  • Change about-me to the name you gave it earlier in Step 3.

If it takes you back to the Tumblr dashboard, you need to disable the dashboard-only view.

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OPTIONS LIST

All font sizes, colors, spacing etc can be edited in a gigantic list labeled :root 👇

  • Please do not remove any lines of options, as it may break the page.
  • Please do not remove any semicolons.

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ICONS GUIDE

⭐ FontAwesome — how to use:

FontAwesome icons are identifiable by their <i class="fa- prefix:

To change the icon, go to this site and browse only the free ones.

Click on an icon, then click its HTML code to copy it:

You can then replace the entire

<i class="fa- line with it.

⭐ MingCute — how to use:

MingCute icons are identifiable by their <i class="mgc_ prefix:

To change the icon, go to this site and pick any icon you want to use.

Click on an icon, double-click its name, Copy it manually, and replace after mgc_:

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BACKGROUND IMAGE & COLOR

You can change the background image, background color, and background size here:

  • --Background-Size:auto; 👈 use this if your image is small (pattern style)
  • --Background-Size:cover; 👈 use this if your image is big (wallpaper style)

Note about background size:

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HEADER IMAGE

You can use any dimensions for the header image, but make sure that it is not TOO large. Currently the header is 1280x400.

You can change the header image here:

Banner image URL goes here.

(banner)

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HEADER ICON

Please use a square image for your icon image. You can swap the image here:

(profile picture)

Icon image URL goes here.

You can change the image size and border thicknesses here:

The border color is the same as your boxes’ background color, which can be changed here:

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HEADER STATUS

You can change what the text says here:

  • Bold text (if you want it) goes between a <b> and a </b>.
  • Italic text (if you want it) goes between a <i> and a </i>.
  • Do not leave <b> and <i> tags unclosed.

You can change the colors etc here:

Please keep it short!

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HEADER USERNAME

This will automatically show as @your-username when you view it live. You can confirm this by opening your page in a new tab or window.

When you’re editing, you may see that the username looks like this:

You are, of course, free to change it to something custom if you wish:

If you don’t want the “@” symbol either, you can remove it by deleting this entire section:

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HEADER LINKS

You can edit the links here:

This block is the HTML markup for one link. To add another link, copy and paste this entire block.

Link’s URL goes here:

Link’s icon is on the <i class="... line.

You can choose from both FontAwesome icons and MingCute icons. Read the icons guide on Slide 7 for instructions.

Link’s hover label text goes here:

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POPUP ASKBOX

The popup ask can be summoned by clicking the envelope icon in the header links:

When you’re still customizing, your askbox will not work properly. Open your page in a new tab or window to see if it shows. If it still doesn’t appear, you may need to enable your ask.

You can change the ask popup’s title here:

The actual askbox is here�(you do not need to change {Name}):

I’ve dimmed the askbox so it’s not as bright, especially if the rest of your colors are dark. Feel free to change this to no.

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BOXES

Each box starts with this:

Each box ends with this:

Each box defaults to a 2-column view, but you can override this (force it to take up the entire width) by setting full-width="yes" like this:

Boxes’ colors, font sizes etc can be changed here:

Feel free to add or remove as many boxes as you like.

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BOX HEADINGS

Each box’s heading consists of the following:

Box heading colors, font sizes etc can be changed here:

  • If you don’t want a heading, make sure to delete the entire block, not just the text.
  • Maximum 1 heading per box.

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BOX CONTENTS

Each bullet list must start with this:

Box contents must start with this:

Box contents must end with this:

Bullet list row’s icon. Read the icons guide on Slide 7 for instructions.

Each bullet list row looks like this:

Label text

Detail text

Each bullet list must end with this:

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TEXT FORMATTING

A list of all supported text formatting (e.g. bold, italic) can be found under this comment:

Hyphens are enabled by default; if you do not want hyphens, you can add hyphens="no" to �<div class="box-contents"> like so:

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THANK YOU

I hope this guide was helpful! Please revisit the Table of Contents on Slide 2 to see if there’s anything you may have missed. For further help, feel free to DM me or drop a message in the #theme-help channel of my Discord server [ discord.gg/RcMKnwz ] after reading the #server-rules!