Chapter 4: Build a Simple Tumblr Theme with Bootstrap
by Ashraff Hathibelagal
If you’ve ever looked at all the wonderful Tumblr themes and wondered what it takes to build a Tumblr theme from scratch, then this tutorial is for you. In this post, I’m going to show you how to use Bootstrap and Tumblr’s special operators to create a theme you can use for your Tumblr blog.
Here’s what you need to get started:
- a Tumblr account
- a basic understanding of Bootstrap, the popular front-end framework.
Our Basic HTML and Bootstrap Resources
A Tumblr theme is just an HTML file that uses Tumblr’s special operators. We’ll start off by creating a new file using our favorite text editor and adding the following boilerplate HTML code to it:
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