Can you switch primary blogs on tumblr

Please reset your password before proceeding. My concern is the same as yours. Wish I knew this before I started a secondary blog. Thank you!!!! I want to keep both blogs, but I want to change my secondary to my primary.

How can I do that? This worked for me… kind of. All this HTML code does is re-direct anyone that goes to the primary address to the secondary address. The limitation, however is that when YOU follow someone, it will be from the actual primary blog. Make sense? I have done this now but i want to reverse this… I cant view my primary account at all how do i reverse what i have done?????? What do I do to get rid of this?!

Note: make sure you are logged into tumblr at the time. Tumblr should really add a feature to change between primary blogs. Or will I have to unfollow everyone and then go to their actual page and click follow again? People can follow the secondary blog if they go to the URL and click follow, but whenever you click on follow from your account, it will show it as coming from the primary blog.

This is a limitation within Tumblr. Thanks for the reply. While I was awaiting your response, I carefully reread through previous comments and came to that conclusion. With tumblr, the best thing you can do is create an entirely new account. You can import blog posts but sadly cannot transfer likes, reblogs or followers when you do that. Thanks for the script! What do you think the problem is?

How do you think I should fix this? Did you post the script to the primary or secondary blog? It should be the primary blog so it redirects to the secondary. The trick is to add the code in step 4 to your primary blog so that he redirects people to the secondary blog. Go to tumblr. I made my secondary blog my primary, but cannot access my old primary at all.

Even going through the customize, I can see my primary description in the tool bar but no posts, pictures, no other settings, all of my writes are no available to me. I cannot find the code I inserted anywhere in the htlm.

I deleted the code and got everything back to normal. Thank you anyway. Hi it works I guess, but when I submit an ask it still comes up as my OLD primary blog same goes for when I follow people and the sidebar on my dash board still tells me information about my OLD primary blog. Thank you for the script, though! Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Thanks a lot! So what you want to do is go to the settings menu on your dashboard, then go to the settings zone of your old primary blog.

Worked for me. Just undo the switch by deleting the code. I have tried the steps over and over but my primary blog still stays my primary and my secondary still stays my secondary…does anybody now why? Danae—Did you make sure you were making the changes on the blog that is currently your primary blog? I created a new account to manage my secondary account, and then did this to the uncreated blog with my new account.

It takes me to my primary blog with my secondary url at the top. Help please? This likely means there was a problem with the copy and pasting of the code. Make sure you put it in the of the HTML and that you include everything including the script part. I keep trying, both typing it myself and copy-and-pasting but it still will not redirect. I am putting it below , on the next several lines. Should I delete any of the following code? Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. I put the code in and saved it, and then I changed the name of my primary blog to something more similar to my secondary.

Does anyone know how I can change back? And I think this happens because tumblr still thinks my primary blog has the old name even though I have changed it.

I sent a message to Tumblr asking them if they can enable switching the primary and secondary blogs. I got a response quickly and the person who replied, Doug, said he would share the idea with the rest of the team. Hopefully they will change it! Thanks for this idea by the way!

I would try it again to see if you have any luck now. Has this been fucked with? This way you can change the primary blog. Techowns Tip: How to delete a blog on Tumblr? This way you can redirect your followers to the secondary blog on Tumbl r. The last method we suggest is deleting your primary blog and this eventually makes your secondary blog as the primary.

Otherwise, you can try the other methods to change the primary blog on Tumblr. Have this section is useful to you? Share your valuable feedback as comments. For more useful article updates, you shall follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Choose Settings. Select Primary Blog Name.

On Tumblr, your main blog is equivalent to your identity. You can, of course, create secondary blogs, but your primary one is the one that will appear when you follow others, send asks or fan mail or leave comments. While you can rename any blog, you can't select another blog to be your primary one; if your company blog was created as a secondary blog, it'll remain so.

At this point, you have a few alternatives. The easiest solution is to add a link to your primary blog that points to the secondary. If your primary blog is a professional one that you would not mind anybody seeing, add the link to the description section. If, however, the primary blog is of a personal nature and consists mainly of posts that are inappropriate from a business perspective, consider deleting all content from it.