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Figure 7-4:
Question posts let you directly ask questions of your site's visitors.
Making and Accepting Submissions
Sites that showcase information gathered from other visitors can get their post content
in two ways. They can reblog posts directly from other sites, and they can ask visitors to
submit photos, text, chats, quotes, audio, and video files using Tumblr's built-in Submis-
sion form.
Enabling the Submit feature
To enable the Submit feature on your blog, follow these steps:
1. Click the name of your Tumblr blog on the Dashboard menu.
2. Click the Blog Settings button on the Dashboard sidebar to view the Settings
page.
3. Put a check mark in the Submit field where it says Let People Submit Posts.
Enabling this feature adds a Submit link to your blog's navigation menu that is
linked to your site's Submit page:
yoursite/tumblr/submit
.
4. If desired, edit the Submit page title in the text field provided.
The default title is Submit.
5. In the Submission Guidelines field, enter any instructions to visitors about mak-
ing submissions.
For instance, you may want to specify a maximum width and height for photo sub-
missions or suggest that visitors include a click-through link for the source of any
content they submit.
6. In the Allowed Post Types area, select which types of posts your visitors may
submit.
The options are Text, Photo, Quote, Link, and Video. You may select as many of
these options as you like.
7. To include a set of optional tags that visitors can include with their submissions,
enter the tags in the Optional Tags for Submitter field.
