What to Do When Tumblr Blogs Open Only in Control Panel

On the desktop, the Tumblr dashboard acts as a handy hub from which you can do just about anything. Creating new posts, scrolling through your feed, or messaging other Tumblr feels surprisingly good. But there is one feature that doesn’t make much sense. Obviously, any blog you try to access via your dashboard will be opened inside the dashboard.

While the ability to view blogs directly from your control panel sounds like a nice feature to have, it’s actually pretty detrimental to a full Tumblr experience. But luckily, you can usually use a workaround to turn them on, and that’s what you’ll learn. However, there are cases where you can’t do anything about it – let’s also check why this happens.

Opening Blogs in Separate Tabs

When you click on a Tumblr username from your dashboard, it can be found from your feed, messenger, a blog followed, search results, etc. one thing, the blog launches it instantly in a sidebar to the right of the screen instead of loading it typically. like a regular site.

Useful when you need to quickly check several posts on a blog. The small screen area of ​​the sidebar combined with an unresponsive dashboard can be quite inconvenient. Definitely not an affordable way to spend quality time on your favorite blogs, right?

Unfortunately, this is a design decision on the Tumblr side and you don’t have access to any “toggle” options you can use to turn off functionality. So, how can you view blogs without being limited to a small part of the screen?

The solution involves opening Tumblr blogs in their respective tabs. And forget about manually adding URLs to new tabs – there are easier ways to do this directly from the control panel.

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The old-fashioned way (and you may already know how) to open a blog in a new tab is to right-click on the Tumblr username or avatar. In the context menu that appears, click Open Link in New Tab and you’re good to go.

However, note that the new tab opens in the browser background. Therefore, you then need to switch to the corresponding tab from your dashboard.

Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts

If you hate right-clicking to open links in new tabs, just click the middle mouse button on the scrollbar instead; The blog will automatically open in a new tab. Very fast and no messing around with menus at all.

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And in cases where the middle mouse click is tight or uncomfortable to perform, consider combining the left mouse button with the Ctrl key to achieve the same effect.

Use Chrome Extensions

Do you use Chrome as your go-to browser? Then take advantage of extensions like Click Tab and Long Press New Tab to easily open Tumblr blogs in new tabs without relying on alternative mouse buttons or keyboard combinations.

Click To Tab Long Press New Tab

While these extensions force-open every link you come across in new tabs, you can easily enable them just for your Tumblr sessions. To enable or disable installed extensions, open the Chrome menu (click the three-dot menu), point to More Tools, then click Extensions.

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Blogs That Are Always On Dashboard

Sometimes, you may find that trying to open a particular Tumblr blog in a new tab fails. But why? It happens when the blog is ‘hidden’ everywhere except the Tumblr blogosphere. This means it doesn’t have a custom URL besides the username tag that a browser can use to open the blog in a separate tab.

However, it’s pretty rare for a blog to be hidden, so when you come across a blog you need to take care of it. On the other hand, if you have a private blog with a large following, consider giving your visitors a better experience by removing the restriction using the steps below.

Stage 1: Click the Account icon on the Tumblr dashboard, then click Settings.

Step 2: Select the blog you want to show.

Stage 3: Scroll down to the Visibility section and then turn off the toggle next to hide your ‘blog-name’.

Once you’ve done that, the blog should open in a new tab for anyone who wants to do this. It should also be installed for visitors who do not have a Tumblr account or are not logged in.

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I hope you now understand why blogs appear on the dashboard. It’s quite an unusual move for Tumblr’s users to force such a feature, but at least you can view them normally if needed.

And for whatever opens only on the dashboard, you can’t do much about it. Except perhaps for admins to prevent them from showing their blog – this may or may not work, but it’s worth a try!