How to schedule Tumblr posts

Tumblr builds posts from blocks: a text block, then images, then a video, and so on. Schedulely uses that format directly. Your caption becomes the text block, followed by the photos in the order you added them, or by the video.

Tags are how Tumblr posts get found, so Schedulely handles them for you. Any hashtag in your caption, such as #illustration or #slowfashion, is added to the post as a Tumblr tag, up to 30 of them. The hashtag also stays in the text where you wrote it, so if you would rather keep the text clean, put the hashtags on a final line.

Tumblr itself allows 30 from web, 10 from apps photos per post, depending on where you post from. Schedulely takes up to 10 photos, the same as Tumblr's apps. Tumblr's other post types, which it lists as Text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, video, poll, are not all available: Schedulely posts text, photo and video posts only.

• Connect. Sign in on Tumblr's page. Schedulely never sees the Tumblr password, and a client can connect their own blog from a connect link.
• Pick the blog. If the Tumblr login runs several blogs, choose one. Each blog is connected as its own account, so an artist with a main blog and a sketch blog can post to either.
• Write the post. Add text and media from your computer, phone, a Google Drive link set to Anyone with the link, or the client's library. Add hashtags for the tags you want.
• Schedule. Pick the time, then schedule it, save it as a draft or send an approval link.

Schedulely refreshes the Tumblr sign in each time it posts, so the connection stays active between posts. If Tumblr refuses a post, it appears under Failed with the reason and can be retried in 1 tap.

Reblogs are central to Tumblr, but they are an action on someone else's post, so they stay a job for the Tumblr app. The same goes for answering asks and replying to notes. The Schedulely inbox works with Instagram only.

Tags come only from hashtags in the caption. That works well for most people, but it means a tag with spaces, such as a full phrase, needs to be written without spaces in your caption. If you want multi word tags exactly as Tumblr displays them, add them in Tumblr after the post goes out.

Posts go directly onto the blog at the time you set, not into Tumblr's queue, so if you already use Tumblr's queue for spacing, choose times in Schedulely instead. You can mix photos or one video per post, but not both in one Tumblr post.

For artists, writers and brands posting regular work, that covers the daily publishing.