Can You Deactivate Tumblr?
Many social networks allow you to temporarily deactivate your account in case you want to reactivate it again later. Tumblr doesn’t have this option. After you delete a blog or your whole account, everything from your blog content to the blogs you follow is gone. Your Tumblr username (username.tumblr.com) is lost and up for grabs by someone else. Be certain you want to delete your Tumblr account or blog before you do it because once it’s gone, there’s no way to get it or its content back.
How to Delete Your Tumblr Account
If you don’t want a presence on Tumblr anymore, you can delete your entire account and everything with it in a few simple steps.
How to Delete a Secondary Tumblr Blog If You Have Multiple Blogs
You can have multiple Tumblr blogs on the same Tumblr account, and if you do, you can delete them without deleting your entire Tumblr account. But there’s a catch—the blog you want to delete without deleting your account can’t be your original blog that was set up with your account. This is essentially your primary blog, and unfortunately, your primary blog can’t be changed to a secondary blog.
Export Your Blog Content Before Deleting Tumblr
Whether you’re deleting your whole account or a secondary blog, it might be useful to keep your blog content just in case. If you’re already on the blog you want to delete, you’ll see a list of options directly underneath its name in the drop-down men that you can select. If not, Tumblr redirects you to that blog and loads the dashboard feed for it. To export your content, select Edit appearance for the appropriate blog in the drop-down menu, scroll down, then select Export [blog name]. If you have a lot of content, this might take a while. Once the backup processing is complete, select Download backup to instantly download your blog content as a ZIP file.
