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How To: Embed Your Tumblog in WordPress

EricaJoy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:10:45 +0000

Tumblogs are all the rage right now but sometimes a big long post is warranted. For those occasions a lot of us keep “old school” blogs around. For me, it was hard to integrate my tumblog and my “real” blog. I settled for having a link between the two separate entities and having a customized tumblr domain. The release of Tumblr 3.0 added the option to embed posts anywhere, so I gave up the crappy linking between blogs and embedded my tumblog into a WordPress page. I’m sure others have done this but I’m documenting how I did it in the hopes it will help someone else.

All in all, embedding my tumblog into WP was pretty easy. Here’s what I did:

Create a file called tumblr.css and put it somewhere.
Create a new Page in WordPress.
Switch to the code editor of the page and insert the following:

Make sure you edit the paths in the code snippet before publishing.
Save the page
Edit the CSS to your liking.

That’s it. The trickiest part of the whole deal is editing the CSS. Tumblr doesn’t have documentation for the various classes you can use to style the js so you have to fly by the seat of your pants a bit. For convenience and the sake of having this written down somewhere, here are all the classes used:

tumblr_body
tumblr_description
tumblr_post
tumblr_quote_post
tumblr_quote
tumblr_open_quote
tumblr_close_quote
tumblr_source
tumblr_photo_post
tumblr_photo
tumblr_caption
tumblr_link_post
tumblr_link
tumblr_chat_post
tumblr_label
tumblr_text_post
tumblr_title
tumblr_body
tumblr_video_post
tumblr_video
tumblr_audio_post

If you’d like a css file to get you started, here’s a modified version of the one I use: http://usefultreats.googlepages.com/tumblr.css

Tumbling I’ve fallen in love with tumblr. There I said it....

Migration Pattern

EricaJoy — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:51:00 +0000

So contrary to the date of the first entry of this blog, I am not a total n00b blogger. To be truthful, I started this blog on Blogger back when I thought I might have a chance to work @ Google. It’s wise to know the products of the company you’re interviewing with and all. Before that, I’d been using WordPress and before that Movable Type and before that Xanga and before that greymatter. It stands to reason that if I’m on my fifth blogging platform, I’d have entries going back before March of 2006, right? Well unfortunately Blogger doesn’t provide a way to import old entries from other platforms, so my entries back to September 2003 are locked away in WordPress land.

Enter Yichao Zhang who created a WordPress to Blogger importer. I’d been waiting for some enterprising person to use the Blogger API to create an importer. Truth be told, this post started out in December as a request for someone to do so. So, I’m going to try this out. If all is successful, you should see old posts appearing in the archives soon-ish.

Moving on, I would like to know when and how VOSS became the “it” water. I started seeing it in hotel rooms I went to and couldn’t comprehend how a bottle of water could cost $8. Now I see pictures of Lindsay Lohan walking around carrying the stuff and I wonder where this stuff came from. I’ve never seen commercials for it so has it become popular by the design of its bottle (which is cool, I admit) and its placing in hotels?

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EricaJoy — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:51:00 +0000

…after a long hiatus, i’ve brought back my blog. only this time, its wordpress and not movable type. i put wp on another site im creating and I love it. So long and thanks for all the fish, MT.

I’ll be back with more later.

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