UPDATE: Tumblr didn't work
mood: ACK! · working on: tumblr importing
So, I tried using a plugin called vag_tumblr_import to automatically route all tumblr posts to my blog, and it semi-worked. Here’s what didn’t:
Categories:
The plugin, when activated, created a tumblr category, with media-titled subcategories (photo, quote, &c) This is not in itself terrible, but royally messes with my organization. I show a category listing in my footer, and have filters in my CMS that display certain categories of posts (e.g. meta or musings).
I’d have to tweak the plugin code to not use the secondary category, and add posts to my already-created categories.
Titles:
Untitled tumblr posts get a default title slapped on them, and it’s ugly. This could potentially be avoided if I always use a title for my posts, but I’d have to retroactively add titles to things.
Sections:
Tumblr posts are automatically either added to the “about” or “article” section. The former royally screwed with my website, and the latter doesn’t exist (I use a section called “articles.” COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.) I could probably change that in the plugin code, though.
Images:
If I implement this, I need to figure out a way to automatically create a slimbox gallery and add the images to it (or simply resize them, but that doesn’t look as nice). Images / photoblogging is the hardest thing to automate with TextPattern, so I need to do more research in this area.
Tags:
Tumblr doesn’t import tags at all. This makes sense, as tags aren’t exactly a feature in vanilla TextPattern, but are made available through the tru_tags plugin. I’d probably have to write this code from scratch if I wanted to use tagging with tumblr.
· frustrations, meta, tumblr · Posted 6 July 2010, 13:36 ·
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