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Plugin Description
Tumblr Crosspostr posts to Tumblr whenever you hit the “Publish” (or “Save Draft”) button. It can import your reblogs on Tumblr as native WordPress posts. It even downloads the images in your Photo posts and saves them in the WordPress Media Library.
Transform your WordPress website into a back-end for Tumblr. Create original posts using WordPress, but publish them to Tumblr. Import your Tumblr reblogs. Always have a portable copy (a running backup) of your entire Tumblr blog.
Tumblr Crosspostr uses Tumblr’s simple API to keep posts in sync; when you edit your WordPress post, it updates your Tumblr post. Private WordPress posts become private Tumblr posts, deleting a post from WordPress that you’ve previously cross-posted to Tumblr deletes it from Tumblr, too, and so on. Scheduling a WordPress post to be published any time in the future will add it to the Tumblr blog’s Queue. (However, the publishing schedule of your Tumblr queue will take precedence, so be careful!)
Tumblr Crosspostr is very lightweight. It just requires you to connect to your Tumblr account from the plugin options screen. After that, you’re ready to cross-post!
Tumblr Crosspostr uses post formats to automatically choose the appropriate Tumblr post type. The first image, video embed, etcetera that Tumblr Crosspostr detects will be used as the primary media for the Tumblr post type. To take full advantage of Tumblr Crosspostr, I suggest you choose a WordPress theme that supports all the post formats that your Tumblr theme supports, but Tumblr Crosspostr will still work even if your theme does not natively support this feature. 🙂
The WordPress post format to Tumblr post type mapping looks like this:
- WordPress’s
Standard, Aside, and Status post formats become Tumblr’s Text post type
- WordPress’s
Image post format becomes Tumblr’s Photo post type
- WordPress’s
Video post format becomes Tumblr’s Video post type
- WordPress’s
Audio post format becomes Tumblr’s Audio post type
- WordPress’s
Quote post format becomes Tumblr’s Quote post type
- WordPress’s
Link post format becomes Tumblr’s Link post type
- WordPress’s
Chat post format becomes Tumblr’s Chat post type
- WordPress’s
Gallery post format becomes Tumblr’s Photoset post type (sadly this is not yet implemented, but maybe one day soon!!)
Other options enable tweaking additional metadata from your WordPress entry (notably tags and “Content source” attributions) to Tumblr, sending all your post archives to Tumblr in one click, and more.
Servers no longer serve, they possess. We should call them possessors.
—Ward Cunningham
Learn more about how you can use this plugin to own your own data in conjunction with the “Bring Your Own Content” self-hosted Web publishing virtual appliance.
Screenshots
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When you first install Tumblr Crosspostr, you’ll need to connect it to your Tumblr account before you can start crossposting. This screenshot shows how its options screen first appears after you activate the plugin.
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Once you create and enter your API key and click “Save Changes,” the options screen prompts you to connect to Tumblr with another button. Press the “Click here to connect to Tumblr” button to begin the OAuth connection process.
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After allowing Tumblr Crosspostr access to your Tumblr account, you’ll find you’re able to access the remainder of the options page. You must choose at least one default Tumblr blog to send your crossposts to, so this option is highlighted if it is not yet set. Set your cross-posting preferences and click “Save Changes.” You’re now ready to start crossposting!
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You can optionally choose not to crosspost individual WordPress posts from the Tumblr Crosspostr custom post editing box. This box also enables you to send a specific post to a Tumblr blog other than the default one you selected in the previous step, send the post’s excerpt rather than its main body to Tumblr, and control the Tumblr auto-tweet setting (if enabled on your Tumblr blog).
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If you already have a lot of content that you want to quickly copy to Tumblr, you can use the “Tumblrize Archives” tool to do exactly that.
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Get help where you need it from WordPress’s built-in “Help” system.
