FAQ

Can I specify a post’s tags?

Yes. WordPress’s tags are also crossposted to Tumblr. If you’d like to keep your WordPress tags separate from your Tumblr tags, be certain you’ve enabled the „Do not send post tags to Tumblr“ setting.

Additionally, the „Automatically add these tags to all crossposts“ setting lets you enter a comma-separated list of tags that will always be applied to your Tumblr crossposts.

Does Tumblr Crosspostr properly attribute content sources?

Yes. By default, Tumblr Crosspostr will set itself up so that your WordPress blog’s posts are attributed as the „Source“ for each of your crossposts. Moreover, in each of your posts, you can enter a „Content source“ URL in exactly the way Tumblr’s own post editor lets you attribute sources, which will be entered as the „Content source“ meta field on your Tumblr posts. You can even turn this feature off entirely if you’re using Tumblr Crosspostr „secretly,“ as the back-end to a more elaborate publishing platform might do.

Can I send older WordPress posts to Tumblr?

Yes. Go edit the desired post, verify the crosspost option is set to Yes, and update the post. Tumblr Crosspostr will keep the original post date. Note that sometimes it seems to take Tumblr a few minutes to reflect many new changes, so you may want to use Tumblr’s „mega editor“ to verify that your post really made it over to Tumblr.

What if I edit a post that has been cross-posted?

If you edit or delete a post, changes will appear on or disappear from Tumblr accordingly.

Can I cross-post Private posts from WordPress to Tumblr?

Yes. Tumblr Crosspostr respects the WordPress post visibility setting and supports cross-posting private posts to Tumblr. Editing the visibility setting of your WordPress post will update your Tumblr cross-post with the new setting, as well.

Can I cross-post custom post types?

Yes. By default, Tumblr Crosspostr only crossposts post post types, but you can enable or disable other post types from the plugin’s settings screen.

If you’re a plugin developer, you can easily make your custom post types work well with Tumblr Crosspostr by implementing the tumblr_crosspostr_save_post_types, tumblr_crosspostr_meta_box_post_types, and tumblr_crosspostr_prepared_post filter hooks. See Other Notes for coding details.

Is Tumblr Crosspostr available in languages other than English?

This plugin has been translated into the following languages:

• French (fr_FR)
  • Thanks, Julien! 😀

With your help it can be translated into even more! To contribute a translation of this plugin into your language, please sign up as a translator on Tumblr Crosspostr’s Transifex project page.

What if my theme doesn’t support Post Formats?

Tumblr Crosspostr will still work even if your theme doesn’t support the Post Formats feature. However, consider asking your theme developer to update your theme code so that it supports Post Formats itself for other plugins to use, too.

If you feel comfortable doing this yourself, then in most cases, this is literally a one-line change. Simply use the add_theme_support() function in your theme’s functions.php file:

add_theme_support('post-formats', array('link', 'image', 'quote', 'video', 'audio', 'chat''));

And if you choose to do this yourself, consider getting in touch with your theme’s developer to let them know how easy it was! We devs love to hear this kind of stuff. 🙂

Why won’t my Tumblr post appear on my WordPress blog immediately?

Unfortunately, Tumblr does not provide a programmatic „export“ feature, so there is no way to push posts out from Tumblr. This is known as a „data silo“ and it’s always enforced in the interest of corporate control so that humans are turned into dollars. Think Facebook, for example: you can easily put stuff into Facebook, but it’s much harder to get that same stuff out. This is the exact opposite of WordPress in every way, both philosophically and technologically. Tumblr, in this case, is like Facebook. It, too, allows you to easily put stuff into it, but it’s very hard to take stuff back out.

Tumblr Crosspostr’s Tumblr Sync feature was built to work despite this harsh reality. One of the limitations is that Tumblr Crosspostr Sync can not detect when you have published a new post on Tumblr (because Tumblr never notifies your WordPress blog that this has happened). Instead, it must periodically check your Tumblr blog on its own. It polls your Tumblr blog once every twenty four hours, and then does its best to identify which posts are new. This usually works quite well, but it does mean that it can take up to 24 hours for posts created on Tumblr to show up on your WordPress website. This is another reason why creating posts on WordPress is better than creating posts on Tumblr.

If you’d like to see a world without arbitrary and unnecessary limitations that only serve corporate overseers like this, consider encouraging your friends to join and support free software platforms like WordPress, Diaspora, and other systems that let you own your own data.