Tumblr Widget for WordPress
Here’s a widget that allows you to import your Tumblr to any widgetized area on a WordPress site.
It’s used in the sidebar of this page to display the demo Tumblr at demo.tumblr.com.
To install:
- Drag the ‘tumblr-widget.php’ file to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
- Activate the plugin on your ‘Plugins’ page in WordPress.
- Go to your ‘Widgets’ page and drag the Tumblr Widget into any widgetized sidebar.
The controls are largely self-explanatory—you can:
- select how many posts to display;
- select what kinds of Tumblr posts to display;
- set the size of photos;
- link each post to its original on your Tumblr.
At present the plugin can’t display Tumblrs that are set to private; I’ll add authentication for that soon.
There’s an existing plugin called Wordpress Tumblr AJAX Widget, but I couldn’t get it to work. That might have been my fault. Tumblr Widget doesn’t use AJAX, so there’s no live updating: the Tumblr sidebar is updated when the page is refreshed.
