Do you want to showcase your Tumblr updates automatically in your wordpress.com blog? But you don’t know how? Well, you can learn to do so right now!
Note: This tutorial assumes that you already have a Tumblr account.
Also, all of the services mentioned here are free.
I have experimented with Landscape Lifescape – an excellent Tumblr blog. You can try these experiments with your own or another user’s Tumblr blog.
So, here are the different methods grading form simple-but-does-its-job to totally-awesome!
Put Tumblr RSS in an RSS widget
You can import your latest Tumblr posts using an RSS widget in your wordpress.com blog. Please read how to use the RSS Widget first.
But before you can put a Tumblr feed, you have to figure out what your Tumble feed is.
Go to your Tumblr home page and copy the url of your Tumblr from the address bar.
Now put /rss/ after the url without any space.
Congrats, you have done it!
An RSS widget works only in the sidebar/footer of your wordpress.com blog.
Bloggybits
Bloggybits is good if you want to show just titles of your latest posts (and publication date) but you want to have something a little flashier than the RSS widget.
Bloggybits allows you to put the Title, feed and url of your Tumblr feed and then it generates a nice RSS Widget.
See an example here:
Hmmm, so far so good. But what if the images in your Tumblr are important to you? Then try one of the services listed below! With the help of these services, you can get your wordpress.com blog to display images from your Tumblr automatically!
Choose RSS feed in Vuvox and paste your needed Tumblr RSS feed url.
Vuvox is simply amazing. It creates a slide show out of new Tumblr posts automatically! You can even choose a style for the slide show!
See an example:
Embedit
Embedit enables you to display your Tumblr homepage in a box.
Just choose embed a url and paste the url of your Tumblr home page and embedit will ask you to log in using your Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Aol, WordPress or Openid account.
Then embedit gives you an embed code.
See an example here:
Springwidgets
Just enter the url of your Tumblr homepage or Tumblr feed and Springwidgets will create an embeddable RSS widget.
You can add the title and description of your Tumblr blog and choose whether to have only the post title or also a post blurb.
See an example Springwidgets:
Widgetbox
Enter the url or feed url of your Tumblr, choose Basic (it’s free) and not PRO and click the “Make Widget” button.
You can choose posts (to show summaries and images or not), either List format or Slide show format. You can customize the size, theme (modify Basic, Backgrounds or pattern), Header Style (choose whether it should show title or images or both). Save widget (agree to their Terms and Conditions first) and choose the Flash embed code.
Here is an example of a List style Widgetbox…
And here is an example of a Slide show Style Widgetbox…
Takeslides
A sleek slide show creator.
See an example:
Bonus tip
Bloggybits, Vuvox Express, Embedit, Springwidgets, Widgetbox andTakeslides – all give you Flash embed codes which you can configure to choose a size that you want. Choose a skinnier/smaller version for your side bar/footer.
Instructions for embedding Flash in a wordpress.com blog
If you are wondering how I put the Flash embeds in a wordpress.com blog, please read this post:
How to have Flash embeds in a wordpress.com blog
If you do not know anything much about Tumblr, please read why everyone loves Tumblr.
If you have any question, suggestion, gratitude or compliment please use the comment box (it’s free.)
