The Oracle of Apollo Snippets from the life of Apollo Lee

Tumblrize for WordPress

Recently, I discovered and installed Tumblrize for WordPress. I think it’s a neat idea, since I have a tumblr blog with 17 followers. I have no idea why photobloggers who post pictures of cute, fashionable girls are following me, but I’ll take all the readers I can get.

I do have a couple of nits to pick with Tumblrize, though. If I was more motivated, I’d read up more on the WordPress API and see if I could help fix the issue that I see with this otherwise nifty plugin.

1. It doesn’t work at all with MarsEdit. I blog with MarsEdit, because I don’t have to log into the WordPress UI on the web to get my blogging done. When I post using MarsEdit, it posts as normal If I want the post sent to Tumblr using this plugin, I have to go into the web UI, delete and retype a period on the post, and “update.” I’m not sure whether this is an issue with Tumblrizer, WordPress, or MarsEdit, but it really annoys me.
2. Tumblrizer ignores Textile markup. I also use Textile to format my posts, because I’m lazy and when I’m blogging, I don’t want to code HTML. I want to write. Links that I post using MarsEdit, formatted in Textile, post here correctly formatted. When crossposted, the links, lists, strongs, and other formatting appears unformatted in the tumblr post. This bothers me quite a bit.

I guess one solution is realizing how few of the people following me on tumblr give a crap about what I post here on the Oracle of Apollo.

I don’t know which isn’t working consistently, but I’ve noticed that on a variety of hosts and websites, the Tumblrize plugin fails to push the posts via API to Tumblr; Most likely a combination of a buggy API and a poorly written plugin.

I’m looking forward to when Tumblr scraps their blog service entirely and just stays a social infrastructure. Either that or expand the social infrastructure to WordPress blogs so I can scrap the closed nature of a Tumblr. I hate having to theme a static Tumblr as well as a WordPress, especially when I’ve got a dozen sites to maintain.

Even just the ‘love’, ‘reblog’, ‘notes’ and ‘follow’ on WordPress would be massive.