{"id":4501,"date":"2012-06-06T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:28:40","slug":"wordpress-com-adds-tumblr-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"WordPress.com adds Tumblr support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post by <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2012\/06\/tumblr-support-in-wordpress\/\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a> is pretty insightful:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WordPress has fantastic content that people on Tumblr love, and Tumblr has a rich and diverse content and curation community that can drive new visitors to WordPress \u2014 it\u2019s like peanut butter and chocolate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve felt exactly the same way, actually. Near the end of the ski season I noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/04\/kottke-redesign-by-the-numbers\">Jason Kottke<\/a> had essentially duplicated his entire web experience on Tumblr just to allow users to <em>properly<\/em> repost, follow, and share his content.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was genius and started researching ways I could do this myself for <a href=\"http:\/\/cosnow.com\">Colorado Snow<\/a>, which is self-hosted on WordPress. So, while you wait anxiously for Jetpack to add Tumblr support simply add the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tumblrize\/\">Tumblrize plugin<\/a> and get started.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Question #1: Does this shut down the Tumblr versus WordPress.com &#8220;monthly traffic&#8221; and &#8220;active blog&#8221; statistics and comparisons? Probably.<\/li>\n<li>Question #2: Will Tumblr get anxious about this and the potential for duplicate content, abuse, etc.? Probably not, eyeballs are eyeballs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS: Here&#8217;s my <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradosnow.tumblr.com\">Colorado Snow blog on Tumblr<\/a>, it only took about 5 minutes to set up and configure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post by Matt Mullenweg is pretty insightful: WordPress has fantastic content that people on Tumblr love, and Tumblr has a rich and diverse content and curation community that can drive new visitors to WordPress \u2014 it\u2019s like peanut butter and chocolate. And I&#8217;ve felt exactly the same way, actually. Near the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-internet","category-wordpress","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}