Building A Tumbleblog With WordPress
There’s this interesting article and tutorial written by Brian Gardner that I thought I’d feature in today’s post. It’s about building a Tumblr-style blog with WordPress. In it he also points out the reason why you might want to try it – or rather, should do it.
Since the release of version 3.1, WordPress has given its users the ability to publish various post formats like images, audios, quotes, etc. – just like Tumblr. Below are the following types of post formats that WordPress currently supports:
- Asides – status updates similar to Facebook
- Audio – an audio file
- Chats – a transcript of chats
- Gallery – a gallery of images
- Images – a single image
- Links – a link to another site
- Quotes – a quotation
- Status- short status similar to Twitter
- Videos – a single video
By combining the ability to create/publish post formats with the use of the Genesis Framework, building a Tumblr-like blog has never been easier.
So how do/can you add the above post formats to your website? Gardner provided a couple of codes that you insert in your child theme’s functions.php file (see below):
Adding post formats:
/** Add support for post formats */ add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array( 'aside', 'audio', 'chat', 'gallery', 'image', 'link', 'quote', 'status', 'video' ) );
Adding post format images:
/** Add support for post format images */ add_theme_support( 'genesis-post-format-images' );
The above code will look for images located in the images/post-formats/ directory inside your child theme. And those images need to be called aside.png, audio.png, etc.
To see an example of a Tumblr-style WordPress blog, you can check out the demo page called ‘Mindstream’, which Gardner released over at StudioPress You can also read his full article here.
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