Set click through url of image to tumblr post url

Sure. Look at line 633. ??

If you want to create an option for setting the click-through URL settable from the Tumblr Crosspostr Meta Box, I’d be happy to receive a patch. Send a pull request on the project’s GitHub for me to consider it for inclusion.

Cheers.

Thanks! But at that point there’s no tumblr id attached to the post, am I right? That happens first when the post is created the first time.

That’s kind of what I’m wondering here, if it’s possible to receive the tumblr post id and use that to build a click through link (i.e. https://mytumblr.tumblr.com/post/ <insert tumblr id here>). It’s pretty easy if you simply update an existing post, as the tumblr id is stored in a meta value, but on post creation it’s not attached until savepost is fired, yeah?

Yeah. You need at least two HTTP round trips for that because on the first HTTP request the Tumblr post doesn’t exist.

As a clarifying question, why do you want the click-through link to be the Tumblr post itself, anyway? That seems redundant.

Yeah, I guess it’s one of those things most people won’t use. Although I think it would be neat to access the stand alone post when clicking the image rather than the image file (not sure if people actually uses the top right corner thing that links to the post?).

I’ve got the tumblr setup to redirect traffic from the tumblr post to the post on my wordpress site. And on the WP site it uses the tumblr id to fetch the content of that post via javascript.

somesite.tumblr.com/post/123456 redirects to somesite.com/post/123456, where javascript fetches 123456, runs a request via the tumblr api, gets the content and displays it.

Don’t ask me why, it’s the client that wants it like this. The site itself is too advanced to rely on tumblr alone, otherwise the most sensible thing would be to just use a custom domain with a tumblr.

That sounds like a very unstable setup. FWIW, I actually wrote Tumblr Crosspostr with the intention of helping people move away from Tumblr, which is most usefully thought of as a social network, not a publishing platform. Folks like the Northwest Progressive Institute have done this, but use Tumblr Crosspostr to maintain a presence on that social network.

What you’re doing seems to be building in unnecessary points of failure. If I uderstand correctly, your WP site now relies on Tumblr and your Tumblr site relies on WP? This is just a Bad Thing.

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I just wrote like two ranty paragraphs about how much I dislike what you’re describing doing, but then I deleted them because basically it’s just a rehashing of this blog post.

TL;DR: Don’t ship broken architectures for money. That doesn’t make you a good developer. It makes you a predatory capitalist.

It is a very instable setup. I’ve gone over it and redone the whole thing for better reliability. In this case I’m merely doing what I’ve been told by a very non-technical design company (hey, Tumblr is magical for a social context, it’ll make your content rockstars).

I also read your blog post, a really great read. Thanks!
Should close and perhaps delete this topic.