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Jul 21, 2007

Convergence, baby

I’ve just added two long-overdue links to the navigation at the top of this (and every) page: you’ll now see a link to my scrapbook (on tumblr) and my photos (on flickr).

I’ve done this by making pages in Wordpress, and using the Page Links To plugin, which allows me to auto redirect pages to external URIs. In this way, I’ve been able to bring my presence on these two external services - which I use all the time - to be part of the navigation on this site. Sweet!

Of course, what I *really* want is a tumblr plugin, or export function from tumblr which enables a days posts to be exported a la del.icio.us and posted in the main blog…

If you haven’t already, please do pop over to my scrapbook and check ouot some of the stuff I’ve stumbled across recently. It won’t tell you much about my state of mind at the moment, but it might provide you with a few idle clicks on a boring wet afternoon….

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  1. Ignorminious says:
    July 24, 2007 at 12:18 am

    I’ve been following your scrapbook for a while now. I must say it is most enjoyable, looking at all the little things you come across on the net :)

  2. ThePete says:
    September 28, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    Just wanted to mention, in case you weren’t aware of it–there’s still no Tumblr plugin for WP, but I’ve given the WP-O-Matic plugin a try and, aside from a crucial flaw, it works great. In fact, the flaw only effects a handful of people, so it may work well for you. WP-O-Matic pulls RSS feeds into actual posts on your blog, so they enter into your db and everything. Which is great. The flaw for me is that it can’t tell when a Tumblr post has already been added into my WP blog. So I end up with the same ten entries posted over and over again if I don’t update my Tumblr more often.

    Anyway, just thought I’d mention it.

  3. ThePete says:
    September 28, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    Actually, just got RadGeek’s FeedWordPress plugin to work–it’s a little chunky, but in the end seems to work fine. Get it here: http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress

    Hope that’s of use to other folks. :)

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