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I’ve had a few people ask how I built my tumblog. I am actually working on a detailed howto for the tumblog but for those of you who are anxious to get working on yours, here is what I did:

1. Installed Wordpress in a subdirectory on Daily Cup of Tech (I used tumblog)
2. Performed all of the basic initial setup for Wordpress
3. Found a theme that I thought was suitable (I used Rounded v.2)
4. Modify the theme to remove comments, etc. that are not required for a tumblog
5. Disable comments and pings on entire site
6. Installed Deepest Sender on my computer so that I can quickly drag-and-post items
7. Installed following plugins:
   1. Postie - allows me to post via e-mail and my smartphone
   2. SideRSS - lets me put Daily Cup of Tech feed on the tumblog
8. Created an iCall account and then configured voicemail to go to Postie e-mail address so that I can create posts via regular phone

That’s the quick and dirty list of how to do it.  I will hopefully have something with a bit more detail in the near future.  Until then, I hope this will at least provide a bit of a framework for your Wordpress tumblog.

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4 Responses to “DIY Wordpress Tumblog”

1. Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK Says:
   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

   Daily Cup of Tech

2. Pedro Says:
   March 26th, 2007 at 10:49 am

   I made one for myself.
   I had a tumblog on tumblr.com but since i had a domain…
   There has a litle trouble with the permalinks but nothing serious. thanks for the tip.
   By the way, great blog. I love the posts about Tweks on USB drives.

3. Constantly Thinking Says:
   March 27th, 2007 at 2:53 am

   have in the past on this site, but I do write for a couple of other sites. And in keeping up with these sites, you have to have little enhancements built into Firefox to make posting a little easier. I was reading Daily Cup of Tech’s tutorial on the DIY Wordpress Tumblog

4. What’s in my mind? Says:
   March 31st, 2007 at 1:29 pm

   a dica do DCoT, criei um Tumblog. Mas que raio é um Tumblog? Bem, o Tumblog (ou Tumblelog) é uma variação do tão conhecido Blog em que é dado ênfase aos artigos curtos, simples, objectivos e à mídia, em detrimento dos artigos longos, associados

5. Archaeogeek Says:
   May 8th, 2007 at 11:52 am

   Thanks for a great article. I had been trying to figure out where to put all those useful/useless snippets of information that currently sit in a moleskine on my desk at work, and after reading this I decided on a tumblog of my own. Thanks for the inspiration and the heads up on tools like deepest sender!

6. L-exp : Home Says:
   November 20th, 2007 at 9:59 am

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