Tumblr Notes ☀
A few weeks back, when I was modifying my template to acommodate Disqus comments, I belabored the absense of a tag for index page blocks only, one to match the tag specifcally for “permalink” pages.
I just noticed that David and Marco added some new nifty template wrinkles:
- An IndexPage block tag!
- Varying size portrait URL tags.
- Special indexed post block tags — to enable one to insert advertisements or design elements in the middle of your posts.
- A whole slew of reblog tags.
- Support for Tumblr classes and groups (admittedly, I have not explored these Tumblr features yet)
And an undocumented new feature — yours.tumblr.com/random will fetch a random Tumblr post. Odd, the Tumblr staff must have spotted my Random link on my footer menu (though mine will load an entire random page of posts, as opposed to a random post). If you hover over the Random link here, it will display “http://azspot.net/random” — however, there’s a Javascript event that rolls a random page number.
/gratz to the Tumblr gnomes who keep rolling out new features.
Still missing in action, though:
- Search — please, now with a year of Tumblr, I forget all the wonderous globs of internets I’ve captured here and while I have a Google search bar on the page, its results are woefully incomplete, and coverage becomes fainter with each post.
- Add a blockquote icon to the bookmarklet dialog — no sweat working around this.
- Backup — I have coded a solution, but it needs enhanced and polished, at least to also capture the media files as well as the XML data.
- Reblog improvements — Tumblr could really hit a grand slam here, as the foundation is set for an evolutionary improvement in web chatter. Immediate next steps could include tags to allow popdowns (or however desired) to view all the (re)?blog activity for a given post.
- Archive enhancements — something like azspot.net/archive/2007/12/25 or azspot.net/archive/2007/07 to easily bring up past posts
- Future dating capability on posts — and there is a bug with the post date, of which I will elaborate in a separate missive. It seems posts created via the bookmarklet are intermingled with those originating from the dashboard form sometimes mangles the post order. I have some screen shots, but basically, incorrect date will show or the same date shows repeatedly.
