Q:if you don't mind telling... that box that pops up in the bottom right hand corner welcoming me... what is that called/how do i do that? thank you!

knudgeme

It’s a part of the Wibya toolbar. Check online for more: http://wibiya.conduit.com/

Q:Oh my goodness! When I used to use tumblr, I would spend foreverrr trying to figure out the DayPages thing. Then I'm not sure what came over me, but I started thinking about it earlier today, then decided to search it and your site came up and FINALLY understood how it worked. And for that I just wanted to say thanks! (Even though I don't use tumblr anymore)

almostserendipity

thank you :-)

Q:have a look at my tumblog. What have I done wrong? I cant see post thumbnails too.

streetbears

Hi there. I checked your code, and the widget displays correctly. It just doesn’t look good in the position you chose.

Plus you’ve been using the old version of it. Check here for the new code

http://code.google.com/p/tumblr-in-link/wiki/Install?tm=6#New_version_2.0_released

Try using the css=shadow style if you want thumbnails to be displayed.

Ciao!

Q:Hi mate, I have the same Effector theme for my Tumblr blog as you and I have two questions - 1) How do I create a list of my Pages that show up in the sidebar, as opposed to on the top, like yours does? 2) How do I create Pages? I tried tagging but that didn't work. Appreciate your help.

asamshah

Hi there! Two pretty easy questions.

  • I start from the second point. To create a page go to “Customize Appearance”. On the left bar of your Customize page you will find the Theme Options (see the image here on the right), but also the area with the Pages types. Just hit the “Add Page” button, and you’re done. You can create three types of pages: a redirect, a simple page, or a custom page (which can use a layout completely different from your theme).
  • In the themes option there’s a tick-box “show pages in top bar”. If you deselect it pages will show up automatically in the sidebar.
Thanks! Love XXX

In-Link Independent - Display related Tumblr posts anywhere

The release of the latest Tumblr API also allowed me to create a different version of the In-Link Widget that can be used to display related Tumblr content also on non-tumblr sites, or it can also help displaying related content from another Tumblr site.

The trick is easy, this special script allows you to specify as an option also a URL, thus allowing you to specify to which Tumblr blog you want the related contents be pulled from.

Warning: there’s one limitation, you can’t use both the actual In-Link widget and the In-Link Independent on the same page. The two scripts would collide, as they work on the same divs.

Instructions

To use In-Link Independent simply copy the following code on your page: 



<!— Start In-Link Independent Widget —>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://tumblr-in-link.googlecode.com/svn/branches/Version 2.0/js/in-link-badge.js?url<URL>&num=5&len=60&css=dark&title=Some Related Posts&tags=<TAGS>," type="text/javascript"></script>
<!— End In-Link Independent widget —>

The two options that need to be pulled together are:

  • url: simply add the url (without the http://) of the tumblr you’d like to pull the infos for.
  • tags: add the tag or tags (in case separated by a comma “,”) you would like to extract.

    • All other options work the same as in the In-Link Widget.

    So here’s an example I am currently using on blogger. Here’s the code: 


<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://tumblr-in-link.googlecode.com/svn/branches/Version 2.0/js/in-link-badge.js?url=eclettichevisioni.com&num=200&len=40&css=shadow&size=250&title=The Image Gallery&tags=Nico Tortorella," type="text/javascript"></script>

and here’s the result:

Expert Usage

If you’re using a CMS (e.g. wordpress, blogger or something similar) there’s a good possibility that you could embed the code above into your template. You would probably need to customize just the TAGS part.

For example in Wordpress you could use the get_the_tags function to get the tags automatically and fill the javascript option automatically. What is important is that you list tags as plain text, comma separated.

I believe you can use this tool with many different results. Just enjoy!

Q:Hello, my name is Brice. I have been trying to use In Link on my tumblr for a couple of days now. I think it's fantastic and it's exactly what tumblr was missing. But for the life of me, I can't have it so it only displays a limited amount of lines. As a lot of my posts have common tags, it displays them all every time I try to install In-Link. Could you please tell me if I am doing something wrong or if it is a common question from people? I need help please. Thanks very very much. Brice

briceferre

Hi There!
I’m not sure if I understood completely your question.
You can choose the amount of related posts you want to display. Just make sure you ste the “num=” option to the amount of links you want to display. Default is 8.
If the problem is linked to the fact that you get the same links under all posts, this may be linked to the fact that you use the same tags across all posts. There’s not an easy system to tell a widget to distinguish the tags. I noticed you often use the same tag, which is going to result in the same posts being displayed probably.
Hope this helps!
GS

Q:Your In-Link widget is fantastic! Would you be able to post up the CSS for 'dark' so I could use it as a base to mess with? Also I noticed the 'dark' and 'light' don't show the notes automatically. Is there a way to get them to show? Great widget. Thanks!

unamazing

You can find all the code directly on the In-Link page on Google Code.
You’re right about the notes. Will work that out over the weekend.

Q:Hey :) I'm currently coding my own tumblr theme and want to include a minified version of in-link 2. The problem is, when I run the code from in-link 2 through a javascript compressor, the script no longer works. Id really like to use a minified version to keep the loading time of the page as low as possible. Could you provide a minified version or hand me some tips/guidelines on how to minifiy the script? Thanks!

ztox

Hi There!
Thanks for the question. I had tried to work on a minified version of the script, but also run into errors. Don’t really know why I must admit.
ANyway, I managed to work on a minified version which is now available online on the google code repository. The file name is tumblr-in-link.2.0.min.js (just change this in place of the “normal” file name). The filesize is reduced by 45%, so not really best yet. But couldn’t really find the error in the other minified versions.
This one basically doesn’t have comments, and has stripped all blanks. But var names are not changed.

Love XXX

Q:I just started using the code, and I was wondering, is it supposed to appear on the main page of my blog or only on each post? I mean, I would like if viewers of my blog could see the related posts as they were browsing, without having to click on each post.

everydayexceptional

Hi there!

The whole widget is thought to be just displayed on the individual post page for a technical reason. Displaying it on the main page would result in a too high number of calls to the Tumblr API, thus slowing down your tumblr display. 

I know that it would be interesting to have related posts below each post, but at the moment this is really impractical. 

Hope this helps:-)

Love

Q:Hi,
The In-Link widget I've installed is not working with the new posts. Is that normal?

Thanks for the widget btw. I really like it.
XXX

seriouslyhappymeal

Hi there! What do you mean with the new posts?

I’ve checked your site, and it appears to work perfectly!

If you mean that it doesn’t show the present post, well it is designed that way!

Love xxx