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Building a Tumblr Blog with ExpressionEngine

Andy Johnson from Shaping the Page did a great writeup on how to make a tumblr-style site with EE:

Part of the appeal of a Tumblr-style blog are the variety of dedicated post types for entries, making it quick and easy to post a snippet of information or a link, vs. committing to a full blog post. For our Journal we decided we’d be using five different post types: a full entry, a link, a photo, a quote, and a video post type. Like with most things in ExpressionEngine, there are multiple ways to accomplish this.

Andy’s writeup includes step-by-step instructions and even some template code to get you started. I’ve long considered doing something just like this, but Andy’s post saved me all the hard work. Nicely done! Check out his post to see how Andy did it:

Shaping the Page: How to Build a Simple Tumblr Blog with ExpressionEngine

Posted on Nov 23, 2010 by Brian Warren

Filed Under: Blogging, Development Tools

Euan — 09:05 on 11.24.2010

Good write up.

I quite like Jon Hicks Shelf template, shame it’s not available for EE but very nice - http://thethemefoundry.com/shelf/

Andy Johnson — 14:06 on 11.24.2010

Thanks Brian. Hope it’s helpful to folks!

dlysen — 07:41 on 11.27.2010

I visit the “shapingthepage.com” and see good tutorials. This will be a great hint to build website similar to tumblr.

I’m searching if EE can be use in tumblr but I found some interesting information here.