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How to Post Daily Delicious Links to Tumblr

Importing a Delicious RSS feed to Tumblr will create a post for every new link you bookmark. To import those links in a single daily post, some extra steps are required.

Delicious > WordPress.com > Tumblr

Delicious Blog Posting

Delicious has an experimental feature called Blog Posting that creates a daily post of your latest bookmarks to your blog. It supports Movable Type, Typepad, Wordpress, and other kinds of blog software. Unfortunately, Tumblr is not one of them, so I’m using WordPress.com as an intermediary.

In Delicious, click Add a new blog posting job.

The out_url for WordPress.com is yourblogsubdomain.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php.

To locate your WordPress.com out_blog_id, click Users > Personal Settings. Look at the source code for the page and locate the Primary Blog drop down code. The option value is your out_blog_id.

<select name="primary_blog"><option value="your_out_blog_id_#" selected="selected">

Now your Delicious links will be published in a daily post to your WordPress.com blog. To publish the daily link posts to Tumblr, simply import your WordPress.com feed to Tumblr (via Customize > Services > Automatically import my… RSS Feed as Links with Summaries.)

Hopefully Delicious will allow for more customization with the Blog Posting feature. In particular, I’d like to be able to use wildcard tags to craft better titles and URLs for the daily posts.