Instantly share posts on Tumblr

June 6, 2012

Justin

The second you publish a new post on WordPress.com, you can instantly share it on Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and now Tumblr with a feature called Publicize. This helps you get exposure to multiple audiences without having to manually share your content on all your favorite social sites.

With Publicize, you can make WordPress.com your home on the web and automatically share your content on five other social platforms. By publishing to WordPress.com, you maintain ownership of your content, which you can choose to export at any time.

To activate Publicize for Tumblr, head over to Settings → Sharing in your dashboard and click Connect to Tumblr. You can select from any of your Tumblr blogs once your account is connected.

After you have connected, your new posts will be shared on Tumblr and no other action is needed.

Example of a publicized Tumblr post.

We also have a Tumblr sharing button you may not have seen, which can be displayed at the bottom of your posts and pages. With this enabled, your readers can share your posts on their own Tumblr blogs quickly and easily. Visit your Settings → Sharing panel to enable this under the “Sharing Buttons” section.

As part of our updates we have removed Messenger Connect as a supported service and have centralized Publicize options under Settings → Sharing.

Need help? Read more about how Publicize works.

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  1. susielindau Jun 6th at 7:04 pm

    Tumblr is definitely on my list of programs to learn how to use! Here is another motivator. Thanks WordPress!

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  2. Jeremy Jun 6th at 7:17 pm

    Reblogged this on Jeremy Herve and commented:

    A great addition to the Publicize feature!

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  3. Alli Jun 6th at 7:25 pm

    Yes! I’ve been looking for a simple way to integrate these two services. Thanks wordpress!

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  4. Cutaway Creation Jun 6th at 7:33 pm

    Great stuff!

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  5. Alli Jun 6th at 7:34 pm

    Will there be a toggle for this feature in the mobile app? Or can we assume if it posts from the mobile app, it posts to all services authorized?

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  6. hforhelsinki Jun 6th at 7:37 pm

    Thank You! Just what I needed!

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  7. Morgana Rose Jun 6th at 7:47 pm

    I’m so excited!! I’ve been waiting on this!!!

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  8. lolly (@jiggabits) Jun 6th at 7:58 pm

    What about photo posts? Is there a way to publicize a WordPress post, with images, as a Tumblr photo post? Or at lesst have them visible through the Tumblr dash?

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  9. yousef59 Jun 6th at 8:14 pm

    Thanks WordPress!

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  10. Cathy Jun 6th at 8:42 pm

    Well this is wonderful 🙂

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  11. Anthony Sherratt Jun 6th at 9:05 pm

    I’m still a rookie so pardon the question but is this a plug-in? I don’t seem to have a SHARING in my settings…

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  12. David Bennett Jun 6th at 9:07 pm

    Hmmm, the sharing on Tumblr doesn’t handle captions very well… Off to tall Support about it.

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    • mdawaffe Jun 6th at 11:28 pm

      Thanks for the report. We’ve fixed the caption problem. Note that we’ll probably be tweaking how your content is formatted for Tumblr, so you may see some changes in the future.

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  13. Michael Jun 6th at 9:23 pm

    Nice. Only if it would not just cut off the last word in the few lines shared…

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    • mdawaffe Jun 6th at 11:30 pm

      Thanks for the feedback. In a non-scientific and informal poll, we found that most people wanted to only publish an excerpt of their content to Tumblr so that visitors would come back to the source to read more.

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      • Michael Jun 7th at 8:48 am

        Okay, I agree. But could the excerpt not cut off at a specified amount of characters, but at a specified amount of words?

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  14. simonrphotography Jun 6th at 9:23 pm

    Another great addition!

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  15. robertptome Jun 6th at 9:24 pm

    It’s great to have another option like that. I hope that publicizing to Google+ is comming soon!

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  16. Dawne at D Magazine Jun 6th at 9:32 pm

    Excellent! Thank you!

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  17. grapefriend Jun 6th at 9:38 pm

    My photos are often only showing up as a polaroid symbol or not at all when I auto-share to my Tumblr (http://grapefriend.tumblr.com) – any ideas why?

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    • mdawaffe Jun 6th at 11:33 pm

      The little icon you mentioned is the expected (if imperfect) result. We’ll be improving the photo experience over time, though.

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  18. Inge Jun 6th at 9:55 pm

    This is great! I don’t have to share it manual then anymore! Thanks for the upgrading. 🙂

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  19. stickyquote Jun 6th at 10:03 pm

    This is what I’ve been waiting on BigUps WordPress!!

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  20. highhand Jun 6th at 10:10 pm

    What about using this on sites that are self hosted?

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  21. Ju-Don Roberts (@jmarroberts) Jun 6th at 10:18 pm

    Is this available for non-Wordpress.com WordPress blogs?

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  22. bassfishingarchives Jun 6th at 10:38 pm

    Hmmm…. Well, I don’t have “Sharing” in my settings options (I have Share This) and when I tried to install the Tumblr plugin it failed. any ideas folks?

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  23. loosewanderer Jun 6th at 10:44 pm

    Hello,
    I have a question regarding Facebook connection: I have a WordPress Blog, a Facebook “Page” and my Facebook “personal page”. The idea is to use WordPress as the main blog place, then publish each post at my Facebook Page automaticaly via “Publicize”. Then I would like to “Share” some posts that were publicized at the Facebook Page to my personal page. The problem is that posts publicized by WordPress in Facebook do not have Facebook’s “Share” button. Only “Like” and “Comment”.
    So the question is: How can I publicize posts to Facebook that appears there with the “Share” button?
    Thanks in advance!
    Andre Pessoa peoplearoundtheworld.net

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    • Justin Shreve Jun 15th at 6:13 pm

      I believe Facebook pages treat “like” as both a like and a share button. So if you like something on a page, it will show up a an “entry” on your timeline. I don’t think there is a separate share feature.

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  24. Dave Faulkner Jun 6th at 11:03 pm

    OK, but why still no Google+?

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  25. molly98 Jun 6th at 11:29 pm

    This is great! I am looking forward to using this tool. Thank you WordPress! 🙂

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  26. Jacob Jun 7th at 12:21 am

    This is amazing! Thanks

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  27. Janice Heck Jun 7th at 1:22 am

    Super idea. Thanks, WP.

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  28. PoshPinkGeek ♥ Jun 7th at 4:00 am

    Finally 🙂

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  29. matpacker Jun 7th at 4:03 am

    Reblogged this on Mat Packer and commented:
    Very nice WordPress! This certainly makes life very easy for those of us who still use both networks…though lately I’m preferring WordPress.com to Tumblr.

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  30. pulindave Jun 7th at 4:06 am

    This is great feature..thanks wordpress once again for making this world better place to live.

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  31. bdtouristclub Jun 7th at 4:40 am

    awesome

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  32. guenbt Jun 7th at 5:29 am

    Gosh! I just deactivated my tumblr account for I don’t want to post manually from WP to tumblr. Hehe. Great Work WordPress! I’m thinking of activating tumblr back. Soon though! Thanks again. 😉

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  33. seapunk2 Jun 7th at 6:04 am

    Thank you!

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  34. thesofisworld Jun 7th at 7:44 am

    GREAT GREAT GREAT idea!!!!
    congrats!!

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  35. angelolazzari Jun 7th at 12:12 pm

    Thank you very much WordPress! That’s what makes you unique!! (thanks to the people who work in!!!! 🙂 )

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  36. Mariano B. Marques Jun 7th at 1:05 pm

    This is simply great! Congratulations and thanks, WordPress!

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  37. beebeesworld Jun 7th at 1:49 pm

    Thanks for the info-I will try it.

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  38. mediel Jun 7th at 2:18 pm

    good idea !
    🙂

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  39. hallucinatingmartyr Jun 7th at 2:34 pm

    So excited, thank you 🙂

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  40. gouessej Jun 7th at 3:02 pm

    Can you do the same kind of feature for Identi.ca (and Diaspora if possible) please?

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  41. cravesadventure Jun 7th at 3:26 pm

    Thanks for the information – appreciate it, especially when it comes to getting the word out there!

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  42. Sakimichi Jun 7th at 3:58 pm

    Thank you WP 🙂

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  43. PonderViaN Jun 7th at 5:01 pm

    Sadly the live messenger option is gone 😦

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  44. vstarfire Jun 7th at 5:03 pm

    I want to coordinate my posts from Word Press to Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger and Type Pad as well as Facebook. Can this program so that? I’m not so interested in Twitter, Linkedin, etc.

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  45. Randy Jay Braun Jun 7th at 5:31 pm

    Reblogged this on randyjaybraun and commented:
    Simplicity is the word of the day.

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  46. Mark Neal Communications Jun 7th at 6:27 pm

    Great feature, hope you add it to jetpack soon… please

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  47. joramrocky Jun 7th at 7:47 pm

    Good move

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  48. ecodolphin Jun 7th at 11:01 pm

    I like it! This is very, very cool…..

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  49. xubobo Jun 8th at 1:06 am

    I like it! Thank you.

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  50. Best Colors Jun 8th at 1:55 pm

    Thank you! This is very helpful.

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  51. Julia Kovach Jun 8th at 3:05 pm

    Thanks! You all are rock stars! xo

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  52. sweetmother Jun 8th at 4:37 pm

    i have my wp connected to tumblr, but it did NOT automatically post to tumblr when i wrote a new post. it’s all connected in my settings / sharing section, but nada. annoying. i did ‘schedule’ my wp post, would that make a difference?

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    • mdawaffe Jun 8th at 8:06 pm

      There’s a bug that prevents scheduled posts from correctly Publicizing to Tumblr. We’re fixing it now and it should be working as expected soon.

      Sorry for the hassle.

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  53. Sly Uses Jun 8th at 4:59 pm

    I like it, thank you, but the excerpt is much too short. Will there be an option to choose the exerpt length? Or an option to send the whole post?

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    • mdawaffe Jun 8th at 8:08 pm

      We appreciate the feedback. We’re still adjusting various settings; we’re trying to make it as smart as possible without introducing new settings.

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      • Sly Uses Jun 8th at 8:24 pm

        That makes sense. If it helps you to have a report from the field, sometimes I’m seeing as few a 6 or 7 words showing up, although the average is more like 12-15. This is still not enough to get much of an idea of anything in the post, so people will only click over to my wordpress site if the accompanying image somehow leads them to do so.

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        • Justin Shreve Jun 15th at 6:15 pm

          Thanks again for the feedback and samples. We have already made some updates on how we handle media/text and will continue to investigate the best way possible to get people clicking back to your WordPress site.

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  54. WPSpy (@wpspy) Jun 9th at 3:11 pm

    Waiting for PUBLICIZE for self hosted sites as well.

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  55. JHMinecraft Jun 9th at 4:12 pm

    This is excellent, just create my Tumblr account and will be sharing soon 🙂

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  56. drhiphop Jun 9th at 5:46 pm

    very helpful

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  57. jualsusuhigoat Jun 9th at 9:56 pm

    A great addition to the Publicize feature!

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  58. JD Jun 10th at 2:53 am

    finally! great news since i also have a blog on tumblr. nice job guys! =)

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  59. daniashofi Jun 10th at 10:36 am

    great 🙂

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  60. dorothyadele Jun 10th at 3:35 pm

    Great idea!

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  61. avidescribe Jun 10th at 4:54 pm

    It is a really cool feature. It will help us ‘missile’ our posts around the world!

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  62. 7theaven Jun 10th at 6:04 pm

    How does it work? It shares the photos only? or the featured image? or the entire post? (incase I’m using a photo based theme on tumblr)

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    • Justin Shreve Jun 11th at 10:58 pm

      For text posts an excerpt is shown, and a custom message if one was typed into the publicize publish box on the post screen. For posts with photos attached or a gallery or slidshow we select a photo and an excerpt of the content.

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  63. Cutaway Creation Jun 11th at 10:19 am

    Would like to see images/photos from my posts show up in my Tumblr posts like in facebook, once this feature is added it will be great. I hope this issue will be addressed soon.

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  64. allvoxman Jun 11th at 6:01 pm

    I’m so looking fordward to Publicize for the wordpress.org platform… Is there any scalability issue that makes it impossible?

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  65. hnublet Jun 15th at 9:09 pm

    Reblogged this on Hnublet’s Weblog and commented:
    HM

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  66. Iwona Yvonne Swiatczak Jun 16th at 12:40 am

    Reblogged this on Yvonne Iwona S w i a t c z a k and commented:
    Posting to Facebook

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  67. souldipper Jun 16th at 3:52 am

    When I hit the “connect to Tumblr”, I get other windows and requests for email, password, etc, etc. With each post, I see that Tumblr is not connected and I go through the same routine. What am I doing wrong?

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  68. d3gu5 Jun 16th at 8:51 am

    Reblogged this on d3gu5.

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  69. DB Jun 17th at 4:52 am

    Reblogged this on Omnia Vincit Veritas.

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  70. nursilmanjaya Jun 17th at 5:30 pm

    Reblogged this on nursilmanjaya.

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  71. RaviRanjanKr Jun 17th at 7:40 pm

    Reblogged this on RranjanK's Blogs and commented:
    WOW found Interesting blog by Justin Shreve.. Have a read

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  72. i9CRIE Jun 18th at 12:52 pm

    Thanks WordPress XD

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  73. chamnolasco Jun 19th at 1:08 am

    Thank you for this post. Big help for newbies like me. 🙂

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  74. sunnyimblog Jun 19th at 3:40 pm

    Wow!!!, this is great and awesome feature! A must for every blogger to use.

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  75. mophosophical Jun 19th at 5:24 pm

    It doesn’t seem to carry the tags over to the tumblr post?

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