How should I set up a Tumblr blog at a WordPress Page?

Question

I am developing a site for a client, let's call it whatever.com. He wants to have his Tumblr blog at whatever.com/blog. (Tumblr lets you name the URL at which your Tumblr page will be served, and if it's a site root, you adjust your domain's A-Record, which obviously I can't do here.)

Right now I have a blank page called blog so that it shows up in the nav using wp_list_pages(), but I'm guessing this won't work unless I do some fiddling elsewhere.

Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Hmm, given that it's okay to send the visitor to an entirely different site, but you are trying to get it to show up as a page, I would suggest adding it to a menu.

You are probably already aware, but when you are modifying menus (Appearance > Menus) there is a box on the left side called "Custom Links," which just like they sound, allow you to add something directly to the menu that can go anywhere. Add an entry using this that goes to the Tumblr blog and use that menu (whether it be primary or secondary) wherever you need to display the pages AND the Tumblr link. This avoids .htaccess conflicts and is the "natural" way to do things, but does restrict it to only being in menus.

Might be missing something here on how Tumblr recognizes the URL and the DNS issues, but from the WordPress side of things, that's how I would go about it.

Answer 2

I'm not really sure how Tumblr works with domains, but it seems to me you could create a physical /blog directory, which will override WordPress. Then you can make that work with Tumblr however they do it. To put the item back into the menu using wp_list_pages, try to the Page Links To plugin to create a post or page that links to /blog: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/