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Tumblr is a super easy blogging service, allowing you to post and share anything; text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can now display your Tumblr posts directly in your Viewbook Pages. It even allows you to go back to read older posts.

To get started just create an account at Tumblr, create a new Viewbook Page and add the following code into the Text area (replace ‘yourusername’ with your Tumblr username):

[tag:tumblr url="http://yourusername.tumblr.com/" title_size="14"]

See this demo page: demo.viewbook.com/portfolio/tumblr_weblog

Just let us know if you experience any issues or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to see some examples in the comments.

Viewbook just released a new feature that enables you to display RSS feeds in your Viewbook Pages (Standard an Pro accounts only). RSS is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. This means you can add the feed of your weblog, Twitter or Flickr account or any other feed that’s available to your Viewbook website. A great way to integrate your existing weblog!

Simply add the tag below to the text part of your Page and replace the url with the url to your RSS feed.

[tag:rss items="10" url="http://www.viewbook.com/weblog/feed/" title_size="15" content_tag="content_encoded"]

You can adjust the following settings in the tag:
items; to number of items you want to display.
title_size; the font size (in pixels) of the title.
content_tag; the content to display, possible choices: description, content or content_encoded.

You can see examples here: demo.viewbook.com/portfolio/weblog_rss_feed

We’d happy to hear your reactions, if you experience any issues or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to see some examples in the comments.