Tumblr template engine overhaul
I’ve put my draft post on what’s missing from the custom theme engine on a shelf in light of this announcement from the Tumblr staff. By the looks of it, we’ll now be able to output more specific blocks of content, such as in this example code:
{​block:Posts type="photo" tagged="spotlight" count="5"}This request would output the five most recent photo posts that are tagged with the word spotlight. I wonder if this will be accompanied by potential changes to Tumblr’s URL handling I’ve suggested before, to allow for posts of a particular type to be displayed using the standard page template, such as:
http://matthewbuchanan.name/show/audio/Either way, it will provide a superior solution for keeping a list of favourite posts, such as my Favrd column, which is currently hard-coded in the theme file.
