Comments on a tumblr blog.

Here’s a semi-ugly hack to get comments on your blog.

1. Go to your settings and change to a custom theme.
2. Right before:

   
   </div>
   {/block:Posts}
   

   …Paste the following.

   
   <div class="cmt">
     <a href="http://nevyn.nu/cmt/?id=YOURBLOGNAME.{ PERMALINK }">
     (cmt)</a>
   </div>
   

   …So that the result looks like this:

   
     <div class="cmt">
       <a href="http://nevyn.nu/cmt/?id=YOURBLOGNAME.{ PERMALINK }">
       (cmt)</a>
     </div>
   </div>
   {/block:Posts}
   

3. Change YOURBLOGNAME into the name of your blog, and remove the spaces before and after the word PERMALINK! It’s a bug in tumblr which prevents me from typing it correctly in my blog post.
4. There’s no step four! ;) Well, you might want to define the css class cmt so that it doesn’t look super-ugly… I defined it as:

   
               .cmt {
   	            font-size:        10px;
   	            text-align: right;
   	        }
   

   but it’s still pretty ugly…

The application you’re now using is an old php hack of mine. It supports nested conversations and all that jazz, but no feedback on your blog whether there’s comments on the post, nor email notifications or even moderation. But it’s better than nothing.