AO3 Tumblr Posting Visual Tutorial
For @shireness-says and whoever else finds this remotely useful :) It’s long, so under the cut we go!
Step 1 - You need the Google Doc Script
But don’t worry, its easy to get
If you go to this page, you will see this:
Which, when you click, will take you to a Google Doc like this:
Now, we need to save a copy of this currently view only doc. This is easy and not as scary as it looks! Ignore all of the other jargon under the list, and we only really need to complete steps 1 and 2 at this point!
Step 2 - Creating your script
Once you have the doc open, you need to delete all of the text in it. Don’t worry, you won’t delete any important script, just the words! When the page is blank, it will look like this. You will notice, at the top, there is a new menu option called “Post to Ao3″
Now you need to add some words. Hmmm...lemme see...
Write what you want, or copy and paste from another google doc if you are like me and create things in all sorts of random places. It is at this point you might want to add some author’s notes, word count, etc - anything apart from tags you want to also show up on your Tumblr post. Now, remember that extra menu? Click it and it will give up two options - have a play around with them both. It’s basically a switch. One turns ON the HTML and one turns it OFF. For posting, we need it ON.
BOOM! Look at all that extra blue stuff! It’s code, and will be invisible when you post, don’t worry. So go ahead and select all (Ctrl+A) and then copy (Ctrl+C) your text!
Step 3 - Posting to Tumblr
Obviously, you need to go to Tumblr. Duh. When you go to post a new text post, you will see the little cog symbol in the top right hand corner - don't fret if you hadn’t noticed it before, it’s not largely important. It brings up a little menu, but the part we want is at the bottom of the list and labeled “Text Editor”. By default this will say Rich text, but we want it to say HTML - so go ahead and change it.
Your posting box will turn into this but don’t worry, it's not scary. You paste (Ctrl+V) your text into the body section and it will appear with all the little blue coding! Neat, huh? You wanna see how it will look when you click post? No problem!
Preview, baby! Then all you have to do is add tags and post/queue/schedule!
Pro Tip!: Copy and paste the coded script into your HTML editor on AO3 and paste to Tumblr and Ao3 at the same time!
If you wanted to add a tag list for people, not a problem! We just need a little bit of extra coding:
<p><a class="tumblelog" spellcheck="false">@hollyethecurious</a> .</p>
Where all you need to do is replace the “@hollyethecurious” with @who you want to tag!
EDIT: Adding a Cut! for @searchingwardrobes
