My Posterous Theme

Posterous is a good tool in your arsenal- it can be used to try to tame the Social Media Beast. You are on the road, you take a cool local-interest picture or shoot a minute’s worth of video with your phone. From there, you can selectively shoot it to your blog, Flickr, or YouTube, just by sending as an attachment.

So in addition to creating an online photo gallery that can be updated through the day- very useful for creating an image gallery for a two or three day function without actually having to email or upload pics. Or selectively pop off content:

Posterous posting

So, good enough. But many people don’t like the PlainJaneness of the platform- they have added a few themes to the original but they are only minorly customizable. You can pop in a header and change some of the colors and layout, but you might want to be that person who makes a smashing first impression, or you want your Posterous to reflect the look of your blog or website. What to do?

I considered learning coding for this then realized, “Yeah, right.” Probably not going to happen. Then I heard about Tumblr.

You can import Tumblr themes to the Posterous platform, and pretty easily. The photo at the top is a theme I imported.

From Blog In Isolation :Tumblr have even helpfully created a theme repository for Posterous users. You just find a Tumblr theme you like, copy and paste the HTML, dump it into Posterous and you’re done.

And here’s how:

Go to the theme page link above. Browse through the themes and find something you like, then Install it to your Tumblr account (yes, as far as I can tell you will have to make one.) Next, click Customize, then click Theme, and when that window drops down, click on “Use Custom HTML” at the bottom. Copy all of the code.

Back over at Posterous, go to settings, then click the “Theme and Customize my Site” button. When the new window opens, click on the “advanced” button all the way on the left. Replace all of the code in there with the code you just copied from Tumblr

Voila!