Sometimes it works and others it doesnt.

You just did contact the person who created this plugin. That person is me.

However, even if I did have admin access to your blog, I would still need you to provide more information about what is not working than you have. Please consider reading How to write a good bug report before posting again.

Finally, you write:

When it was working I did not see the wordrpess post from tumblr till the next day. I thought it was immediate.

That’s expected behavior. As I’ve explained in this other thread:

Posting from WordPress pushes posts to Tumblr automatically. Posting on Tumblr can’t push to WordPress because that is not in the business interests of Tumblr so the Tumblr people have not provided any way to do that. That is why there are WordPress plugins, not Tumblr plugins. Instead, Tumblr Crosspostr runs a polling process that simulates reading your blog as if a human might once per day and copies what it finds to your WordPress site. This works, but is by definition not instantaneous.

This plugin turns your WordPress site into a backend (a control center) for your Tumblr blog (which you confirm works, so Tumblr crosspostr is crosspostin’). It does not turn your Tumblr blog into a backend of your WordPress site. Again, that’s because Tumblr has a financial stake in actively limiting what you are able to do. No plugin does what you are describing because no facility exists to do it, by Tumblr’s intentional design.

Tumblr is not some passive entity. They are an active profit seeking corporation.

Welcome to capitalism. Capitalism restricts your freedom; there are things that other people have decided you cannot do because your inability to do them gives them more power, so the design of the environment in which you live is such that your choice is constrained under the illusion of providing you with more choice. That’s how it works. Quite diabolically brilliant, wouldn’t you say?

Here’s another description of the same answer:

Posts from Tumblr are only imported once per day (the feature is a workaround). They are not instantaneous like the way WordPress posts appear on Tumblr because Tumblr provides no programmatic export functionality in their API, which is a violation of European Union law.

I don’t think there has ever been a bug. I think the problems have always been the ignorance of how the plugin works by the user and that’s me.

Thanks for you diligence and candor in responding. Out of curiosity is ther a set time when Crosspostr picks up your posts from tumblr?

is ther a set time when Crosspostr picks up your posts from tumblr?

The import process runs once per day (approximately every 24 hours, depending on how busy your site is). So, for example, if you activate the “Sync from Tumblr” feature at 5pm, then it will run once each day at about 5pm until you turn it off.