I’m thinking if there’s no easy way, I could process a WordPress export and use the Tumblr API write method to re-create all the posts, including date and slug… the URLs are likely to end up a little different, though, so I might need to use some mod-rewrite magic until Google picks up on the … Read more
The Tumblr importer is currently broken because they disabled access to their v1 API. We’re working on it.
Adding (image) caching to my Tumblr widget
How to redirect Tumblr posts after migrating to WordPress?
Alex King made a plugin that creates a different admin UI for each Post Format type. More info here: http://alexking.org/blog/2011/10/25/wordpress-post-formats-admin-ui
Hey, you might have luck with a prior plugin I wrote (here’s the code itself). It’s a redirect plugin that looks at the URL coming in, checks it against the postmeta table if it’s about to produce a 404, and redirect the user if a match is found. If you have the entire URI stored … Read more
I just did a quick search on the Reblog concept because, admittedly, I’ve never used Tumblr and had no idea what you were talking about. After reading a bit about it, it started to sound very familiar … Most blogs today allow you to add a ReTweet (Twitter), Like (Facebook), or Share This (Generic) button … Read more
Try the Tumblr Importer. 🙂 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-importer/ Let me know if you have any problems with it, we’re actively trying to improve it.
you can use this snippet to get the first image of a post attachment id: $images =& get_children( ‘post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image&post_parent=” . $postID ); $attachment_id = $images[0]->ID;
As others have already mentioned, this can be a long process. But it can also be relatively straightforward, and I’ve done this to migrate other non-WP sites to WordPress in the past. Export your site First things first, you’ll need to export your site from Tumblr into a format WordPress can work with. There are … Read more