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Tumblr Importer

by Samuel Wood (Otto)

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Description

Imports a Tumblr blog into a WordPress blog.

  • Correctly handles post formats
  • Background importing: start it up, then come back later to see how far it’s gotten
  • Duplicate checking, will not create duplicate imported posts
  • Imports posts, drafts, and pages
  • Media Side loading (for audio, video, and image posts)
  1. Upload the files to the /wp-content/plugins/tumblr-importer/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Tools->Import and use the new importer.

useless

By Nate Hoffelder (usersixsixsix) on December 11, 2018

As many other reviewers have pointed out, this plugin imports a single-image post and puts the image in a gallery. That is pretty much useless.

Working just fine on 4.9.8

By Chazz Layne on December 5, 2018

I just installed this on my local XAMPP box to backup my blogs before the Tumblrpocalypse, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it still works flawlessly for text and image posts (which is all I have on my blogs)...photographers rejoice!

Does not work on because Tumblr Updated API

By psalmnoelff on February 9, 2018

This gave me oauth errors when adding my site. What I did was edited the code to replace all HTTP://tumblr.com with HTTPS. However, when imported, its not really importing stuff properly. So there's that...

Doesn't really work

By themattsearle on January 11, 2018

Doesn't import video, or even hotlink to it - caption is imported but not the video. Images in text posts are hotlinked and not copied to media. Works OK for text posts, but that's not really what I need it for.

This plugin does not seem to import posts.

By Roy McKenzie (roymckenzie) on October 15, 2017

This plugin does not seem to import posts. It continually hangs even after clearing account information and trying again. Would really appreciate an update. Thanks!

Abandoned Project

By RecoilDesign (recoildesign) on June 13, 2017

As others mentioned, it works ok for text but does not handle media posts well. Plugin has not been updated in over 2 years and developer doesn't respond to support. AVOID!

Works for text, not for media

By Michael Kwan (michoscopic) on February 20, 2017

Sadly doesn't work for media, not in 2017 at least. Tried both on 4.7.2 and 4.1.15, same result either way. It saves me some time by creating the posts and syncing the post date, however it hotlinks images, and doesn't import the text very well (sentences get broken up into lines instead of flowing properly into a paragraph). Probably due to Tumblr changing some stuff, I dunno. Appreciate the plugin regardless, 50% time saved is better than 0% time saved.

OK for text posts, not for media.

By Anonymous User 15124439 (anonymized_15124439) on September 11, 2016

Text posts come up OK, but anything else has problems.
  • Single picture posts are converted into gallery posts, i.e. instead of a nice large picture as in Tumblr, you get the smallest available thumbnail size (in my installation it was 150px), then you will have to modify each post manually because the width and height are hardcoded into the img tag (hence regenerating thumbnails wouldn't work either).
  • Audio posts are a problem too, the importer converts Spotify embeds into broken links to non-existent mp3 files.
  • Youtube embeds are completely removed from the post.

good

By Pokemon (pokemonnet) on February 8, 2017

very good

i love it

By lisieuxbuyandsell on February 8, 2017

i love it

1.2

  • Added queued post support
  • Made the importer more extendable with new hooks and filters

1.1

  • Testing the plugin up to WordPress 6.2
  • Fix Tumblr bug with custom domains

1.0

  • Add support for WordPress 6.1.

0.9

  • Force WP_IMPORTING to true during the do_blog_import process.

0.8

  • Fix callback handling for Tumblr OAuth. They no longer recognize the callback in the authorize URL, and instead expect a non-urlencoded callback parameter in the request-token call. This is not documented anywhere that I can find.

0.7

  • Update to use new Tumblr API, many fixes and improvements.

0.6

  • Significant improvements in the performance of the importer
  • Improves import of images from Tumblr – better choice of images sizes for theme display
  • Improved author selection logic on single author blogs
  • Auto refreshing to show import progress and give clearer feedback
  • Improves import videos from Tumble – enable auto-embedding for for content.
  • Block imports from Tumblr sites with mapped domains enabled because they don’t work well – you have to temporarily disable the mapping.

0.5

  • Fix edge cases for tumblr photos where tumblr isn’t returning expected headers for filenames

0.4

  • Map multi-image posts to Gallery post format
  • Import Tags
  • Import Media to server (Images, Audio, Custom uploaded Video’s)
  • Set the date on Media imports for easier management

0.3

  • Handle multi-image posts
  • Handle question/answer posts
  • Handle video posts somewhat better
  • Speedup (reduce importer delay from 3 minutes to 1 minute)

0.2

  • The audio, video, and image formats no longer use the caption for the titles. Tumblr seems to facilitate putting all sorts of crazy stuff into the caption fields as part of their reblogging system. So instead, these types of posts will have no titles at all. Sorry, but Tumblr simply doesn’t have any sort of title fields here to work with, and no data that can be used to “create” a title for them.
  • Minor debug error cleanup.
  • Sideloading now done on drafts and pages as well.

0.1

  • First version, not meant to be used except for testing.
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