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)
Installation
- Upload the files to the
/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-importer/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Go to Tools->Import and use the new importer.
Reviews
Nate Hoffelder
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.
Chazz Layne
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!
psalmnoelff
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…
themattsearle
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.
Roy McKenzie
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!
RecoilDesign
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!
Contributors & Developers
“Tumblr Importer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Tumblr Importer” has been translated into 27 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Tumblr Importer” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
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.