Say “Hi!” to our latest project coming to you from the WooHQ: Tumblr2WP, the perfect tool for you to migrate your Tumblr blog back to WordPress.
This has been something that we’ve been working on for quite some time now, but had to wait for WordPress 3.1 to finally be released (as Tumblr2WP supports post formats, which was not available pre-WP 3.1). In the last 6 months, we’ve been putting many of our assets in place to allow us to replicate the popularity of Tumblr’s functionality on WordPress and our new migration tool is one of the final pieces of this jigsaw puzzle.
If you haven’t been following our progress in this space for long, here’s a recap:
- We now have 8 tumblog themes available for WordPress, which gives you a Tumblr-like blog hosted on WordPress.
- For those that don’t want to use our own tumblog themes and prefer to create their own, we have the free WooTumblog plugin (downloaded almost 5000 times already) to replicate Tumblr-like publishing functionality on *any* WP installation.
- We have our very own iPhone app – Express.app – which enables you to publish to your WooTumblog-powered blog from your iPhone. Hot. Over 1000 downloads already.
- And now we have a migration tool for those of you who have been wanting to move to WordPress and copy all your existing Tumblr posts across.
That’s the complete package right there.
The Benefits of WordPress
We’ve always proudly had our eggs in the WordPress basket, because WP is our passion and we believe that this is the most flexible publishing platform around. It is exactly this passion & belief that has driven us to take the awesome publishing experience that Tumblr created, and we’ve personally used and developed on, and replicate that on WordPress.
If you are considering switching from Tumblr to WordPress, here’s a few reasons that help justify it:
- You get to own your data. Never mind data portability, or any of those fancy things; putting your data on your own server is probably the best thing you can do.
- Templating made easy. WordPress has massive roots in theming / templating, and as a result the amount of themes and resources available in this regard are immense. You can’t go wrong here.
- No more Tumbeasts. Tumblr’s scaling issues have been widely publicized, and unfortunately they’ve suffered considerable downtime of late (we’re sure they’ll eventually figure this out though). Run this on your own server and avoid being dependent on another platform.
The unspoken benefit here is obviously that – once you have migrated – you can tap into the awesomeness that is WooThemes too. 
If you’re on Tumblr, have a look at our Tumblr2WP Exporter and toy with the idea of making the move to WordPress.
To make use of the exporter, just make sure that you’re running WP 3.1 and have updated the core Importer plugin.
21 Responses to “Tumblr2WP: Claim back your tumblog!”
What about the tumblr community?
What about it?
It’s a big and thriving community with a different mindset from wordpress blogs.
I’d be down,
and super happy,
If this added the feature to import tumblr blogs to wordpress on an updating basis that would retain post formats.
It’s one of the reasons why I use tumblr.
Sure, the community on Tumblr is one of the main reasons that I switched to Tumblr and experimented with the platform last year. In the end though, I found that I preferred WP as an overall publishing solution and that with the WooTumblog functionality that I could replicate 99% of the publishing experience on Tumblr.
The experience is also the social networking on Tumblr, it is not only the publishing experience. People share, like, REBLOG. I have a tumblog that has more than 2000 followers on Tumblr and I can tell you that each image/post we publish is reblog between 20 and 100 times, which means that what we published is available on other tumblogs. And that is a lot different from what you can do with WordPress. just because the whole experience is different. I use WordPress for blog posts and communication stuff and I prefer a lot using Tumblr for sharing pictures, links, videos, etc.
Just my 2 cents !
Yep, WordPress or WooTumblog will never be Tumblr exactly. In our opinion it’s just about taking all the things that are great about Tumblr (or as much thereof as we can) and combining them with the best that WP has to offer.
And you do it great !
Sweet, this totally kicks ass, but I’m on WordPress already!
Great job. You guys are always one step ahead – and this move again shows it. Migrating these two all by yourself could be pain in the ass. At least for me.
Keep up making the good stuff.
As far as the Tumblr/WordPress conversation goes, I can only speak for myself. For me, they two completely different tools. I started with WordPress years and years ago, went with Tumblr for a while, and since late last year, I’ve been back on WordPress.
For fast blogging, and gaining a following relatively fast, Tumblr seems like a good deal. If you don’t want to hassle with the code, hosting and all that, hop on board. Tumblr might me the right choice.
WordPress on the other hand offers incredible amount of options. This week I’m building a site for my doodles & stories, and it works far better with WordPress. Also, I’m thinking of putting out a book, and there’s themes like Chapters for WordPress. Works like straight-out-of-the-box. Also I’ve hated the recent Tumblr downtime. As much I like Oatmeal comics, I don’t like seeing that screen that much.
In the end, it’s a matter of a personal preference, really.
Why not make a plugin that imports a post to its proper post format when published? That way, you’d be able to get your Tumblr community.. I think.
This is a great surprise, though the tool keeps timing out for me. Is it getting hammered right now?
I use a custom domain for my Tumblr blog, do I need to shut that off before trying this?
We are having some timeout issues with large exports, but well try to fix the issue on Monday
Hi, I find that the site is not exporting all the entries from Tumblr currently. The error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/tumblr2w/public_html/process.php on line 307
Anyway to solve that? My apology, I don’t know where to look for support or contact on tumblr2wp.com
Hi there
What is your tumblr url so I can test?
Jeff
Hi,
http://minipalette.tumblr.com
Thanks!
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