Title: Tumblr Importer Author: WordPress.org Published: July 7, 2011 Last modified: January 6, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/tumblr-importer/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=547667) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/tumblr-importer/assets/icon.svg?rev=2832727) # Tumblr Importer By [WordPress.org](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wordpressdotorg/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/tumblr-importer.1.2.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/) ## 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 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. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0e3ad324b1421a630bac1ed321e0ad512724a273c7e1fb6d60b387cdf51e17e4? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[useless](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useless-270/)󠁿 [Nate Hoffelder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/usersixsixsix/) 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/137a22a1e45d0957f9dcc7cd2f260d851ea0abc56b19cb0c1da3604ef757d546? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Working just fine on 4.9.8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-just-fine-on-4-9-8/)󠁿 [Chazz Layne](https://profiles.wordpress.org/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! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8d0fe6940641987c60e3360f1745f29605452ad7b22e9a144376d089068b9cf9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Does not work on because Tumblr Updated API](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-on-because-tumblr-updated-api/)󠁿 [psalmnoelff](https://profiles.wordpress.org/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… ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8cffc6903baa165618d73f875c6bcca98b1d531ba2fb9d37e9924fc00cb3488b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Doesn’t really work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-really-work-8/)󠁿 [themattsearle](https://profiles.wordpress.org/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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0606d077b816eedd15fcbfeea5873b91564e0012206c801e329ed46c930a4fe0? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[This plugin does not seem to import posts.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-does-not-seem-to-import-posts/)󠁿 [Roy McKenzie](https://profiles.wordpress.org/roymckenzie/) 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! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c927f65cfe99a2c7b1550812f0e1cf050637adcd352279561ff833271c1a043c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Abandoned Project](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abandoned-project-3/)󠁿 [RecoilDesign](https://profiles.wordpress.org/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! [ Read all 49 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Tumblr Importer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ WordPress.org ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wordpressdotorg/) * [ Samuel Wood (Otto) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/otto42/) * [ Dion Hulse ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/) * [ Peter Westwood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westi/) * [ Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dllh/) “Tumblr Importer” has been translated into 28 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/tumblr-importer/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Tumblr Importer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/tumblr-importer) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tumblr-importer/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/tumblr-importer/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/tumblr-importer/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/tumblr-importer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 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. ## Community plugin This plugin is developed and supported by a community. ## Meta * Version **1.2** * Last updated **2 years ago** * Active installations **10,000+** * WordPress version ** 3.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.7.5** * Languages * [Albanian](https://sq.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Bosnian](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Catalan](https://ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Croatian](https://hr.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Hebrew](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Hungarian](https://hu.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Icelandic](https://is.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Indonesian](https://id.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Portuguese (Portugal)](https://pt.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Romanian](https://ro.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Serbian](https://sr.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Tamil (Sri Lanka)](https://ta-lk.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Thai](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), [Turkish](https://tr.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/), and [Uighur](https://ug.wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/tumblr-importer) * Tags * [import](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/import/)[Tumblr](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tumblr/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/advanced/) ## Ratings 4 out of 5 stars. * [ 29 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 7 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 3 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 2 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 7 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ WordPress.org ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wordpressdotorg/) * [ Samuel Wood (Otto) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/otto42/) * [ Dion Hulse ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/) * [ Peter Westwood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/westi/) * [ Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dllh/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tumblr-importer/)