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WordPress is a great blog software migration platform!

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I just realized how useful WordPress is even if you have no plans to use it as your blogging platform.

I was working on migrating a Posterous powered blog to Blogger.

Posterous does not have any export feature. Though they do offer an API for other services to fetch content from it.

Blogger does not have an importer for Posterous. They just support imports from an XML file.

WordPress was the tool recommended by the web. A Posterous import add-on is available that is pretty fabulous I would have to admit. It imported posts, comments and even images.

Exported an XML file from WordPress. This file does not directly import into Blogger but there is an online tool available that converts the XML file from WordPress to Blogger format. And it was done.

In my case however, the import of images did not really work well. Probably because I was using a WordPress MU blog for the migration. Images were supposedly imported but they were not working. The export file links to the images stored on the server so Blogger also linked to the same images. This became a small headache. Did some manual editing and it all worked out well.

Would like to add here why I decided to switch a Posterous hosted blog to Blogger. Two major reasons… Flexibility and Speed. Blogger gives you much more power in controlling what you want to run on your blog compared to Posterous. It is also much faster than Posterous.

My ongoing ordeal with web services!

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Posterous

I am trying to switch a WordPress based blog to Posterous. It has been more than 10 days. They are still apparently working on it. I get highly personalized support. I have a free account. Waiting for the latest status on my project.

Backupify

I gave up trying to download my Flickr Pro account to my computer myself using the Flickr API. I got myself a paid account on Backupify. The service seems to have downloaded a lot of content from Flickr. But there is no notification about how many items are still to be downloaded. And how much space is being consumed in my account. They are likely to give me ZIPs for easy downloading. Waiting for an update on that too.

Happy with following products because of excellent support!

Imgur

The guy operating this service is awesome. He responds to all my queries. Even stupid ones. Best image sharing service ever!

DestroyTwitter

Hah. This has been an adventure. I do not get all the features I want. But overall, the experience is very good. Best Twitter application ever!

Bulkr

The developer did his best to help me get my Flickr account offline. He even provided me some custom builds with resume support. But the problem seems to be with my Airtel Broadband connection that somehow fails to work smoothly with Flickr API. Very good application if you are a Flickr user.

Posterous WordPress Switch feature does not seem to work at all

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Update: Looks like they have way too many migrations in queue!


@Sushubh ok – got it. He’ll take care of you. Migrations are pretty backed up right nowless than a minute ago via webRich Pearson
richiepear

I have been trying to port a WordPress blog over to Posterous for almost a week now.

Posterous highlight this feature recently and even showcased some strong points on why you should migrate your blog over from WordPress to their platform.

Now, I am not prepared to switch this blog to Posterous but it does feel alright for some other blogs.

I have tried completing their ‘wizard‘ several times already. I do not get any confirmation after the process is done.

The service is supposed to send me an email alert when the migration is complete on their servers. No emails.

I contacted their help who said that the process can take a couple of hours. It has been 3-4 days already. No updates.

Contacting them on Twitter also does not seem to get any response. Just a plain disappointment.