in another futile attemp to kick some life back into this moribund blog, i have just spent the best part of the day importing bilge  -sook my stupid brain! blog from wordpress, self hosted on my server into tumblr. 

what a bleedin’ palaver, an’ no mistake guvnor!

for a start, there is no direct import from WP to tumblr, so you have to first export your WP blog to XML, then convert that to a blogger XML script, then set up a blogger blog and import the posts to that, then export them all again from blogger to tumblr.

as if that wasnae palaver-ish enough, if you want to at least make a futile attempt to preserve the comments from your WP blog, you have to sign up with disqus, intergrate that into your WP blog and then export your comments to disqus from WP. this is probably the most frustrating part of the whole process as disqus has got to be without doubt one of the most useless web applications i’ve ever come across in my life!

none of the abovementioned shenanigans is is officially supported by wordpress, blogger or tumblr –thanks guys!– but, thanks to some helpful third party scripts, it’s all ‘sort of’ doable [eventually!]

the whole procedure is explained by julioangelortiz in his post here.

it covers the basic steps and -with the exception of the comments system- i got there in the end, but i found a lot of the procedures needed multiple attempts and various tweakages to get it all working. a lot of this was doubtless due to the fact that my WP was self-hosted and i wanted to use the same domain name, when i moved it across to tumblr, so i had to do a lot of find > replace on the XML files to fix what would have been broken image links.

well, we’re up and running again now.  anything which is still broken is probably your fault.

now - will this change of scenery encourage me to kickstart the good ship bilge back into life again? that is the question.