So the official tumblr export option was showing no sign of progress, and my blog wouldn’t import to wordpress, so I did a bit of research and found my own
more complicatedfaster way of doing things.I downloaded all of my images with TumblThree, and all of my blog posts as an .xml using this: https://tumblr2wordpress.benapps.net/. TumblThree downloads the images, videos, text posts, and everything else except the image captions, so for that I downloaded the .xml.
This way I have all of my images and posts backed up. I’m currently importing the .xml file into wordpress, and I have no idea if I’ll have to add the images back in manually. I think the .xml file only links to the images on tumblr, so I backed them up using TumblThree just in case.
It’s definitely easier to just export to wordpress, but since that wasn’t working for me I had to find another way. Despite the fact that I don’t think my blog will get taken down, I desperately needed the peace of mind of having everything backed up just in case. I’m putting this method out there for anyone else feeling the same way.
EDIT: Yes the .xml file only links to the images on tumblr, so if my blog gets taken down, the images get taken down too.
@desiree-uk this is one solution and I’ve seen another post floating around. If I find it I’ll reblog that too.
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