HOW TO: Import a Posterous Blog in Wordpress.com
Posted by Saad as Wordpress 3 Comments
If you have started blogging with a posterous blog for convenience and now thinking of moving to a full-blown blogging platform like Wordpress then they have just the right solution for you.
Wordpress has just launched a Posterous import feature inside all Wordpress.com dashboard. It uses the Posterous API so the import is seamless & easy. Basically all you need to do is, just login to your wordpress.com dashboard and go under Tools -> Import.
There you should see a Posterous importer option. Once you click that a form should appear, type in your Posterous host name, user name, and password in the appropriate fields and hit the Submit button.
Once the importer validates your credentials it will automatically start the import. If everything works out great then you should receive an email from Wordpress saying that your import has been successful!
Why would someone want to move from Posterous?
Even though posterous is a great platform to maintain something like a tumblelog, it may not be suitable for mainstream blogging due to some limitations. For instance, Posterous currently doesn’t support javascript which is required to run Advertising programs like Google Adsense or any analytics or tracking program like Google Analytics and so on.
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Thank you for the info.
BTW, Posterous has a feature to use google analytics to follow the statistics of your blog. http://blog.posterous.com/add-google-analytics-to-your-p
Saad, just FYI:
1. Posterous does indeed support Google Analytics — in fact it’s simpler than anywhere else — you just have to enter your Google Analytics Domain ID into Posterous. No code.
2. If Posterous users use the Wordpress import tool, they must make sure they don’t delete their Posterous blogs! Wordpress will not rehost any of the media on Posterous, nor will it support audio or video at all.
Makes you wonder if you’re really “graduating” by moving to a platform that does less.
It has google Analytics now! And as Posterous says, getting better everyday!
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