Importing Tumblr

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  poetessinthepit · Member · Dec 6, 2018 at 8:14 pm

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  I’m sure you’re getting a lot of questions about this topic as sort of a mass exodus from tumblr is going on and it is crazy. I have a tumblr blog with over 35,000 posts and I’ve started the import process but it says 0 of my posts have imported yet. There appears to be no progress on the import. Is this due to a backlog and if so, how long should I expect to wait for my posts to begin importing ?

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  themagicrobot · Member · Dec 6, 2018 at 8:17 pm

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  Note that due to the thousands of people currently moving their content away from tumblr to WordPress.com there is currently a queue of at least 24 hours before your tumblr import will even begin to download so please be patient and leave everything running.

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 7, 2018 at 10:28 am

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  You can also find the latest information about the tumblr import situation in the sticky thread at the top of these forums:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tumblr-imports/

  At this point we are unable to provide an estimate on how long it might take for queued imports to complete. Our importer is processing thousands of posts a minute, but the backlog is very big so please be patient – it might be a few days before your import will start once it’s queued.

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  staff-zara · Staff · Dec 10, 2018 at 3:48 am

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  Hi there,

  I’ve double checked to confirm your import is indeed still queued and it’s going to start soon. It didn’t cancel. But please do reconnect to your Tumblr account if you’ve disconnected it. And please be patient and keep your connection from Tumblr. Do not try to cancel your import.

  We’re processing quite a few imports from Tumblr at the moment, which is causing a backlog of imports in our system. While it may look like your import failed, it’s just in line for processing, and luckily it’s still in the queue.

  At this point we’re unable to give an estimate on how long it might take to catch up with the backlog, though – it’s taking longer than anticipated, but the importer is running and will hopefully get to your site soon.

  Please take a look at this thread if you haven’t already: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tumblr-imports/

  Thank you for your patience.