Not all imported tumblr posts show
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Hi, I just imported my blog over from tumblr, but not all my posts show under Posts in the Dashboard. When I try to search by date I can only go back as far as July 2012, though I have posts from as early on as April 2012 on tumblr. Going by the post count here vs. the tumblr blog, it seems like everything imported properly. Why won’t my posts show? How can I access them? Is it a wordpress restriction? Is it a post-count limit? (I have over 9000 posts on my tumblr)
Thanks
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Hm. I’m beginning to think the problem isn’t on WP’s side but tumblr’s. I actually counted how many posts I have on tumblr the good old fashioned way, read –
(Max number of posts per page) * (number of full pages) + (posts on that last page)The actual post count was different from what WP got from tumblr, and it’s different from what my tumblr tells me. Interestingly, the difference seems to be the number WP identified as Private posts. And seeing how that’s the number tumblr reported, WP seems to have done a job well done as when I counted the posts imported (same method as I counted on tumblr) I got the exact number I was expecting.
I guess I should take it up with tumblr. Thanks anyway :)
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Ok I think I finally understand what’s going on here, and it’s the integration between the two sites that isn’t working (hello staff when you see this)
The number of posts tumblr declares is the number of posts actually publicly posted on my blog. That’s to mean not including Private posts. However, WP does take these Private posts into account and imports them as well. Which is a good thing, but it means that as many Private posts as I have, there will be as many posts that aren’t imported because WP goes according to the Public post count.
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Thanks for contacting us. Are you saying that all of your public posts, but not all of your private posts, came through with the import?
With Tumblr, because the importer is making a direct connection to Tumblr, it’s relying on the information about the blog provided by Tumblr. If some of your posts aren’t importing, it could be an issue with Tumblr.
Could you let me know what the post count discrepancy is?
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No. I’m saying that after the import I have a certain amount of posts both public and private that didn’t get imported.
My tumblr post count said 9087. That is the number of public</string> posts on my blog. I counted. After importing, WP said I had 30 private posts. Interestingly 30 is the number of posts that were missing at the end of the import. The actual number of posts on my tumblr was 9117.
Basically.
X = total number of posts on my tumblr, private + public
Y = number of public posts, the number tumblr says my blog has, and the number WP said it had to import (which I imagine it got from tumblr)
Z = number of private posts
After the import, I had Z posts missing, some of them private, some of them public.WP imports both public and private posts when the post count it gets from tumblr only refers to the public posts. That means that every private post WP encounters during the import equals one post at the end of my tumblr that won’t get imported.
I can see why tumblr wouldn’t want to provide information about that kind of post count, so I’m going to assume for the time being that that works as intended (again, 9087 is the number tumblr tells me about my own blog, why should it tell outside sources otherwise even when they use my credentials?). That means WP needs to handle Private posts. Either skip them so that your post-count loyally reflects what tumblr intends by it (and stress to your users that private posts won’t be imported), or keep track of how many private posts you’ve had and continue importing as many posts after you’re done with what tumblr told you about. Continue iterating until there really aren’t any posts left. -
I’m currently seeing this post count at trolololbackup.wordpress.com:
All (9,098) | Published (9,000) | Drafts (9) | Private (89)
Note that when you authorize the importer to connect to your tumblr blog, it’s basically just like you’re logging in yourself, so there’s no notion of public counts and private counts, etc. The importer just pulls in everything it can find.
If you are still missing some posts from Tumblr, you have a few workarounds.
1) You can create a new temporary blog here and try the import process again to see if it pulls in additional posts.
2) If you know which posts are missing, you can copy/paste them in manually.
3) Make your private posts public on Tumblr just for the duration of the import process, and make your WordPress.com blog private until you’re done updating the posts.
If none of those options work for you, there’s not much else we can do, as WordPress.com is relying on the connection with Tumblr to pull down your content. If it doesn’t get all of the posts, we’re kind of at an impasse since Tumblr doesn’t provide an export file option.
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Ah, those stats are actually irrelevant. I imported into another blog and have tweaked around with it since. Once I deleted all my private posts on tumblr (an action that did not affect the post count neither on tumblr nor on WP!) WP imported everything properly.
Note that when you authorize the importer to connect to your tumblr blog, it’s basically just like you’re logging in yourself, so there’s no notion of public counts and private counts, etc.
There actually is, is what I’m saying. The private posts don’t factor into tumblr’s own post count even when I, the blog owner myself, logs into my very tumblr.
3 seems to be the way to go, though it’s still a hassle, especially if you have a hefty amount of posts like myself and need to go through every single page to deal with the private posts. If nothing else I think it should be documented somewhere on WP, especially if you’re at an impasse. Let users know that having private posts on their tumblr might make the import function act unexpectedly.
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