Posterous is not on the menu on tools import

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  franbourassa · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 5:27 pm

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  Posterous is not on the menu on tools import

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  franbourassa · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 5:28 pm

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  Posterous is not an option on the menu on tools import. Help!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 5:30 pm

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  See here please http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/import-from-posterous/

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  franbourassa · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 5:38 pm

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  Yes. Thank you I have followed instructions but when I go to tools >import> posterous is not on the list of options to choose

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  timethief · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 5:41 pm

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  You’re right. It’s not appearing on the import page for me either.
  http://fbourassa.wordpress.com/wp-admin/import.php

  I’ll tag this thread for a Staff response. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  franbourassa · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 5:44 pm

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  thank you so much!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 5:44 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  franbourassa · Member · Apr 6, 2014 at 5:53 pm

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  Any progress?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 6, 2014 at 6:04 pm

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  No. I’m sorry but Staff have a considerable backlog of threads tagged for their attention. They work through them in chronological order based on datesstamps and timestamps. How long it takes to clear the threads and support tickets depends on how many Happiness Engineers are working on them at any given point in time. It also depends on how complex the issues in each thread and ticket are are.

  Please don’t bump your thread here again by posting into it because it’s not in your best interest to post to it again after it has been tagged for Staff help. Thread bumping moves the timestamps forward and it takes longer to get a response.

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  jackiedana · Member · Apr 8, 2014 at 10:11 pm

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  The Posterous importer was recently removed since Posterous was discontinued a year ago.

  If you have an .xml file, you can try your import in the WordPress importer tool, but if that doesn’t work, I’m afraid you may not be able to import your content at this time.
  Let me see what I can find out.

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  franbourassa · Member · Apr 9, 2014 at 4:25 pm

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  too bad. it didnt work.

  not sure what to do now

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  jackiedana · Member · Apr 9, 2014 at 6:00 pm

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  I’ve subsequently tested this myself, and it looks like our WordPress importer will not process Posterous files.

  We were having some issues with the Posterous importer tool and deactivated it. Since it looks like there’s still some demand for it, our developers will look into the problem and reactivate it if they can.

  If I hear anything more I’ll let you know.

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  mondoworld · Member · Apr 10, 2014 at 1:28 am

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  I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

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  jackiedana · Member · Apr 10, 2014 at 7:52 pm

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  We have reenabled the Posterous importer. Please give it a try and let me know if it works properly for you.

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  franbourassa · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 10:24 pm

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  HI Jackie

  no luck so far. did the import and it gave me a message that it was being worked on and I would be notified when it was done. That was a week ago.

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  jackiedana · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 10:27 pm

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  Sorry about that! I have reset your importer for you. You can try your import again at any time.

  If it still isn’t working for you, please let me know.