3. Perhaps, having started running your blog once, you won’t stop ever. It’s like a blog
addiction, you can’t stop sharing your thoughts and ideas any more. However, when you run
a weblog, whether it’s a personal diary or business project, it’s not enough to have
something you’ll write about. One more thing that denotes the success of your blog is the
blogging publishing platform itself. The functional side, writing, posting and editing options
are the main components of of your web page mover.
4. Passing on to the root of this article, you want to know the reasons why it’s worth to
migrate your blog from Tumblr to WordPress. Everything runs into the one – your blog
expansion and development. So, what you can count on with Tumblr and WordPress?
Moment of Tumblr
If you are reading this post, it’s more likely that you’re not so happy with your Tumblr blog,
aren’t you? Perhaps, the things are going right this way. So, what’s Tumblr offer? It’s easy
to create an account there, you have an opportunity to post pictures (in most cases) and it’s
easy to have lots of followers. And you should realize that you are not the owner of your blog
– there are options to customize your web page.
Epoch of WordPress
Considering WordPress as your blogging platform, you have an option to create a full value
website or kind of extended blog. It’s possible to enter the arena of bestwebsites race.
You may take the higher position in SERPs and get more traffic. Moving on to the design
solution, WordPress opens the great bulk of free designer developed themes and plugins
for your blog or website.
As a rule, the only thing that stops bloggers to move Tumblr to WordPress is the tedious
process of migration, possibility of data and ranking losses. But what if there is a tool that
moves data automatedly with no efforts, losses and nerves? Sounds it’s no go? Let’s
check up what CMS2CMS automated migration tool offers. As it’s said nothing ventured,
nothing gained!
5. Step 1. Registration
To make the first step to import your Tumblr blog to WordPress, you should go to
www.cms2cms.com and register an accountor login via your Google+ or Facebook page.
6. Step 2. Specify Source and Target Website Data
Now, provide your Tumblr and WordPress URL as the current and new site
correspondingly. And select CMS platforms types – Tumblr and WordPress. Then, type
your Tumblr login and password.
If you haven’t installed your WordPress site yet, but want to try the migration anyway, just
check the box “I don’t have a new website…” and choose the CMS platform you want to
migrate to. Then, CMS2CMS will migrate all your content to our tested website and you’ll
be able to evaluate the migration process and the look of your blog on the new publishing
tool.
8. Step 3. Connect your Websites
● Next, you have to download the connection bridge to your computer by clicking the
respective button. The bridge file will be saved as ‘cms2cms.zip’.
● Then, extract it to some folder and remember its location.
● Now, you should connect to your new WordPress site via FTP client software
(WinSCP, FileFTP, FileZilla, CuteFTP, etc).
● Then you have to provide your FTP host, username and password that you can find
out from your hosting provider.
● After you have connected to your site via FTP, copy ‘cms2cms’ folder that you’ve
extracted from the zip file and insert it to the root folder of your new WordPress site.
The root folder is the top one with the index.php file.
9. Step 4. Start Full Migration
And now, you may start your free Demo Migration of 10 pages with all related entities. In a
few moments, you will receive the message that your blog migration complete with the link
to your new WordPress website. You will evaluate the migration result, migrated entities.
After that, you may start full Tumblr to WordPress migration. And congratulations! You are
the new WordPress site owner!