Migrating from Posterous to WordPress.com
Since Posterous announced that it will be shutting down on April 30, I followed their steps to backup my existing Posterous content.
For the requested backup to be available took some time and downloading ~140 MB of stuff took some time as well. Using my existing (but unused) pulpconnection.wordpress.com blog, I used the Import tool. I located the XML file in the unzipped download and let the import tool go to work. After another wait, I was notified everything completed successfully.
So at least my 459 Posterous items now live on within WordPress.com. Who knows, I may even configure this extra blog to be Posterous like.
Oh and apologies if this massive import blows up your WordPress.com Reader if you follow along. I’m not sure if all these entries are reported as “new” and therefore overwhelm your reader feed.
