I’ve just finished moving the NextGame blog across from Tumblr to a self-hosted WordPress install, and as you can see the blog now ties in nicely with the rest of the site. It took about 90 minutes start to finish.
- Downloaded WordPress, installed it locally.
- Built simple child-theme, essentially just grafted the NextGame header and footer onto the default WordPress TwentyTen theme. Super easy.
- Exported the old Tumblr site using this: Tumblr2WordPress
- Uploaded everything to my server.
- Installed the WordPress importer plugin and pointed it at the export file.
- Cleaned up a couple of the posts, and re-added the images as proper image attachments.
- Done.
I like it when things go smoothly.
NB. This change had nothing to do with Tumblr’s recent ‘capacity’ issues, I simply wanted more control of the functionality of the NextGame blog.