Tumblr vs WordPress Conversion. A Short How-To Guide.
Because blogging has become an essential part of everyday life - the choice between a wide range of platforms is a difficult task faced by many. In order to select a perfect blogging platform you should firstly consider the goal, the audience and the type of content which you are going to post. The central tension is between Tumblr and WordPress that are considered to be one of the most popular tools for this purpose.
Tumblr is a free feature-rich hosting platform that doesn’t expect having significant prior skills in order to start blogging. Meanwhile, WordPress isn’t as simple as Tumblr, it requires a certain level of programming knowledge to operate it properly. However, with its complexity comes more functionality. It provides thousands of plugins for customization while Tumblr has none. The main difference between these two platforms is that Tumblr is a microblogging platform which is focused on social interaction between its users. It is mainly visually-oriented, really shines in sharing photos, videos, infographics, comics, links and so on. WordPress, in contrast, doesn’t distinguish between different types of content, but uses a single form for all kinds of posts you make. It is the tool of choice for those bloggers that prefer to post lengthy texts and articles. In terms of SEO, WordPress, as generally loved platform by Google, provides a number of plugins that make SEO optimization amazingly simple. Tumblr doesn’t pay much attention to SEO tools. In other words, it would be much easier to get your WordPress blog to the top of Google rankings than your Tumblog. Tumbler, which is a company-owned platform, doesn’t allow total control over your content and in case you have violated their terms and conditions - they have the right to remove your blog. Alternatively, WordPress better suits for those bloggers who prefer to control their blog completely.
If you are running a Tumblr and have a strong dislike of it - give a try to WordPress. You shouldn’t be afraid of any migration hassles - CMS2CMS automated online service will help you to move the content from Tumblr to WordPress with no coding skills and much time. Here we provide a short how-to guide for you to understand that the process of switching is very clear and precise. So:
Start migration with the Creating of your Account. Visit www.cms2cms.com and register your CMS2CMS account. You can also do that by signing up via Facebook or Google.
Set up your Source and Target Sites. Choose your current and new CMS types. Type in the URLs of your Tumblr and WordPress websites in the corresponding fields.
Create the Connections between your sites. Download Connection Bridge file that will be saved as zip, to your PC. Extract “cms2cms” folder from the zip. Connect to your WordPress website through FTP dashboard. Upload “cms2cms” folder to WordPress root folder. After that go back to migration wizard and press the button “Verify Connections to your Sites”.
Choose Migration Preferences by activating the following migration options:
migrate media
make URLs SEO friendly
clear Target website data
get design suggestion
Test Free Demo Migration. It’s recommended running the free Demo Migration to see how the CMS2CMS service works and to estimate your new website visual look.
Start Full Migration by activating the following button. After that click, your Tumblr website content will be converted to WordPress.
Hopefully, the article helped you to make the right decision concerning the blogging platform, and provided a clear step-by-step migration instruction turned out to be quite useful for you.
