Here is what I did.
- Get WordPress up and running: I’m sort of used to this, so no big deal. I even wrote a theme from scratch (still WIP though).
- Setup a temporary URL for the new WordPress blog (a subdomain).
- Import posts from Posterous: I did this manually, but there were only 64. The hardest part was handling images.
- Add a URL rewrite rule for each post, so that links pointing to old Posterous permalinks still work.
- Update the A DNS record for dariosolera.it pointing to the new server.
- Update URLs for all images in posts, as WordPress keeps the full image URL, which were all pointing to the temp subdomain.
- Update the RSS feed URL in FeedBurner.
- Deleted the old Posterous account.
Why, you may ask. Because Posterous was acquired by Twitter a few weeks ago and it’s not clear what will happen to the service. Moreover their platform is quite limited – it doesn’t even allow JavaScript in custom themes – and utterly slow, while WordPress rocks (despite running on PHP and MySQL).
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2 responses to “Moved From Posterous To Self-hosted WordPress”
Did you have any problem deleting your Posterous ACCOUNT? I’ve been trying got several months to delete my account and absolutely nothing happens. I follow the steps but nada. I’ve contacted Posterous support at least six times and no answer – apparently they’ve left for greener pastures and just left users hanging.
I’m quite sure I haven’t deleted my account, but simply made it private.