- If I use the "import button", it will erase all the content on my former blog ? Or will they coexist ?

Importing your content will not erase it from the old site, the content will be on both sites.

- As you can see, I've got a domain name (purchased with Posterous/Google Apps). I'm affraid the change impact my ranking on Google. What is the best way to avoid this ? The import button will make the change and redirect my domain to WP.com ?

As long as you (1) will be mapping the custom domain to your WordPress.com site, and (2) don't edit the post slugs, they should generally redirect automatically.

Just let me know if you have further questions.

First, sorry for my english. I'm a french speaking native.

So, questions :

I have a Posterous blog (http://comfluences.net/) and I'm trying to find the best way to import it in WP.com. (I'm a WP beginner)

- If I use the "import button", it will erase all the content on my former blog ? Or will they coexist ?
- As you can see, I've got a domain name (purchased with Posterous/Google Apps). I'm affraid the change impact my ranking on Google. What is the best way to avoid this ? The import button will make the change and redirect my domain to WP.com ?

Thanks for your help

It seems like it's ALMOST there...

I re imported everything and...
Some of my files are linked and some are actually moved over (YES!).

I don't see a difference in why one pic would be moved over and another one linked. Sometimes they are in different posts and sometimes even in the same post it will act differently with 2 pics.

If you guys can fix that then we're all set.
Would it be a timing issue during the import ?

Thanks for getting back to me again, I've tried this in both Chrome and Firefox and have still had no luck. Any idea what could be going wrong?

Thanks

I know they have their own posterous importer plugin (beleive me, I tried it) but it doesn't work at all and the devs aren't supporting it anymore it seems. Everyone in my case knows this and use the wordpress.com plugin instead.

If you do a google search the first 20 results all explain how to do this through worpress.com and so I did.

I'm now getting the media already exists but I will search elsewhere for answers don't worry.

It is interesting though how depedning on which browser you use, you get different results.

Thanks.

Also, they have their own importer plugin. You don't need to use us as a middle-man: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posterous-importer/

atickleroffancies, please try a different browser, like Firefox or Chrome: http://browsehappy.com/

So now I tried to export my imported site to another wordpress site.
So I exported creating an XML file.

Then re imported into my new site this XML and now all my picctures are all messed up. All over the place, in posts they shouldn't be in.

Is there a "best" way to do this ?

I've tried to use the posterous importer, but I just get a blank screen. Help!

Site: http://atickleroffancies.wordpress.com/

Posts: 473
Comments: 207
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Still Processing.... it's been 3 hours now...

Is that normal ?

If they make import posterous work on wordpress.com then I'll import my posterous to a site there then export it to my site.
So I think I am in the right place.

;-)

Well it doesn't work very well. It imports only text and pics, not video or audio and at that only low res versions of your pics.

And could you guys please import FULL RES pictures from posterous? Because the wordpress plugin (at wordpress.org) doesn't and it makes no sense.
If you guys could also import video and audio, that would be great too.

Most of my posts are audio and video so the posterous import plugin at wordpress.org doesn't help much. (it only links to posterous for video and audio)

Thank you so much.