Transfer Tumblr to WordPress and Fidiverse Integration “hanging”

Automatic plan to transfer Tumblr return to WordPress is now “pending”, the founder of Automatic Matt Molinig says in a Decoder episode Published.

The company announced the move plan more than half a billion blogs on Tumblr last yearand Say this Change “will make it easy to share our work via platforms.” But Mullengum says in Decoder This, “what we decided is that we want to focus on things that will be noticeable for users and that users are asking.”

This step seems to be on the table in the future. “I still want to do it,” says Moulinig. “It is just cleaner. But now, we are not working on it.”

It seems that the decision to stop the change also means that Tumblr leaflets will not be available in Fediiverse in the near future. WordPress.com currently It offers an additional component for ActivitypubSo Tumblr is transmitted to WordPress will allow people in theory to bring Tumblr publications to Fediverse. “This was a free way to get it,” says Moulinig. “Thus was one of the arguments to deport everything to WordPress.”

However, in the meantime, “I think that if there is a big boost to implement Fediiverse, we will do so on the base of the Tumblr icon,” according to Molinig.

Automattic Tumblr is purchased from Verizon In 2019.