Support comments

[slinkp]

The output doesn't currently include comments.

[BenWard]

I wasn't aware that Tumblr itself supported comments? Maybe I missed that getting added. Do you mean ‘Answers’ or ‘Photo Responses’ and that sort of thing?

[slinkp]

Apparently they are Disqus comments, and not exposed by the Tumblr RSS feeds or API. I'll file a feature request with Tumblr, if I can figure out where to do so.

[BenWard]

Ahh. Yes, Disqus is an entirely separate service. I'll have a little look into whether they have any support for migrating comments between blogs on their end. T2W has various hooks for rewriting URLs and maintaining key identifiers from the Tumblr URLs, so it might be possible. It is possible to run Disquis on a self-hosted WordPress blog, which is one migration route.

Disqus itself has a built in migration tool, which allows you to change the mappings of your posts from an old URL to a new one (see here: http://docs.disqus.com/help/39/) What I can look into doing is generating one of these URL maps for your Tumblr posts. Since the original Tumblr URL actually still exists in WordPress afterwards (as the permalink), I guess it could work as a separate plugin for WordPress, to export the mapping after you've done an import of all the posts.

I know how we'd do it for WordPress.com hosted versions though.

[BenWard]

Additional notes:

Tumblr has features for the following feedback mechanisms, which should probably be mapped to WordPress comments:

• Picture Responses (enabled per post)
• Answers (per post, when a post ends with a "?")
• Replies (enabled per blog.)