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Tumblr will move all of its blogs to WordPress — and you won’t even notice a difference


It shouldn’t affect the way you use Tumblr.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Tumblr, announced on Wednesday that it will start to move the site’s half a billion blogs to the new WordPress-based backend. “Tumblr will benefit from the collective effort that goes into the open source WordPress project.” However, Automattic acknowledges that the move “won’t be easy.” It also doesn’t say when the migration will be complete.

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