title: August 28th, 2024 date: 2024-08-28, 22:40:28 -07:00 section: journal link: https://automattic.com/2024/08/27/shipping-tumblr-and-wordpress/#

[[Automattic]] is planning to migrate 500M+ Tumblr blogs to WordPress, with the nuance that the front end shouldn’t change (and they’re looking to hire)

We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside.