Import posts, comments, tags, and attachments from a Posterous.com blog.
As of April 2026, Posterous Importer is a WordPress importer plugin with 90 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 16K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WordPress Importer.
Import posts, comments, tags, and attachments from a Posterous.com blog.
NOTE: Posterous is shutting down on April 30, and this plugin will no longer function properly because it relies on the service being available. For more information on backing up your Posterous content and migrating what you can into your WordPress blog, please see this post.
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
= 0.10 – 26th Mar 2012
* Add hook to handle non-200 responses from Posterous.
* Sleep for about one second between calls to the Posterous API to avoid failing thanks to rate limiting.
* Set a flag and return rather than exiting when we get malformed XML back from the API.
* Check for audio/video files in process_posts() and add their data as postmeta for use later.
* In process_attachments(), fetch any media from postmeta and pass along to the media extraction function.
* In process_attachment(), fetch media from postmeta and add to the list of images to be imported.
* Add a hook to fire after importing an attachment so that additional things can be done afterard (e.g. updating post content with shortcodes to display media).
* Add hooks to fire at the beginning of dispatch() and just before footer display after import so that we can do other fun things in these spots if needed.
* Update the front end to change the “Username” field to “Email Address” and to do light email address validation before submitting to Posterous.
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