backfill

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backfill is the action of importing all your past posts, typically from a social media silo, into your own site.

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Facebook

Instagram

Tumblr

Twitter

WordPress

Articles

Related

retro posting

A special form of backfill is the creation of back dated posts (retroposting) for content created before the web, or before you started blogging / publishing on the web. See:

See Also

  • export - Includes methods and help for exporting from silos for backfill
  • import
  • post migration
  • Pro-tip: do not treat or implement backfilling or any kind of importing as posts as any kind of scripted or automated creating of posts. There's a huge difference between an author creating a post (e.g. via Micropub), and creating post entries directly into storage and rebuilding any indices or archive pages accordingly. Be sure to do the latter, not the former.