Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Matt Mullenweg says on the Decoder podcast.

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Automattic has put its plan to migrate Tumblr's backend to WordPress on hold, along with fediverse integration through ActivityPub. CEO Matt Mullenweg explained the company wants to focus on user-facing features instead of the technical migration of over 500 million blogs. While the WordPress migration would have provided an easy path to fediverse integration via existing ActivityPub plugins, Mullenweg indicated they could implement fediverse support directly on Tumblr's current codebase if there's sufficient demand.

Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’