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1. misterkins
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   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi

   I have a website with over 700 "posts" and over 10,000 "comments" which I've just redesigned and updated the CMS to WordPress.

   I have manually migrated the posts across, but I don't want to manually migrate the 10000 comments.

   I have access to the MySQL database of the original site and I was wondering if there is any danger in the following...

   1) exporting my comments database from that site
   2) reformatting the exported data into a WordPress comments database format
   3) changing the post ID of each comment in the database to the corresponding WordPress post ID
   4) then importing them into my WordPress comments database?

   Does that sound reasonably sensible?

   My other thought was to export my WordPress data as an XML file, convert my old site's comments to emulate the WordPress XML formatting and then manually paste the code into the XML file and re-import it.

   Any thoughts?

   Cheers
   Chris

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