Can I export or archive comments?

  • snoogly

    (@snoogly)


    17 years, 7 months ago

    I am running a course site in WP in which students write comments about each others work. At the end of each semester I clear out the site, and get it ready for the next batch of students. However, I would like to be able to archive, or save, the comments in some way – so I can easily access them later for research purposes.

    Is there any way to do this? The ideal would be to export comments to a text file.

    Note ~ of course the easiest thing to do would be to just leave the comments on the site, but comments are written on specific pages, and those pages must remain there for every iteration of the course. Therefore, I can’t just leave the comments on the site, as the new batch of students would be able to read them.

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  • Thread Starter snoogly

    (@snoogly)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    OK, how about moving comments from one page to another. Can that be done?

    Len

    (@lenk)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Using phpMyAdmin you could download the wp_comments table to your hard drive using the Export command. There are several options such as saving it as a SQL file or PDF etc.

    Thread Starter snoogly

    (@snoogly)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks LenK, I’ll look into that.

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