Title: Recreating Comments
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Recreating Comments

 *  [DylanReeve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dylanreeve/)
 * (@dylanreeve)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recreating-comments/)
 * My entire VPS was deleted recently, unfortunately I didn’t have a backup of the
   MySQL database so all my site content was lost.
 * However most is pretty well archived in Google Cache and Wayback machine so I’m
   manually recreating it (suddenly I’m thankful I never managed to update as often
   as I thought I should).
 * Recreating posts is easy enough, but comments are an issue. I can’t figure out
   a way to manually recreate comments on the posts I rebuild. For most posts I 
   don’t really mind, but there are a few were the comments added substantially 
   to the post.

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recreating-comments/#post-2494605)
 * Any place you can find a cache of `http://your-blog-url/comments/feed/`? Aside
   from that and Google cache, you may be out of luck.
 *  Thread Starter [DylanReeve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dylanreeve/)
 * (@dylanreeve)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recreating-comments/#post-2494607)
 * I can find the comment content in archives… It’s just actually putting the content
   back in the database. There isn’t an interface where I as admin can post comments
   with arbitrary dates and author names etc…
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recreating-comments/#post-2494610)
 * > It’s just actually putting the content back in the database.
 * Ah, gotcha. Sorry that one’s a bit out of my reach.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recreating-comments/#post-2494610)
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