I am migrating my wordpress comments to discourse. Is it possible to manually create a user account without touching the command line? I am outsourcing this task and can’t give access to the machine.

I just wrote a plugin for exporting users. It needs a bit of work before it will be safe for a site with 1000 users. So far, it only exports users, but I think exporting posts/categories and comments is also possible. If so, it would be a cleaner solution for dealing with existing WordPress comments…

Thanks so much for this. This is a so good.

Exporting users, posts and comments from WordPress to Discourse works. The issue is that in a live environment the API calls to Discourse will have to be rate limited. That’s a solvable problem, but I’m not sure if it’s better to work on it, or to just develop a WordPress to Discourse migration scri…

@simon I was just looking at WP Discourse plugin (1.4.7). I don’t see this option. Is this not in production yet?

[image] Quintin_Par: I don’t see this option. Is this not in production yet? No, I haven’t worked through the problem of dealing will a huge number of API calls. It sounds like what would work for you would be a full migration of your WordPress site to Discourse. Is that what you are trying …

I want to migrate the comments by preserving/associating them to the wordpress author (by creating discourse accounts for each of them). I was planning to create the user accounts manually. Since there was no way to migrate/synchronize this your comment gave me hope :disappointed:

Sorry, I was getting ahead of myself. A create_discourse_user function is going to be added to the plugin soon, but it’s not going to be setup to handle multiple users. There are a few different ways that it could be used to export a lot of users. I think a full WordPress to Discourse migration scr…

In that case, what does this do? https://github.com/scossar/wp-discourse-export

It exports a WordPress site to Discourse through the API, but it’s not safe to use in a live environment. It also doesn’t handle multi-level threaded comments correctly - note that the README says Work in Progress.

Manually copying over comments from Wordpress, how do I can create user accounts?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 4, 2022, 3:32pm 25

Looks like the one I was thinking about used
Discus.

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