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 than what the WP Discourse plugin is currently doing. It could also be used for sites that want to completely move from WordPress to Discourse. [wp-discourse-export]

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 script. I’ll have to get some advice about that. I think that the WP Discourse plugin does need to be able to handle exporting large numbers of users. It’s needed for integrating with membership plugins.

@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 to achieve?

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 script could be useful. I’ll look into it some more and get back to you.

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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