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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/manually-copying-over-comments-from-wordpress-how-do-i-can-create-user-accounts/72654
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [24 Ottobre 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manually-copying-over-comments-from-wordpress-how-do-i-can-create-user-accounts/72654 "2017-10-24T00:26:54Z")
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### Author: ![Quintin\_Par](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/quintin_par/32/120500_2.png) [@Quintin\_Par](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Quintin_Par)
#### Post date: [5 Novembre 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manually-copying-over-comments-from-wordpress-how-do-i-can-create-user-accounts/72654/17 "2017-11-05T16:43:47Z")

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Thank you @pfaffman. I run a small no-revenue blog. Bit scared to post there 🙂

Edit: Here’s the post:

> [@\[Paid\] Migrating old wordpress comments and users to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-migrating-old-wordpress-comments-and-users-to-discourse/73468):
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> Continuing my discussion from here: I was successful in setting up discourse as the commenting platform for wordpress. Unfortunately, there are no migration scripts. Which means one can create a new wordpress post and the corresponding discourse post and comments will be created. This leads to maintaining two commenting solutions (wordpress and discourse). It’s a messy thing to do. @simon has a WIP project that needs to be completed read through the earlier discussion link for context. I …

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