Migrate WordPress Comments to Discourse

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

If you’re self-hosting, your migration options are:

1. Keep all the old comments in wordpress, turn on Discourse comments and use the wp-discourse plugin comment setting “Show Existing WP Comments”. This will let you show all the old Wordpress comments as well as new Discourse comments in the same comment section in Wordpress.

2. Migrate all existing Wordpress comments to Discourse using a migration script. You’ll need to either be comfortable with handling code to do this yourself, or you’ll need to hire someone to help you.

If you’re not a developer and you’re looking for the simplest option, I would recommend you do “1”. On that, see further:

WP Discourse plugin installation and setup

Installation From your WordPress dashboard Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’ Search for ‘WP Discourse’ Activate WP Discourse from your Plugins page From WordPress You can find the plugin at WP Discourse – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org. Download WP Discourse Upload the ‘wp-discourse’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory Activate WP Discourse from your Plugins page With Composer If you’re using Composer to manage WordPress, add WP-Discourse to your project’s dependencies. Run: …