# Migrate WordPress Comments to Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-wordpress-comments-to-discourse/174160
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [December 24, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-wordpress-comments-to-discourse/174160 "2020-12-24T00:12:57Z")
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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-wordpress-comments-to-discourse/174160/4 "2020-12-28T06:45:24Z")

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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:

> [@Install and configure the WP Discourse Wordpress plugin for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-plugin-installation-and-setup/50752#heading--commenting-settings):
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> To get started with the WP Discourse Plugin, go through each of these topics in order and watch the videos at the top of the topic. [Install the plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-the-wp-discourse-plugin/223489/1)[Connect to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-wp-discourse-to-discourse/223490/1)[Set up Publishing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-publishing-posts-to-discourse/223492/1)[Set up Commenting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-commenting/223493/1)[Set up DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-discourseconnect/223494/1) The two main plugin features, Publishing and [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) don’t have to be used together. You can just set up Publishing (and Commenting), and not use [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true), or just set up [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true), or set up both. There’s a short description of each featu…

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