I am setting up a discourse forum for my blog and as I understand , there is no way to sync migrate existing wordpress comments to discourse topics and as its replies. Since that is the case, I was thinking of doing this task manually. i.e. Create A discourse topic backdating it to the creation o…

[image] Quintin_Par: as I understand, there is no way to sync migrate existing wordpress comments to discourse topics It’s fairly straightforward to modify the WP Discourse plugin so that it will publishing existing WordPress comments to Discourse when a post is first published from WordPress…

Sorry, I miscommunicated. It should have been migration. i.e port over all the exists comments, which I reckon is around 2000+ I am no good with programming, more a business owner and hence the reason to opt manual migration. [image] simon: when a post is first published The post was alread…

There are scripts for migrating other forums to Discourse, but AFAIK there are none for migrating a WordPress blog to Discourse. Not that it couldn’t be done. Most if not all of the INSERT stuff could be picked from the existing scripts. The WordPress tables would need to be analyzed to determine w…

[image] Quintin_Par: The post was already published. If you install the WP Discourse plugin you can publish old WordPress posts to Discourse. [image] Quintin_Par: Is there some implementation out there I can take a look under the hood? I don’t think so. It’s something that I’ve only t…

There is an existing plugin to migrate Wordpress comments to bbPress and then there is a migration script from bbPress to Discourse. That’s what I did.

[image] simon: If you install the WP Discourse plugin you can publish old WordPress posts to Discourse. How do I publish old wordpress posts to discourse? I can do this with new posts. I tried testing this by writing a comment on an old wordpress post (posts that we created prior to link to d…

If go this route, will the wordpress posts be linked to the discourse topics so that they show up as comments under a wordpress posts?

You should be able to publish old posts without any problem. Do it the same way you publish new posts - go to the post’s edit screen, select the Publish to Discourse checkbox, and then click the Update button. WordPress comments are not published on Discourse, only the post is published. That’s why …

Hi @iva , How did you associate the discourse topics to wordpress blog posts after the migration? [image] Also, did you follow this? [image] Migrate a phpBB3 forum to Discourse packageMigrating to Discourse So, you discovered Discourse and want to know how …

Wordpress blog, comments and manually copying it to Discourse

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Quintin_Par (Quintin Par) Août 27, 2017, 11:45 7

Hahaha. That’s twisted but thank you.

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