Comments on: WordPress 2.0 Bug: Movable Type Comments Import

By: Test

Test — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:52:17 +0000

Hello

Bye

By: Phil de Fontenay

Phil de Fontenay — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:06:45 +0000

I have never had much luck importing anything to anything.

Just for once it would be great to have a tool that worked as stated

By: Nathan James

Nathan James — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:27:57 +0000

This site is one of the best I have ever seen, wish I had one like this.

By: veronica

veronica — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:23:44 +0000

I’m clueless. I reinstalled WP and though I saved my posts/comments I can’t import them.
I guess I’m trying to say this is a new install and I would like to import my prior WP posts & comments.
Fab site!

By: earl, THE earl

earl, THE earl — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:05:24 +0000

God bless you ma’am!!

By: MyMicroISV » Move finally complete.

MyMicroISV » Move finally complete. — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:25:05 +0000

[...] It took way longer than I estimated to switch from miserable Yahoo Small Business to a new domain with my main host, Alentus.com. Most of the time was spent translating a painfully hacked index.htm/style.css from Movable Type into the same for WordPress 2.0. Not fun. Then there was the joy of exporting and importing posts and (hopefully) comments. Finally had to resort to importing from the RSS feed, post by post, to get this to work. Hopefully, once I resolve how to get into phpmyadmin and I apply this hack, the comments will also show. [...]

By: drac

drac — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:56:47 +0000

Hi,
I’m the author of the oddly named SK2-WP2Compatibility plugin mentioned by Wench above. Just a note to let everyone know that you no longer need this SK2 plugin.

Simply upgrade to the latest version of Spam Karma and that will fix comment counts for you. No plugin required

By: KO

KO — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:56:07 +0000

Hi, thanks for the help!

I’m on a completely new install of WP 2.0, with no plugins.

By: Wench

Wench — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:01 +0000

KD, are you running an older version of Spam Karma?

The comments db table changed with WP 2.0, and a comment_count field has been added. Older versions of Spam Karma aren’t aware of this, so doesn’t update the comment count properly.

You can run the SK2 Compatiblity Plugin, then upgrade to the latest version of Spam Karma (2.1).

By: KO

KO — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:26:06 +0000

I did the above, and now the comments are showing up - but there is still one problem!

The posts comment counter still shows zero! In the table wp_posts, there is a comment_count field, which is set at zero for all entries, though they have comments - how can I sync this with the actual comment count?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:02:50 +0000

zro - not sure without tinkering around in the guts of the site and looking at your php coding. The 2.0 upgrade is a little buggy, to be sure . . word has it that yet another upgrade is forthcoming soon.

Shawna - I’m happy that it worked for you. I was so relieved when it worked out for me - - I converted one blog that had over 3000 comments on it! Phew!

By: Shawna

Shawna — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:34:35 +0000

Oh, thank you thank you thank you!! I decided to convert today and nearly had a cow when the comments didn’t transfer. You just saved my butt.

I fixed the No Comments displaying even when there were comments by posting a new comment to each entry and then deleting them. But that’s not a very time efficient way to do it if you have a large blog.