Import Wordpress Comments

plinan

As discussed on this post: http://vanillaforums.com/blog/news/introducing-vanilla-comments/

Is there any update on importing existing comments into vanilla comments? I'd love some help migrating the current comments!

Lincoln

Howdy @plinan, our suggestion for that situation is to write a condition in your comments.php template so that it uses WordPress comments for posts before the date you switched, and Vanilla comments after that date. It's a lot simpler than trying to migrate all previous comments.

We do offer importing services, but it wouldn't be free since we don't have a standard exporter for WordPress comments yet.

plinan

Thanks for the reply @lincoln. I am not very technical when it comes to PHPs. Is there a guide on how to do what you just mentioned? Thanks!

Lincoln

Well, I'd need to refer you to the WordPress help docs: https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags (and generally the rest of that site).

It could look something like this (where '1 august 2011' is replaced with the day you switched), probably in comments.php in your theme.

<?php 

if (date('U') > strtotime('1 august 2011')) {
     // Vanilla solution
}
else {
     // Old WordPress template
}

plinan

Thanks @linkcoln, I'll give that a try.