Hello I have been trying to use this plugin to export user comments to a cvs file to than import it. The cvs files it exports is empty except the headlines of each column are filled out. What am I doing wrong?

The plugin works fine, but I get some warnings in debug.log about a deprecated function in php 8.2 and greater:

[03-Jul-2024 02:05:54 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property HImpExpCsv_Cron::$exports_enabled is deprecated in /xxx/wp-content/plugins/comments-import-export-woocommerce/includes/clacmt_impexpcsv-cron.php on line 14

Hi everyone,

I just used this plugin to copy a handful of comments that had been made on a live site to my staging site that had been made while I was developing. Everything worked really well. But now unfortunately I am getting a “missed schedule” error for every post I try to schedule. It did not do this before and I am sure it was caused by this plugin. I have no deactivated the plugin, increased memory limits, cleared the cache, but nothing seems to work. It’s very odd and I am not sure where to even begin looking. I only copied over less than 10 posts so it wasn’t a huge set or anything. The site is built with Elementor.

Any direction would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,

I am using this plugin for my comments: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/stars-rating/

This adds stars to comments, transforming them in user reviews.

How can I bulk import this value (the star rating) with the csv? is there any column I can add that will import it? I tried with stars_rating as column header but that didn’t work.

Please let me know!

Thank you!

Is it possible to Export and Import comments from ‘Special Pages’ please?

I have successfully imported/exported from both Posts and Pages but not sure how to do the ‘Special Pages’.

Thanks, littleET

Dear WordPress Comments Import & Export Development Team,

Your plugin has become a real lifesaver for me, allowing for convenient management of comments on my site. The feature to export comments with the option to select specific posts really sets your product apart from the competition.

However, I’ve encountered two aspects that, if improved, would further enhance your plugin:

1. Adjustment of comment_parent during import. Currently, the lack of automatic adjustment for comment_parent requires me to manually analyze the original structure of comments, identify the relationships between parent and child comments, and then, taking into account the last comment_ID on the site, reassign parent IDs for each child comment. This process is time-consuming and increases the likelihood of errors that could disrupt the integrity of the discussions.
2. Post selection feature during import. At present, I need to know the exact post_id of the post to which the comments will be linked and manually insert this value into the appropriate field of the CSV file. This procedure contrasts with the convenience offered during export, where I can easily select the desired post from a list. Having a similar functionality available during import would eliminate the need to determine post_id in advance and manually edit the CSV, simplifying file preparation and avoiding potential errors in linking comments to the wrong posts.

Implementing these features would greatly simplify the workflow, reduce the need for manual adjustments, and make using your plugin even more intuitive and effective.

Thank you for your hard work and attention to feedback. I look forward to future updates.

Sincerely,
Alex.

• This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Alex De Py.

Earlier this month, for reasons, I exported my site comments, most of which actually were pings and webmentions. I was going to reimport them all but notice that on the field mapping there’s no way for me to map these meta: fields related to the webmentions. Does this mean import will skip these fields, or because they are custom they’re just not showing up in the mapping screen? For that matter, will everything get imported as “comment” even if it was a ping or trackback? Thanks.

Hello i want to export learndash comment but it give me empty file any help?

Hi,

when I try to upload comments I get this error screen: https://tinyurl.com/2cl4mo25

What is the proplem?

Thank You for your help

Tobias

Hello, I’m using the tool to import comments from SquareSpace to WordPress. I’ve formatted my data using your sample sheet and everything seems to be working great, I can see the comments appearing in the backend and some of them on the frontend.

This is where the problem is. It seems that the comments from users on the site don’t appear. I can see them in the comments section of the backend, but they aren’t appearing on the frontend. For example, see the comments from Troy, a user on the site (two images: https://imgur.com/a/Iu7yRjw)

Hi there.

I am trying to export comments from a wordpress ‘page’ (not post) on a site built using Divi. But when i try the first step in the instructions here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/exporting-pages-2/ to add the following code to the functions.php:

add_filter('product_Comments_csv_product_export_args', 'wtproduct_Comments_csv_product_export_args');
function wtproduct_Comments_csv_product_export_args($args){
    if(isset($args['post_type']) && $args['post_type'] == 'Post'){
        $args['post_type'] = 'Post,page'; 
    }
    return $args;
}

i get the msg “Scrape key check failed. Please try again.”

Can anyone help?

Thank you

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by sagehalo.

Hi,
i used your Plugin to export comments from my old install since i had issued with the database and my hoster and i decided a fresh install would be the best.
Upon import the comments are getting successfully imported:
https://www.gooloo.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/scrnli_1-10-2022_20-27-56.png

This is after importing:
https://www.gooloo.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/scrnli_1-10-2022_20-34-27.png

But just minutes after, remember i didn��t do anything i just breathed air all comments are deleted EXCEPT for 32 comments. See:
https://www.gooloo.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/scrnli_1-10-2022_21-07-35.png

Only these 32 Comments stay. No matter what i do. For days me and my hoster have tried fixing this, but we can��t seem to get it. I can send you the File if this helps.

Would it be possible to use this plugin in conjunction with a BBPress Forums/Topics/Replies export plugin to convert a BBpress installation to core WordPress Categories, Posts, and Comments?

For my site having BBPress is overkill and I’d like to revert to Core WordPress discussion functions.

bbPress migrate to WordPress
forums > category
topics > post
replies > comments

I need to export post comments and import them into a newly built site. The posts IDs are different on the new site.

How can I export, change the post ID’s in the export file, and then import the comments in the new site, so that the comments are placed under the right post?

I’m looking for a smart solution, because there are thousands of posts and hundreds of thousands of comments in total.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by mike2972.

Trying to export to imprt comments to a staging site but coming up with an empty CSV file

I imported my comments but only got comments from posts. Is there a way to import comments from pages also?
Thank you

Hi,

it��s posible to import a new CSV in random custom post XXX with random X comments ??

example 10 in post XXX, another 15 comments in another post

I’m rewriting an old blog post and will be deleting the3 original. I’d like to move the comments from the original post to the replacement. How can I do that?

Why your plugin match comments to posts only via IDs?
However is not the only identifier. For example you can use slug.
This can help who (like me) need to export post from one site to another one.
Otherwise your plugin will work only for same site (import/export). Most of all other comment export/import plugins support matching via slug, title and slug.

Hello,

i am getting the following error in the column “comment_ID” in my CSV:

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<b>Warning</b>:  urldecode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in <b>/url.to.installation/wp-content/plugins/comments-import-export-woocommerce/includes/exporter/class-hf_cmt_impexpcsv-exporter.php</b> on line <b>362</b><br />

Wordpress 5.6.3

Is there anything i can do? Is that a known bug?

Thank you,
BR Andreas

I have 100 comments I need ultimately import. I added 1 manually so that when I did an export I’d have the sample to work from. It came out blank with just the headers.

Is there a way to export pages that have comments allowed on them? I am only able to select posts.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Al.

Hi, here is my use case:

I’m doing a major site rewrite and have two copies of the same WordPress website in Staging and Live areas. (The site uses vanilla WP comments, no commerce or add-ons, etc.)

The challenge in this setup is while you are working on your site rewrite in Staging, visitors are continuing to come to the Live site and leaving brand new comments.

When the redeveloped site is finally ready to push from Staging to Live (thus overwriting Live), will this plugin work to first export all the new comments from Live back to Staging �C so that they are not lost?

I hope the answer is yes, as this is a pretty common challenge… If so, is it fairly automatic, as the structure and tables in both places are the same?

Also, does it update the comment_count field in wp_posts, in addition to adding the imported new comments to wp_comments?

Thanks so much!

Hello, I have been importing few wp comments from old site to new site. But only half of the comments have been imported. The rest gets error message: Post doesn’t exist. I have check the comment_post_ID in my csv file and it is correctly matching post ID on the new site. I am not sure what could be wrong if IDs are correct and also the fact that other half of the comments were imported successfully.

As an example, I am including a link to a post (postid-2583). In my csv file comment_post_ID = 2583.

Please could you give me some hint or what can I try to solve this issue?
Thank you very much

Thanks for a great plugin. I just have one question ” how to add post_title in the export result ?”

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by mfikrirahmat.

I am wanting to know if this plugin will allow me to accomplish the following use case scenario…

I made a duplicate copy of my active WordPress site and mapped it to a new root domain where I am giving it a major facelift.

As I am do the site renovations on the new version of the site, comments continue to get posted at the original site.

When I have the new site ready for launch, I will 301 redirect all of the urls from the original site, to the new domain/site.

I will also need to move comments that were posted at the old site, during the period that I have been working on the new site, over to the new site.

Some of the new comments are nested replies to older comments that are already over at the new site (i.e. older comments that were part of the original “site copy” I had made). So… I would like to make sure that those “child” comments get mapped properly to their associated “parent” comments.

Is all that possible using this plugin? And if not, I’d be super grateful if anyone had suggestions on how I might go about accomplishing what I outlined above.

Thanks in advance,
Doug

Hi,
I used this plugin to export/import users.

Now I want to use another plugin to export/import https://es.www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-import-export-lite/

But I have this error at the top

Error en la base de datos de WordPress: [Table ‘xxx_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT attribute_name,attribute_label FROM wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies WHERE attribute_name != ” ORDER BY attribute_name ASC;

Your plugin created some tables in the DB that refer to Woocommerce, I haven’t installed WC.

Dropping those tables break the site (tried in a test site)

Only solution is installing Woocommerce, which I don’t want to do in my client’s site. Then I can perform export/import with other plugins.

What can I do?

*Uninstalling your plugin doesn’t fix it neither, when uninstalling it leaves these tables.

thank you

Hi,

Thanks for this great plugin. Unfortunately, the export button is missing after updating to WordPress 5.5. The article list also doesn’t work.

thanks,
Pawel

Hi, My website is in Persian/Arabic (UTF8). I exported the comments but the UTF characters are cluttered and not displayed correctly. How can I solve it? Thanks

Hi, I��m using it for wordpress comments and works fine, except for the gravatar issue.

All my comments show the admin gravatar image, instead of the comment_author_email gravatar image.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
A