senoranderpants

Lisa’s solution should have worked. If you’re showing 0 comments, but you can still see them when you click that zero, then they’re still in approval limbo. Check your database to see what the approval status is. 0 is unapproved, 1 is approved, and nothing means that the query didn’t work properly.

Alright. Here’s a fix, but it will be messy as hell, because I know NOTHING about PHP.

In wp-admin/import/mp.php, go down to the part under “//Now for comments” where it says “//Check if it’s already there”

Replace what’s there with:

// Check if it’s already there
$comment_approved = “1”;
if (!comment_exists($comment_author, $comment_date)) {
$commentdata = compact(‘comment_post_ID’, ‘comment_author’, ‘comment_author_url’, ‘comment_author_email’, ‘comment_author_IP’, ‘comment_date’, ‘comment_content’, ‘comment_approved’);

This basically sets “comment_approved” to “true” and then imports it into the database with that value, where it was blank before.

Try it, but don’t blame me if it makes things blow up.

Okay… I’ve spent an hour or two looking at this, and the problem is not that it doesn’t import the comments – it does. The problem is that it imports them unapproved, and the only way to approve them is to manage posts -> click on the “0” comments and you can see them there.

I can’t find a way to mass approve the comments, since they don’t show up in the “Moderate” section.

I’m having the exact problem as you, Christoper. Has anyone found a solution or workaround?