Can use to “refresh/update” comments when doing a major site rewrite?

  • Resolved roam92

    (@roam92)


    4 years ago

    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 – 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!

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  • Thread Starter roam92

    (@roam92)

    Update… So, I didn’t use the plugin. Here’s how I refreshed the comments on the development site:

    Ultimately, in this case – since the database tables were identical except for the added comments in the live version of the site – it was easier and more straightforward to simply export the new comments as a straight CSV file using PHPMyAdmin from the Live site, and then importing that file into the Staging site using PHPMyAdmin there as well.

    Boom, done, perfect. Now ready to push Staging to Live.

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