“Copy post comments to new topics (when available)” does not work

I too tried to get existing comments on posts to show up in the bbPress topics but it did not work. The comments still exist in the backend of WordPress but on the frontend, the comments have disappeared.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Jeffro.

The same happened to me.
I tried to turn existing comments into forum topics, but the comments simply disappeared.
Now, the only way to show old comments is deactivating the plugin. It prevents me from using it. And I would really like to…

I’m also seeing this problem. When running the ‘apply settings to existing’, the thread gets created in BBPress, but the replies don’t get imported.

And on the original post, existing comments are hidden since they never got imported into the forum (which has nothing to display).

I also have PHP memory problems and the creation of threads for 1,000 posts would stall. I’m having to upgrade my hosting plan to solve that problem.

There have been changes to the plugin since the previous comments here, so please sort out the PHP memory problems first and then we can try to see what the problem might be if it persists.

Thanks Nick!

PHP Memory problems have been sorted. I can get the plugin to to sync all Posts to dedicated BBPress topics. But none of the replies are syncing.

Ok, I’ll try to look into it when I have time in the coming days… Or perhaps @robin-w (who knows the plugin better than I do) will be able to.

Can you confirm which post types this isn’t working for? Posts? Pages? CPTs? Anything else? All categories/tags?

I’m only updating a single Custom Post Type (created by the Custom Post Type UI plugin). I’m NOT syncing categories/tags (although tests with tag syncing enabled also failed to sync comments -> replies).

I’ve also eliminated any plugin conflicts (well, except for the CPT UI plugin, which I have to keep enabled) ??

We have a few very old Posts from our early days that had comments. I tried syncing those as well. No joy.

@toengel, @jeffr0, @aline-mendes, @pat-inhoer
I found the problem. I’ve asked @robin-w to update the plugin, but in the meantime you could open the files and change line 1153 in bbppt_import_comments() in wp-content/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/index.php

from

if ( !empty( $post_comment->comment_type ) ) {

to

if ( $post_comment->comment_type != ‘comment’) {

It turns out it has been like this since v1.4, when the feature was implemented.

I’ll release a new version shortly.

I’m not sure if this will fix topics already created