Export/Import just comments

As comments are related to posts, I don’t see how it would work to have comments and no posts.

Can you describe your use case please ?

So we have website 1 that is running for our customers and we have website 2 where we are working on the changes, modifying content of the future blogposts and so on.

We do the back ups of the website 2 to website 1 once or twice a month (with the updated info). During this time the new comments on the website 1 (main one). If I do the back up from website 2 to website 1, the comments will no longer be there.

Is there a way to save them?

Thank you,

Kate

I am wondering the same thing. It does not seem like you can export the comments only. I have opened the XML file that I’ve downloaded, and I can see the comment sections. However, I don’t know how to import those comments into the new site so that they are associated with the posts.

My situation is thus: We had multiple websites that we moved to one site. Many of the blog posts had been manually moved to the new site without the comments. Then I noticed the importer plugin. Now I would like to import the comments from those old posts into the new site so that they are associated with the corresponding posts on the new site.

I wonder if this would work: replace the old post ID in the exported XML doc with the post ID from the new site and then import the XML doc.

Brian

I tried replacing the old post ID in the exported XML doc with the post ID from the new site and then importing the XML doc, but I ended up with a new post that had the comments associated with it. I noticed this this thread about exporting or importing certain posts. She mentions a Move Comments plugin, so I’m going to try that out.

Good luck.