Help! Importing Threaded Comments…

  • My blog dates back to April 2006, and I implemented threaded comments soon after through the Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin. My entire commenting system depends on threading.

    I have been repeatedly told that the majority of threaded comments plugins, including Brian’s, use the same parent-child ID structure in comments that versions of WordPress since 2.7 do.

    I am updating my blog to use a more current theme that supports all the 2.8+ features. However, despite sandboxing the site with multiple threaded-comment-capable themes, I can’t get the testbed site to import or recognize the existing comment threading.

    I have exported the database and imported it into the test site. I have saved a copy of the existing database and installed it. Neither approach worked—the comments won’t thread.

    Threading is enabled in the test site settings, so I’m at a loss.

    So what’s the trick to getting my existing threaded commenting into the new site?

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  • Have you examined the source of the comment pages? Could it be that the comments are threaded but the CSS needs tweaking? Are any of the themes you’ve tried using their own comment callback functions? I’d certainly stay clear of any theme that doesn’t use a fairly vanilla version of wp_list_comments(); until you’ve managed to sort this out one way or another.

    Thread Starter edelen

    (@edelen)

    esmi,

    Thanks for the response.

    I’ve used some of the best-known WordPress 2.7+-compatible themes out there, including a few of the theme frameworks like Thematic and Buffet, and the threading won’t work. And I know those work right of the box, no tweaking needed. ??

    Thread Starter edelen

    (@edelen)

    I tried the updated Kubrick also: no go.

    Might sound obvious, but did you enable threaded comments in the admin section?

    Thread Starter edelen

    (@edelen)

    Retried the MySQL sata file import and it worked the second time around. Turns out that the something got mangled in the database file during the first import. I never would have tracked it down, but by chance I ran a file comparison and noted the difference.

    Still, this does not answer the elusive question about WordPress’s export/import feature: Does it maintain threading info when exporting?

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