LisaS

I just ran an MT import into 2.0 for a client and ran into the same issue with the comments.

The comments do get imported – however the comment_approved field database table is blank. They are not marked as approved, unapproved or spam – it’s just blank. Unassigned.

Quick fix? Run a SQL Query via phpMyAdmin (or your choice.) Here’s what did it for me:

UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_approved = ‘1’ WHERE comment_approved = ”

Fixed it right up – all comments and trackbacks are present an accounted for.

It’s definitley a bug, though, that needs fixing. I can’t tell you how many clients I do MT to WP imports for on a regular basis. Ugh!

Thank you, Michael. I didn’t run across that link – though I’ve run across every other link out there ??

Our tmp folder was at 78% usage. We’ve adjusted, and hopefully will not see this issue in the future.

Keeping fingers crossed!

You can change the line in wp-popup-comments.php if you use popup comments. I don’t use popup comments, so I didn’t include that . . but should have.
I did not change it in wp-comments-reply.php — haven’t had any issues with that at all. Not sure what that file does, but I would imagine it should be changed there too. ??

typo in the first line. I renamed it stopspam-post.php
Really, you can rename it to anything you want to, it doesn’t matter as long as it matches the code line in your wp-comments.php
??

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IESpell

Thank you, charle.
However, I’m looking to have the posts within
a specific category to list out on the index.php page,
not the category archive page.
For instance, if my category name is “General”
then the list generated would be the last 10
posts (by title) made to that category – to display
on the side menu on the index.php page.
I thank you for your suggestion and time.

That’s the thing – I’ve been trying, but can’t
seem to get the post listing to come up.
Was just wondering if someone would be willing
to share their solution if they had done something
like this sucessfully.
Thanks, anyways.

It is listed under a GPL, Anon.

As I said, no problem Root ??
Any ideas on the category listing I described above?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

No problem, Root.
However, not only did you miss it –
but you missed it twice. ??
It’s listed under the header “Credits”
and under “Meta”

rboren –
I did try that and it gave me a 500 error
throughout my domain.
Maybe it depends on which version of
Apache the server is running?
Not sure, though.
The trackback rewrite is a nice
addition to 1.2 – looking forward
to it.
Love WordPress, btw – I’ve converted
5 people from MT so far ??

Oh, you said version 1.2 ??
Duh on me ??

1.0.2 didn’t give me a rewrite rule for trackbacks, at all.
At least, not that I saw – – it took me days and days
of searching PHP as CGI issues…looking into
the PATH_INFO issue with our server
(I host my own stuff on Apache/Linux)
Thought maybe it was our version of PHP.
When I found that it was a rewrite rule I needed
in my .htaccess – -my immediate thought was
“why doesn’t WordPress give you the trackback
rewrite along with the other two it gives you?”
Just a thought.

I discovered the solution via tons of trying and re-trying.
The mod_rewrite rules given to me by WordPress did
not include rewrite rules for wp-trackback.php.
The rule that I used in .htaccess is:
RewriteRule ^wp-trackback.php/(.*) /wp-trackback.php?p=$1 [QSA]
I tried different variations of this re-write rule – and the above
stated on is the one that finally gave me success on the ability
to receive trackbacks.
For anyone needing to use this – don’t forget to indicate the
directory that your wp-trackback.php is in. Mine is located
at the root – but if you have it in a directory (i.e. /blog) – you
need to indicate that in the rule – – for example:
RewriteRule ^wp-trackback.php/(.*) /path/to/wp-trackback.php?p=$1 [QSA]
Hope this helps anyone who is having the same issue.
On a side note – should the re-write rule for
wp-trackback.php be included in the rules that
WordPress gives for mod_rewrite?