sentynel/talk-wordpress-importer

Tool for porting WordPress comments to Coral Talk.

This is written in Python because my patience with JavaScript was expiring. You need MySQLdb, pymongo and lxml.

This can be used to extract Disqus comments, but you must have had the WordPress Disqus plugin option which copies Disqus comments into WordPress' database enabled: this doesn't work retrospectively. You also don't get upvote records or many user account details.

There's a bit of a hack in here because WordPress comments don't have to be tied to a user account: we construct fake users based on the supplied username and email and disambiguate the usernames by appending variable quantities of zero-width space characters. (Look, I said it was a hack.) The default minimum number appended is 1, so none of the usernames are occupied in the database, so your existing users aren't prevented from registering on the new site. Alternatively you could attempt to do something to reunite them with their accounts.

talk-wordpress-importer's Issues

Posts with no comments should be added too

Otherwise they get added as soon as somebody browses to them, but when they get added they have a created_at date of the current time, rather than the publication_date, and then the admin control panel sorting looks weird.