Have you ever been on Blogger and used Intense Debate as your Blogger Commenting system? Now when you are moving from WordPress to Blogger you might be thinking of losing all your comments, right?
This is where IntenseDebate XML Importer saves you! Although Intense Debate had a plugin to do this they have disabled the plugin due to system maintenance...
My bad luck was that I shifted my Blogger blog to WP at the time when ID disabled their existing plugin! But I did not want to lose my comments...
So I looked into their plugin code and their export XML file and wrote this plugin to import all the comments from the backup XML to my WP Blog! Have a look at the Installation page to get more idea!
To Do List
- Add an option to manually insert post ids for failed imports.
- Still searching the best way to use the Intelligent Title match option. Currently it uses MySQL LIKE Query
Uploading The Plugin
Extract all files from the ZIP file,
making sure to keep the file/folder structure intact, and then upload it to
/wp-content/plugins/.
See Also: "Installing Plugins" article on the WP Codex
Actually this instruction portion is copied from another WP Plugin :P
Plugin Activation
Go to the admin area of your WordPress install and click on the "Plugins" menu. Click on "Activate" for the "IntenseDebate XML Importer" plugin.
Plugin Usage
This is pretty much straight forward...
- Go to your Intense Debate Dashboard and Export the XML file for the blog you want to process
- Now go to the Plugins Settings page from the Settings tab and browse and upload the XML file
- Select Proper options. You can enable Simulation mode (Recommended) to check the result before actually uploading.
- Wait for sometime until it imports all the comments
- Once done check your blog... If there remains some error then you have to fix that manually! In future release we may add some automated options
- Finally disabled the Plugin! Hey... You need it only once ;)
Upgrading the Plugin
So far we have released a few versions of this plugin. You can just deactivate and delete old version and install the latest one from here
Version 1.0.5 (13-08-2010)
- Fixed a big bug which was casuing insertion of comments on previous posts when no posts were found for the title
- Added an Intelligent Search option for better result
Version 1.0.4 (13-08-2010)
- Added a simulation mode to test the import result without actually inserting the comments to the database
- Fixed the duplicate comment bug a little more
- Now the plugin will tell you how much memory it has used. Useful for people on shared hosting.
- Set the time limit to 0 (unlimited) to avoid timeout error
Version 1.0.3 (12-08-2010)
- It will show the link to the post where the comments have been imported
- Will give a more precise result on how many comments out of the found comments have been imported to a particular post
- Will also showthe total number of posts and comments found on the uplaoded XML file
- Finds duplicated comments on the name, email and content basis. Removes the IP test and URL test. Dont know why, but Intense Debate shows a blank URL. So removed the URL test.
- While finding duplicate Comments instead of perfect match I now use a MySQL Like method. It minimizes the chances of getting duplicate comments
Version 1.0.2 (11-08-2010)
- Added the ability to translate the plugin
- Cleanup of code
Version 1.0.1 (11-08-2010)