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Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Rubin Sfadj — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:08:18 -0000

Hi Giannii

Just so we're clear: what I want to do is export my Disqus comments BACK INTO Wordpress. Can you do that?

Thanks for your help.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Rubin Sfadj — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:01:41 -0000

Hi there. I just tried to use the "Import" function in the new WP Disqus plugin, and here's the error I get:

Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /mnt/144/sda/8/3/sfadj/wp/wp-content/plugins/disqus-comment-system/export.php on line 5
http://sfadj.free.fr/wp/?pa... Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:55:57 +0000 Rubin Sfadj
Fatal error: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /mnt/144/sda/8/3/sfadj/wp/wp-includes/feed.php on line 343

Any idea how to fix this?

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:22:34 -0000

Otherwise, I see my latest Disqus comments appearing inside of Wordpress, so that's working!

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Jason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:10:35 -0000

Thanks for the output. This is really helpful. I'll work on a fix for it tonight.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:59:05 -0000

I guess we have too many comments :(

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:58:34 -0000

There is about a bazillion lines of text that goes like this:

http://www.popcritics.com Reviewing pop culture so you don't have to Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en 1.0 http://www.popcritics.com http://www.popcritics.com http://www.popcritics.com/?... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 Mike http://www.popcritics.com/?... 2468 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1207868663 _edit_last 2 http://www.popcritics.com/?... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 Mike http://www.popcritics.com/?... 3609 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_last 2 _edit_lock 1216871373 http://www.popcritics.com/?... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 Mike http://www.popcritics.com/?... 3676 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1213585225 _edit_last 2 http://www.popcritics.com/?... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 Mike http://www.popcritics.com/?... 3982 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1214283237 _edit_last 2

Then this is the final error code at the bottom:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 103809024 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 28794548 bytes) in /nfs/c02/h06/mnt/43539/domains/popcritics.com/html/wp-cont... on line 260

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:26:30 -0000

OKAY, here goes...

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Jason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:19:24 -0000

Sure. I appreciate it.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:11:12 -0000

I guess I should try it again, but I didn't save it.

Should I try the import again?

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Jason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:02:42 -0000

Hi Mike,

What was the fatal error message? We have a few reports of users unable to export their comments, but we cannot reproduce this one. Thanks.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:53:50 -0000

I ended up with a massive page of text and the last line was a fatal error when I did this export.

Here is a page that SHOULD have comments:
http://www.popcritics.com/2...

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

shokk — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:48:46 -0000

http://www.shokk.com/blog/a...
http://www.shokk.com/blog/a...
http://www.shokk.com/blog/a...

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Jason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:41:10 -0000

Comments are automatically synced back to WordPress from Disqus when
you visit the page. Can you link to some of your posts that should
have comments that currently do not show any with Disqus? I will
check the status from your export.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

shokk — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:22:48 -0000

I did the export and only 25 comments were taken into Disqus. The rest are being ignored for some reason and since Disqus took over my comments, they no longer appear. I have to take this one way or the other, so how do I either get the rest into Disqus or get my comments exported from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:45:22 -0000

Awesome....I wish I could get this 2.0 thing to work now :)

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Marc Seeger — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:38:09 -0000

apparently it is :) (according to Gaurav)

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:35:13 -0000

There HAS to be a way to sync previous Disqus-only comments into WP...seems
like it should be automatic.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Gaurav — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:24:45 -0000

Yes, they did for me :)

By "disqus only" I mean, the comments that were added through my blog to Disqus prior to v 2.0.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Marc Seeger — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:22:08 -0000

So are old "disqus only" comments synced to the wordpress database?
That would be really cool

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Marc Seeger — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:20:33 -0000

If you are using a Wordpress Blog and install the plugin, you'll be able to:

1. Export all of your "old" wordpress comments to disqus
2. Keep your Wordpress Database in sync with the Disqus System (so you are able to disable disqus and still have all the comments that were posted on disqus)

You will not be able to: get comments that are ONLY on disqus into wordpress

I might not have looked into all the possibilites though

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Mike Olbinski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:14:17 -0000

Not sure what we're using, but I had no idea you could do that.

So if we install this plugin, it will syncronize everything that's already
been posted on Disqus before this plugin?

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Gaurav — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:06:23 -0000

I just upgraded my old Disqus to 2.0 and I still don't see my comments on Disqus (prior to 2.0) in my db. Is it a real time sync? If not, how often comments are synced from Disqus to WP db?

Update: They synced up. I guess when I viewed that post.

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

Marc Seeger — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:56:50 -0000

The current disqus 2.0 plugin for wordpress keeps the Wordpress Database and Disqus synchronized
--> you don't need to so anything and new comments are automatically added to the wordpress Database.

As for the XML format mismatch on "old" disqus comments: I'm sure somebody will write a converter

Re: Export from Disqus back into Wordpress?

ErnieAtLYD — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:21:55 -0000

+1. We used disqus briefly on one of my blogs, and the blog readers wanted to switch back to the old commenting system for various reasons & issues.

From a development perspective I can understand why this isn't a high priority, but this would offer a great goodwill and would make me jump back to disqus if the timing and architecture was appropriate for other sites.

Thanks, Ernie