Used the following method to move comments in WordPress 3.<\/p>\n
Key information needed: <\/p>\n
Determine the post ID (comment_post_ID) for where the comment was made. You can determine this from the WordPress Dashboard. In this post, (http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=781) 781 is the comment_post_ID.<\/p>\n
Determine the post ID (comment_post_ID)for where the comment should go. <\/p>\n
Determine the comment ID (comment_ID). There are many ways you could determine this, but you should probably choose something unique to the comment like the comment_author_email that you should be able to get from the comment. <\/p>\n
Move the comment:<\/p>\n
mysql> UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_post_id=”newcommentpostid<\/em>” WHERE comment_post_ID=”oldcommentpostid<\/em>” AND comment_author_email=”commentauthoremail<\/em>“;<\/p>\n Determine the number of comments where the post has moved to:<\/p>\n mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=”newcommentpostid<\/em>“;<\/p>\n Determine the updated number of comments for the post where the comment was originally made:<\/p>\n mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=”oldcommentpostid<\/em>“;<\/p>\n Update the counts for each of the posts:<\/p>\n mysql> UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_count=”newcommentcountwhereadded<\/em>” WHERE id=”newpostid<\/em>“;<\/p>\n mysql> UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_count=”newcommentcountwhereremoved<\/em>” WHERE id=”oldpostid<\/em>“;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Used the following method to move comments in WordPress 3. Key information needed: Determine the post ID (comment_post_ID) for where the comment was made. You can determine this from the WordPress Dashboard. In this post, (http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=781) 781 is the comment_post_ID. Determine the post ID (comment_post_ID)for where the comment should go. Determine the comment ID (comment_ID). [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[288,248,287],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-move-comments","tag-mysql","tag-wordpress"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}