Can I ‘archive’ old comments
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I’m trying to resurrect my site. There are comments still there from 8 or so years ago. They are meaningful comments but not related to the current subject matter. Can I archive them or save them and yet have the comment screen look like its starting over from scratch? New visitors won’t see the old comments?
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Hi there – I looked around your two sites and I see comments that were put in the “trash” folder for https://canatara.wordpress.com/ — is that the site you’re working on here?
Trash folders are purged. If you don’t want to lose them, I don’t recommend keeping them in the trash.
Two alternatives to consider:
1. Restore them to the original posts and pages and just roll with it — those are good bits of commentary, and, though they’re dated, commentary shows interest and interest is a positive.
2. You could try restoring them and setting them to “pending” status. Though, that will create a bit of a distraction that you would need to wrestle with any time you need to review any new pending comments that need your approval.
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Dean, thanks for your reply. I am in the process of deleting those files and I see that you then have to take steps to permanently delete. I started doing that and saw they would disappear. Then I saw a little box on the delete page that said something like “remove future notifications about this” so I checked that. Now I can’t delete the others on my list. I click Trash Permanently and nothing happens. Guess I shouldn’t have checked that box. I thought it would get rid of those annoying green pop ups that said file was deleted. Please help me restore the delete permanently feature.
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Dean, sorry to have bothered. It appears the permanent delete is working again. No need to respond.
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