Deleting a Page – Can I transfer the comments?

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  ariannasrandomthoughts · Member · Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m deleting a page about my blog (http://ariannasrandomthoughts.com/about/) and made a new one page – about me (http://ariannasrandomthoughts.com/about-me/). Right now I have two pages. If I delete one of the pages – the comments are deleted as well. Is there any way I can transfer the comments from the one page to the other?

  Thanks for your help.

  Arianna

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2012 at 10:22 pm

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  There is no automatic way to do this. We used to be able to do this by using a manual copy and paste workaround. The instructions are found under “Moving Comments” in this article > WordPress.com Comments and Discussion Settings but a recent change to the commenting system may mean that we cannot do this now. I haven’t tried so I can’t say for sure https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/when-a-comment-thread-reaches-the-last-tier-no-reply-link-is-provided?replies=23#post-886510

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2012 at 10:22 pm

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  oops! WordPress.com Comments and Discussion Settings

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  ariannasrandomthoughts · Member · Sep 4, 2012 at 11:06 pm

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  Thanks! I may just do it manually. I think I may try deleting them and copying them onto the the new page.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2012 at 11:07 pm

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  Don’t delete them first. If you delete them they are gone forever.

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  ariannasrandomthoughts · Member · Sep 4, 2012 at 11:29 pm

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  I didnt delete them. I cant post them manually anyway – it wont let post from someone else.