Vox comments did not import…
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I bailed out of Vox today and jumped to WordPress because you’re beautiful. :-) The import was successful, except the comments to individual entries did not import. The entries have a link to the comments back on the Vox blog entries, but Vox will disappear in less than 30 days. So….will the comments themselves show up in WordPress eventually, or will they disappear forever when Vox vanishes into the ether? If the latter, what can I do to preserve them?
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If the comments themselves have a separate feed, you should presumably be able to import that as XML.
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Okay. Being a total no-nothing when it comes to programming-type stuff and having not the slightest idea what XML is, can you tell me how to do that?
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Vox comments should import by just running the importer.
Could you try removing www. from “host name” field and running it again?
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Thanks for the suggestion. If I remove the “www”, I get the error message: “Please check your user name and password, Vox says it’s incorrect.” If I try it as http://avanta7.vox.com, I get the same error message. If I try it as http://www.avanta7.vox.com, the import is successful, but still no comments. ‘Tis very frustrating….I hate to lose my comments.
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I’ve tried twice now, and I still can’t get *anything* to come over from Vox. And both times I got the confirmation message that the import was successful. ::sigh:: I guess it’s time to contact Support directly….
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The XML is just the RSS feed for your comments, really. Does this help?
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I tried a third time, and now I got the posts to come over. But now, like avanta, I have no comments. I’ll go try it again, since it seems to be fairly random whether or not it works at all.
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Thanks for the suggestion, naokomc. If I use my login email address as username, I get an endless “please wait” response, and no import. I do appreciate your efforts. I’ll try contacting support directly now.
@raincoaster: I appreciate your suggestions too. I just don’t know how to apply them. :)
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@raincoaster: Vox does not provide an RSS feed for comments like they do for posts.
When I created the Vox importer I had to code it to scrape the comments from the blog post page. It’s a hack, but it mostly works.
I’ll start running some unit tests on the importer to make sure the HTML format of the comments hasn’t changed.
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Ha!!! Success! My Vox comments are here in all their glory. Thank you, WordPress Codemonkeys….
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