DISQUS Introduced the Thread Migration Tool to Import Old Comments

When I moved this blog from Blogger to WordPress platform recently, I couldn’t import the existing Disqus comments due to changes in the permanent link(URL) of posts. Disqus comment threads are based on the URL of the post.

What are threads? Threads are uniquely associated with each page which has Disqus embedded, typically an article or a blog post. For each of those pages, Disqus creates a thread that contains all of the relevant comments. Because a thread is associated to a page’s URL, or web address, they can sometimes become disassociated when the URL changes. If you’ve changed your website’s domain, you can use these new tools to restore these associations.[via]

So if the post URL changes, old comments will not be shown for the new URL even if we are using 301 permanent redirect for old post URLs. I have contacted the Disqus support team regarding this issue and they replied that a new tool is being developed to solve these problems. Surprisingly Disqus team introduced this tool last day!

How to use DISQUS Thread Migration Tool

• If you are in WordPress, don’t forget to download and activate Disqus Plugin.

• Sign-in to your disqus account and go to Comments -> Tools -> Migrate Threads
  
  
  
  
  

• There are two options for you:
  1. Migration Wizard – This quick and easy wizard will walk you through migrating your threads to the new domain.
  2. Advanced Crawler – This is recommended if you know how to set 301 redirects on all of your old webpages and they are still available online. Disqus will crawl all of those old pages and automatically update your threads.

  

• Choose the right option from the above. Your threads will be updates very soon! I used Advanced Crawler since I’m using 301 permanent redirect for my old posts. I got all comments imported back within minutes!

Thanks to Disqus.

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6 Responsesto “DISQUS Introduced the Thread Migration Tool to Import Old Comments”

1. Man Suits says:

   August 30, 2010 at 10:02 am

   nice article.. there are really some problem encountered in importing comments with disqus
2. Shafar@TipsBlogger says:

   September 2, 2010 at 5:22 am

   @Man Suits
   It's been a widely discussed issue. We can hope that they'll rectify importing errors soon.
3. GPG Solar says:

   September 3, 2010 at 9:01 am

   holy cow thats awesome.. even i reformat my blog i can still retrieve the comments
4. Franchesca says:

   April 14, 2011 at 2:07 am

   Hey there, thanks for the helpful info. I am having the hardest time importing all my client’s blogger disqus comments into her new self-hosted WP blog. I hope this works! Do you remember just how long it took, or if there is a place to ‘check the status’ of the migration? Any info would be super helpful, but you have already been so helpful. Thanks again.

   -F
5. Shafar says:

   April 16, 2011 at 12:53 pm

   @Franchesca
   Disqus upgraded their wordpress plugin few months back which supports sync of wordpress comments and disqus comments. You can just sync and deactivate this plugin to import disqus into wordpress.
   I had the problem of duplicate comments when I imported comments from disqus to wordpress. Since I had no other option, I deleted all these duplicate comments manually. Yeah tough job! Disqus support group was very helpful in guiding me.
   I don’t think there is an option to check the status of migration. But it should be completed within 2 days.

   Disqus wordpress plugin link:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/

   Thanks for dropping by.
6. izmir escort says:

   January 17, 2012 at 7:01 am

   thank u sir.. good articles.. that is a good blog…