Comments on: Creating a “Bad Code Day” Error Message for Your Blog http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Wed, 22 May 2013 21:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BillyBLOGirlardo » Blog Archive » links for 2006-03-16 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3559 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:25:42 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3559 [...] A 404 msg for WP (tags: WP) [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3525 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:59:20 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3525 I’ll look more into this, BD. I’m glad you got it figured out. Three stars for that! WEEE!

]]> By: bd http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3494 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:11:39 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3494 I discovered a workaround, it’s a brute force method though. I wrote a query to turn all imported comments into unmoderated (comment_approved=0). And then from the admin panel I approved all the comment (by selecting all approve). Voila, the comment count now shows :D . So probably this is a bug in wordpress.

So barring the absense of email and IP information of old commenters, I have everything. I can do with that trade off :D

And finally, thanks for the support :)

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3445 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:23:21 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3445 You got the comments in, which is great! I haven’t tried that import yet so this is good news. As for the comment count, this sounds really familiar and I’m sifting through my brain to remember, but hit up the WordPress Support Forum because someone there will know faster than I can remember right now. I think it has to do with the calculation number created and added to the database at the time of the posting with WordPress, but I don’t know how to fix that. Let me know, and thanks!

]]> By: bd http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3431 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:11:56 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3431 I tried out the comments feed import(from the link that I mentioned before). And rightly said, it’s an unusual import — more so in terms of the result: all the comments got imported, but the comment count for each post still shows zero (although you could clearly see all the comments in that post). (check my wordpress.com blog and the personal host blog).

Weird :S

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3422 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:54:16 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3422 Similar instructions for comments were in the WordPress.com forum discussion on exporting WordPress.com. Let me know how the comments feed import works for you. That will be an unusual import.

]]> By: bd http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3421 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:36:14 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3421 Not intending to spam, but couldn’t resist but share this find. Though it doesn’t support URL,email and IP of commenters. Were you referring to this approach?

]]> By: bd http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3419 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:17:26 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3419 Yes, I think writing a post on it would be a great idea, as it would be an immense help for newbies like us :P

I can’t possibly express my gratitude at your response. Thanks a lot. I tried the RSS export/import thingy, and it smoothly imported all my posts and preserved the categories as well. However as you mentioned — it doesn’t support comments. As I see it, comments form an integral part of one’s blog. I can’t possibly do away with so many animated discussions I had with the readers who had commented. Losing all that would be a really heavy price to pay.

I have sent a feedback on the personal sql backup though. I hope they respond soon. And once again, a bunch of thanks!

ps: eagerly waiting for your post on the comments import through comment feeds. (in the meantime could you give me any pointers? I’m willing to do some experimentation on my own as an act of desperation :D )

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3397 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:36:57 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3397 Haven’t I written about this? I thought I did but I’m coming up empty on my searches. I’ll try to write this up in the next week or so.

There are several ways. The easiest for you is to contact WordPress.com support through the feedback button requesting a database “dump” (SQL backup works, too) of your blog, but don’t expect a fast or positive response since there are now so many such requests. This was the original answer when this was asked in the early days. With the database file, you can import your WordPress.com blog into the latest version of WordPress, I hope.

Another method that might be a little overwhelming at first but is fairly easy to do is well described from a post in the WordPress.com Forum on Moving from WordPress.com to Local Installation:

In your options panel, you can specify the number of last N posts that are to be shown in your RSS feed. You can also set your RSS feed to display whole post rather than an excerpt/summary. Then you can just save the feed like any other XML file, that can serve as your backup. When you want to import it in your WordPress installation, just use the RSS Importer available in the package & import all your RSS backups that you made. Its simple. :)

It won’t grab your comments, but you can do the same with your comments feed and import those into the database, though I’m not so clear on that method. I’ll do more digging and post something soon.

]]> By: bd http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3396 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:01:45 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/creating-a-bad-code-day-error-message-for-your-blog/#comment-3396 Hi lorelle, sorry about an unrelated comment. I am planning to move out from wordpress.com to a full version wordpress. Is there a way to replicate my wordpress.com blog in my full version wordpress blog? I’ve extensively searched but nothing seems to answer my issue :(

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