Title: Help! Importing Threaded Comments…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help! Importing Threaded Comments…

 *  [edelen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edelen/)
 * (@edelen)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-threaded-comments/)
 * My blog dates back to April 2006, and I implemented threaded comments soon after
   through the Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin. My entire commenting system depends
   on threading.
 * I have been repeatedly told that the majority of threaded comments plugins, including
   Brian’s, use the same parent-child ID structure in comments that versions of 
   WordPress since 2.7 do.
 * I am updating my blog to use a more current theme that supports all the 2.8+ 
   features. However, despite sandboxing the site with multiple threaded-comment-
   capable themes, I can’t get the testbed site to import or recognize the existing
   comment threading.
 * I have exported the database and imported it into the test site. I have saved
   a copy of the existing database and installed it. Neither approach worked—the
   comments won’t thread.
 * Threading is enabled in the test site settings, so I’m at a loss.
 * So what’s the trick to getting my existing threaded commenting into the new site?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-threaded-comments/#post-1231196)
 * Have you examined the source of the comment pages? Could it be that the comments
   are threaded but the CSS needs tweaking? Are any of the themes you’ve tried using
   their own comment callback functions? I’d certainly stay clear of any theme that
   doesn’t use a fairly vanilla version of `wp_list_comments();` until you’ve managed
   to sort this out one way or another.
 *  Thread Starter [edelen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edelen/)
 * (@edelen)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-threaded-comments/#post-1231212)
 * esmi,
 * Thanks for the response.
 * I’ve used some of the best-known WordPress 2.7+-compatible themes out there, 
   including a few of the theme frameworks like Thematic and Buffet, and the threading
   won’t work. And I know those work right of the box, no tweaking needed. 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [edelen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edelen/)
 * (@edelen)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-threaded-comments/#post-1231213)
 * I tried the updated Kubrick also: no go.
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-threaded-comments/#post-1231217)
 * Might sound obvious, but did you enable threaded comments in the admin section?
 *  Thread Starter [edelen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edelen/)
 * (@edelen)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-importing-threaded-comments/#post-1231452)
 * Retried the MySQL sata file import and it worked the second time around. Turns
   out that the something got mangled in the database file during the first import.
   I never would have tracked it down, but by chance I ran a file comparison and
   noted the difference.
 * Still, this does not answer the elusive question about WordPress’s export/import
   feature: Does it maintain threading info when exporting?

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