Title: Threaded Comments Transfer from WordPress.com FAIL
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Threaded Comments Transfer from WordPress.com FAIL

 *  [unreasonablefaith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unreasonablefaith/)
 * (@unreasonablefaith)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-transfer-from-wordpresscom-fail/)
 * I recently moved off wordpress.com to self-hosting. Everything went as well as
   expected (that is, it was a pain in the ass), but I got everything working except
   for one thing — old threaded comments.
 * All the old comments lost their threading. It looks like the the comment_parent
   id’s don’t match the actually comments, so it appears there was an import issue
   from the the WXR file.
 * It really sucks to lose all that theading, plus it acts weird now when people
   try and reply to old comments. New comments on new posts work perfectly.
 * Anyone else experience this? Any ideas how to fix it?
 * Thanks for any help you can provide!
 * Daniel Florien
    [http://unreasonablefaith.com](http://unreasonablefaith.com)

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 *  [s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sofimi/)
 * (@sofimi)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-transfer-from-wordpresscom-fail/#post-1058178)
 * I’m having this same problem. I really hope the WordPress team would look into
   this. Perhaps we should raise this in the Ideas section too.
 * Though my guess is that a database export-import (instead of the WXR/XML file
   upload) would fix this problem.
 *  [findingsimple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jconroy/)
 * (@jconroy)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-transfer-from-wordpresscom-fail/#post-1058185)
 * Also having this problem – any fixes yet?
 *  [irondavy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irondavy/)
 * (@irondavy)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-transfer-from-wordpresscom-fail/#post-1058204)
 * Also having this problem. It’s killing me!
 *  [irondavy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irondavy/)
 * (@irondavy)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-transfer-from-wordpresscom-fail/#post-1058205)
 * Actually, this finally worked!
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/312843?replies=18](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/312843?replies=18)

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## Tags

 * [Comments](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comments/)
 * [export](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/export/)
 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [importing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/importing/)
 * [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-com/)
 * [WXR](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wxr/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [irondavy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irondavy/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-transfer-from-wordpresscom-fail/#post-1058205)
 * Status: not resolved

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