Zombie comments
After much weeping and gnashing of teeth, and with a bit of help from the IntenseDebate team and Josh Fraser’s blogspot2id plugin (OK, a whole lot of help), I’ve managed to revive the old IntenseDebate comments that were lost. With a copy of the exported comments in XML, I modified the plugin to read them from a local file and got it to import all the comments back into IntenseDebate.
However, when I actually looked into one of the blog posts, alarmingly the comments were missing. Fortunately, a single spurious comment was enough to get the rest of the comments showing again, which was a tremendous relief.
For someone who had absolutely no experience in PHP until a few days ago, I’d say I didn’t do too bad. I’m rather ecstatic right now, in fact. It also means that I now know what to expect if I’m going to migrate another blog.
