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Hi, I have a somewhat unusual question. On my site, I have a specific post with 78 comments. Now that I’ve set up bbPress, I’d like to move the entire discussion—including the post and all comments—into a forum as a topic with replies.

I haven’t found a ready-made way to do this. Using WP-CLI, I exported all 78 comments to a CSV file in the following format:

“author_id”,”date_time”,”comment_text”

I then tried creating a shell script that uses tail on the file, processes it with sed and cut to separate the columns, and then loops through an import with wp cli post create using post_type=reply and post_parent set to the main post (which I can easily create manually).

But with my very basic knowledge, I haven’t been able to get it to work, so I’m giving up trying on my own. 🙂

I only want to do this operation for this specific post, and maybe one more with 12 comments. It would be wonderful to have it moved as a topic in the bbPress forum.

Does anyone happen to have a ready solution, or a bit of time to help me out? 🙂