Drupal to WordPress migration: comments table mapping

This is part three of a series of posts documenting the table mappings for a site migration from Drupal 6 to WordPress 3. For more information, please see the first article in the series.

Table mapping for WordPress comments

Drupal 6.x

WordPress 3.x

Notes

comments

wp_posts

cid

comment_ID

nid

comment_post_ID

timestamp

comment_date

Converted from UNIX timestamp

comment

comment_content

pid

comment_parent

name

comment_author

mail

comment_author_email

homepage

comment_author_url

Truncated to WordPress limit of 200 chars

status

comment_approved

Comment authors

A note about the different ways Drupal and WordPress store comment author information: Drupal stores comment authors in its users table alongside site users like node authors. In WordPress, comment authors are stored in its wp_comments together with the comment data. WordPress comment authors are not entered into the wp_users table.

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