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Exporting Comments From WordPress

This task will download comments from WordPress in an XML format. The results can be filtered if required. See below for a sample output file.

Connection

Required
The WordPress connection to use when running the Export Comments task.

Export All

Required
Set to true to export all comments, or false to only export those published since the date specified in the 'Export From' setting.

Export Detailed

Required
Set to true to export the related author, post and parent for each page. When set to false, only the ID of the author, post and parent will be downloaded. Please note that setting this to true will significantly increase the amount of time the export takes.

Export From

Required
When the 'Export All' setting is false, only comments published after this date will be exported. This date will update automatically each time the task runs.

Page Size

Required
The number of records to include in each page of results. Defaults to 10. Increasing this value will increase the speed of the export, but will consume more memory.

Optional
Enter search keywords to filter the results returned.

Timeout

Optional
The maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a response from WordPress. Leave blank to use the default timeout of 100 seconds.

Output File

Required
The file to save results from the Export Comments task. The results are returned as an array of the Comment object as detailed in the example below.

Zynk Settings

See Common Task Settings

Examples

A sample output file is shown below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfComment xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <Comment>
    <id>1</id>
    <external_id>12345</external_id>
    <author_name>Mr WordPress</author_name>
    <author_url>https://wordpress.org/</author_url>
    <content>
      <rendered><p>Hi, this is a comment.<br />
To delete a comment, just log in and view the post&amp;#039;s comments. There you will have the option to edit or delete them.</p></rendered>
    </content>
    <date>2015-09-08T12:42:17</date>
    <date_gmt>2015-09-08T11:42:17</date_gmt>
    <karma xsi:nil="true" />
    <link>https://localhost/wordpress/hello-world/#comment-1</link>
    <post>
      <id>1</id>
      <link>https://localhost/wordpress/hello-world/</link>
      <date>2015-09-08T12:42:17</date>
      <date_gmt>2015-09-08T11:42:17</date_gmt>
      <modified>2015-09-08T12:42:17</modified>
      <modified_gmt>2015-09-08T11:42:17</modified_gmt>
      <slug>hello-world</slug>
      <type>post</type>
      <title>
        <rendered>Hello world!</rendered>
      </title>
      <content>
        <rendered><p>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!</p></rendered>
      </content>
      <author>
        <id>1</id>
        <registered_date xsi:nil="true" />
      </author>
      <excerpt>
        <rendered><p>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!</p></rendered>
      </excerpt>
      <featured_media>0</featured_media>
      <comment_status>open</comment_status>
      <ping_status>open</ping_status>
      <format>standard</format>
      <sticky>false</sticky>
      <categories>
        <Category>
          <id>1</id>
          <count xsi:nil="true" />
          <parent xsi:nil="true" />
        </Category>
      </categories>
      <tags />
    </post>
    <status>approved</status>
    <type>comment</type>
    <author_avatar_urls>
      <item>
        <key>24</key>
        <value>https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=24&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g</value>
      </item>
      <item>
        <key>48</key>
        <value>https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=48&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g</value>
      </item>
      <item>
        <key>96</key>
        <value>https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g</value>
      </item>
    </author_avatar_urls>
  </Comment>
</ArrayOfComment>