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.

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.

WooCommerce Export Settings

See Common WordPress Settings

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>