Transferring comments.

Question

hello experts and generously helpful people.
i have a website i put up on the first version of iweb, its a blog which surprisingly garnered some comments on some of the entries. ive since updated the site and transferred content (manually) to a new version of the site. anyone know if its possible to transfer the comments made across too?
any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

Did you try to open the domain file that you used to create the old site with your current version of iWeb and go from there? That would preserve the blog page and comments and update all the pages to the latest version of iWeb.
Is your new site in a different domain.sites2 file? Here's a way you might be able to use your new site and the blog from the old site:
1 - launch the old domain file with your blog with iWeb09 and convert it to the new version.
2 - place the two domain files in your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder (renaming them so they don't overwrite each other).
3 - down load and run iWebSites.
4 - select both domain files in iWS and use the merge button to merge the two into a new 3rd domain file with both sites, the old and new.
5 - move the pages of the new site into the old site. Delete those pages in the old site you don't need.
6 - publish the old site.
This should give you your old site's blog along with the new pages of the new site. Since the merging does nothing to the original 2 domain files you'll still have them to fall back on if the merged site isn't to your liking. Be sure to keep the old site's name when you publish the merged version so the blog's comments are maintained.
Otherwise, create your new site without blog and just link to the old blog from the new site.
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