Automattic / Automattic/jetpack
Feature Request: Transfer post/comment likes to new sites after importing content
- Dominant language
- PHP
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Description
### Impacted plugin
Jetpack
### What
After migrating a site (either via a plugin or by importing a content XML), Likes remain tied to the original blog ID and are not copied to the new site. I would love to see a tool to allow transferring Likes data between sites for matching post IDs.
### How
Likes are currently reset to zero after transferring data to a new site. Similar functionality already exists for transferring Stats (internal only) and Subscribers/Followers (internal and external).
### Initial customer report
9435567-zd-a8c (Site migrated by Dotcom HEs; see https://github.com/Automattic/dotcom-migrations/issues/2279)
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files or tests are named in the issue. Start by examining the existing Stats and Subscribers/Followers transfer functionality, then determine how matching post IDs can be used to transfer Likes between sites; done means migrated posts retain their existing Like data rather than resetting to zero.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- backend, databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100