Migrating from WordPress to Pure Comments (opens in new tab)

I've been a very happy Pure Blog user for some weeks now. There was one small thing left: migrating my old comments from WordPress to Pure Comments, another piece of minimalist quality software by Kev Quirk. This is a public note on how I did it. YMMV. The Strategy Follow the Pure Comments docs to install it. After that, the main challenge is matching the old WordPress database IDs to the new flat-file .md posts. Luckily, both systems use the slug (the URL-friendly title). WordPress stores th...