Hi everyone,
I’m planning to migrate my blog from WordPress to Ghost and I’m particularly concerned about transferring my comments. I’ve seen several older threads mentioning the wait for an API or DIY tools, but I haven’t found any recent updates on the official Ghost migration pages regarding comments.
Has anyone successfully migrated WordPress comments to native comments in Ghost recently? Are there any new, more efficient solutions or open-source projects available in 2025?
Any insights or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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I’m afraid I can’t help with getting them into native Ghost comments, but I faced the same situation a year ago so thought I’d add two brief comments on my experience.
- Having found no easy way to import WP to native Ghost I used a third party commenting system (FastComments). This worked well and continues to do so, and fees are reasonable at $1-1.5/month for my usage; 8,000 stored comments, 2,000 page loads a month and 1,200 SSO users.
- I receive far fewer comments on Ghost than I did on WP, despite having more readers, a healthy number of new subscribers and new paying subscribers a month. I think this is because I restrict comments to signed in users and 80% read the newsletter and never visit the website.
The final point I’d make is that the legacy comments are rarely referred to by current readers (or by me). Perhaps they’re avidly read, I don’t know. I sometimes think they might as well not be there.
Knowing what I now know about the frequency of commenting on my site hosted on Ghost I’d possibly have just opted for the Ghost native comments and jettisoned the old stuff.
My $0.02 
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No native tool yet, sadly. You might need to use third-party scripts or embed comments with services like Commento or Hyvor until Ghost expands support.