Made changes to the title and the question itself. Thanks @SeVlad, we managed to reach the right solution.

A small site was translated to Wordpress with bare HTML. There is a separate page for feedback with comments. HTML visitors' comments were recorded manually on the site by a copy-paste from e-mail (the form was not, the site was static). Comments in this format are still preserved, it is undesirable to throw them away.

Now, any comment that would be convenient to simply “approve” in the WP console, you have to copy-paste again, and then delete, otherwise you can see where the old comments are, and where they are added through the form, it looks very rough. How to add all the old comments, as if they were also entered through the form?

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    How to add all the old comments, as if they were also entered through the form?

    On this feedback page, remove a separate form and allow comments.

    • Thank! But in this case, the text is heterogeneous. All old data is made in plain text, it is, in fact, not comments, but the body of the page. New comments Wordpress adds in a different style. It turns out "farm". I need to break old plain text into relevant pieces and convert to comments. Is there any way? - Danny
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      Well, transfer the old comments to comments. Or you can use question-answer type plugins, but you also need to somehow import the old ones into them. - SeVlad
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      Or use feedback plug-ins with the ability to write to the database (for CF7 there are also various additions). But there will probably be more than one page. - SeVlad

    The solution was phpMyAdmin:

    1. I downloaded phpMyAdmin version 4, because I have PHP 5.2
    2. Added three test comments to have a sample in the database.
    3. Opened for editing the file wp-config.php
    4. Took away the login and password from MySQL
    5. Opened phpMyAdmin, logged in
    6. Found wp-comments table
    7. Copy the comment template using the "Copy" method and fill the database.
    8. Found the comments-fix script right here.
    9. With its help, corrected the displayed number of comments (WP still wrote that there were 3 of them, when there were already 70 of them, because they were manually entered into the database).
    10. Came out and removed phpMyAdmin for security reasons.