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bbpress to simple:press migration

PE pepe
pepe
Member

Hi team,

Just new here.

After extensive testing with simple:press we have decided to migrate our forums from bbpress.

 

Now I have been told that there is not an easy shortcut so I would need you help if that is okay with you.

 

Where should I start with the migration?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciate.

 

Rgds,

J.

 

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

first, are you sharing user database? ie does bbpress use wp user table? if not, are they at least synched up?

we can fairly easily get your forum data over to simple:press but the users are a bit more problematic if the are something completely different from wp users.

you can also take a look at our wiki in the importers section… We have left one of our older, out dated importers there to give folks an idea how to do this… Its not valid anymore but the general steps are correct…

PE pepe
pepe
Member

Hi there,

 

Thank you very much for your quick reply.

 

To be honest with you I do not know. We will need a lot of help to get this done and over.

 

Not sure if you guys can do it for us as a professional services? If so , we will be delighted since we don´t know where to start. 

 

Looking fordward to hearing from you soon.

 

Rgds,

J.

 

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

Pepe,

In order to do this you will have to know your way around php and mysql a bit…

Andy and I (the Simple:Press dev team) normally dont take on paying jobs as it detracts from the further development of Simple:Press.  However, we would certainly like to have a bbpress importer in our arsenal, so I will re-raise the question with Andy…

UN
Unknown
Member

Howdy,

I too am looking to migrate a bbPress instance over. If an OS importer has been developed, it would come in handy.

Cheers,
Byron

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

an importer is in work as we speak… should only be a few days until its ready…

would you like to help test it?

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

bbpress to simple press importer is ready for testing.  Please let us know if you wish to beta test it.

UN
Unknown
Member

I'm really want to test it, cause i need simplepress futures, but have a live bbpress forum

ST stratosvoukel
stratosvoukel
Member

Hey guys, I also need the converter!! Could you email it to me along with some instructions? i would be really grateful 😀

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

beta version emailed to both of you. please provide feedback.

NU nunovc
nunovc
Member

Hi guys,

 

In your mail, u said that the importer only works with wordpress 3.1 

 

I'm in version 3.0.5, the importer wouldn't work on this version?

 

I've done a crazy import from smf to phpbb to bbpress. :/

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

the crazy import shouldnt matter. we do not import everything.

you can try it on 3.0.5, should be okay, others have used it, but we only tested on 3.1…