I am wondering if anyone has a script for this. Mingle forum uses wordpresses user database for its users, so I believe it would only need to convert the threads/posts/etc.
sorry to bump this, but is there a way for me to move the mingle forums I have at the moment into simple:press?
yay thanks, I’ve successfully made my site, though one weird problem for the forum import, is that it recursively adds the forums in, as in, after it adds the first group…when it adds a second group, it puts it *before* the first group (as well as for the forums….) which was a *bit* annoying to redo it all, and put it into the correct forum order.
other than that, it’s pretty well done, though there’s something that I’d wish to implement into the forum software (though not part of the import process), which I guess I could post it into a new topic but….
-> when shifting around the forums, maybe put a up and down arrow for the forum/groups so you can move them up and down without having to go into the menu
-> when you go into the menu anyways (i.e. looking at where to put the forums) (this is only a forums problem)
say there’s 4 forums
[forum 1]
[forum 2]
[forum 3]
[forum 4]
and you wanted to move “forum 4” to position 2, the options currently don’t let you put it there, as the options would be like
“Position Before forum 1” {this would put it to where forum 1 is}
“Position After forum 2” {this would put it to where forum 3 is}
“Current position: forum 3” {this would let it just do nothing}
Notice however, there is NO OPTION to put it to where forum 2 currently is
-> mass updating the group permissions en-masse (like editing how the forums should be, like, for example you added all the forums before applying any real permission, and/or importing it from another old forum) is a bit of a pain, because it refreshes the page and takes you out of the menu, etc.
-> possibly a way for there to be sub groups (“Sub Categories” as other forums will call it) as sometimes I’d prefer to make forums under a “sub group” rather than a sub forum, but I’d rather not a sub forum, as I don’t want people to post in it {not really too important}
Thanks for making such a great forum software, keep it up ^_^
I am struggling to work out how it could have created a second group that displays before the fitrst group when the first group should have had an ID of 1… or does it inherit the group ID from Mingle?
not exactly sure, I just know that after all the posts+category/group+forums were added, all the groups were actually reversed {just re-explaining it…in case I wasn’t clear}
such as/for example:
Announcements
-> Blog
-> Feedback
General
-> General Forum
-> Games
-> Movie
would be changed to:
General
-> Movie
-> Games
-> General Forum
Announcements
-> Feedback
-> Blog
Not sure entirely why it’ll do that though… maybe the first group gets changed (for example) from ID 1 to ID 2 or something? (idk)
I checked up later. The ID’s come from Mingle and we retain them and we read them in ordered by ID. So that dictates the order that you will then see them in SP.
After some work to get this much better forum working on our Gantry powered site I am glad we have a much less broken forum to use. I was hoping you could send me this importer as well so I could move from Mingle. Thanks for the help and thanks for making this full featured forum.
Thanks! I got it first thing this morning and it worked without a hitch. I had to figure out all the database stuff but it wasn’t hard. Hopefully our users like the new forums as much as I do and are glad to still have all their posts.
I’m also searching for a way to move from a Mingle forum – across to Simple:Press
Can I please get a copy of that beta script? I’m happy to help test and report back.
If anyone has a success story around this,please let me know!
Thanks in advance, Matt
A simple press importer is now available…
https://simple-press.com/download-manager.php?id=293