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Migrating from PHPBB3 to BuddyPress/BBPress and WordPress

  • Hi,

    I was wondering what would be the best way to migrate all my users from phpbb3, the groups, forums, and forum topics into the buddypress/wordpress structure please?

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  • at this time it seems like the only way to do it is to do it yourself/hire a programmer. i would like to do the same thing but have not found anything that can migrate or bridge them that works well with phpbb3.


    kriskl
    Participant

    @kriskl

    hi Guys!

    I have migrated from phpbb3 to buddypress

    site went live today, there were some hiccups with script, and not everything was converted.. private msg or attachments. and links in posts are not right..

    anyways, here it is. opentuition.com/forums

    PS. I have not done it myself, but people who did it, if they did it for me, they can do it for you, drop me PM and i will forward your info!

    @kriskl your community has, like…62000 MEMBERS ? Wow, now THATS a large community !

    Liked your site, very organized. Being about accountancy students, wouldn’t facebook login be useful for member singup ?

    Regards,


    3sixty
    Participant

    @3sixty

    It’s also very fast – what are you hosting on?


    kriskl
    Participant

    @kriskl

    with phpbb it was easy to grow numbers.. because there was an option to restrict access.. to registered members only..

    buddypress does not have this though :(

    people can read all posts without registration :( there is invite on,y and hidden forum.. but it is not the same as

    register to view..

    i think that;s missing feature by the way

    re facebook login — I want them to be registered with me, not only with facebook haha ;) – unless I misunderstand..

    re hosting,, is it fast? to me it seems on the slow side,

    so I am glad you said that.. guys who were helping me out had to install some plugins to optimize it.. etc..

    it is on dedicated server / litespeed


    5887735
    Inactive

    with this Facebook Connect plugin it creates a member in BP, so even if you remove the plugin their account stays:

    https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-fb-autoconnect


    kriskl
    Participant

    @kriskl

    I see, thanks for the info

    I am going to experiment first with facestream.. for some reason i get an error when try to set it up.. :(


    3sixty
    Participant

    @3sixty

    It would be very easy to modify your forum code so that only registered members can view posts. You could say “if the current user is not logged in, display a ‘sorry’ message, else proceed with setting up and displaying the forum posts. You could even set it up so they could view a few teaser posts at the top, and then display the ‘you must login’ message. I may in fact try this out on a few groups!


    kriskl
    Participant

    @kriskl

    oh please do try it out.. it would be really great

    maybe someone would convert it into plugin or something also!

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