That looks useful, if only migrating users was most of the job but clearly for any plugin to migrate your groups, files, videos images etc it would have to know an awful lot about the structure of the site it was migrating to, still it would save part of the work for sure, and right now you can get it for 15 days for free it seems.
I’ve been working on trying to get MPP to support ning type features thoug, so there is hope, just not right now. For example, until last week you could not have a general gallery for everyone to upload to. Instead they had to join a group first, which just made things more complicated for users. Another issue is that there has to be seperate galleries for photos and videos etc, I’d like to be able to have one gallery for all media, I’d prefer it if my users did not even know there was a gallery as such and I’d like to have a shortcode that displayed all the latest images, so I could put that on my front page. Alas these things are a long time coming.
Also the video options available are generally poor compared to what you get with Ning, all of the available seem to focus on each individual having their own gallery rather than the concept of a shared gallery that everyone can post to, the only way you can get around this is to get everyone to join a common group and share their videos in there.
I created a site, looking to mirror Ning as much as possible, generally it’s a bit problematic in a number of ways.
Forums are ok, you can get a chat plugin that works in a very similar way to Nings, however there is no music player, user profile pages are woefully basic, as are groups, with very little you can do to provide users and group owners with customisation. In general the user interface is very clunky with lots of scrolling and clicking to get to information that with Ning you could organise to have it viewed with just one click.
Also, in order to get the Ning look and feel and features, you have to load up so many plugins that site performance suffers.
There is no Ning import option from what I can see, I never had to do this but I noticed the plugin that allowed you to do this was well out of date so would suggest it no longer works, and even if it did, it would only pull in the very basic of info.
Regarding support, you will have to do a great deal of this yourself, these forums can help but at the end of the day you will be creating a site with many different plugins, each of those have interdependencies and it is up to you to become an expert in getting these to work together, finding out when they don’t and identifying the one that is causing the problem and to raise this as an issue with the developer (my site for example uses plugins from around 40-50 different developers for example).
Having said all that, this software is in the most part free, and there are some features that Ning does not have, I tried several different solutions before settling on WP/BP and in my view this combination provided me with the best of the available options.
If you would like to see the site I created it’s here – truthofself.com
This is a generic WordPress error telling you it has ran out of allocated memory, the typical fix is in increase the memory size in your PHP.ini file though you may need the advice of your hosting provider as to exactly how you will do that.
One tip is to check if is because YouYupe are using different URL’s these days, I had an issue which I’ve still got where the old URL works fine but the new one does not, wordpress wraps the content in a link instead of previewing it.
It is something I would like also, however I believe this is problematic in that currently it is possible for two of more users to have the same display name whereas the username is unique to each user.
I’d first try unloading any other plugins, and switch to the 2015 theme to see if that fixes it.
On my install the emails themselves just work (Do other notification emails get there?) but there is a possibility that you may have to set up the emails if this is a first time install.
Thanks Imath, I’ve installed that on my test server and it works fine and does exactly what I was looking for, would it be wise to install it on a live system?
