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Existing bbpress to buddypress

  • @jivany

    Participant

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Sorry, I’m sure this has been covered already but I can’t seem to find the magic search terms.

    I have an old bbPress install and I’d like to import the forums/topics into BuddyPress. Is there any way to do this? I’d even settle for a solution that dumps everything into one group.

    One thing to note is I had/have this install integrated with my WP install so bbPress uses the same users as my WP install. I think this should make it easier, somehow. :)

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  • @r-a-y

    Keymaster

    14 years, 7 months ago

    @jivany – Read what Boone did for the CUNY commons:
    http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/12/06/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/

    Pay special attention to the beginning and end of the post.

    @stwc

    Participant

    14 years, 7 months ago

    I’d just go into the MySQL database for the old one with PHPMyAdmin or whatever tool you use for a MySQL GUI and export table by table, then import to the corresponding bbPress tables in Buddypress. You’ll need to hand-edit some stuff in the meta tables and generally mess around, but I’ve done it a few times on my testbed and it’s worked just fine.

    Set up a testbed BP install first and populate it with some test data to see how things fit together — it’s not all that complicated. Then try the export-import process on some test installs, figure out what needs to be done. Basically, now that I thought to look at it, what Boone talks about in the post r-a-y linked. ;-)

    @jivany

    Participant

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks guys. I figured I would have to do it manually.

    @sadr

    Participant

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Is this recommended over the “Forums Setup -> Use an existing bbPress installation” import?

    I tried it, and for the life of me I can’t get it right. Not right enough anyhow. I installed a clean bbPress, added two forums, populated them with about two threads each. Then I try BP’s magic button. The config was successful it says, and I go check it out. The best I’ve gotten is one group with the threads from one of my forums, while I’ve no clue where the threads in the other forum went. I’ve tried this over and over with different settings. Just not getting there.

    Since adding additional users to bbPress is a pain I haven’t gotten around to doing that yet, so I don’t know yet if users would import properly, or if that’s a problem too.

    Is it just me or does the bbPress importer leave a lot to be desired?

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