There’s an old script available on code.google.com called “wordpress-to-bbpress-converter”. It generally does what I want it to do, only it works with the old standalone bbPress, which doesn’t even seem to be available on bbpress.org any more. I was wondering if there’s some more recent method of converting WP posts and comments into forum threads, ideally within BuddyPress?

[@michaelsanborn Participant 12 years, 4 months ago]

Thought I’d bump this, since I really want to know… there ought to be a way to convert WordPress posts and their associated comments to forum threads. The script at:

http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-to-bbpress-converter/

requires the standalone version of bbPress. The bbPress legacy download page:

https://bbpress.org/download/legacy/

returns “Error 404 – Destination not found” messages for all links to the old standalone bbPress. And anyway, surely there’s a more recent way of accomplishing this? Any help would be appreciated.

[@mercime Participant 12 years, 4 months ago]

@michaelsanborn All bbPress versions are located at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags Just click on the version you want and in the next panel, download zip on click near bottom of the screen. Having said that, you know that the old stand-alone bbPress versions are only compatible with much older and less secure WP versions.

If you or someone else updates the converter, you should take into consideration that the BP Group Forums will be integrated into the bbPress plugin sitewide forums. https://bbpress.org/support/