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@henrywright Thanks for your reply. I looked at Trac but can only find where to file a bug report, not a feature request.

I don’t want to sound ungrateful and realise the BuddyPress team are volunteers doing a great job. But import / export seems fundamental to me and I don’t understand why it is not built in. I’ve seen this sentiment reflected in other people also over the last few years. It would save a lot of people many problems if their websites crashed for sure.

I see there is a BuddyPress Members import by youngtechleads. com and I have used it myself.
I see there are also a few plugins that export some of the data needed. What I can’t find is a complete solution and copying sql database tables over just hasn’t worked for me.

I think this is really needed and will make BuddyPress a more complete product. I really do think this is a missing part.

@henrywright Thanks, that’s done now. Surprised no one has posted this already…

@djpaul Thanks for taking time to think about this. Unfortunately I don’t know much about PHP, or believe me I would be on the case… But if it’s any help I have seen 2 plugins on these forums over the last few years that between them partially do this. I am quite green with this but maybe they could be a good reference? BuddyPress members import is great but only half a plugin. I did ask the developer to add export functionality but he went quiet. It seems to do everything if only we had the export file. The other export plugins we have found don’t deal with groups that have been joined, friendships, activity or paths to profile photos. Groups and friendships would be a good starting place and save a whole heap of time on a fresh install.

I have already partially tested the above plugin and can testify it has made life very easy exporting and moving all the profile photos over from the old site to the new site. Many thanks to the developer for doing this.