Unfortunately, we don’t have an exporter/importer for BuddyPress yet. I’ve asked around to see if anyone’s built one, but you might have to end up exporting/importing the MySQL database tables, which can be pretty tricky.
As I thought, thank you 🙂
Buddypress is a fine product, but needs an import/export feature built in, this is seriously missing. I need to do a fresh wp install and move the users and custom field data over. Please has anyone come across a relatively easy enough way of doing this? Or when will Buddypress include this?
Thanks
I found this answer to this issue by: @donalyza. He said:
“if you use phpmyadmin, you can easily export the 3 tables related to groups from site 1 and import them in site 2. phpMyadmin has natively import/export tools and avoids you to use an extra plugin to generate CSV or sql formated files.
xxx_bp_groups
xxx_bp_groups_groupmeta
xxx_bp_groups_members
xxx is the prefix you entered during the wp install. By default it is wp, but it is recommended to use another one. Spambots are too much in love with wp_ prefix. You’re warned ! :d”
I just tried it and it worked, however I had to edit my prefix accordingly to the database prefix I was uploading it to. I used “Coda” to do this, but any similar program works. The site I exporting from had “wp_bp_groups_members” and I changed it to “qou_bp_groups_members” which was the new site prefix.
