Moving from BBPress 2.0

tyskkvinna

I currently run a fairly large forum (9,000 users) on BBPress 2.0 and I am migrating over to Vanilla. I need to keep the users on Wordpress, for various things, but I am using SSO.

I am trying to import the old forum posts into Vanilla and I find myself perplexed. I found the exporter, but it only uses BBpress 1.0 -- I tried it for kicks and it just errors out, "no topics, no replies".

I think I could export the forum topics manually but I'm not sure how I'd go about importing them. Would I have to somehow automatically generate all of the existing users on Vanilla? Since they don't have a userID if they've never logged in, right?

I've spent a good three hours researching this tonight and I'm at a little lost. this is my last step and I'd really like to go forward. I don't mind getting my hands dirty but I need a little direction.

Shain

I'm in the same case, did you find a way to migrate from BBpress 2 ?

hgtonight

@Shain It looks like BBpress 2 is a complete change from BBpress 1. I don't have an install available to test, but from some searches, it looks to share tables with a wordpress install. :(

businessdad

@hgtonight said: Shain It looks like BBpress 2 is a complete change from BBpress 1. I don't have an install available to test, but from some searches, it looks to share tables with a wordpress install. :(

I have inspected a converter to migrate BBPress 1 data to version 2, and indeed there have been several changes. In best case, it would be a matter of replacing table names and fields (eventually splitting some data here and there to multiple tables). In worst case, a brand new library would have to be implemented. It's not the best of news, but it's not a trivial tasks (especially because it's crucial that data is imported correctly, a "more or less" result is not acceptable).