How to migrate from bbPress without losing data

Sofia Romano Sofia Romano 2 months ago Resolved

Reference guide. The bbPress importer preserves original dates, maps forums to spaces and forum categories to Jetonomy categories, and supports a dry run.

  1. Back up your database.
  2. Run wp jetonomy import bbpress --dry-run to preview.
  3. Run the import; it batches large datasets to avoid timeouts.
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Theo Lindqvist Theo Lindqvist

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

Maya Okafor Maya Okafor

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

Noah Bennett Noah Bennett

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

Maya Okafor Maya Okafor

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

Grace Adeyemi Grace Adeyemi

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

Theo Lindqvist Theo Lindqvist

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Grace Adeyemi Grace Adeyemi

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Elena Petrova Elena Petrova

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

Theo Lindqvist Theo Lindqvist

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.