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

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

Elena Petrova Elena Petrova

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

Grace Adeyemi Grace Adeyemi

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Elena Petrova Elena Petrova

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

Sofia Romano Sofia Romano OP

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

Sofia Romano Sofia Romano OP

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

Finn O'Brien Finn O'Brien

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

Yuki Tanaka Yuki Tanaka

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

Marco Silva Marco Silva

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

Bob Martinez Bob Martinez

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

Hana Park Hana Park

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

Elena Petrova Elena Petrova

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

Elena Petrova Elena Petrova Accepted

This is expected behavior, not a bug. The guard you are hitting is intentional — it protects against a class of mistakes that used to cause data loss.

If you need the other behavior, there is a documented filter you can hook to override it per site.

Elena Petrova Elena Petrova

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

Lena Fischer Lena Fischer

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Priya Nair Priya Nair

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

Bob Martinez Bob Martinez

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

Bob Martinez Bob Martinez

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Jamal Reed Jamal Reed

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

Grace Adeyemi Grace Adeyemi

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

Priya Nair Priya Nair

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

Noah Bennett Noah Bennett

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

Aisha Khan Aisha Khan

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

Elena Petrova Elena Petrova

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

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