This is now in bbPress trac http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2163
(All updates will be posted at the above URL from now on i.e. download from trac NOT GitHub)
The docs will be on the codex at http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/
edit: host was having an issue.
I have succumbed and installed Mingle in the need to find what’s going on with the rogue post!
Thanks for trying to solve that. I was just going to let it go but it’s turning into a problem when I try to make use of the “bbPress Topic Thumbnails” plugin which attempts to find the image in that first post only and does not look further. At least new posts will not be an issue but it sure would be nice to have the rest discovered.
I have updated Mingle.php over in trac here with what I hope should fix things up.
Let me know what other issues you have found that we might be able to improve upon also.
Is this the full solutions already?
Or the known issues are still there at http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/ ?
Anyway, can this be more clear for entry-level users like me?
1) Which folder to put this file Mingle.php ?
2) Just quickly have a look at my phpMyAdmin http://visionopen.com/questions/phpMyAdmin.png, is there any potential issue(s) for me to proceed with this Mingle.php?
cheers
Pei
Is this the full solutions already?
Yes
Or the known issues are still there at http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/ ?
This is up to date, anything listed here are the ‘workarounds’ you will need to do manually.
1) Which folder to put this file Mingle.php ?
Download `Mingle.php` using this link and upload the file with FTP to `/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters`
2) Just quickly have a look at my phpMyAdmin http://visionopen.com/questions/phpMyAdmin.png, is there any potential issue(s) for me to proceed with this Mingle.php?
Everything looks good here, on the import screen where it asks for table prefix use `wp_`
Remember to backup your web site pages and database first though…
Hi.
I downloaded the latest file from the link that you provided above, put it in the folder `/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters` but I couldn’t import my old Mingle forum into bbPress.
When I click start button I get this:
Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
Starting Conversion
The settings which I tried as below:
Select Platform: Mingle
Database Server: My host IP
Database Port: 3306
Database Name: My database name
Database User: My database user name
Database Password: My database password (which I use to login to phpMyAdmin)
Table Prefix: The prefix that used in my database.
Can you please help me?
Thanks in advance.
Hey I solved it after I asked a solution.
I tried `Database Server: localhost` and its done. Thank you.
These are the settings you should use:
Select Platform: Mingle
Database Server: localhost
Database Port: 3306
Database Name: My database name
Database User: My database user name
Database Password: My database password (which I use to login to phpMyAdmin)
Table Prefix: wp_
The changes above are `localhost` for the database server which is the default and is what is needed for most web hosts, the table prefix `wp_` which matches the screenshot you linked to above.
If this does not work confirm with your webhost the correct settings for your database name, user & password.
I confirm that everything is working as described. Thank you for this useful plugin and your quick response.
Hi, ugic:
Where is the START button? I downloaded Mingle.php and put it into the mentioned folder, however, I still don’t know how to proceed the conversion?
I couldn’t see the START button.
Cheers
@jiapei100 From the codex docs http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/#getting-there
- Log in to your WordPress Admin Dashboard
- Select the ‘Tools’ tab select ‘Forums’ from the navigation menu
- Select the ‘Import Forums’ tab at the top of the screen.
You then need to follow the next steps in the docs linked above for your settings.
Don’t forget to read the docs on Mingle and let us know any issues you find.
http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/
@Stephen Edgar and @jiapei100
Thanks very much for the work you have done on the Mingle convertor. It was also a useful tutorial to follow through the reconstruction of example.php to mingle.php.
I downloaded mingle.php and ftp’d it into the bbpress /converters folder, set the parameters and everything came across flawlessly. All I had to do was delete the imported_users as mine were already there compliments of WP_Members. A very satisfying process for which I am very grateful because while I was very happy with Mingle and the originator has been helpful, it was also becoming increasingly clear that he has moved onto to other ventures with the result that the support sites looks like it has been taken over by a user that is posting about bogus skins that are linked to ads.
Cheers
Will Chapman
Cool… Glad it worked for you 
