We managed to get the content imported (most of it anyway) using the thread you mentioned, thanks for that @netweb.
Sorry, I’d edit my last post but I can’t see a way of doing that!
Just an update on progress… So far I’ve managed to import a test batch of topics and they are all in the right place in the admin, however – when I view their parent forum on the front end they are not displaying.
Topics I’ve created via the admin (Topics / Add New) seem to work fine but none of the imported Topics will display. I’ve even compared the tables in the DB but cant spot anything wrong there.
Any thoughts welcome!
ooh, also… Am I getting this wrong but I’m not sure ‘Replies’ have post titles?
HI @netweb. Regarding importing ‘Replies’ and matching up the ID of their respective Topics, should I add the ID’s into the last field of the csv, ie; where ‘post_parent’ is located below? So ‘348830 is the ID of the parent topic…
post_author,post_date,post_content,post_title,post_parent
1,2010-09-01 00:37:17,1st topic content,1st Topic,348830
Many thanks @netweb, I’ll give it a go and let you know how we get on. Appreciate your guidance on this. 😉
Sorry to hijack this thread @harpeml but this might just be what I’m looking for.
@netweb – We are in the process of migrating a Ning site to a bbPress forum. We managed to import some of the content using the ‘Import from Ning’ plugin but unfortunately it didn’t import any replies (just the main topics were imported).
From what I can see, it might be possible to convert the json file (which is exported from Ning) to a CSV file and then import that in the way you have suggested above. Do you think this would work?
It appears Ning don’t make it particularly easy to get content to other platforms!
Any guidance most appreciated.
I’ll just try bumping this once more… I’m sure someone has come across this before?
Does anyone know if this can even be done? Thanks.
ditto goldmember!
I found some templates in the plugin folder:
plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/
but – when I copied some of them into my root theme folder & assigned a template name they still don’t display in the template dropdown..
I’m obviously missing something obvious here!
Many thanks, much appreciated!
