[@jnomell Participant 2 days, 15 hours ago]

Hi Robin. I’ve now run the plugin with great success — no issues at all. I’m currently double-checking everything to make sure nothing went wrong, but so far it looks perfect. 🙂

So my warmest thanks! I would never have managed to solve this on my own, despite my best attempts. 🙂

[@jnomell Participant 4 days, 14 hours ago]

Topics already created with correct text, date and author so that’s fine.

Anonymous as name for users that no longer exists is perfectly fine.

So if I understand correctly, I would need to provide the ID of the original post and the ID of the new topic in the forum, and your plugin will “clone” each individual comment into a reply in the topic with the correct author and date? That sounds absolutely fantastic! 🙂

[@jnomell Participant 4 days, 14 hours ago]

Thanks, Robin — that would be absolutely fantastic!

With a smooth and simple solution like that, I could even consider importing 3–4 more posts that originally were discussion posts and would fit much better in the forum. But no larger volumes than that.

I don’t know exactly how you’re planning to solve it, but if possible, it would be great to keep the original post and its comments intact until everything is confirmed to be working. If it’s easier to convert the existing content directly, that’s perfectly fine as well.

In our system, users also have the option to delete their own accounts if they wish. I assume we therefore need to take into account that some users who commented may no longer have a valid user ID. In that case, I guess a fallback user is needed? I do have such a user in my system called “Deleted User,” whose user ID could be used if necessary.

I’m also not entirely sure how bbPress handles topics and replies when the original user accounts are deleted — I haven’t had a chance to test that yet. 🙂

Many thanks for your help. I really don’t have the required level of knowledge for this, so it’s very much appreciated. 🙂

[@jnomell Participant 4 days, 16 hours ago]

Thanks, Robin — much appreciated.

Unfortunately, no, I’m not comfortable with code, and definitely not at that level.

With the plugin you’re suggesting: am I correct in understanding that it does not import existing comments from the original post as replies in bbPress? What I would really like is to move all 78 comments over as replies in the bbPress topic, and ideally be able to delete the original post entirely afterwards.

I’ve already created the topic itself manually in the correct forum, preserving the original text, date, and author. The only remaining (small 🙂) problem is the replies. And since those 78 comments contain a lot of valuable content, it wouldn’t feel right to start over from scratch in the forum.

[@jnomell Participant 4 days, 17 hours ago]

(I am using latest wp and PHP 8.3 FPM)

[@jnomell Participant 4 days, 17 hours ago]

Hi. I don’t get any chance to enter a topic ID. The page crashes as soon as I click “Add New Reply”, and the form never loads at all.

I agree that normally there’s no real need to create replies via wp-admin. The reason I want to do it in this case is to paste content from comments on a regular post, in order to move an existing discussion into bbPress (see my other thread about importing individual posts and comments into bbPress). From the admin side it would be easier to create replies, attach them to a topic, change author and date, and paste the original text.

It is possible to do this via the frontend and then edit the replies in the backend, but that adds several extra steps. Also, since the “Add New Reply” function exists in wp-admin, I assumed it should work — and it didn’t feel right that the page crashes instead. 🙂

That said, if there is a more automated or cleaner way to import posts and their associated comments into bbPress, that would be much better, and in that case I wouldn’t really need to use Add New Reply in wp-admin at all.

[@jnomell Participant 5 days, 6 hours ago]

Hi. I’m running a site with a brand-new forum. I haven’t imported anything and have only created a few test topics. I’m getting the same 500 error, and in my case PHP also tries to allocate memory endlessly.

Creating replies on the frontend works perfectly, but not via wp-admin → Replies → Add New Reply.

Every time I try, an empty reply is created with post_parent set to 0. I assume these empty replies are left floating around in cyberspace and have to be manually deleted from the database?

I’d also appreciate any help. I’m using the Blog FSE theme and the latest version of bbPress, together with the plugin “Enable bbPress for Block Themes”. We do not have a child theme active.

[@jnomell Participant 1 year ago]

Thanks, works just fine 🙂