I had to shift my attentions elsewhere for my website development, but will be working on trialing the import of the manually updated MyBB post table hopefully by the end of April. I will update when I have tried it and will report on the results.
Next Update Aft Feb 11, 2021.
Having looked more into the WP post table, it turns out that the post_parent value has been associated with the forum id (fid) from MyBB and as such the importer converts each of these unassociated reply entries as a new topic as it can’t create the reply association needed by BBPress that relies on replies post_parent being tied to the initial post/reply in a topic.
Based on this latest understanding I expect I am going to have to go in to the MyBB post table and manually populate the replyto column as this is not likely something that can be resolved, based on my knowledge, by changes or updates to the converter. I am going to create a duplicate install of my latest MyBB installation and test this process to see if I am correct.
Update Feb 11, 2021.
Having looked at this more thoroughly it looks like what has happened is that most of my replies have been treated as separate topics by the importer. Having had a deeper look between the replies that were imported properly and those that ended up in separate topics, it is likely related to the fact that all of my replies had been submitted by a form. These replies were then manually moved into the appropriate thread, however because of this, there is no value in the replyto column of the posts table. I believe that the converter relies on this relationship to combine replies in the same topic as opposed to relying on the tid column.
I am working my way through the converter code to see if I can identify the function that establishes this relationship with hopes of updating it to work. Alternatively I may have to manually update the post table in MyBB prior to import to establish this relationship.
Hey there,
Did you ever resolve this? It seems to still be doing this presently.
Thanks!
