One other question, Stephen. As I think through this, don’t I also somehow need to be concerned about getting my authors and perhaps their email addresses registered as members of the site or something? I’d imagine that that would need to be done first. Interestingly, as I look at the file data I have, the identified “author” sometimes has taken new names, and of course email addresses probably require updating. Do I need to assign passwords or something? I hope not, though I expect this depends on how I will choose to configure or reconfigure permissions for posting at the website? Again, thanks a million for any help.
Thanks so very very much, Stephen. I hope that others in the future can find this very helpful guidance for custom importing since it’s so much clearer than the advice I’d seen elsewhere. I will give it a go and post any observations I may have from the experience.
This is terrific, though I suppose that I have to learn somehow the field names to be mapping my fields to. I’ve not actually installed the bbPress plug-in as yet. Does it work with the regular WP database, so that I import the ‘custom post type’ to a WP install, or does it get imported to bbPress itself. Boy am I dumb;-) But thanks Stephen — your responsiveness if super encouraging.
I would sure support this. I’m a newbie to WP and would like to use bbPress, but have a lot of old hypercard forum posts I’ve reduced to a Filemaker database. I have about 7 named forums, have authors and their post in date order. None need to be linked as replies. There’s tremendously valuable information on family histories in this archive that I’d dearly like to remain available for those interested. If I could get these posts to a forum, that would be extremely helpful.
