[@jnomell Participant 8 months, 3 weeks 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.