[ronh5]

I’ve inherited a WordPress site (v3.2.1) running bbPress v2.0. I’d like to update everything to current releases and then see about adding some features. I’ve run into roadblocks at every turn.

Because of custom plugins, I can’t upgrade anything, as it all breaks right away, so I thought I’d start with a fresh install of WordPress (v4.9.4) and bbPress (v2.5.14) and try to re-create the site.

I can’t get the old posts out of the old site and into the new one.

I tried “bbPress Import & Export”, which doesn’t do anything (blank screen when I try to export), but was able to get an XML file out of the Tools->Export page.

When I tried to import it on the new site, I was asked to match up all the users (a pain with over 200 to do one-by-one), which seemed successful, but I ended up with a main forums page that looks right as far as Topics and Posts go, but the Freshness column says “No Topics” and clicking into a thread results in a “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” message.

Any ideas? Thanks!

http://newvht.ronhiggins.com/forums
u/p: vhtbb

[ronh5]

Now all the counts are at zero after I run the “Recalculate the position of each reply” repair from under Tools->Forums. I suppose not too much is lost, since nothing was working any way….

[krioteh]

Are themes and answers displayed in the console?
Type of record when importing has not changed?

Perhaps the topics were imported as posts, then this plugin can help: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/

You can also try to put bbPress 2.6RC5, in it there are some additional tools …

[ronh5]

If it helps, the structure of the db on the old site is:
wp_commentmeta
wp_comments
wp_links
wp_messages
wp_options
wp_pm
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_PO_groups
wp_PO_post_plugins
wp_PO_url_plugins
wp_terms
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_usermeta
wp_users

The structure of the db on the new site is wildly different for some reason:
wdsrj_assets
wdsrj_associations
wdsrj_banners
wdsrj_banner_clients
wdsrj_banner_tracks
wdsrj_categories
wdsrj_contact_details
wdsrj_content
wdsrj_contentitem_tag_map
wdsrj_content_frontpage
wdsrj_content_rating
wdsrj_content_types
wdsrj_core_log_searches
wdsrj_extensions
wdsrj_fields
wdsrj_fields_categories
wdsrj_fields_groups
wdsrj_fields_values
wdsrj_finder_filters
wdsrj_finder_links
wdsrj_finder_links_terms0
wdsrj_finder_links_terms1
wdsrj_finder_links_terms2
wdsrj_finder_links_terms3
wdsrj_finder_links_terms4
wdsrj_finder_links_terms5
wdsrj_finder_links_terms6
wdsrj_finder_links_terms7
wdsrj_finder_links_terms8
wdsrj_finder_links_terms9
wdsrj_finder_links_termsa
wdsrj_finder_links_termsb
wdsrj_finder_links_termsc
wdsrj_finder_links_termsd
wdsrj_finder_links_termse
wdsrj_finder_links_termsf
wdsrj_finder_taxonomy
wdsrj_finder_taxonomy_map
wdsrj_finder_terms
wdsrj_finder_terms_common
wdsrj_finder_tokens
wdsrj_finder_tokens_aggregate
wdsrj_finder_types
wdsrj_languages
wdsrj_menu
wdsrj_menu_types
wdsrj_messages
wdsrj_messages_cfg
wdsrj_modules
wdsrj_modules_menu
wdsrj_newsfeeds
wdsrj_overrider
wdsrj_postinstall_messages
wdsrj_redirect_links
wdsrj_schemas
wdsrj_session
wdsrj_tags
wdsrj_template_styles
wdsrj_ucm_base
wdsrj_ucm_content
wdsrj_ucm_history
wdsrj_updates
wdsrj_update_sites
wdsrj_update_sites_extensions
wdsrj_usergroups
wdsrj_users
wdsrj_user_keys
wdsrj_user_notes
wdsrj_user_profiles
wdsrj_user_usergroup_map
wdsrj_utf8_conversion
wdsrj_viewlevels
wp_commentmeta
wp_comments
wp_links
wp_options
wp_postmeta
wp_posts
wp_termmeta
wp_terms
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy
wp_usermeta
wp_users

[krioteh]

The structure is the same, you have in one database two sites

Tables with the prefix wp_ – tables WordPress

wdsrj_ – this seems to be Joomla? – they do not affect WP in any way

[ronh5]

wdsrj_ – this seems to be Joomla? – they do not affect WP in any way

Thanks for that, I had no idea, I’ve dropped those tables, dunno why they were created to begin with.

[ronh5]

Are themes and answers displayed in the console?
Type of record when importing has not changed?

Unfortunately, I don’t understand the questions.

Just looking for the best way to get the data out of the old site, and onto the new one. If it helps, I have both old and new on the same server, but they use different databases.

A snapshot of the existing site cane be seen here http://vht.ronhiggins.com/
Same u/p as listed in the first post.

[krioteh]

Sorry, English is not my native language, I can distort phrases. I’ll try differently:

After importing a new site in …wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic and wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply is there anything?
Perhaps the topic and answer did not receive the correct post_type when importing

You can try to update the old site.
You can backup the database (in order to roll back in case of something), then:
Disable all plugins.
Update WordPress (if you can not get to the latest version, then you can add intermediate ones – they are available at https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/)
After updating WordPress update bbPress.

P.S.Your links require authentication 🙂

[ronh5]

P.S.Your links require authentication

Yes, I provided the login info in the first post.

I had tried to update the old site, but it won’t, that’s why I tried to start from scratch and then import the old posts.

Any other ideas? Thanks.