Does anyone have any advice for importing bbpress forums and users from a single-site installation, into a multi-site installation please -x-

Wp V 4.4.1 (multi-site)
bbpress V Version 2.5.8
The site is private, I’m unable to send a link.

[@casiepa Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

Hi,
What are the specifications of the site you are importing from ?
Pascal.

[@mhairilongmuir Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

I’m not sure what you mean, it’s a single site, with the most recent versions of both WP and bbpress, cheers.

[@casiepa Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

Do you have any posts or forums already on the new subsite of the multisite installation ? If not, you could probably just export your whole single site with the wordpress export and then import it on the multi-side one.

Pascal.

[@mhairilongmuir Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

No, I don’t have any posts or forums. What would you use to export and imoprt? I’ve already tried that, and it doesn;t seem to have included the users…

cheers

[@casiepa Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

I found this old article: http://teqsnacks.com/2009/05/18/moving-multi-author-wordpress-blog-import-export-users/

Or use this plugin: https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import

Pascal.

[@netweb Keymaster 9 years, 2 months ago]

If I was to try this I would jump into the database directly to have a closer look, but thats me, and I’m pretty confident I know what I’m doing here

Presuming your taking backups so your data is safe and you have tested restoring from backup.

I’ve never actually tried this but what happens if you de-activate bbPress on the single site and then network activate it?