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 8 years, 11 months ago]

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

[@mhairilongmuir Participant 8 years, 11 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 8 years, 11 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 8 years, 11 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 8 years, 11 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 8 years, 11 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?