[OscarGuy]

While I’m waiting for 2.6 to release so I can import my phpBB 3.1.x (unless someone can point to an easy-to-understand explanation of how to force an import), I have a couple of questions about possibly starting the forum and later importing.

If I were to create a forum with BBPress, set it up and start running it. Could I later import everything from phpBB and have them merge successfully? Or is there a way to merge two existing versions of BBPress so that if I imported phpBB later into a separate installation I could then just combine them?

In these cases, or even in a regular import, is it possible to successfully merge to IDs (say they’ve registered with WordPress already and also the forum separately, can these two accounts be merged).

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
AFAIK, any import is ADDING records, so it will never erase what you already have.

If you want to try yourself, there is always the custom import possibility: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/importing-data/import-forums/custom-import/

Pascal.