Introduce Forum Importer template for use with importing from SMF v2.0.x(Tested on v2.0.4)

http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/ & ​​http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/smf

Working: Forums, Topics, Replies, Users & User Passwords
Partial: Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content
Not Working Yet: Categories

Attached to bbPress Trac Ticket #2380 is the 1st pass patch for SMF importing into bbPress.

To test the importer download the latest patch from the link above and copy/ftp the file into the /includes/admin/converters/ folder of your bbPress plugin.

I hope to get the remaining outstanding items done ASAP.
(User passwords will be a little trickier and will take a bit more time)

Any feedback and/or testing that you can provide will help me out tremendously.

Cheers,

Stephen 🙂

[@mei-ling Participant 9 years, 4 months ago]

Thank you for this importer. It allows us to do a great job without any problem.

Mei Ling

[@sharingsunshine_wp Participant 9 years, 4 months ago]

Hello,

I have been wanting to switch to bbPress from SMF 2.0.9. I ran the importer and all looked well until I compared the number of topics in various forums and found the bbPress import is about 1/2.

Here is a screenshot of the smf url and the topics and posts in the first 3 forums on the smf installation.
https://gyazo.com/674a5fac9b459cd9a111fce3fb37fdda

Here is a screenshot of the topics and replies on the bbPress forum conversion I just did.
https://gyazo.com/a1356951215c6e98659895499ee4283a

It also seems to have doubled the users – here is a screenshot from the smf forum
https://gyazo.com/0fd7722d0f632dc4bc1a843be09893a1

Here is a screenshot from the bbPress convert
https://gyazo.com/c88588a0d4ee4095d6f6eafe5310925b

I did a complete reset of the forum before the convert. If you need to see the bbPress forum it can be found at http://www.thefrugallife.com/forums

Please tell me how to fix these issues so I can start using the bbPress forum instead of smf.

Thanks,

Randal

[@donchulio Participant 9 years, 3 months ago]

Hi Stephen,

is there any way to get a little support from you? I am not very firm in php/mysql and I need to import data to bbPress from my SMF forum. Maybe we could get in touch for a little chat? I think its nothing big for you but for me its rocket science. 😉

The import is working (except of the attachments) but the text is losing his style and there a lots of “<tt>” in the text after the import.

I would be very happy, if we can talk to each other to solve this problem. I really want to use bbPress with my community now! 🙂

Here you can see the problems: http://v2.germansimracing.de/community/
Just open one of the threads and you will see the different fonts etc.

[@timsilva_ Participant 9 years, 3 months ago]

@Stephen – I missed your response to my last comment, thanks for following up. 🙂

I checked out the 2.6 milestone tickets and was happy to see a solution to my problem already in there.

[@netweb Keymaster 7 years, 11 months ago]

Closing this topic, please create a new topic if you have any SMF issues 🙂