[rynep]

Hi guys. I’m importing a bunch of topics and Replies from one WordPress installation to another (separate servers.)

The import looks like it’s going through perfectly, and the authors seemed to be assigned to the topics (see http://i.imgur.com/TICtdLN.png) – but even though the topics are tied to a forum attribute, they refuse to show up the actual forms page.

Here is a screenshot of the forums page – http://i.imgur.com/9JQZRqj.png – this is after I import all the topics and they show up within the admin panel with the the proper dropdowns tied to each one.

When I go to “Repair Forums” within Tools->Forums on the backend, recalculating removes the forums that the topics are tied to without remedying anything. Ultimately, it just makes it worse in the end.

Right now I’m hoping I don’t have to manually tie each topic to it’s proper forum since there’s so many that need to be added, so I was curious if anyone would have input on how to fix this import issue or point out what I’m doing wrong in the process.

[Robkk]

I’m hoping I don’t have to manually tie each topic to it’s proper forum since there’s so many that need to be added

that would be a special type of hell.

what tool did you use to import from your other server?

[rynep]

The default WordPress Import/Export tools.

WordPress 3.5.2 (export/old site) -> WordPress 4.1.1 (import/new site)

They’re both running the latest version of bbPress. Is there another tool handy I can utilize?

[Robkk]

i just was making sure you were using the right tool.

make sure you do the basic troubleshooting steps in this post

Before Posting

then you can try this

since you upgraded to wp 4 , try these plugins and see if they fix the issue.

bbpress wp4 fix

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix2/

[rynep]

Thanks so much, Robkk… that worked perfectly (the hotfixes.) All is well now 🙂

[Robkk]

@rynep

thats great!!